Government By The Mob

Michelle Malkin points out the on going efforts of the SEIU in Illinois. It's important to understand the dynamics of this. Ultimately, if you are a free, or independent thinker, as many center-Right folks are, it limits your ability to impart your views to the politicians.

Yes, Illinois provided both the SEIU and AFSCME with the names and home addresses of all 3,500 in-home care providers for the purposes of increasing their membership rolls and political clout.

Of course Illinois would provide them that information. Why not? What the politicians get back in turn are built in voting machines. SEIU fat cats tax their members, yes, dues are just another form of tax in this sense, and besides living like kings, they use those monies to contribute to the politicians that open the doors for them. And they always use it to feed one sides information to their members through internal political communications.

Then, come election day, they tell them where to go, what signs to carry and just what to do. In recent cases, that has included trying to rough up American citizens with a different political point of view.

They say Tea Parties are government by the mob, but that's BS. By and large, TeaParty folks are individual actors. Not so with these SEIU thugs. And their cooperation with liberal politicians builds a political machine that can be hard to beat. It's one of the reasons why PA has always been Blue, regardless of the fact that much of the state is Red.

It's liberal machine politics and all the corruption that goes with it. And that's why it needs to be opposed.

Comments

[Terrye]

I am not defending the SEIU or anything, but I work for a home health care agency in Indiana, and the names of all the providers are public knowledge and information. There is no secret about it.

[oldtimer]

They already did this in CA., unionized home care providers. No surprise it is filled with fraud and corruption. There is no oversight. There is billing done on dead people or who don't live in their home anymore. Of course, they get away with it.

[x11b1p]

i need to join a union when do i get to feed from the trough?

[Reaganite Republican]

This is a truly outstanding post, Dan

[bud]

I'm not defending SEIU (I, personally, think they're a bunch of power-hungry jerks) but I know a person who was a member of an SEIU local. Her commment was rather enlightening. She said that she didn't especially like the union, but that it was the only thing between her and a management willing to push her into poverty to protect thier own bonuses. This was not based on union propaganda, but on her own observation of how hours were assigned in a front-of the-house job in a restaurant, and how she had to use the grievance procedure to maintain a 40 hour work week, as opposed to allowing the company to spread the job among multiple part-time (read: cheaper with no benefits) employees.

SEIU are pretty bad, but that doesn't make all their opponents on the side of the angels.

[spongeworthy]

Another thing between her and restaurant management is her ability to find a better place to work. I live in a small town but there have to be 20 restaurants within about 5 miles of here.