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Politicians get union political support by granting government workers generous pensions and health benefits.

Saber Partners CEO Joseph Fichera on how voter outrage over government pensions and bailouts impact the midterm elections.

The impossible is demanded, and social disorder is threatened if the impossible is not delivered. The state cannot make good on its promises and the citizens refuse to acknowledge that fact.

Generous contracts paid for by your tax dollars have become the main source of union growth. While private-sector unions lost 834,000 members in 2009, public-sector unions actually gained 64,000 members.

SEIU, Teachers union, AFL-CIO, and public employee unions are pouring the money in to support endangered Democrats like John Boccieri (Ohio), Phil Hare (Ill.), Tom Perriello (Va.), Mark Schauer (Mich.), Betty Sutton (Ohio), and Dina Titus (Nev.), Cedric Richmond (La.), John Carney (D-Pa.), Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.), Carol Shea-Porter (D-N.H.).

The group, U.S. Chamber Watch, is filing an amendment to an earlier complaint with the Internal Revenue Service asking for an investigation.

A fifth day of protests in France against proposed pension reforms has brought 825,000 people on to the streets, police say, although unions put the figure at 2.5m to 3m.

I used to be a huge union cheerleader — that is, until I actually worked for a couple of them.

Chicago tops the list, with an unfunded pension liability of $44.9 billion or about $42,000 per household, followed by New York City at $122 billion or $39,000 per household and San Francisco at $35,000 per household.

No industry has spent more on this election cycle than unions.