Haloween Scary? Try this. Sure Scares Me.

Who is the largest contributor to the 2010 campaign cycle? Many would think conservative PACs such as Romney's or Rove's since these get media attention. Wrong! The largest contributor by far is the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees or, AFSCME. Their President reports that This Union's 2010 contributions will be $87,500,000 going almost entirely to Democrats.

In the 2008 cycle this Union contributed $400,000,000. again to Democrats.

Franklin Roosevelt said, "The process of collective bargaining as usually understood cannot be transplanted into the public service, a public employee strike, looking toward the paralysis of government by those who have sworn to support it is unthinkable and intolerable."

In 1975, New York union leader Victor Gotbaum said "We have the ability, in a sense< to elect our own bosses."

public employee union dues and contributions to union PACs come directly from taxpayers. So if you live in a state or city with strong public employee unions, you are paying a tax that goes to elect Democratic candidates.

Is it any wonder that the Obama 2009 stimulus contained $160,000,000,000. (yes Billion) in aid to
to state and local governments? This was intended to and did insulate union members from the ravages of the recession.

Now many states are facing enormous budget deficits and much, much greater pension liabilities. Much of the life of their private sector economies has been sucked out by the public employee unions, with a resulting flight of middle-income citizens unable or unwilling to bear such burdens.

My source for the above comments is Columnnest Michael Barone as printed in "Highlands Today".

Now think about recent ballot machine problems. In one state district the electronic ballot automatically ran the board for the Dems! How about Nevada? In that state Harry Reed was checked on the ballots.
What is not widely known is that the Unions have the contract to install and set up the machines. Guess who was instrumental in voting to award the contract to the Unions? Answer, Rory Reed. Harry's son. Coincidence? I think not.

The Private sector middle class working people are being quietly buried by those who would have a Socialistic, all powerful government control their lives and take away their constitutional rights. We, all of us, must be ever vigilant or we will eventually all wear gray suits and march in a straight line.

A LESSON IN DIRTY POLITICS AND DUMB LATINOS

So, Meg Whitman hires a Latino Lady to work for her. She finds her through an agency. When interviewed, the Latino Lady produces a Drivers License, Social Security Card and an official affidavit swearing  that she is in the US legally. Whitman did all she could or should do by law. By the way, the Latino Lady was paid $23.00 per hour. I can think of thousands of people working for major chains across this Country who do not make half that pay but the poor Latino was used?

Years later, a month before Whitman's election campaign against Jerry Brown is to be decided, Gloria Alred goes on the news and says she is defending the poor helpless Latino who was used and abused by Whitman. It turns out the Latino lady lied at her interview, used her sister's Drivers License and Social Security Card and falsely swore she was here in the US legally. In other word, she committed purgery and is an illegal alien. Just how is that Whitman's fault who did everything right?

What is dirty is that Alred is a Jerry Brown supporter and friend. Jerry Brown is a political hack looking for one more shot at fame before he goes into Talk Show heaven.

Whitman's poling numbers fell in the last few days due to this really stupid ploy by Brown's surrogate who is nothing more than a legal Grandstander. I think it is the Latino community that is largely responsible for the dip in poling and that is a shame. After all, Whitman employed one of theirs, paid her twice the going rate and thought all was good in the hood. What exactly do the Latinos want? Maybe no "LEGAL" Latinos should be hired? Is that what they want? The legal Latino community should be full out against this obvious use of an illegal to get their favor.

If this stupid political stunt is all it takes to get voters off the subject of jobs, the economy and deficit spending, God help us all. This is an example of what is so very wrong with the whole system and how self serving people can screw things up in an already tough situation. Hey California voters, you need to pay attention to this and get angry. This is not the debate on your future representatives you need to be having. Don't let the Press and Alred's spinning take you off point. Your State and our Country need to have better debates than this if we are to get Government back working for us and not itself.

I really don't know which candidate would ultimately be better. I do know this sham is not the way to find out. Any wonder why I call this Blog GOVGONENUTS?