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RUSH: There\u2019s a great piece on a lot of this. It\u2019s long. I\u2019m gonna excerpt some of it. It is a great piece. Best of the Web today from James Taranto, the Wall Street Journal. <\/p>\n

‘To make sense of what\u2019s going on in Wisconsin, it helps to understand that the left in America lives in an ideological fantasy world.\u2019 Let me give you a pull quote here before getting into the whole piece, \u2019cause it is great. ‘Here is the contradiction of progressivism. Progressives tell us they want the government to do more. But they can\u2019t win elections without public-sector unions. Because they are beholden to those unions, their main priority when in power is to increase the cost, not the scope, of government. Because resources are finite, the result is the worst of both worlds: a government that taxes more without doing more. This is unsustainable economically. Fortunately, as Wisconsin voters showed last November, it\u2019s unsustainable politically as well.\u2019 <\/p>\n

So this illustrates again how phony Obama is. ‘We all have to live within our means. We all have to tighten the belt. We all have to do with less.\u2019 Wrong! Because they are beholden to union paymasters, their main priority when in power is to increase the cost of government — i.e., when you pay these people. By increasing the cost of government, you launder money through the unions and get the dues returned to you. So the Democrats, for all the ideological reasons they want to expand government, also have an economic reason to expand government. Expanding government, increasing the cost of government enhances their power because the unions are essentially money launderers of taxpayer money. <\/p>\n

Because where are the public sector unions getting their money? They\u2019re not producing anything. They\u2019re not making widgets. People are not buying anything. Ends up in the annual household budget of a public sector union worker is taxpayer revenue, pure and simple. It\u2019s tax dollars — and when there isn\u2019t enough of that we borrow it; and when we can\u2019t borrow any more, we print it. But none of it results from production. It\u2019s pure redistribution of wealth. So not only are private sector people being taxed and having their standards of living affected negatively, those dollars they pay the government, more and more end up, at the end their circuitous route, in the Democrat Party. Because the Democrat Party\u2019s paymasters are the unions. <\/p>\n

Is it any wonder that since Obama was immaculated, the federal workforce has increased by 200,000 people? There are 200,000 brand-new public sector union people paying dues, a portion of which end up with the Democrat Party and with Barack Obama. Now, back to James Taranto: ‘The dispute between the state government and the unions representing its employees is ‘about power,\u2019 Paul Krugman of the New York Times observes accurately, before going off the rails: What [Gov. Scott] Walker and his backers are trying to do is to make Wisconsin — and eventually, America — less of a functioning democracy and more of a third-world-style oligarchy. And that\u2019s why anyone who believes that we need some counterweight to the political power of big money should be on the demonstrators\u2019 side.\u2019 (chuckles)<\/p>\n

That is pure idiocy. It\u2019s the exact opposite of that. ‘Kevin Drum of Mother Jones elaborates: ‘Unions are … the only large-scale movement left in America that persistently acts as a countervailing power against corporate power. They\u2019re the only large-scale movement left that persistently acts in the economic interests of the middle class. … The decline of unions over the past few decades has left corporations and the rich with essentially no powerful opposition. No matter what doubts you might have about unions and their role in the economy, never forget that destroying them destroys the only real organized check on the power of the business community in America. If the last 30 years haven\u2019t made that clear, I don\u2019t know what will.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Here are several problems with this line of thinking. First, to talk of America in terms of ‘class\u2019 is to speak a foreign language. Outside of university faculties and Marxist fringe groups (but we repeat our self), Americans do not divide ourselves up by class; rather, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal . . .” When Americans describe themselves as ‘middle class,” the term is a synonym for ‘ordinary\u2019 or ‘respectable,\u2019 not part of a taxonomy of division. Actual middle-class Americans don\u2019t feel put upon by ‘corporate power\u2019 or ‘the business community,\u2019 because by and large, they own the means of production: They run businesses; they hold shares in corporations through their investment and retirement accounts. <\/p>\n

