Michigan About To Become A Right To Work State - the 24 RTW state in the Nation.

 B Obama,  in a speech in Michigan,  yesterday,  couldn't pass up making a comment about the new Michigan right to work law being signed into law,  today.  He went on record in his opposition to Michigan's move to "end collective bargaining."   Good for him.  What is startling  to this editor,  is the fact that this know-nothing leader,  is not talking about anything that is going on in that state.  Collective bargaining is not the issue,  despite the intentional effort at saying otherwise.  

Understand that the new Michigan law is not an attack on collective bargaining,  per se,  or union membership.   The law does one thing and one thing only:  it allows a worker in whatever venue,  to refuse to pay dues to the socialist unions in that state.  91% of union dues,  nation wide and in Michigan,  went to the Obama re-election campaign.  This law gives workers the right to say "no" to such unAmerican nonsense. 

What is humorous,  in all this,  is the fact that the Michigan unions,  in the recent past,  tried to write union membership and collective bargaining into the Michigan State constitution.  That effort failed,  at the ballot box,  by a margin of nearly 2 to 1.  Today,  months later,  a very opposite result is being signed into law. 

It is estimated that 1 in 4 union members will eventually demand the right to be free of union dictatorship and the confiscation of their dues.  

My objection to forced unionization is simply this:  I refuse to pay a union boss for the right to earn a living.  I have never done so.  It is literally,  that simple.  Why should I have to pay Richard Trumpka,  the fat and thuggish president of the AFL-CIO for my right to earn a living and have my political donations go to whomever I choose to support?  

My brother was a carpenter and a very vocal union man.  I was a carpenter and never a union member.  He made more money per hour,  but spent a significant amount of time sitting in the union hall,  waiting for his name to rise to the top of some listing,  giving him the opportunity to work,  that day.  

In the end,  I made just as much money as he did.  In fact,  there were times when I made more.  My point?  Non-union membership does not mean that those folks will earn less than their union counter parts.  Indeed,  retirement benefits will be less,  but the freedom to work and control my life is a fair trade-off.  Only the entitlement class will disagree,  whether they work for a living or demand that I pay their bills.  

Go Michigan !!