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Hollywood Union Exploits MLK's Assassination to Fight Repub Governors

Did Dr. Martin Luther King really give his life to protect the inherently corrupt system of Public Union collective bargaining? The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) and whoever else is part of this April 4th AFL CIO “We-R-1” protest– oops, I mean “Day of Action,” sure seems to think so. Below the fold, you’ll see their call to arms to keep the wretched process of corrupting our democracy alive. But first we go to the videotape!

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You see, this is how it works — at least how it works in my home state of Wisconsin:

1. Public Sector Unions give upwards of 90% of their political donations to help get Democrats elected.

2. With the help of all this public union money, Democrats get elected to local and state offices.

3. Guess who the Public Sector Unions then collective bargain with? That’s right, the very same people who they helped get elected. And guess what the elected Democrats give away in order to keep that union money coming into their campaign coffers? Taxpayer money! You want to retire at 55 with full pension and benefits? No problem. We’ll just raise the money by increasing the tax burden on the working class. Sure, that means private sector workers will have to work till their 70 due to the tax burden necessary to cover public worker pensions, but sometimes the “social justice” omelette requires a few broken eggs.

4. And yet somehow, with all these “rights” and a salary and benefit package worth around $100k a year for nine months work, Milwaukee Public School teachers still manage to not educate their students.

Yeah, that’s what King gave his life for.

Public Union collective bargaining is about as corrupt a racket as there is, and if I thought AFTRA was capable of shame I’d suggest they be ashamed of themselves. It’s also worth noting that April 4th — the date we’re all supposed to stand together in solidarity for those who enjoy benefits the rest of us paying for them only dream of — is a Monday, a workday (at least in the real world). Don’t these people ever speak truth to power on the weekends? Or is that when they rest up after a long, hard week of taking it to the streets to fight on behalf of an aristocracy of public workers kept in place by the enforced government taxation of the working class?


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