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The Obama Watch
Slouching Towards Argentina
Obama’s allies in Wisconsin are a throwback to Juan Peron’s public employee unions.
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Finally, Trumka argues that Governor Walker is offering Wisconsin government workers the following choice: “If you want to keep your job, give up your rights. If you want to keep your rights, you’re going to be laid off.” But that is actually the choice that Trumka offers working people in the states without right-to-work laws. In those feudal states, if you want to keep your job, you have to give up your right to choose whether to pay union dues on a voluntary basis. Every other institution in America, even the military, is voluntary. But not Trumka’s unions, at least where they are allowed to get away with it. Under Trumka’s union dictatorships, if you want to keep your right to choose not to pay dues to a union you don’t want to join, you’re going to be laid off.
But Governor Walker has freed the government union serfs from Trumka’s plantations in Wisconsin. Under Walker’s new law, each government worker now has the complete freedom to choose whether to pay union dues and join the union. If the union wants the dues, it is going to have to prove to each individual worker that the union is worth it. No longer will the government seize the dues out of each worker’s paycheck, and send them to the union, as Trumka demands.
Free at last.
About the Author
Peter Ferrara is Director of Entitlement and Budget Policy at the Heartland Institute, General Counsel of the American Civil Rights Union, Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, and Senior Policy Advisor on Entitlements and Budget Policy at the National Tax Limitation Foundation. He served in the White House Office of Policy Development under President Reagan, and as Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States under President George H.W. Bush.
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Ken (Old Texican)| 3.16.11 @ 8:10AM
Peter,
Most of us know already.
The next article you write should have some prescriptions to all above.
Mitch Angoop| 3.16.11 @ 8:12AM
Well stated Peter. The problem has been conveniently ignored for so long that the dems and their union thug buddies had been lulled into a sort of torpor. But, no more. How dare Gov. Walker stop the gravy train! Who does he think he is? Democrats are out to get him and, as the article stated, overturn the 2010 elections.
This is the most damning evidence yet that the democrats and their willing lackies in the unions, media, and academia, do not give one hoot for any vestige of quaint things like "The will of the voters", or, "Power of the people", or, worst, their perverted idea of "Bipartisanship". Reaching across the aisle means that the other party caves and gives the democrats what they want.
The democratic party has shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are NOT a political party; but an arm of organized crime that should be targetted by the RICO law and destroyed; along with their hired thugs in the public employee unions. Decertify, disband, and destroy them. Jail is too good for these thugs who are doing their best to kill our Country!
JimH| 3.16.11 @ 8:46AM
I for one am looking forward to opening night for Michellita.
Deborah D | 3.16.11 @ 10:42AM
I can hear it now..."Don't cry for me, America..." as Michellita starves those (formerly) fat children while she eats cheeseburgers!
Conservative Bob| 3.16.11 @ 11:33AM
Over the weekend I saw an article where the unions were contacting Walker campaign donors and giving them until 3/17 to publicly repudiate the governor or face union organized boycotts.
It was extortion pure and simple.
Wonder how it would work out if all non union consumers decided not to buy any product made by unionized companies...
If 10% is unionized my guess is the point could be made rather quickly.
Yosemeti Sam| 3.16.11 @ 12:51PM
TIMBERRRRRRRRRRR!
BHO in 2012!
LOL.
converse magasin | 3.21.11 @ 7:34AM
nice post
Oldefarte| 3.16.11 @ 1:37PM
I hate to show prejudice, but Peter Ferrera's articles are simply the BEST among TAS's excellent writers. This one nailed the truth bullseye! All US governments' employees are represented by labor unions for a reason, which is POLITICAL INFLUENCE [for the quid-pro-quoism]. As stated, the taxpayers are getting fornicated by this liason of government workers and unions, by the increased taxiation needed to continually fund same. Its high time all governments were disconnected from unionization, since the only current beneficiaries of same are the unions. Laws should be passed that make even private sector unionization illegal, since the above market/supply-demand wages necessitated from unions force companies to offshore their labor/business to forieng countries with cheaper labor forces. The result of this is situations like the Chinese Drywall home destruction issue currently plaguing the southeast part of this country. If union demanded wages were necessitated, domestic companies could adequately compete with foreign ones for consumers' dollars spent. Labor unions are a waste of money and time for this country, and should be abolished completely!!!!!!!!!
Irish22| 3.16.11 @ 5:05PM
There is one word to describe government employee unions - corruption!
Here in California they have driven the gravy train off the cliff, and we are all just enjoying the "free"-fall.
emo| 3.16.11 @ 11:04PM
The recall elections will determine whether we become like Argentina or not. If the Dems win the Senate, defeat Walker in early 2012, then the experiment if trying to limit govt will have failed. It will be inevitable that govt will grow and liberty will shrink. My best guess is the Dems will win in WI. WI was not the right state for the Tea Party to take on the left. Better MO or IN.
converse soldes | 3.21.11 @ 7:36AM
you are right
Dee See| 3.17.11 @ 12:04AM
Obama will be re-elected. It's clear.
MEANWHILE, here and now, BEHOLD the lock-step cover-up by the press-t-toots of our coporate
Globalist media of the now week old, and only deepening Japanese catastrophe.
As those trade winds surge across the Pacific
looks like we're going to be inhaling more than
the usual CHEM-trails.
You know, the CHEM-trails nobody is allowed to
notice.
The one's that, among other 'uses', enable
HAARP technology. (FACT)
HUAC meets NUREMBERG ----with all possible
speed.
TRULY TRULY TRULY
The Bruce| 3.17.11 @ 12:27AM
I see Alex Jones let his gimp out its box again.
Stefan Stackhouse| 3.23.11 @ 5:42PM
I am well aware of Argentina's history, and it scares me to death to think that we are being set up for a repeat here in the USA. It is even more scary to realize that most Americans, even those in policymaking positions, know almost nothing about the historical experience of Argentina.
Creative Recreation | 8.11.11 @ 12:21AM
is good