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March 30, 2011

Music Video: Union Man -- Come On And Give Me MOOOORE!

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Via Red County, Glen Shulfer rips the ripoff artists in the unions a new one in this rockin' new tune:

Glen says, "Witnessing the sense of entitlement by the union employees during the Madison protests, I was inspired to write a song called 'Union Man.' I am a local Milwaukee area musician, former teacher and a Scott Walker supporter."

Lyrics over at Red County.

Of course Shulfer is exactly right about the unions being ripoff artists. As Michael Barone explained at The Examiner in February of last year: Public-sector unions bleed taxpayers, and they do so in through what amounts to a a self-perpetuating taxpayer ripoff machine.

[...] Public-sector unionism is a very different animal from private-sector unionism. It is not adversarial but collusive. Public-sector unions strive to elect their management, which in turn can extract money from taxpayers to increase wages and benefits -- and can promise pensions that future taxpayers will have to fund.

The results are plain to see. States such as New York, New Jersey and California, where public-sector unions are strong, now face enormous budget deficits and pension liabilities. In such states, the public sector has become a parasite sucking the life out of the private-sector economy. Not surprisingly, Americans have been steadily migrating out of such states and into states like Texas, where public-sector unions are weak and taxes are much lower.

Barack Obama is probably the most union-friendly president since Lyndon Johnson. He has obviously been unable to stop the decline of private-sector unionism. But he is doing his best to increase the power -- and dues income -- of public-sector unions.

One-third of last year's $787 billion stimulus package was aid to state and local governments -- an obvious attempt to bolster public-sector unions. And a successful one: While the private sector has lost 7 million jobs, the number of public-sector jobs has risen. The number of federal government jobs has been increasing by 10,000 a month, and the percentage of federal employees earning over $100,000 has jumped to 19 percent during the recession.

Obama and his party are acting in collusion with unions that contributed something like $400,000,000 to Democrats in the 2008 campaign cycle. Public-sector unionism tends to be a self-perpetuating machine that extracts money from taxpayers and then puts it on a conveyor belt to the Democratic party.

Obama's Democrats have indeed used the financial crisis to expand the public sector and the public-sector unions - which in turn ripoff taxpayers and recycle some of the funds into political campaigns to re-elect Democrats that give them essentially anything they want. The time has come for voters to say, "Enough."

Posted by Richard at March 30, 2011 1:37 PM

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