Midknight Review -- new and revised: Here is a key fact ignored by union leaders: they do not represent "Middle America."

As you read on the "scrolldown," you will find more than one post driving home the fact that out of a national labor force of 153 million, only 15 million belong to a union whether public or private. When Trumka (AFL-CIO President) and Obama talk about unions and "middle America" in the same breath, they want you to ignore the fact that unions are about unions, not "middle America." It is just incredible that 15 million people have the power to rule over 138 million; incredible and unAmerican.

Understand that Wisconsin teachers pay .2% into their retirement fund and only 6% of the cost of health care. Through collective bargaining, the union has secured a billion dollars for Viagra subscription refunds for its members. The last collective bargaining cycle took 18 months to negotiate and that was with a Democrat controlled Wisconsin congress.

16 states either have seriously modified collective bargaining policies or have no such bargaining at all. There is no migration of teachers moving from these states to those unions in Wisconsin or California or whereever, evidence that teacher pay in non-bargaining states is at acceptable levels.

In addition, states that suffer under progressive union control, prohibit folks from work unless they either join the union or pay union dues. They force you to pay dues even if not a member. And, they spend these dues -- every penny coming from taxpayers -- to defeat the will of the taxpayer and those from whom they steal these dues.

In the video below, the union folks pretend they are fighting for the middle class when 90% of the middle are not union members. Note the substantive argument the state official versus the silliness of the union people. They love to talk about "rights" while working against the rights of the 90% who do not want to join their union.
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The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

Here is a key fact ignored by union leaders: they do not represent "Middle America."

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