Michael Barone at The Washington Examiner:
Public-employee unions are a mechanism by which every taxpayer is forced to fund the Democratic Party
But he [Obama] did find time to be interviewed by a Wisconsin television station and weigh in on the dispute between Republican Gov. Scott Walker and the state’s public employee unions. Walker was staging “an assault on unions,” he said, and added that “public employee unions make enormous contributions to our states and our citizens.”
Enormous contributions, yes — to the Democratic Party and the Obama campaign. Unions, most of whose members are public employees, gave Democrats some $400 million in the 2008 election cycle. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the biggest public employee union, gave Democrats $90 million in the 2010 cycle.
Meanwhile. Mark McKinnon at the Daily Beast makes the case as to why it’s time to end unions and their privileged class:
The primary purpose of public unions today, as ugly as it sounds, is to work against the financial interests of taxpayers: the more public employees are paid in wages and uncapped benefits, the less taxpayers keep of the money they earn. It’s time to call an end to the privileged class. And the White House makes a mistake if it thinks it can grow a manufactured and uncivil unrest into a popular movement. Voters will not follow those who flee.
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The sooner they are all gone the better.
Gov. Walker gave Øbummer a solid left jab followed with a right cross today:
Priceless.
Ahh..now that was entertaining. Would have been more entertain if he’d just come out bluntly and called Obama the lying, prevaricating sack of shit he is.
Yeah, but then the boy pResident would have known what hit him.
Here is an oldie but baddie. A reminder of how this particular union helped drive all those jobs overseas.
I like this version:
The primary purpose of private unions today, as ugly as it sounds, is to work against the financial interests of consumers: the more private-sector employees are paid in wages and uncapped benefits, the less consumers keep of the money they earn. It’s time to call an end to the privileged class.
Wait – let’s remove unions altogether and it STILL makes sense:
The primary purpose of American employees today, as ugly as it sounds, is to work against the financial interests of American consumers: the more American employees are paid in wages and uncapped benefits, the less American consumers keep of the money they earn. It’s time to call an end to the privileged class.
Rise up consumers, and smash your chains – we want low prices at Wal-mart and we don’t care who has to get thrown under the bus to get them! It’s a race to the bottom – let’s institute cut-rate wages for all American’s! That will show the world (how stupid we are)!