It's one of the greatest scams in the history left-wing scams, and it goes a little something like this: Taxpayers of all political stripes pay the salaries of public employees, public employees are forced to join public unions, public unions garnish dues from members and then use those dues to fund Democrat candidates to the tunes of hundreds of millions of dollars. What a racket.
In other words, against our will, you and I are helping to fund Democrat campaigns. But so are those public employees forced into unions.
But now, thanks to Governor Walker's
reforms, the rights of Wisconsin public employees are protected. They
are no longer forced into unions, forced to pay dues, forced to fund
political causes they disagree with, and the benefits of this liberation
are now paying off:
Public-employee unions in
Wisconsin have experienced a dramatic drop in membership -- by more than
half for the second-biggest union -- since a law championed by
Republican Gov. Scott Walker sharply curtailed their ability to bargain
over wages and working conditions.
That could mean the sharp losses
that some Wisconsin public-worker unions have experienced is a harbinger
of similar unions' future nationwide, union leaders fear. Failure to
oust Mr. Walker and overturn the Wisconsin law "spells doom," said Bryan
Kennedy, the American Federation of Teachers' Wisconsin president.
Wisconsin membership in the
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees-the state's
second-largest public-sector union after the National Education
Association, which represents teachers-fell to 28,745 in February from
62,818 in March 2011, according to a person who has viewed Afscme's
figures. A spokesman for Afscme declined to comment.
Here's the rub:
Much of that decline came from
Afscme Council 24, which represents Wisconsin state workers, whose
membership plunged by two-thirds to 7,100 from 22,300 last year.
In other words, that's how many people Walker's reforms liberated to make their own choices.
The left's year-long freak out in
Wisconsin has NOTHING to do with workers' rights -- what about the right
NOT to join a union? -- the freak-out was about the loss of an immoral
law that forced public employees to join public unions and the
subsequent loss of those dues that turn into a gajillion dollars for
Democrat campaign contributions and anti-Republican ads.
The fewer union members, the less dues
you collect and the less you can then spend on getting the Democrats in
office who vote to force people into public unions in order to keep this
corrupt vicious circle turning.
Got that?
It is immoral to force people into unions and it is even more immoral to use my tax dollars to fund candidates I oppose.
The same thing is happening with
Planned Parenthood right now. That abortion mill receives federal
funding -- our tax dollars -- and then spends money on ads opposing Mitt Romney.
It simply doesn't get any more corrupt than that.
Gov. Walker's leadership on this issue
has been groundbreaking. Hopefully, this coming Tuesday, Walker, his Lt.
Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, and the State Senate seats up for recall
will stay right where they are -- protecting the taxpayers and the
rights of public employees.
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