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Are we so comfortable in the freedom we have always known; that we have not taken the time to realize that in our liberty for all men; we also allow the seeds of enslavement to grow?

“Limitations on the workforce mix of full-time and part-time postal employees and workforce flexibility rules contained in contracts with USPS’s unions are key detriments of how postal work is organized and, thus, of its cost,” the GAO report said.

Labor officials told the Wall Street Journal last month they planned to exceed the record $53 million spent in the 2008 election season in the 2010 campaigns.

This is blatant bribery at the highest level of government. Unions spent almost half a TRILLION dollars electing Obama and Democrats and now taxpayers must pay 30% more for everything contracted by the government to pay back the unions. These people should go to jail!

California’s public-employee retirement funds are $500 billion in the hole. It’s news that unions and their candidate, Jerry Brown, don’t want to hear. From IBD Editorials Pensions: A new Stanford study says California’s public-employee retirement funds are $500 billion in the hole. It’s news that unions and their candidate, Jerry Brown, don’t want to hear. The government union money machine has had a good run. But increasingly there are signs that it is heading for a crackup with the taxpaying […]

Andy Stern, 59, president of the Service Employees International Union, surprised many when it was leaked late Monday that he was stepping down. It seemed inexplicable: He was a close ally and adviser to the White House, so why give that up that kind of power?

Stern, 59, is one of President Barack Obama’s closest political allies and a major force in Democratic politics. His union spent about $60 million to help Obama win the presidency and millions more on House and Senate races around the country.

SEIU strategy to convince members is to dupe African-American members by pointing out that whites are “so f*#$@ing rabidly racist” if they are against amnesty.

Hell hath no fury like a teacher’s union scorned. To close a $10.7 billion budget deficit, New Jersey’s Republican Governor Chris Christie last month proposed slashing education by $820 million, an equivalent to a 5% cut for each school district. That follows on the heels of an across-the-board pay freeze.

The current leadership in Washington should spare workers and small businesses the soaring rhetoric and lofty aspirations concerning job growth and economic development and simply tell us the truth, jobs be damned, the payoffs to union bosses will continue.