‘Some belong to unions, but the vast majority do not: ‘In 2010, the union membership rate — the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of a union — was 11.9 percent, down from 12.3 percent a year earlier,\u2019 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. … The ‘labor movement\u2019 in America has increasingly come to consist of people who work for government, not private companies. As the BLS notes, the union-participation rate for public-sector workers in 2010 was 36.2%, vs. just 6.9% for private-sector workers. … In any case, it seems to have escaped Krugman\u2019s and Drum\u2019s notice that the Wisconsin dispute has nothing to do with corporations. <\/p>\n

‘The unions\u2019 antagonist is the state government,\u2019 which is the people of Wisconsin, not some evil corporate fat cat! That\u2019s my point all along. These people are not negotiating against some fat, filthy rich, cigar-chomping executive who spends all day on the golf course. They are negotiating Wisconsin citizens who are not members of unions. ”Industrial unions are organized against the might and greed of ownership,\u2019 writes Time\u2019s Joe Klein, a liberal who understands the crucial distinction. ‘Public employees unions are organized against the might and greed . . . of the public?” That\u2019s true. Public employees, public employee unions are organized against the public. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s who pays them.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Collective bargaining in the public sector — I cannot emphasize this enough — collective bargaining in the public sector thus is less a negotiation than a conspiracy to steal money from taxpayers. I am so happy this is all coming to light. I\u2019m glad that has happened to Wisconsin. I\u2019m glad finally people are figuring out what collective bargaining with public sector unions means. The negotiations with public sector unions against people who pay them are negotiations between the unions and the citizens of the state of Wisconsin in this case. And it\u2019s not a negotiation. It is a conspiracy to steal money from taxpayers. That\u2019s where the union workers in the federal and state governments get their money. Corporations are not involved. Evil, bad Walmart, McDonald\u2019s, I don\u2019t care, name one, they\u2019re not involved. This is strictly unionized workers in the state holding hostage the people of the state, and the people of Wisconsin are being held hostage. Their schools are closed because the senators fled the state to avoid democracy, and the teachers walked off the job. <\/line><\/p>\n

The teachers are union workers. They\u2019re holding out for whatever. From who? Their neighbors. Obama says, ‘They\u2019re just your neighbors and people at church.\u2019 Yeah, what are they trying to do here? They\u2019re holding \u2019em up. It\u2019s not a negotiation, as Mr. Taranto says. It\u2019s a conspiracy to steal money from taxpayers. The notion that this is in the economic interests of the middle class for government employees of Wisconsin and elsewhere to get above market wages is laughable. Above market wages means wages higher than the people who are paying the wages earn. Where\u2019s the justice in that? You earn $50,000 a year. People that work in your state government earn a hundred thousand dollars a year. You are paying it. Where\u2019s the justice there? The idea that this is in the economic interests of the middle class for government employees to get above market wages and lavish benefits is laughable. The government employees are middle class but so are the vast majority of taxpayers who are paying them who do not enjoy these special privileges.<\/p>\n

Tom in Strasburg, Pennsylvania. You\u2019re up. Great to have you on the EIB Network today, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Great to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: As a conservative Republican here in Pennsylvania, this has really been fun to watch for me. You know, the D\u2019s have really painted themselves into a corner here, and are really in uncharted waters. They\u2019ve been fighting for decades this class warfare, you know, the haves versus the have-nots, the working families versus the rich, for decades. Now the shoe is on the other foot here and the liberals really don\u2019t know how to handle the argument, and consequently they just leave the states.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. And look who is it that now hates government. Look who is it that hates government. Liberal Democrats. They hate government. When it comes to a choice between the unions and government, who do they hate? They hate government. Who\u2019s knocking government? All these union workers, all these Democrats are knocking government, criticizing, ripping the government. That\u2019s not very civil.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. They don\u2019t know how to handle the argument. The bottom line is they don\u2019t argue. They can\u2019t win. They don\u2019t debate. In some cases they try to impugn and destroy the credibility of their opponents or in this case they flee as cowards. They just leave the states. They just run away. And somehow they want to tell us that they\u2019re doing this for our benefit against some evil corporation trying to screw them.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: La Crosse, Wisconsin. Hi, John, great to have you on the program. Welcome.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, what a supreme honor, Mr. Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, I was just wondering if you had the opportunity to speak to every Wisconsinite, including the WPR listeners, what would you say to them? Why would you say that collective bargaining rights are so important to include in those other than just givebacks for the pension and the health care? And why that\u2019s critical to do that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: What would I say the collective bargaining rights are so important to include?<\/p>\n

