I am so totally opposed to any government employee being involved in any union. That was what CIVIL SERVICE was supposed to be about. Talk about an overpaid - PROTECTED class of people who will be used to protect and elect more of the TAX AND SPENDERS as that increases their numbers. Soon ALL will be employees and members of GOVERNMENT or they will not find work or compensation. Once the scales of balance tips to GOVERNMENT being in the majority then you can better understand this verse of scripture because the 'owner' (Satan) will CONTROL who eats and who doesn't:
Rev 13:16-17
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. (KJV)

Take a good look at all the political wannabe's who are out STUMPING for KNOWN anti-American candidates. Look at all the OLD RETREDS that are being dug up to lend their names to these Anti-American candidates (and this is just on the Republican side of the tickets).

I am constantly reminding readers to EXAMINE THE PERSON because that will tell you WHO THEY BELONG TO. They learn to use weasel words and to dance around the questions - you must learn to see thru their theatrics and bring the curtain down on their stage acting. Watch where they get their money from and who they get to campaign and endorse them. Then check those people out as well as that is VERY telling of the person.

2008 Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Membership Roster
www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/CFRMembers2008.html

2006 Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Membership Roster
(including current and/or past positions of some members)
www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/CFRMembers.html

The Bilderbergers
www.jeremiahproject.com/newworldorder/nworder04.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bilderberg_attendees#United_States
Bilderberger Governors
Rick Perry (2007), Governor of Texas 2000-current
Mark Sanford (2008), Governor of South Carolina

This election may well be the last one America has - at least has a chance to slow this out of control freight train down so that we can get new engineers and wheels on it.... meaning those who will operate according to the Constitution not the OWO dictates.

Since so many have joined the Welfare rolls in one way or another it is going to be hard to convince people that FREEDOM is far better than what they have but they are going to have to get off that couch and put all their effort into being FREE. I am reminded of those who were freed from the slave lives in Egypt but they stood at the foot of Mt. Sinai and tossed their gold into the melting pot to craft a golden calf (IDOL) and cried out to RETURN to Egypt and SLAVERY. Things haven't changed all that much in all this time. There are those who seek FREEDOM and those who prefer SLAVERY. Sitting by in SILENCE means you prefer SLAVERY. Not supporting a candidate all the way who will lead us into FREEDOM means you prefer SLAVERY. By supporting openly or covertly any candidate that is now in office means you like what has happened to America and Americans. To get rid of the disease means a TOTAL CLEANING - with great gusto and fervor and a willingness to die for FREEDOM. What you do is YOUR decision and what you do will let others know what you are or aren't.

Jackie Juntti
WGEN idzrus@earthlink.net
"But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before
them, glory and risk alike, and yet not withstanding go out to meet it." --Thucydides
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http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100123/BUSINESS01/1230329/Government+union+rolls+grow+as+layoffs+hit+private+sector

Government union rolls grow as layoffs hit private sector

By Sam Hananel • ASSOCIATED PRESS • January 23, 2010

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WASHINGTON A majority of union members now work for the government, partly because of huge numbers of layoffs during the prolonged recession, which has accelerated the downward spiral of union dues-paying members in private business.

Local, state and government workers make up 51.5 percent of all union members, becoming the majority of organized labor for the first time, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.

The recession battered two industries with high union density manufacturing and construction leading to a decline in private sector

union membership from 7.6 percent to 7.2 percent of all workers. Private sector union membership plummeted by 10 percent last year, while government unions posted slight gains.

Overall, union membership declined by 771,000 workers, to 15.3 million. That's 12.3 percent among all workers, dropping from 12.4 percent in 2008. Government unions gained 64,000 members. Observers were split along pro-worker and pro-business lines when asked whether the trend was a good one.

The role of unions in the work force has waned along with the "broad social pact that existed in the 1950s and 1960s" between employees and companies, said Harley Shaiken, a labor-relations professor at the University of California at Berkeley. "It has been very difficult for workers to join unions," Shaiken said. "Employers play hardball, and joining a union becomes a sacrifice rather than a right."

J. Justin Wilson, managing director of a group called the Center for Union Facts, which opposes easier unionization, said the fresh data show that union membership is "an outdated concept" and a "relic of Depression-era labor-management relations."

A labor union leader said organizing more government workers is generally easier than trying to recruit union members in private business.

"Employers can retaliate against private-sector workers who want to form a union with impunity, and in the public sector it doesn't work that way," said Damon Silvers, policy director and special counsel at the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest labor federation.

Passing legislation in Congress to make it easier for private sector workers to unionize has been a top priority of organized labor. But that's unlikely to pass this year, now that a Republican victory in a special election in Massachusetts has cost Senate Democrats and their independent allies a 60-seat majority in that body of Congress.

Union membership has collapsed over the past three decades. Union members made up 16.8 percent of the private sector and 20.1 percent of the total work force in 1983 the peak year based on the way that labor data are tracked.

Bloomberg News contributed to this story.

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