Theft by collusion

Makes me a proud taxpayer...

Michael Barone:

But [Obama] did find time to be interviewed by a Wisconsin television station and weigh in on the dispute between Republican Gov. Scott Walker and the state’s public employee unions. Walker was staging “an assault on unions,” he said, and added that “public employee unions make enormous contributions to our states and our citizens.”

Enormous contributions, yes — to the Democratic Party and the Obama campaign. Unions, most of whose members are public employees, gave Democrats some $400 million in the 2008 election cycle. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the biggest public employee union, gave Democrats $90 million in the 2010 cycle.

Follow the money, Washington reporters like to say. The money in this case comes from taxpayers, present and future, who are the source of EVERY PENNY of dues paid to public employee unions, who in turn spend much of that money on politics, almost all of it for Democrats.

In effect, public employee unions are a mechanism by which every taxpayer is forced to fund the Democratic Party.

NPR/Corp for Public Broadcasting is another example of the same thing. They claimed not to be getting much in the way of government support. But now that it's threatened, they're running a full-bore campaign -- on their taxpayer-subsidized broadcasts -- to keep the taxpayer subsidy coming. In other words, I'm buying the bullets that these people use to shoot my wallet.

There's just no excuse for it. There are many fine programs on "public broadcasting," and those will be picked up by Discovery Channel, National Geographic, A&E, History Channel, etc. But it's just so darned comfortable being attached to the Government nipple...

Byron