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Oh yea, Richard Trumka and the Purple People Beater Road Show is coming to NJ

Better make alternate plans tomorrow for your school age children. AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka and the SEIU Purple People Beater Road Show is coming to Trenton for a rally in support of the Wisconsin public employee unions. I'm sure the NJEA membership won't miss out on a chance to ditch their responsibility to your kids so they can collect a bogus doctor's note while screaming epithets at Chris Christie and Scott Walker.

Please God, don't let them bring a camel.

This year the governor isn't sleeping with the head of the CWA. Which seems to have really pissed off at least one of Carla Katz's brothers in arms. Thugs for Social Justice has such a nice ring to it, dontcha think?

I sure hope Tabitha Hale is OK. Yes folks, Mr. Big Bad Union Dude punched out a girl because she had the audacity to videotape him saying nasty things about Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.

Maybe she can sue Rep. Michael Capuano (D-umbass) for incitement to violence?

The good news is the Bayshore Tea Party Group plans to stage a counter-protest. If nothing else they can clean up the garbage sure to be left behind by the union mob.

It will be a perfect contrast between the "Have Nots" and the "Have Yours". State Run Media paints the standoff in Wisconsin as an epic battle between the little guy and the big bad governor who wants to sell the working man into slavery. Nothing could be farther from the truth! Public employee unions are manifestly different from their counterparts in the private sector.

Government unions negotiate salary and benefits with the very same people who they support for election via campaign contributions. It's no accident that former NJ governor Jon Corzine was banging the head of our state's largest public employee union while "negotiating" a new contract. CWA cash put Corzine in the Governor's Mansion. And he returned the favor a hundred-fold at the bargaining pillow table.

But that's what public employee unions do. They force taxpayers to fund democrats. Public employee salaries fund union dues. Union dues fund democrats' election campaigns. And once in office the democrats reward the unions with generous increases in salary and benefits.

Scott Walker (and Chris Christie and John Kasich) are out to break that vicious cycle. They're promoting the novel idea that taxpayers are more important than public employees. How? By daring to make union dues voluntary. That's right, the state automatically deducts the dues (averaging $1100 per year) from every employee's paycheck and funnels the cash directly to the union. Scott Walker's earth-shattering proposal calls for the workers to write that check themselves.

The union leaders are pretty sure that most of their members won't voluntarily cough up $1100.

It's for this that the Democratic Party has gone to the mattresses. There is no longer any doubt whose side they're on. Not ours. They aren't protecting the workers, they're hell-bent on protecting their revenue stream.

So maybe after the rally the democrats in our state legislature can join forces with their friends from Wisconsin and Indiana. I hear that in his first act as the new mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel has set up a home for wayward democrats. Our guys and gals had better hit the road before he fills up and has to hang out the No Vacancy sign.

The whole country is broke. There is no more money. No matter how many rallies they hold or women they beat up that fact won't change. The wheels have fallen off the gravy train. Earlier this week Chris Christie said his proposed state budget represents "The New Normal". No longer will New Jersey blindly fund commitments made by prior administrations.

"Today marks the line in the sand that separates the way things used to be, and the way they are going to be," he said. "And we will not be going back."

For all their bluster the public employee unions solidly represent "the way things used to be". Exorcising them won't be easy, or neat and tidy. But exorcise them we must. Our children's future depends on it.

Posted at 09:09 by Chris Wysocki   [/democrats]   Comments | Perm Link |
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