If you think our education system is broken, don't worry, teacher's unions will use your tax dollars to elect politicians that don't care what you think. You think government is broken, don't worry, bureaucrats, automatic elevator operators and janitors will spend huge amounts of your money to elect politicians who will, in turn, tell you to shut up, you lacky. And they'd be right. You have become a lacky to public employee unions.
Campaign's Big Spender
Public-Employees Union Now Leads All Groups in Independent Election Outlays.
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is now the biggest outside spender of the 2010 elections, thanks to an 11th-hour effort to boost Democrats that has vaulted the public-sector union ahead of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the AFL-CIO and a flock of new Republican groups in campaign spending.
The 1.6 million-member AFSCME is spending a total of $87.5 million on the elections after tapping into a $16 million emergency account to help fortify the Democrats' hold on Congress. Last week, AFSCME dug deeper, taking out a $2 million loan to fund its push. The group is spending money on television advertisements, phone calls, campaign mailings and other political efforts, helped by a Supreme Court decision that loosened restrictions on campaign spending.
"We're the big dog," said Larry Scanlon, the head of AFSCME's political operations. "But we don't like to brag."
Good Lord, they're taking out loans for politics using your tax dollars as collateral to defeat your wishes at the polls.
