By John W. Lillpop
Barack Obama’s electoral success is due, in no small part, to unwary labor leaders who blindly followed The One’s Marxist promise to “Bless the Little Guy by Soaking the Rich.”
Naïve labor leaders bought into Obama’s Pied Piper fantasy about reducing health care costs by adding 30 million uninsured to the public trough!
Both Obama and Big Labor continue to hallucinate about the existence of “Free lunches,” and the morality and wisdom of stealing from the successful to subsidize the slothful and inept.
Big Labor can be excused, partially, for greedily subscribing to the Marxist notion of wealth redistribution. After all, why not force the rich to pay their “fair share,” even if it requires a tyrannical government to seize THEIR wealth to do the deed?
Indeed, as long as redistribution mania does not cost union coffers and their members more booty, why fret about unlovable millionaires and billionaires?
Along the way, Big Labor learned a vital lesson about Barack Obama and Marxist “fairness.”
To begin with, labor leaders learned that Obama is a congenital liar who will say damn near anything to get elected and to get his way in governance.
Promises made to reach Marxist goals are essentially “inoperative” once The One is in office, and are equally meaningless once a "Legacy” signature bill has been signed into law…as in the train wreck known as the Affordable Care Act.
Secondly, Soak the Rich” policies are terrific---unless one happens to be “Rich,” as defined by a goofy Marxist government.
Which is the case when it comes to “Cadillac” plans enjoyed by some Union members.
However, an unintended consequence of redistribution has caught up with Obamacare and Big Labor. Thus, the groveling faithful are in open revolt against Obamacare as reported at the reference:
Despite pressure from top labor leaders, the Obama administration said late Friday it cannot extend government subsidies tied to the new health care law to union members with multi-employer health plans.
It appears that despite fiery rhetoric over the summer, the unions were unable to convince the Obama administration that their plans should benefit from the same type of premium support.
Earlier this week, the AFL-CIO passed a resolution at its convention that calls on the Obama administration to change the health overhaul and reiterates their desire to see a government-run single-payer health system.”
Will Obamacare finally teach Big Labor that Progressive solutions are no match for good-old fashioned market forces in a capitalist society?
Or will Big Labor remain manacled to the slavery that inevitably follows when one follows a Progressive (and clueless) Pied Piper?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/14/treasury-tell-unions-it-cant-grant-them-obamacare-/#ixzz2exhhUZoi
