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.