From John Hinderaker at Power Line: There Is Really Only One Special Interest Group And that is labor unions. Antony Davies of Duquesne has prepared a series of charts that summarize special interest political contributions from 1989 to 2009, based on data from Open Secrets. This chart is the most revealing; it shows that the [...]
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Hopefully you’ve been keeping track of the National Labor Relations Board’s lawsuit against Boeing. To sum up, Boeing decided to build its newest airliner in South Carolina after they weren’t able to make an agreement with the Machinist’s Union in Washington state not to strike. You see, Boeing figures to have high demand for these [...]
Obamacare was supposed to help the little guy, right? The poor sap struggling so hard in life that he couldn’t afford health insurance. We had a duty, according to social justice promoters, to provide heath care as a “right” to the downtrodden. Yet, who gets a multi-billion dollar giveaway? Democrat party contributors. (Don’t ask me [...]
Today at Power Line, John publishes the transcript of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker on Meet the Press. I find the way Gov. Walker explains the desire to end collective bargaining interesting. First he notes that while unions are saying they’ll pay a little extra into their pensions and health insurance they are frantically negotiating to [...]
This showdown with public sector unions is not about “worker’s rights.” It’s about being responsible with taxpayer money, and ending a system that makes that impossible. To make it simple for people who have bought the “worker’s rights” lie (Keep It Simple Stupid), here’s the scenario: By some insanity you find yourself in the following [...]
Reasons public sector unions are dead wrong and protecting them is not protecting “worker’s rights.” 1. Public sector workers do not now, nor have they ever, faced workplace hardships or unfair practices by their employers. 2. Because they work for the government, there is no market incentive that limits their demands by imposing the possibility [...]
I’m basking in the sunlight pouring in on public sector unions in Wisconsin, particularly the teachers’ union. They keep saying that they are doing it for the children. These people are educators, which means they are half a step down from saints (in their own eyes, perhaps). But who do teachers’ unions protect? They protect [...]
Read this by John Hayward at Human Events: The Wisconsin Showdown: Teachers unions show why they must be broken.
Cronyism is alive and well in the Obama administration. That’s no surprise, it’s just Chicago politics. Powerline has a post today called: Obamacare, a Uniquely Vicious Form of Corruption. In it, John exposes the special treatment of the one of the “friends of Obamacare,” AARP, being written by our elite bureaucrats into the regulations on [...]
Protecting the bully’s right to punch you in the face
I can’t tell you how sick I am of people talking about “worker’s rights” in connection to public employees unions. Taking away those “worker’s rights” is like taking away a bully’s “right” to punch you in the face with your own fist as he steals your lunch money. “Worker” is a word being used to [...]