At a union goon convention this summer, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka plans to roll out, what they are calling, “the Second Bill of Rights.”  Are you ready to hear what “rights” the unions believe should be protected …

• Your right to full employment
• Your right to a living wage
• Your right to a healthy future

I’m surprised there aren’t more, like your right to collectively bargain.  Trumka has pushed for that before.  Or how about your right to vote?  Proggies looove to push that one.  How about your right to a free college education?  That was a favorite among the Occutards.  No … wait a minute.  College educations don’t mix well with unions.  I think it’s somewhere around the middle of the second semester that many college students start to prize their individuality.  Individuality doesn’t go well with unionism. 

Trumka says, “America’s Second Bill of Rights is a broad-based statement of what the American people need and what they deserve. If some of it sounds redundant, it is because we once took many of these rights for granted.”  You have the right to develop the skills that will earn you a job and a living wage (whatever that means).  You have the right to seek a healthy life.  But notice that all of these “rights” Trumka cites are things that require a portion of someone else’s life in order to provide.  You don’t have a right to a living wage, unless you can forcibly make an employer pay you that amount.  That money is part of that person’s property.  But union goons don’t seem too concerned with property rights … only about what you “need.”  From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

By the way, while we are batting around Richard Trumka, did you hear the latest of what he had to say about Mitt Romney?  Yeah, Mitt Romney “doesn’t know anything about the American dream” and he “doesn't know a thing about responsibility."

Responsibility?  Like the responsibility and care shown by these purple-shirted union members in Connecticut?