We Need To Get It Right

Today is Easter Sunday. I was just looking at Fox News and Chris Wallace interviewing Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City. Wallace asked Bloomberg whether he would support unions in contrast to Governor Chris Christie in New Jersey, and Governor Scott Walker in Wisconsin, who see unions as part of the economic problems facing us today. Bloomberg said he supported unions and that collective bargaining was a good thing. 

But in accessing the impact unions have today in our society, collective bargaining is not itself the problem. It is first the tendency unions have in coercing workers
to join a union and second to use their power and money to support liberal Democrat politicians almost exclusively and again coerce their workers to vote as the union determines, that is, for liberal Democrats, who in turn believe in “tax and spend” on programs currently driving us to the brink of economic collapse.

With teacher unions, the problem is again not collective-bargaining itself; it is the movement, empowered by the Department of Education, to dumb-down students, depriving them of a good understanding of history, particularly American history, so they become unaware of the good things this country has always stood for. 

Teachers are expected to tow the line, and foster the liberal concepts the American Civil Liberty Union would certainly approve of. Citizens who object to the feel-good philosophies being taught our young people have opted to homeschool their young. No longer do parents who really care about good education for their children have any realistic say in assuring such education in our public schools.

Finally, we need to get it right. We need to understand that unionism, the pro-Democrat, progressive media and the present Democrat stranglehold on our government are the problem; not the workers, not the teachers, not those in business and not the ordinary citizens wanting to lead a good productive life for themselves and for their children and grandchildren.