Shadowbosses: Government Employee Unions versus Taxpayer Rights
“I hope if anybody buys Shadowbosses they don’t keep it. They send it to a legislator. They need to read it more than anybody else.” -Mallory Factor
“The clout unions have in the Democrat part is because of their money, and that’s where compulsory dues become the issue. That’s the only way to turn this around.” -Mark Belling
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Businessman and author Mallory Factor spoke to attendees at the Liberty Political Action Conference on September 14, 2012, regarding “Shadowbosses” and the negative impact forced unionism has on employees, our economy, and our political process.
Dr. Yaron Brook, the president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute, stopped by TheBlaze newsroom recently for a lively interview with contributor Mallory Factor. With the recent release of Atlas Shrugged II and the presidential election right around the corner, many of the theories and philosophies Brook advocates are at the center of politics today.
After noting that Brook has a new book out– Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government– the two delved right into the issues.
“What about protecting all those people who need to be protected?” Factor asked, bringing up a common critique of what some call “unbridled” capitalism. “Don’t we have moral obligations to people?”
“No, we don’t,” he said simply. “Somebody else’s needs, somebody else’s suffering, somebody else’s desires are not your responsibility.”
“If you have someone cast a fraudulent vote, they disenfranchise, cancel out the vote of the legitimate voters, for example: someone who votes twice, someone who is voting out of state, someone who is dead, someone who’s impersonation someone else; all those things cancel out legitimate voters.”
So what can be done, and what can you do to protect your vote? [Read more...]
We all know this election is going to come down to turn-out–getting the base to show up at the polls. President Obama has a big advantage here because the union bosses are managing Democratic Party canvassing and get-out-the-vote efforts. The unions are President Obama’s boots-on-the-ground in these final weeks.
AFL-CIO big boss Richard Trumka has been campaigning in swing states to get union members energized for Obama. He has pledged to put 400,000 union members to work for Team Obama. Already, AFL-CIO says it has registered more than 450,000 new voters from union households over the past 18 months. And they have registered 68,000 new voters in the key swing state of Ohio. Given the tightening polls, these efforts in the Buckeye State alone could bring President Obama to victory.
Publically, Obama has been distancing himself from the unions. Scott Walker’s recall election showed Team Obama that public sector unions do not poll well with likely voters. So President Obama has trying to show his independence from the unions and the unions have been expressing their disappointment with President Obama. But President Obama is still the first union-label president, and the unions’ agenda remains his agenda. The unions know their future growth and survival as a relevant movement depends on his re-election.
So, in these final weeks, the unions are going full out for President Obama. The unions will spend over $500 million on this campaign. And if President Obama wins, this will prove to be money well invested. The unions will get greater access to the White House, new executive orders opening up new groups of workers for them to unionize, more favorable decisions from the National Labor Relations Board, and the opportunity to unionize millions more health care workers under Obamacare. If Governor Romney wins, the unions will be out in the cold for four long years, or longer. So, the unions are betting big on this race, and if Obama wins, he will owe the unions who will have made the difference
‘Shadowbosses’ author Mallory Factor weighs in
TheBlaze.com – Casey is a name that has been familiar with Pennsylvania voters for decades. Tom Smith is new to politics but unintimidated by the name recognition of Democratic U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania Bob Casey Jr., as he is set to challenge Casey this November for a seat once held by high-profile Republican legislators like Rick Santorum, John Heinz and Hugh Scott.
“My opponent Senator Bob Casey is a nice guy, not a leader” Smith told TheBlaze during an interview with senior contributor Mallory Factor last week. Smith is running on a campaign focused on getting the economy back on track by reforming regulations and the tax code to get rid of loopholes in addition to overbearing legislation and spending that harms American economic competitiveness.
By MALLORY FACTOR
WSJ - Imagine thousands of government employees reporting to work each morning at their government offices and then doing no government work. They use government workspace, government telephones and government computers, all while working on projects unknown and unidentified to their government employers. They receive hefty taxpayer-funded salaries, promotions, bonuses and benefits, plus generous government pensions when they retire—all without doing any work on behalf of the taxpayer. Instead, they work as paid political operatives for powerful government unions.
By David Von Drehle
This week’s literary quiz: is Barack Obama a) an amateur, b) a socialist anti-colonialist radical or c) a great destroyer? The answer, according to recent New York Times best-seller lists, is all of the above, which may be bad news for the President but is very good news for the uncannily sure-footed conservative publishing machine.
In fact, Regnery Publishing Inc. of Washington claims to have “the highest batting average” at producing best sellers in the entire industry–”by far.” Two of the top three hits on the most recent list are from the Regnery lineup. At No. 2, Obama’s America by Dinesh D’Souza makes the case that the President is secretly anti-American, bent on weakening the nation to atone for our imperialist sins. The NO.3 book, Edward Klein’s The Amateur, is a brisk mixture of previously reported stories and unverifiable anecdotes, salted liberally-I mean, conservatively- with warnings about European-style socialism.
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