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The UFCW, United Food & Commercial Workers union, pickets Wal-Mart over low wages and lack of benefits with non union minimum wage temp workers without benefits. But its all Wal-Mart’s fault.

‘a split between the public employee unions that do so much to finance Democratic campaigns and the gentry liberals who provide Democratic votes in places like Manhattan, the Montgomery County suburbs of Maryland and Northwest Washington, D.C. And in each case, the public employee unions won.’ -Micael Barone

The Democrats will depend on labor unions — the shock troops of their political campaigns — to offset two new developments this election cycle: Tea Party enthusiasm and corporations’ ability to spend unlimited amounts thanks to a Supreme Court ruling.

Governor Chris Christie did a satellite interview on Fox News’s Your World with Neil Cavuto from Edison, New Jersey where he was holding a Town Hall discussion of his bold pension & benefit reform.

Over the last decade, the average federal salary has risen 33 percent faster than the inflation rate. When total compensation is measured—salary plus benefits like health insurance and pension guarantees—government workers have seen an increase of more than 36 percent, adjusted for inflation. Over the same period, private workers got an 8.8 percent increase.

Its about time! When will we refuse to accept spending twice as much money for poorer and poorer results?

Richard Trumka, union thug and president of the AFL-CIO, ranted at Republicans in a speech at the 27th Ohio AFL-CIO Convention on September 14th. “Economic treason” and “Economic treachery” were terms he used to describe those reluctant to follow Obama and the Democrats into national bankruptcy by unions.

In the mid 1960s, education policy took a wrong turn, away from America’s founding principles. That was when President Lyndon B. Johnson, as a part of his War on Poverty, created the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). It was the first major federal foray into local schools.

We are next as cities and states face bankruptcy from bloated public sector union wages and benefits.

When stripped of the phony aura of statesmanship, Charles Rangel, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Charles Schumer, Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, Christopher Dodd, and their compadres are that gang of which Rothbard spoke. They scheme and plot and extract money from the productive and then give it to themselves and their armies of minions, who keep them in power with their votes.