The bottom line:

Thursday - February 24, 2011

The bottom line:

Any accountant, business owner or tax consultant will always ask or tell you what the bottom line is.

This week has been a tumultuous week in our country and around the world. The bottom line is that people in this country and people in other countries are waking up. With protests occurring in our cities, over collective bargaining in the public unions, we are realizing just how corrupt the activity has been and how it has affected the bottom line in our greatest cities.

The bottom line is we cannot afford labor unions taking our liberties and our wealth for their own desires and supporting their preference in their choice of political parties. The bottom line is these unions support solely the Democratic Party. It is a very rare instance where any union contributes to the Republican Party.

To be effective you need to have the power. In this country, as in other countries, the unions or individuals who have the power also have the money. The President told us that his stimulus package would save American jobs. What he didn’t tell us is that the jobs that were saved with our tax dollars were union jobs; particularly Public Service Union jobs. The bottom line is somewhere, somehow the corrupt activity has been uncovered and there are no more excuses.

What is now occurring in this country is that we have the political class taking the wealth away form the tax payer or in our case the private class. U.S. Congressman Dennis Kusinich (D) Ohio said in response to newly elected Governor Kasich’s (R) stance against collective bargaining of the public service union’s in Ohio “He cannot believe that the Republicans are not negotiating the terms of the state employees.“ He said, “Under the Republicans, workers would be told this is what you are going to get.” He said: “this isn’t American, because you can’t have democracy if people can’t negotiate wages.” He also said, “Attacks on the Unions are a means of redistributing wealth upwards.” The bottom line is that collective bargaining has taken away the wealth and has taken away the flexibility of any local town or city to balance any budget. Without balanced budgets deficits occur. The bottom line is any employee any city worker anybody has the right to negotiate for a pay hike, but they should negotiate out of merit instead of having the unions rob the tax payer.

The bottom line is that the tax payer is paying for these union member’s salary and benefits. In many cases, these union workers make more than the people who are paying for their salary and their benefits. They also have job security something that the person who pays their salary doesn’t.

The biggest issue of the budgets that states have to reconcile is to create a program that would be designed to promote job growth and entrepreneurial activities. This is something that Mr. Kucinich doesn’t understand and clearly never be capable of understanding. It seems to me that that Congressman Kucinich is against these American principals and against the principals of basic American freedoms.

The bottom line is we now have two distinct choices: The Democrats who are supported by the Unions and those who are now afraid that their campaign funds are going to be affected if the Unions cannot perform collective bargaining. And the Republicans who have illustrated and proven how these Unions have destroyed the public sector work place through corrupt policies and through unethical practices.

The other side of this debate centers on the workers themselves. Many don’t realize that their Union dues go to pay multi million dollar salaries of the Union bosses and go to support candidates that they might not want to support. Many Union workers are forced to join the Union and many are conservative. There political freedom of choice is not only taken away but is corrupted by the practices of the leadership.

When politicians, like Kucinich, are beholden to the unions, because of campaign contributions, how can the decisions they make on any policy issue be made out of fairness and without prejudice? The bottom line is that these Unions are corrupt and their practices make it impossible not to corrupt those who take the political contributions. James Sherk of The New York Times wrote this week: “As a result unions can now insist on laws that serve their interests – at the expense of the common good.”

The Republicans are not responsible for this mess. This mess has occurred over many decades of democrats strangling the system for corrupt dollars that are stolen and not earned. The bottom line is that these Unions have become a fund raising machine for the Democratic Party!

The Presidents former Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, is now the Mayor of Chicago. That city is known as the bastion of union thugs. The President will need the city and the vote of the union’s to insure his reelection. Who will give him that? Yes, Rahm and the Unions. Didn’t JFK win with the help of Mayor Daly and the Unions in the nation’s tightest race in history? This is what you call consolidating your power for a rainy day - and that is the bottom line!

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

A footnote: The father of modern day liberalism Franklin Delano Roosevelt said:
“It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.”