70K Protestors Supporting Unions Descend on Madison: MyFoxTWINCITIES.com

As the union battle heats up, rectal-cranial inversions seem to be at an all-time high. Soon the union will demand health coverage for that as well. For example, here's a quote from some union goon by the name of Eliot Seide. He is a local union leader in St. Paul, Minnesota. Eliot Seide believes the following:

The right to collectively bargain is an American right. You can't have American democracy if you don't have a strong trade union movement.

When I think of America and the founding principles of this country, "collective bargaining" doesn't cross my mind. Thoughts of freedom, individual liberty, personal responsibility and property rights do. Do you know who might think that collective bargaining is at the core of American democracy? A collectivist, that's who. Someone who looks at people as members of a specific group, rather than as sovereign individuals. Someone who believes in group rights, as opposed to individual rights. Someone who believes that the rights of the individual must be subjugated to the rights of the mob. I wonder if Mr. Seide would like to have a conversation with AFL-CIO founder George Meany on that one? Meany was steadfastly opposed to collective bargaining rights for government workers.

This battle between government worker unions and the private sector - the taxpayers, if you will - has been coming for a long time. If you take time to noodle this out - and that can be difficult if you're a product of government education - you will see that what Obama, Seide, Solis, Capuano and the rest of the crowd have been calling collective bargaining has borne little resemblance to genuine bargaining at all. What you have here is two parties with a common interest - the unions and the politicians - with the poor sappy taxpayers left out of the equation. The unions need the politicians to acquire pay and benefits exceeding what they could get in the private sector, plus job security; and the politicians need the unions for financial campaign support and votes on election day. They give each other what they want - and the taxpayers - who are NOT at the bargaining table, by the way - get screwed. Now since most taxpayers have been educated in government schools by the very government union workers that are screwing them to the wall, you shouldn't be surprised that they aren't intelligent enough to understand just how this game is being played.

I've explained to you in the past some of the thought processes that went into creating the very government education system we're suffering under today. As our economy moved from agrarian to industrial, the people needed to be educated to the point that they could read simple instruction manuals for the machinery they would be operating, plus be able to do the calculations necessary to keep the manufacturing process running. The records kept during that time showed conclusively that political and industrial leaders were worried about what might happen if the people became TOO educated! Too much knowledge and they could present a threat to their bosses and the political class.

Think about this ... just why would union teachers working for the government want to teach their students about the completely out of kilter and unequal relationship that exists between the taxpayers and the government worker unions in a collective bargaining process? Answer? They wouldn't!

Before we move on ...let's address that "American democracy" Elliot Seide spoke of:

Seide seems to be under the impression that American democracy essentially allows for the mob - the whims of the masses - to dictate policy: mob rule. This, however, is exactly what our founding fathers feared. In fact, in those times the term "democrat" was a derogatory term used to describe "one who panders to the mindless whims of the masses."

Think about that now. Do we see any masses out there today? Yup .. right there in Madison, Wisconsin. They're the ones with posters portraying Governor Scott Walker as Adolf Hitler. Mindless enough for you? And just who do we have out there pandering to these mindless masses? Why ... that would be the Democrat Party! See how that works? The conventional wisdom on Democrats works just as well today as it did back when this nation was founded.

This is why we were established as a constitutional republic, where we elect representatives and are governed by the rule of law. Our founding fathers were able to establish this nation without a strong trade union movement. That's perhaps what is killing these union goons the most - they are starting to realize that America will and can survive without them - because we are resistant to their idea of democracy. We should fear the union understanding of democracy and its attempts to make it stronger.