Union Greed: Obammunism

Joe Klein:

its ironic that union protesters chant “freedom, democracy, union” while preventing a vote

From John Fund's WSJ article Saturday:

“Ending dues deductions breaks the political cycle in which government collects dues, gives them to the unions, who then use the dues to back their favorite candidates and also lobby for bigger government and more pay and benefits,”

Public sector Democrat assisted, union corruption at it's finest.

You know you’ve lost the indefensible fight when a liberal like Joe Klein doesn’t back you any more:

Revolutions everywhere–in the middle east, in the middle west. But there is a difference: in the middle east, the protesters are marching for democracy; in the middle west, they’re protesting against it. I mean, Isn’t it, well, a bit ironic that the protesters in Madison, blocking the state senate chamber, are chanting “Freedom, Democracy, Union” while trying to prevent a vote?

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An election was held in Wisconsin last November. The Republicans won. In a democracy, there are consequences to elections and no one, not even the public employees unions, are exempt from that.

Throughout the whole article Klein makes the argument that these Unions have become the opposite of Democracy. Thugocracy -- Klein makes another great point here:

But we’ve had far too many state legislatures, of both parties, that have been cowed by the political power of the unions and enacted contracts that force state and city governments to be run for the benefit of their employees, rather than for their citizens. This situation is most egregious in far too many school districts across the nation.