AOL & PoliticsDaily Still Good For Laughs...

Today on the HuffingtonPosts' AOL, courtesy of the left-wing Politics Daily was the following:

"An overwhelming majority of Americans oppose taking away some of the collective bargaining rights that public employee unions now have and almost as many oppose cutting the pay or benefits of those workers, according to a nationwide New York Times/CBS News poll "

First and foremost, the New York Times and CBS News are both left wing -- they have yet to put forth an honest poll. But beyond that, all other polls show exactly the opposite -- that the average taxpayer does not believe unions should be getting a sweet deal on their backs.

We all know that polls can be manipulated in several ways. The most prevalent method is by how the questions are worded, simply because many people do not fully understand the issue. If you ask people if they favor or oppose stripping unions of their collective bargaining "rights", you may get many who oppose that. But if the question is honest, such as, "Do you support or oppose
taxpayers limiting the fringe benefits of unions that taxpayers pay for", most will support the limiting of benefits.

And that is the issue. First, collective bargaining is not a "right" - nowhere is it mentioned in the Constitution. Don't you just love it when liberals use the word "right" to describe anything they want, like abortion, gay marriage, collective bargaining? None of those things are rights - they are privileges, granted by court degree, government legislation or public opinion. And therefore they can all be taken away, which makes them privileges, not rights. Rights are granted by our Creator, as stated in the Declaration of Independence, and no mortal man has the authority to take them away.

No one is trying to "strip" collective bargaining from public unions. They may still bargain for wages and working conditions. The Wisconsin bill simply limits the bargaining to those things and would prevent the public unions from bargaining for all the fringe benefit freebies that add up into the billions - paid for by the tasxpayer.

So, any poll that asks uninformed people if they side with unions or with government, they will side with unions. But if the poll accurately reflects the issue at hand, the folks side AGAINST the unions. Americans believe in unions. But they do not believe they should be getting a better deal than everyone else, particularly at taxpayer expense (56% of the folks do not even realize that PUBLIC unions' benefits are funded by taxpayers - if they knew that, they would quickly desert the side of unions.)

OK, so some of you are not convinced. So answer me this question - if the folks favor the power and corruption of unions, why are even union members deserting unions (membership is down over 20% in the last several years) and membership in general has been declining for over two decades?

So, here is the nub: A majority of Americans are not aware that taxpayers fund public unions. And a majority of Americans do not realize that the compensation of public union employees averages 10-50% more than that of non-union workers. And the majority do not understand that the states are only trying to LIMIT collective bargaining to exclude fringe benefits, not wages or working conditions.

But most important, most Americans are not aware that the unions (not the union workers) and their leaders (like Trumpka) are socialist, supported by International Socialist Org, George Soros and other socialist associations.

Look at the insignia of communists, socialists and unions The hammer is "collective bargaining". And their mantra is the same -- "Workers of the world unite". They realize that the workers far outnumber the elites, so they use them to take power from the elites that they may become the new elites.

It's just a giant, adult version of "King of the Hill." Union leaders foment anger among the folks, getting them to drag the king off the hill so the union leaders can take the king's place.

The King of the Hill is "Democracy". The union leaders want to replace it with "Socialism".


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