From: pjm@anegada.sps.mot.com (Patrick J. McGuinness) Subject: Re: !Re: ---> The AFL/CIO Illegal Lies <--- Date: 21 Oct 1996 03:51:47 GMT In article <3268F192.12D0@c-com.net> Dave Olson writes: >Haven't you UNION huggers figured out the problem with the unions >are yet? > >Ask a simple question. I believe that this tells it all. > >Who is the largest unionized group in the Country? > >The answer is the group of the government workers. > >Now have you figured out why the Democrats have such voting power? >Republicans are trying to cut the size of government. Good luck! >How can you expect these sheep to vote against cutting their own jobs >for the good of the country. They are the selfish ones, not the >Republicans. They know that there is a lot of room for cost savings but >stand against any improvements. > >In Houston here the Post office uses the intercom to tell all the >workers at lunch that if they vote for Dole they will loose their job. I am hearing a lot of anecdotal talk of this going on. I heard of Texas agency that was politicking the Congress this year. This kind of stuff, in pre-Clinton America, used to be illegal. It was considered the depths of (tammany-hall style) corruption to let Government workers get involved in political influence. Not any more. Sad. More Lippo-suction of American integrity. >The problem with this country the self starters are penalized and the >people with their hands out are in greater numbers. The Democrats know the host shouldn't be destroyed by the parasite, just sufficiently weakened so it can't fight back. So, Dave, if you are working days and nights, and are unable to spend time on politics, and will just "buy" what the 89% pro-Clinton-media is feeding you, while all your disposable income goes to FICA and income tax ... you are RIGHT where the Democrats want you to be. Be Happy In Your Work!! Arbeit Macht Frei!! ----------- Why the big push by the unions this election? 1) Unions are *deathly scared of real spending cuts*. It's not the old people that will get hurt by the GOP spending cuts - it's the *bureaucrats* ... like the ones who are members of AFSCME. Between the Republican plan to reform welfare (fewer Federal rules to monitor); the Republican "freedom to farm" act, cutting back on farm subsidies and regulations; the Republican to do away with Dept of Energy, Commerce, and maybe some others here and there ... it all adds up to a frightening scenario for Government workers. Look at it this way - AFSCME is looking at the Republicans as the dreaded corporate "downsizers" of Government. That is why, by the way, the unions are dead-set against the balanced budget amendment. 2) Unions get Government funding, and don't want to lose it. The Federal Government has given millions to the Unions. AFL-CIO has gotten $2 million in Federal grants; AFCMSE a like amount; almost a million to the American Nurses Association; $1.7 million to the IAM (internation Association of Machinists); $3.5 million to the Teamsters; $805,000 to the UAW. (93-94 data). These direct payments are just the tip of the iceberg. There is an $11 million "slush fund" in the SSA that goes to union officials - up to 1800 part-time salaries. Dole's victory, and his tax cut, is a threat to the taxpayer-funded grants that unions and other left-wing special interest groups currently enjoy. To ordinary Americans, giving money to unions and special-interests is a waste that only exists because the Democratic Congress and President Clinton want to pay off their supporters. The first thing on Dole's spending chopping block will surely be the Federal slush fund for unions. 3) Unions need to repay political protection. A case in point - " ... Arthur Coia, head of the Laborers International Union of North America, was named in a 212-page complaint by the Justice Department's Organized Crime section that detailed his connections with organized crime. As it happens, however, Coia provided a $100,000 loan to the Clinton Inaugural Committee, contributed more than one million dollars to Democrat candidates in recent election cycles, served as co-host of a $1,500-a-plate fundraiser that netted the DNC more than $3.5 million, and even sent $1,000 to the president's legal defense fund - all of which might explain why the Justice Department has decided to let Coia remain as the union's general president." So, unions have many reasons for pouring an all-out special-interest effort to fight the tax-cutting, spending-cutting, and corruption-investigating Republican Congress and White House.