{"id":9619,"date":"2012-06-21T10:31:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T10:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/06\/21\/scotus-rules-against-seiu\/"},"modified":"2012-06-21T10:31:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T10:31:50","slug":"scotus-rules-against-seiu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/06\/21\/scotus-rules-against-seiu\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS Rules Against SEIU"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not all news<\/a> is bad. <\/span><\/p>\n

I have nothing against unions as such.  My father was a rank-and-file member, all his working life, of the Boilermakers' Union<\/a>.  SEIU<\/a>, however, is a public-sector union, a horse of a different color.  So what's the problem with public-sector unions?  Briefly, this.<\/span><\/p>\n

You pay taxes.  Some of your tax dollars go to pay the salaries of so-called 'civil servants.'  Some of these 'civil servants' belong to unions that automatically deduct union dues from their salaries and funnel this cash to the union bosses and lobbyists who pressure Democrat Party legislators to do their <\/span>bidding.  Legislators, being human, love their power and perquisities, and do whatever they can to hold onto them.  To stay in power they need votes which they get from the union members who vote as a block for the Dems to get as many goodies as they can. <\/span><\/p>\n

So we the people are forced via taxation to support the fiscally irresponsible and unsustainable Democrat Big Government agenda. Would you say that that smacks of corruption?<\/span><\/p>\n

Suppose you object that that the Dems are not fiscally irresponsible.  Well, then you are wrong, but you have a right to your opinion.  That's not the issue, however.  The issue is whether it is legitimate to force people to support political parties whose ideas they oppose.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not all news is bad. I have nothing against unions as such.  My father was a rank-and-file member, all his working life, of the Boilermakers' Union.  SEIU, however, is a public-sector union, a horse of a different color.  So what's the problem with public-sector unions?  Briefly, this. You pay taxes.  Some of your tax dollars … Continue reading “SCOTUS Rules Against SEIU”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leisure-and-work","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}