Another Case Showing Why People Shouldn't Be Forced Into Unions

Labor unions have been known to do many despicable things to grab dues money from workers who don’t want anything to do with them. A current Minnesota case is about as bad as you’ll ever find.

In 2013, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) got one of its favored politicians, Minnesota governor Mark Dayton, to sign an order declaring that home healthcare providers who receive Medicaid money to care for disabled family members were government employees. But they were “employees” only because that made them eligible for unionization. The SEIU figured that it had a good shot at finagling a victory in an election, which would then lead to a nice infusion of new dues money.

The election, conducted under the auspices of the friendly state bureaucracy, was done entirely through mail-in ballots and under its rules, a victory required only a majority of the votes cast. When the votes were counted in 2014, 3,543 were in favor of the union and 2,306 against. There were about 27,000 home healthcare providers, so with just 13 percent of the total number, the SEIU was declared the representative of all 27,000.

Nearly 24,000 home caregivers had become union members without their consent or even over their dissent.

Let’s see:
LBJ moved the Social Security Trust Fund to the General Fund so the government could raid it.

Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton allowed Fanny and Freddy to
make home loans that could not be paid off.

JFK allowed the government workers to unionize.

Exactly what do the Demoncrats have to crow about?

Actually, the “trust fund” had been spent long ago.

Turning excess over to Congress to fritter away had been SOP from the beginning under FDR. It has ALWAYS been an unethical con.

What they then did was to pretend that the same entity could own the debt and owe it too. This created the illusion of having an asset even though it was exactly countered by a matching obligation.

What LBJ apparently did was, at least on the surface of it, a reform. He did away with the accounting trick and simply it was unsecured “debt”.

But what about his spending the trust fund, that ran out early in Reagan’s time you ask?

Well, it seems that LBJ started spending the black ink in the ledger in Treasury’s right hand ignoring the corresponding debt on the ledger in its left hand. Since the asset was spent it seems that new debt was issued to cover the now expended “asset” (which was no asset at all).

So he basically spent the same money twice, which is a pretty groovy con even the mafia would be terrified to attempt, though the reality of it was they were creating money out of thin air.

Incidentally, in the past I’ve pointed out that beginning around that time till the time that the “money” (black ink in the ledger) ran out there was upwards inflationary pressure that just wouldn’t go down.

I’m sure it’s a coincidence that it went down soon thereafter. Trust me, it has to be....

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