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This year the Bureau of Labor Statistics confirmed that for the first time in the history of the United States, a majority of union members work for the government, not the private sector. To be exact, 52% of all union members work for the federal or state and local governments. That means more than half of the $10 million that unions wasted just in Arkansas first came from your tax dollars. And the waste goes well beyond Arkansas.

Power mad unions have already destroyed our education system now they want control of the military?

Give the unions credit for daring, and for putting their money (or the money of their members) on the line. They’re playing for high stakes—for the ability to plunder the private sector for dues money as they have successfully plundered the public sector (i.e., taxpayers) for dues money in states with strong public employee unions like New York, New Jersey and California. They just came up a little bit short.

Socialists (Progressives) Andy Stern, former head of SEIU, Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, CEO of the “social justice” environmental activist group Green for All, Eli Pariser of Moveon.org and Hilary Shelton, director of the NAACP Washington Bureau urged socialism at this year’s “America’s Future Now” conference whose speakers include House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.)

Over the past year there has been a steady drumbeat of criticism focused on public unions and the havoc they have wrought on our public finances. Governments — city, country, state and federal — are drowning in red ink. What is to be done?

In recent days, a number of media commentaries have predicted a similar eruption of social unrest of revolutionary dimensions as a direct result of the worsening economic crisis. These warnings are accompanied by dire predictions that Europe will suffer the return of nationalist tensions, the emergence of fascist movements and even war.

In a blatant vote buying gimmick, liberal Democrats supported by unions want to borrow another $23 BILLION (which you will have to pay back) to bail out union teachers pinched by state and local governments.

Spurred by state budget crunches and an angry public mood, Republican and some Democratic leaders are focusing with increasing intensity on public workers and the unions that represent them, casting them as overpaid obstacles to good government and demanding cuts in their often-generous benefits.

California, sinking amidst a structural $19 billion deficit and facing as much as one-half-trillion-dollars in pension debt, is paying the price for years of legislators giving away the store to public employee unions.

Gov. Chris Christie explains the teachers union being about the accumulation and exercise of raw power.