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Unions spent $400 million during the 2008 elections in support of Democratic candidates, and Barack Obama has been grateful. Obama is making union dreams come true.

The AFL-CIO on Monday began distributing more than 300,000 political fliers to members at 164 worksites in 23 states. Two unions have promised to spend $100 million to protect incumbent Democrats. That should be reason enough to vote them out.

Even Democrat icon John F. Kennedy knew that high tax rates crushed the economy. Raising capital gains rates has always resulted in LESS revenue not more. This administration and the Democrat party are not about revenue they are about punishing success and buying votes to stay in power to enrich themselves and their friends.

We now live in the Unionized States of America — a phrase that evokes how Obama and company have gone into overdrive to empower their union allies at our expense. Lee O’Hanian, a professor of economics at UCLA, weighs in at the Wall Street Journal on the dire economic implications of this tectonic shift in government policy, noting that employment figures remain very weak:

Democrats will never be nice to you or take you back–they will always use you for convenience, blame you, and throw you under the bus. What is still unnerving is that the Democrats are still passing their legislative agenda and only have a few more items to go before they are finished “transforming” America.

Who has funded the ascent of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi? The top ten individual and PAC donors. The top 7 PAC’s are unions of course.

The discovery that a second labor union has filed inaccurate lobbying reports shows unions are trying to hide their undue influence. Five Years of Faulty Filings Reveal Problems with Lobbying Disclosure.

The House Democrats’ package that passed Thursday cuts President Barack Obama’s signature education program, Race to the Top, and other administration reform efforts by $800 million, using the savings to help offset the cost of more Pell Grants and a new $10 billion fund to save teacher jobs.

Companies and their bribed legislators find ways to bypass ‘ban’ on earmarks. Corporation creates ‘non-profit’ company to collect $10.4 million for the same thing.

Already, the healthcare overhaul law, Obama’s signal achievement, is under attack in the courts. Republican attorneys general from 20 states have sued, insisting the law and its mandate to buy health insurance exceed Congress’ power and trample on states’ rights.