Your Ship Has Come In

McQ over at QandO has a great post on some of the political payback unions workers may receive for voting monolithically for their democrat keepers.

Special interest democracy – political payback – so blatant now that you don’t even have to wonder if it is being done. Democrats are shameless in their pursuit of it. If you’re in a favored group, your ship has come in.

The post highlights the proposal to exempt union negotiated health care benefits from taxation while sticking it to non-union workers that often times receive similar health care insurance benefits.

Such proposals have two specific goals, one to stick it to the rich (regardless of how errant that sticking actually becomes) and secondly to incentivize to workers the value of joining a union--an organization that can be expected to vote democrat in future elections.

Of course this congress and this president have taken great pains to reward one of their largest constituencies in only their first few months in office.

The ramrodded bankruptcies of GM and Chrysler placed union beneficiaries far ahead of secured creditors, regular stockholders, taxpayers and consumers. Cash for clunkers is essentially a program designed to taxpayer subsidize new life into our union dominated domestic auto companies that cannot compete on a level playing field with their non-union competitors. The Department of Education is hinting at sinking more and more money into our failing public school systems in order to reward the NEA and other large teachers unions. Along what party lines do you believe that Card Check voting will fall?

Alexis De Tocqueville penned that American democracy would fail when voters discovered that they could vote themselves money out of the national coffers. Sadly, the great American unions appear to have made a great American discovery.