Posted by
John Finnigan on Wednesday, July 25, 2007 12:18:59 PM
I used to actually believe that Democrats and Unions were out for the little guy. People like me and my little colleagues working in obscurity and living from paycheck to pay check. Then I ran into the titanic AFLCIO and The Service Employees Union.
I can’t imagine Jimmy Hoffa being proud of negotiating lower pay and poorer quality benefits for the rank and file. But that is exactly what the Service Employees Union did in my case. Then I realized what the rank and file are to the union bosses: Cash Cows, nothing more. While the working people of my local needed help with true injustice, the Service Employees union gave over 100 million dollars to the Democrat party. In return, those of us who actually paid those bills got a swift kick in the pants.
I elected to leave that bad situation and have no regrets what-so-ever.
In the 2008 election the unions will provide half or more of the Democrats money. Even if the Democrats win, the rank and file will get zip. The best thing the rank and file can do is learn to take care of themselves, without the national vulture bosses siphoning their dues into doomed ventures.
As a former cash cow I decline to pay for the failed ideas of the Democrat Party.
John