Unions
slump on bad Obama Bet
Townhall – John
Ransom – 2/18/2013
Because the
Left will only concentrate on the decline in membership, while ignoring why the
decline is happening, conservatives must continue to take advantage of union
weakness. Wherever conservatives have
run against unions, conservatives have won.
And
underneath the declining union stats are examples that show that the basic
problem with unions is that they don’t play nice with others.
One of the
most serious financial crises we face is the result of underfunded pension
obligations. Union-controlled, civil servant pensions are especially underfunded
because politicians took money from unions to get elected and subsequently
over-promised benefits, counting on the taxpayer to fill the gap.
“The hole
in the pension plans of U.S.
it has only
served to give unions a big black eye, looking like what they really are: a
bunch of special pleaders who expect the rest of us to pay for benefits that we
can’t afford for our own families.
Additionally,
unions stand in the way of progress on basic governmental reforms such as K-12
education. The basic problem with public education in this country is the
existence of labor unions that can only survive if there is only one provider
of education. Every attempt at reform runs into a brick wall of union
opposition because it challenges the one-size-fits all public school. The only
type of school “reform” that unions support is more money for monolithic public
schools, even as the US
Declining
union membership gives conservatives a hint of where they need to go to be
successful electorally: Attack the unions for being the prime beneficiaries of
government spending, accounting tricks that require taxpayer funding and as the
cheerleader for Big Government expansion into every aspect of American life.
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