CALLER: To include in Scott Walker\u2019s bill that they must be taken away for public workers. I mean, my understanding is that the contributions, the additional contributions for health care and pensions only applies to state workers and that this is the best tool that the local governments have to get a handle on their budgets. I mean especially since they\u2019re not gonna get as much money from the state.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it is critical. The state is out of money.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We\u2019re broke, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wisconsin can\u2019t afford to pay for union members\u2019 Viagra. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s the thing about collective bargaining rights for public union employees. I agree with James Taranto in the Wall Street Journal. Let me read to you how he has categorized it. Collective bargaining in the public sector is less a negotiation than a conspiracy to steal money from taxpayers. You know, there\u2019s no evil corporate interest here that you\u2019re collectively bargaining with. Public sector unions are collectively bargaining against taxpayers, the taxpayers of the state. In essence it becomes, okay, how much can we score, how much can we steal from these people who are paying us? And they end up paying us more than they make themselves.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I feel like a peasant that\u2019s paying for these new aristocrats that have excellent job security, and it never ends. I mean the nine months, the job security, the benefits that no one else gets.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, in the case of state public employees, you\u2019re right. But it\u2019s not that no one else gets them. It\u2019s that who\u2019s paying it. Absent here is some evil corporate entity. Traditionally the way unions have succeeded is to create sympathy. ‘Well, yeah, they\u2019re up against these rich guys, these fat cats in the boardroom who want them in poverty, who don\u2019t want to pay them any money,\u2019 while they are getting rich as sin! They are the members of the country club. They\u2019re the ones that fly around in the corporate jets. They\u2019re the ones that have the lives of Riley. But in this case, collective bargaining — the taxpayers are not flying around in private jets, they\u2019re not the members of country clubs, they\u2019re not living the lives of Riley. A lot of them are out of work, a lot of them have lost their homes, and the union is ungiving. It is unwilling to compromise at all on some of this. ‘I don\u2019t care if the state goes bankrupt. I\u2019m keeping what I\u2019ve got.\u2019 So in this case, the whole notion of the traditional contract negotiation is thrown out the window. <\/p>\n

You\u2019re asking John Q. Citizen, you\u2019re asking Joe Six-Pack to pay you twice what he makes and you want a collective bargaining process which allows you the right to strike, to walk away from your job, which is to teach his kids? Do you expect him to agree with this? He doesn\u2019t see himself as a CEO of some giant company running around playing golf half the year, drinking fine adult beverages, smoking cigars, cognac from the corporate jet at 51,000 feet. He sees himself barely able to make ends meet in this economy. And yet his neighbors, who for some reason have no compunction, they\u2019ll either leave the state to avoid voting or they\u2019ll walk off the job teaching the kids or they\u2019ll walk off the job of whatever else it is. John Q. Public\u2019s said, ‘To hell with this. I\u2019m already paying these guys twice what I earn and they\u2019re coming in and treating me this way?\u2019 So that\u2019s the difference. It\u2019s money laundering. I don\u2019t know how else to say this. It is just a highly sophisticated money laundering operation. Add to it, John, what people are now figuring out is, these John Q. Citizens in Wisconsin are figuring out that at the end of all of this, at the end of this timeline, a portion of their state taxes is ending up in the Democrat Party campaign coffers via the unions because all these state employees are unionized, they pay dues, the dues go to elect and reelect and buy ads for Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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