Dwyer: ORGANIZED EXTORTION
Many, although not all, public sector unions became organized groups of extortion that use Liberal/Democrat lawmakers under unions’ influence and protection in order to deprive, via progressing taxation, hard-working Americans of the fruits of their work for the benefit of the unions’ members. The Liberal/Democrat lawmakers have no interest in resisting unions’ demands and just keep imposing more an more taxes on the public that apparently has no collective right to resist such a rip-off, or if the resistance against the tax hikes is stronger than the urge to tax, the lawmakers keep borrowing money in order to feed their unsustainable generosity for the public sector employees. And the public sector is the only sector of American economy that has been growing (or even metastasizing, like in the case of Government Motors) during the severe recession-depression of these days.
This it not only damaging economically, but is also immoral. Although the vast majority of public sector unions’ members are law abiding, decent Americans who work for their, however oversized, compensations and may have no intention to engage in any form of illegal activities, the scam that has rooted itself in the public sector is not unlike Mafia of the 1920ties and 30ties as it uses proceeds of forcefully pre-empted earnings as means to organize and further solidify the scheme of redistribution of incomes from captive taxpayers to those who parasitize on them.
In California, the above scam has had all appearances of criminal conspiracy after the Liberal/Democrat-controlled Legislature has passed laws that mandated union dues from non-unionized public sector employees, for which favor the benefiting unions threw their money and weight in support of the lawmakers that made these unjust laws happen. As a matter of fact, the public sector unions in California became de facto political agencies of the Democratic Party or, perhaps, the California Democratic Party became de facto the executive branch of the public sector unions. For instance, in the past elections in 2010, not even one Republican candidate was endorsed by a public sector union in California, which push reinforced the political status quo in that state as a de facto mono party system that often resembles more the apparatus of the Soviet Union than a polity of a free state in the U.S.
Many on the Left have claimed that public employees have an inalienable right to collective bargaining despite the fact that there is no credible evidence that would support such a claim. As a matter of fact, said claim does not withstand scrutiny. The employers of public sector workers are not private persons or corporations, but the governments and their agencies that are controlled by the elected officials who, in turn, answer to the voters who have elected them. In particular, how much public servants are making should be determined in a democratic process and not by “collective bargaining” that has distorted that process as the recently reported shocking news about exorbitant compensations of some “collective bargainers” demonstrate.
In particular, the public sector unions’ members have an unfair advantage in deciding who gets elected: they vote in elections like everybody else does, although they are more likely to form voting blocs in order to distort the will of the electorate, but also they flex their “collective” unionized muscle in order to bully out their opponents, which includes all those who are willing to dismantle the redistributionist scam, from the political process. This is why they are faring so much better then everybody else who works for a living, and are successfully resisting voters disapproval of this unfair arrangement.
We, the victims of the above scam, have no “collective bargaining rights” to defend ourselves against assault on our hard-earned dollars, and about every entity of importance on the Left, from the Liberal media to the Liberal/Democrat lawmakers, to the public sector unions are participating in this large-scale well-orchestrated ripoff that drains our wallets and forces us to work more so that their protégées can work less while earning more than we do. This scheme has appearances of organized extortion, or at least it is a clear case of a conflict of interest.
A public servant can have the right to vote in elections or the right to bargaining, but not both. Otherwise, he will vote for officials who promise to redistribute more wealth from the taxpayers’ pockets to his own and will oppose all those officials who promise to curtail such redistribution. And whatever of the two mutually exclusive options he choses, his public sector union should be prohibited from meddling with political process; the conflict of interest they have when it comes to elections distorts the democratic process and threatens the well-being of our Republic.
Just look what they did to once Golden California, a now nearly-bankrupt state that is de facto ruled by public sector unions and Liberal/Democrat politicians that need unions’ stamp of approval before they get (re-)elected. As a result, California has became a mono-party state where no one at his right mind would run on an anti-union ticket. In fact, the unions in California with their deep pockets filled with dollars from mandatory union dues are getting ready to decide Republican primaries so that even in few remaining conservative districts those candidates who are sympathetic to the defenseless victims of progressing taxation will have no chances of getting elected.
Would an Eliot Ness of today, please, step forward and defend us, captive taxpayers, from the public sector unions dictatorship? Millions of defenseless and hard-working Americans are waiting for you.
February 20, 2011
~ The Author ~
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Here is what UNIONS did to firefighting.
In 2007, a lost hiker started fire in Northern San Diego county. A private plane pilot reported the fire to Fire Autority. It was about 5:30 P.M.
