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November 24, 2008

Employee Free Choice? Fairness Doctrine? Most Absurd Names Ever

The “Employee Free Choice Act” is an insult to anyone with an IQ greater than zero. Let me get this straight: Take away a worker’s right to cast a secret ballot for labor union elections and that’s free choice. That’s just plain stupid, which is also what the Democratic leaders in Congress think of the voters who elected them.

The union bosses want to replace the secret ballot with a “card check” system, so the union officials can see how people voted as they collect the cards. I think that’s called open intimidation, but they probably have a cutesy name for that also.

If a worker votes to not unionize, the union officials would be able to let all the other workers know who voted against unionizing. This would allow pro-union workers to harass other workers on the job until they changed their vote the next time around, or until they quit.

How can it be all right to vote with secret ballots when we vote for public officials, but not when the unions want to unionize a business? How can it be all right for our country to encourage the rest of the world to use secret ballots for their elections, but for the unions be exempt from this practice, which started with the founding of this nation?

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was asked these questions recently on Fox News, and this was his response: “The percentage of union workers has dropped from 25 percent of the workforce to 6 percent of the workforce, because employers have gained too much power.”  

I am not making this up.

Sen. Schumer and the Democrats cannot conceive of the fact that maybe a lot of employers are doing something right, and their workers are happy. So they want to increase the power of the unions by intimidating the workers to unionize.

That’s not democracy. That’s communism, except in communism the workers don’t even bother to vote.

Here’s another cutesy gem of Democratic deception. It’s called “The Fairness Doctrine”. A more accurate name would be “The Censorship Doctrine”. The anti-free-speech Democrats believe conservative talk radio has gained too much influence over how the public thinks. Too many people are thinking for themselves with facts and better information, and the Democrats do not like that.

Democrats do not want people to think at all. Just do as they say.

Since the Democrats won the White House and a larger majority in both houses of Congress, one might wonder why they would want to pass these two silencing laws. I offer two possibilities.

First, it is partial payback to the labor unions for their unwavering, consistent and solid support of Democratic candidates at all levels of government. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi want to oblige the unions even if the payback stabs the American people in the back.

Second, if the Republicans ever recover from their political crash landing and present state of wandering in the wilderness, then these two stupid bills would make it harder for Republicans to regain control of Congress and the White House.

Therefore, keep the public intimidated, uninformed and in the dark, and the Democrats might be able to keep control indefinitely.

Oh yeah. Don’t forget to throw some manure to the people every once in a while. Just like mushrooms, it helps them to survive in the dark.

What a brilliant strategy with two stupid ideas!

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