MLK Jr. Was a BigGov Unionist

AFSCME dusts off The Left's Communist cred

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Deep Concerns Over BigGov Unionism

All states should ban collective bargaining in the public sector

Alarmingly, 28 states have “agency shop rules” that require public-sector employees to either join the union or pay a fee to the union.

When government enables and strengthens unions, dues-paying members flourish, filling union coffers. This allows public sector unions to use big money and political clout to elect favorite political candidates, almost always Democrats. Union bosses then get to negotiate with the very public officials they usher into office.

Public sector unions are among the most powerful special interest groups in America. In the 2010 elections, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) was the biggest outside spender with total contributions of nearly $90 million. More than 98 percent of this money went to Democratic candidates and causes.

That's especially disconcerting when the votes of members were nearly evenly split between Republicans and Democrats. It's clear that union dues are advancing the quid pro quo relationship of union leadership and government officials.

There is no right to collective bargaining. It is an unconstitutional legislated privilege given to unions by friendly lawmakers. The federal courts have been clear on this point. All citizens have the right to associate in groups to advocate their special interests to the government. But it is something entirely different to grant any one interest group special status and access to the government decision-making process.

Public-sector unions are desperate to preserve their powerbase. That's why unionists from across the country were herded to Madison and Columbus. Interspersed between insults and slurs hurled at state leadership, the union bosses asserted that it is illegal to strip organized labor of the “right” to collective bargaining. Now you know the truth.

(from postindependent.com)

Meet Obamunist Samantha Power

Another H8ful misfit occupies WH position of authority

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Ugly Finale Colors Obama Picks

Narcissim gets up in the face of half-assed socialism

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Toxic Progs ♥ Debt, Deficits

Financial, moral bankruptcy are indivisible

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(full story at theeconomiccollapseblog.com)

Would You Vote For Me Now?

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon - Saul Alinsky

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Tito-Soviet, The Rosenbergs, Fidel

On this day: April 5

Yugoslav leader Josip "Tito" Broz signs an agreement with the USSR to allow "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory." (1945)

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for performing espionage for the Soviet Union (1951)

Fidel Castro declares himself at war with the President of Cuba (1956)

In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E.M.S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first chief minister (1957)

Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities (1969)

d: Georges Danton (1794), Karl Otto Koch (1945), Ain-Ervin Mere (1969), Abe Fortas (1982), Allen Ginsberg (1997)

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