The Fire Authority could have sent a choper with water to easily extinguish fire, but the UNION had “negotiated” provision of employment that firefighting aicraft are not to be dipatched if it’s later than 30 min. to sunset because the UNION considered it too risky for the pilot.
So, the Fire Authority had to wait until next morning with dispatching any aircraft. At that time the fire was already out of control and, eventually, burned 1,000+ homes. The losses were in excess of 1 billion dollars.
This is a prime example of what UNIONS do to the public sector, particularly to emergency services.
The day when the U.S. Army will get their labor UNION will be the day when the U.S. will surrender to any rough regime that attacks us.
A quote from http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703909904576052150177439350.html
In the 1930s, New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia warned against it as an infringement on democratic freedoms that threatened the ability of government to represent the broad needs of the citizenry. And in a 1937 letter to the head of an organization of federal workers, FDR noted that “a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable.”
Well I tried to say some thing to the rural landowner, but it also went off, too bad because my ideas are better than that Tea Party’s ideas ever could be. Well maybe you can still read it. Why I went to him instead of you how can you can the say the Tea Party is grassroots when they are with the establishment. Now you don’t see Independent parties running the establishment for their candidates and same difference.
Why do the Americans a long the US border have to put up with the illegal Mexicans destroying their property and trespassing? Why do the farmers have to put up with the hunters coming on their property trespassing and in one incident shooting their dogs? Seems to me instead of writing he should be helping them more than they have been helped. One farmer went up on murder charges when the hunters wouldn’t get off their property.
Remember Joe Hill, remember the Robber Barons,remember class struggle and workhouses/sweatshops? The problem is everyone has forgotten what it was like before Unions, and the thugs who were hired to keep Unions out of business. The problem is both the unions and companies lost their way and moral compass,believing the roads in the U.S. were paved with gold. The Companies believed faster was profitable and craftsmanship /safety were secondary. Look at the record of Coal Miners and Oil Companies lately and this is the 21st Century. The Cost of living has grown out of proportion because of both unions and Companies, each blaming the other for today’s problems. The Work ethic is lax, The Government and companies need to help and protect the workers is gone,because everyone has forgotten how Unions started and the way it was before unions. The end product is the measure of how well the people and their employers are producing, and until it returns we will have problems like today. Unions are needed to offset the excesses of people, who feel they are better and if not producing they have someone to blame. But no one should make more money for the same job because the place is bigger, or they have titles in front of their names, because if they cannot produce a better product etc Children and their education those titles are nothing. They may know their subject, but can they reach the children? This is only one example of private sector employment, but the message is the same. Stop working against each other and work with each other Lower the cost of living, and the rest will take care of itself. Not to digress but not everyone gets their for free, pay like everyone else and lower the premiums for all!
I screwed up, because every time before which was about three times before as soon as I hit the backspace key it went flying off. On purpose Mark? Sure did look that way.
Auster The firemen and policemen cannot strike or walkout so you are not street smart and whatever else said not true too. The public sector hire the Vets adding l0 more points to their score so the so Vets get hired over the non Vets. So most of the public sectors are Vets and with your stupidity you are going against our Vets. Hypocrite Just shove them to the street after they fight for this country like the Viet Nam vets.
Blame bush, the Republicans for putting us at war when we couldn’t pay for it, Soros who goes over the aisle. clintons, bush for bringing in the illegal, NAFTA, CAFTA, Mexico, illegal. The only reason someone goes after another American or helps a foreign country is that they don’t like seeing another American do good, because they will look bad in comparison. JEALOUSY.
An excerpt from http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=268277
Which may then surprise you when I say public service employee unions ARE bad. And I believe it was a major mistake for President Kennedy to have allowed them collective-bargaining privileges. Public service unions are only regarded as “noble” because the union members tell us they are.
You see, a public service union is NOT based on free association. It is NOT based on the freedoms of speech and free assembly. Public service unions are a scam and a cheat.
A quote from http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/33794
The walls are crumbling. Americans are beginning to grasp the insidiousness by which one part of government negotiates with another part to fleece the public without restraint or remorse. They are beginning to understand that the self-anointed “party of the people” is really the party of the “special interest people” and everyone else be damned. And, as the sordid episode in Wisconsin repeats itself in state after state, more and more decent Americans will reject a fundamentally indecent ideology which reveals that while all Americans are “equal”, some, such as gimme-more public service unions, those “waived” from healthcare requirements, crony capitalists, trial lawyers and thoroughly compromised community organizing groups, are “more equal” than others. As more and more Democrat legislators abandon their posts, more and more Americans will reject a political party which has been hijacked by radicals who have now revealed that power is their sole ambition, even if the bedrock principles of our democratic republic must be sacrificed to achieve it.
