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Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels responds to unions threatening to disrupt the Super Bowl. Daniels said the phone calls from businesses started as soon as the Righ-to-Work law was signed. He points out that nationally over 70% of Americans think workers should have the freedom to choose whether to pay union dues or not.

The bill does not go far enough. What’s needed is the termination of all public union collective bargaining rights nationally. Cities and states are in trouble because politicians have been in bed with unions, driving up costs and taxpayers have to foot the bill.

“Public unions depend entirely on tax revenues to fund their pay and benefits. They thus have every incentive to elect politicians who favor higher taxes and more government spending. The great expansion of state and local spending followed the rise of public unions.” – WSJ

Grandiosity, denial, and revisionism are all noted indulgences of the political breed. That’s why we should always be skeptical of their words and pity the partisan lemmings who mindlessly parrot their rhetoric.

“He wants to jam through whatever he’d like to do without reference to the will of the American people.” Speaking at the Huckabee Forum in South Carolina Romney said Obama’s actions are “extra-constitutional” and the most egregious example is his stacking the NLRB with “union stooges” to do his bidding.

The parent company of Hostess that makes Twinkies,Yodels and other favorite snacks has filed bankruptcy blaming lucrative union benefits. Will Obama bailout Twinkies like he did GM? Will he give the company to the unions after putting in billions of taxpayer dollars like he did with GM and Chrysler? If not why not? Is the auto industry union more important to Obama than the Twinkie industry union? Are UAW members giving more to Obama campaigns?

In this video Obama is promising to make SEIU’s agenda his agenda. One promise he kept. That is one reason he illegally appointed radical pro-unionists to the NLRB to force the union’s agenda on America and bypass congress. In Obama’s first year in the White House SEIU president Andy Stern was his most frequent visitor. Stern is an avowed socialist who is proud of the communist slogan “workers of the world unite.”

From the very start they carved out special exemptions for themselves, showing all the earmarks of political favors in exchange for campaign contributions. The actual skyrocketing costs, reduced choices and lousy service were shoved on the rest of us. – IBD

“Unions are big contributors to the Democrats,” Indiana University political science professor Brian Vargus said, “and they feel with the decline of unionization, it would solidify Republicans. It simply comes down to that.” – The Daily Caller

GM is recalling the biggest flop in autos since the Edsel. The Chevy electric Volt was touted by Obama as the future of the auto industry. Even with tens of thousands of dollars in government subsidies and fleet purchases by the government and its cronies like GE the Volt has failed dismally in sales. Now it has been discovered that the batteries in these “green” cars catch fire.