Thread: Two Americas: One Struggling One Happy, Unionized Government

Unionism is antithetical to good government. It is impossible to have both unions and effective government in a democratic republic such as ours

Two Americas: One Struggling, One Happy, Unionized, and in Government

By Warner Todd Huston Friday, January 1, 2010

I know I’ve said it before, but unionism is antithetical to good government. It is impossible to have both unions and effective government in a democratic republic such as ours. Unions destroy good government, waste money at all levels and they move strictly against the best interests of the voters in all cases. Once again my axiom is shown as a truism with a report by Michael Barone with his Dec. 30 Examiner piece.

Barone details the findings of a recent Rasmussen poll that reveals that Americans that aren’t in government unions and government jobs feel that the economy and the job outlook is getting worse while those in government jobs and unions think everything is going swimmingly.

That isn’t because the government jobs are materially better, but that the government jobs are raiding the public treasury and returning nothing of worth to the country through undue influence on politicians. You might ask why government workers feel things are so good if their jobs provide nothing of worth to the country?

Good question. The problem is, even as government jobs are useless to the health, wealth, and welfare of the country, even while government jobs tear us all down and make us weaker in every category, they do provide something of relative worth to politicians: campaign cash.

Barone notes that a large part of the so-called stimulus cash went to governments and those government turned around and handed the cash to public employees unions in order to “saveâ€

Uh, right....it's what they call a Political Machine.

However, I do think you should clear up the distinction between Public-Sector unions and the blue collar industrial unions that have turned many formerly lethal occupations into something a person can keep doing for a lifetime. We wouldn't want to have to pay for a nation of disabled people, crippled by unregulated industrial dangers, would we?

"Those unions in turn have contributed generously to Democrats. Services Employee International Union head Andy Stern, the most frequent nongovernment visitor to the Obama White House, has boasted that his union steered $60 million to Democrats in the 2008 cycle. The total union contribution to Democrats has been estimated at $400 million."

I don't know if we can do anything about Andy Stern. However, his two VP's in the SEIU are wreaking havoc in their own right. Anna Burger sits on the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Council and Eliseo Medina sits on the 'Mexican" version of same. I bet all three sit on the board of the Chicago Underworld. I have been protesting about these two to the only Republican Congressman I can find in my state. Short of federal indictments I don't know how else one would get rid of them.