Quote from http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/018725.html
Here’s another historical quotation from Daniel DiSalvo’s big article, “The Trouble with Public Sector Unions.” In 1943 a New York Supreme Court judge held:
To tolerate or recognize any combination of civil service employees of the government as a labor organization or union is not only incompatible with the spirit of democracy, but inconsistent with every principle upon which our government is founded. Nothing is more dangerous to public welfare than to admit that hired servants of the State can dictate to the government the hours, the wages and conditions under which they will carry on essential services vital to the welfare, safety, and security of the citizen. To admit as true that government employees have power to halt or check the functions of government unless their demands are satisfied, is to transfer to them all legislative, executive and judicial power. Nothing would be more ridiculous.
DiSalvo continues:
The very nature of many public services—such as policing the streets and putting out fires—gives government a monopoly or near monopoly; striking public employees could therefore hold the public hostage. As long-time New York Times labor reporter A.H. Raskin wrote in 1968: “The community cannot tolerate the notion that it is defenseless at the hands of organized workers to whom it has entrusted responsibility for essential services.”
Posted by Lawrence Auster at 09:56 AM
They are also for the teachers, firemen, policemen etc, because the public sector hire Vets. For instance if a Vet takes the physical and mental test to be a firemen he will get l0 extra points just, because he is a Vet, which means a VET could get the job over a non VET. The VETS are hurting for jobs too,
So not only has Mark gone against the teachers, firemen, police etc, he has gone against our VETS too.
The Iraq Veterans Against the War are for the firefighters, police, teachers and government workers in WI, which shows they have intelligence and compassion. They have always been my favorite.
I forgot about the factories farming the work out to jobs shops who have no union, really hard work, no rights, no benefit and minimum wages, because of NAFTA and the illegal. Are you for the illegal now Mark instead of the Americans.
Our grandfather’s and great grandfathers did not have a living wage until the unions and why the following generations had a great life. But the Americans starting in l992 being spoiled, selfish and stupid let Soros take over this country and “destroy it from the inside out.” So now we are like our grandparents and great grandparents with no living wages. But who will help us? Not the unions who some are for the illegal. Not the so called Soros Democrats. Not the Republican not the horrible ones you are running. Is that the best you can do then your party is as bad as the Soros Democrats. Exactly with only having a C+ at best on Numbers I would say Soros has taken over your Party too. It sure looks that way.
The firemen do not really have a union when they can’t strike and walkout. If they had a real union we wouldn’t be paying a thousand dollar per month for health care, because the illegal and their children get it for free. Also, when the industries left here they didn’t pay the firemen a cost of living raise that was l982 and they still don’t get a cost of living raise. But they give in state tuition, free health care, free housing, free welfare to the illegal and they have jobs here when the US citizens do not. But then the way you write you are against the Americans so therefore are you for the illegal.
The state of IL has taken from the teacher’s pension fund, because it is state and they can control it, so many times there is nothing left of it.
As far as Perry and Brewer both coming from the Southwest it didn’t help Kerry coming from the East and Edwards coming from the South. Plus not only will they will get CA, Southwest, South because of TX, when you get up to Kentucky the lower half of OH votes with Kentucky. Then in IL you have the Chicago accent, the Midwestern accent here in northern IL and when you hit Springfield IL in the middle of the state it is a southern accent all the way down. The only trouble with IL is that there are more people in Chicago than in the rest of the state and why all are governors etc come from Chicago. But in 20l0 I saw the blue state of IL turn red.
Mark you have to be for the people we have no one to fight for us if you want to win over obama. Brewer is a fighter and the woman want that glass ceiling which there are more women than men.
They wouldn’t put me on before either Mark or Jeff, but out of that fire dept pension we have to pay one thousand dollar per month for health insurance. The illegal in this state get free health care for themselves and their children, so the hospitals and doctors pass it on to the US citizens and their insurance companies in IL. But Mark doesn’t go against the illegal no he goes against the Americans. He doesn’t go against Soros not even once, but Jerry wrote three long columns against him.
You can kiss 20l2 good bye and obama is going to win again. You just gave Soros’ so called Democrats a chance to look like the old real Democrats being for the unions and you Republicans and that Tea Party to look like the typical bad guys against the unions. How dumb can you get?.
