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~More corruption. The easiest kind of donors are forced conscripts. My old friend Jillian Melchior reports that the Healthcare Michigan branch of the Service Employees International Union has seen its membership plummet 80 per cent in the last year. How did this happen? A sudden exodus from the state? An ebola outbreak? No. It turns out the bulk of the SEIU's "donors" were family members of elderly and disabled people involuntarily designated as "public employees" and forced to pony up to the union heavies:

Melissa and Kevin Haynes were born with hypertonic cerebral palsy, a severe disability that impaired their cognitive development, leaving them functioning as infants. For more than 30 years, their devoted parents, Robert and Patricia, have cared for them in their home in Macomb Township, Mich. The two disabled adults received Medicaid checks each month, money that went toward their care. But in 2006, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) began collecting 2.75 percent from each of these checks, claiming that Robert and Patricia were employees — not only of their own children but also of the Michigan state government.