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According to Obama administration, one way to stimulate business is to unionize, whether you like it or not.  That’s right, under a current proposal, if a business and employees are unable to reach a bargaining agreement to begin unionization, the two sides go before a government arbitrator who IMPOSES a two year union agreement.  Of course, one of the first targets will be Walmart, who because of their current refusal can continue to offer discount prices to the general public.  Do you suppose that the pricing will change with union involvement?  Do you think that might have an impact on how much is purchased?  Can you possibly see that this move will add to the slide to depression, perhaps faster than any other single move of this already insane economic policy?  If you don’t, you don’t understand how a free market works.  If you don’t think that union involvement in the car industry hasn’t contributed to the current demise, or the educational system, or professional athletes, and the list goes on you’re not paying attention.

   Freedom, in order to be viable, requires responsibility.  When unions began, it was a legitimate response to irresponsible, greed-based management.  If owners had been treating employees fairly, unions would not have been necessary.  However, now unions are making irresponsible demands on business for the same greed-based reason, so there needs to be a reeling in, but a Democratic Congress and Administration, heavily funded during the election process by union dollars, are always going to be beholden to that influence.  This proposal is wrong.  Workers should have the freedom to choose yes or no to union membership by secret ballot and if no, that’s the end.  But a change here is being pushed so that employees, fearful of retaliation for voting no, are forced to vote in public ballot and will be coerced/forced to vote yes.  That is a far cry from freedom which assumes freedom to choose.  We should all have the freedom to choose, except when a life is at stake.

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