But then the Republicans that you are running how could you win any way they are all horrible with the highest grade of being C+
Then that C+ comes from cat killer Pawlenty and C- from cat killer Thune where in MN and SD redneck states they shoot cats without collars feral, barn or house cats. Cats breed a lot have two get l00 and if they kill off colonies in one territory more will come to breed. They should trap neuter release and the feral cats will breed themselves out. Google Feral Cat Coalition. Feral cats are domestic cats gone wild because people don’t have them fixed and then they let the run or dump them. Then in MN and SD they shoot them without a collar, that they can can shoot them and then take off the collar; leave them to a slow horrific death, do what the hunters do and shoot off one leg and then leave them or other mean things to the cats; they want to get back at someone they can shoot their cat and not be charged for it; they shoot kittens too. Legalized animal cruelty. We have a l00% feral cat born in our friends ravine at 6 months and pregnant came to her for food and let her pet her and even ran into a neighbors house. She is now 7 years old and the best cat you can ever have and beautiful. Plus I have seen feral cats in no kill shelters websites who get adopted and never come back or given to good farm homes. But they were born in IL if they were born in MN and SD they would have gotten a bullet instead of a home.
Then Gingrich who divorced his wife when she was in the hospital with cancer and left his second wife for a young staffer with his D on Numbers USA. Palin with her D- on Numbers USA and her 50 ethic violations that just disappeared, she broke or found loop holes to get around the l972 Federal law against shooting wolves from the air, didn’t know what NAFTA meant as Governor of AK, 7 colleges who goes to 7 colleges. She killed the darling beluga whales who are going extinct, the polar bears, the wolves, and walrus with guns and legislation then goes to church on Sunday. I can go on you don’t have a good one to run against obama. Except Perry and Brewer on the same ticket. But after this making the Soros Democrats look good like the old real Democrats for the unions I don’t know if even they could help you. What dummies to make the Soros Democrats look good and cost you the 20l2 election.
Yes Mark, you are probably glad to get rid of me, but no one loved you the way I do and I don’t mean love in that way.
How could I forget we have to pay one thousand dollars per month out of that fire dept pension to Blue Cross for health insurance for just the two of us not leaving us much money. The illegal and their children get free health care so the hospitals and doctors are not going to go without so they charge the US citizens and their insurance companies for it.
You don’t know what the hell you are talking about Dwyer. My firemen/paramedic husband worked a part time job like the rest of the firemen as a paramedic for another city who did not have paramedics in their fire dept. Try doing that Mark and they don’t get SS for their part time jobs, because they don’t work enough hours. All they get is their pensions when they retire no SS. Taking their pensions would be no different than talking your SS how would you like that? They get a lot more than paper cuts like you. They don’t get the football players salary even though they have even a more dangerous job and they can’t play in the streets when they get older either. My husband has a asthma really bad from being a firemen and no he never took disability for it, but kept on working with it and a part time job. It would have been better for the firemen if they gave them SS rather than pensions where they can’t get SS for their part time jobs, because they can’t work enough hours to get it, because then their part time jobs would have gone towards SS. They got screwed. Nor are they allowed to strike, walk out which is not like a real union jobs in any way. Then this sanctuary state didn’t have enough men on the pumper.
Yeah if the citizens don’t want to pay the firemen, put out their own fires, run their own ambulances like they did in old times with just putting them in with no paramedics.
I tell you now just like your DeMint and Boehner being for bush’s privatizing which is gambling with the senior’s future on those 40lks no different than Wall Street made off and playing the roulette table. FDR did not put in SS for the elderly but for the younger people so they wouldn’t go bankrupt taking care of both their parents and their children. Who can take care of their elderly today they can’t even afford their pet. Just like taking the people’s SS taking the firemen’s pensions which is their SS you are going to have another NAFTA and not just in the Midwest this time the whole country. You are going to have more foreclosures, more stores, restaurants, car dealers, dentist, vets, and doctor’s close down, which means more unemployment for you to pay more unemployment benefits, less city and state taxes for you to pay more, you house values will go down and harder to sell. So kick out the seniors to die. Senior Killer. But it will come right back to your back door or should I say pocket book, because you are stealing from an old lady’s pocket book and then going to church on Sunday. hypocrites. The cities will have to pay out more money to put their pets they no longer can afford to sleep so you can pay more taxes too.
To quote you Mark “we are all Americans” then why are you going against the Americans Mark instead of going against the illegal, Soros Democrats and exposing and kicking out Soros which I never read you saying any thing against Soros like Jerry why is that?
Perry/Brewer for 20l2.