{"id":15493,"date":"2012-06-06T16:55:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T16:55:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-06-06T16:55:13","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T16:55:13","slug":"unions_take_beating_in_california_too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/06\/06\/unions_take_beating_in_california_too\/","title":{"rendered":"Unions Take Beating in California, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Wisconsin <\/a>was not the only place that public sector unions got hit yesterday. It also happened in California. First, from the San Diego Union-Tribune: “A ballot initiative that would replace guaranteed pensions with 401(k)-style plans for most new city hires received overwhelming support Tuesday from San Diego voters who were clearly fed up with the decade-long civic discussion about the city\u00c2\u2019s pension problems. Proposition B is viewed by supporters — including Mayor Jerry Sanders and City Council members Carl DeMaio and Kevin Faulconer — as pivotal to moving the city past its fiscal woes that stem, in part, from the decision by previous city leaders to twice increase benefits for workers without identifying a way to pay for them.”<\/p>\n

So pension reform, big, big, big win in San Diego. <\/p>\n

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The New York Times writes about it this way. “As Wisconsin<\/a> residents voted on Tuesday not to recall Gov. Scott Walker … two California cities dealt blows of their own to organized labor.” Of course, Wisconsin doesn\u2019t mean anything. Wisconsin, it\u2019s just an isolated election. No, nothing to see here, nothing to learn. If Tom Barrett had won, if the unions had won, you know what the news would be filled with today. Wisconsin, the way of the future. Wisconsin, microcosm of what\u2019s happening in America. The dishonest people in the mainstream media cannot be relied on any longer for a fundamental, simple constitutional requirement, and that is simply reporting news. <\/p>\n

“In San Diego and San Jose, voters overwhelmingly approved ballot initiatives designed to help balance ailing municipal budgets by cutting retirement benefits for city workers.”<\/p>\n

Now, just so I\u2019m not misunderstood here. I\u2019m not rubbing my hands in glee at whatever pain might result from this. What\u2019s happening is that the people who pay these pensions and health benefits in perpetuity, until death, have realized they don\u2019t have anywhere near the same deal. What happened in Wisconsin was very simple: Taxpayers were finally educated. They heard for the first time about the money-laundering scheme that union dues end up being, campaign contributions to the Democrat Party. They also realized that it was their taxes which are paying pensions and health care benefits when people retire at age 50 for the rest of their lives. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re paying salaries and benefits to people that work for municipal governments far more than they are earning themselves. And the governments are going broke, and they said, “We can\u2019t sustain it anymore.” And that\u2019s what\u2019s happening. Fiscal responsibility. Long way to go, don\u2019t misunderstand, long way to go, but the realization that there is an end to this is at hand. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: These union cuts that everybody is talking about, folks, are not Draconian at all. Wisconsin, California. They\u2019re just asking union members to pay a little of their own benefits, like 5%. That\u2019s all that\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: The elections in San Diego and San Jose where public sector employees were told that they\u2019re gonna have to start contributing some to their own pensions and health care in retirement. It\u2019s not just Wisconsin. <\/p>\n

But I want to make this point here. They\u2019re not being asked to pick up the whole thing. It\u2019s really very little. These so-called union cuts are not Draconian. They\u2019re merely being asked to pay a pittance toward their own insurance and their own pensions. In Wisconsin\u2019s case, it\u2019s 12% to the pension, 5% to health care. Maybe it\u2019s verse vice-a. Which only makes sense. Whatever happened to this notion in America, if you want it, you buy it. If you want it, you pay for it. Whatever happened to that? Why is that considered so out of touch? Where did this sense of entitlement come from? This sense of entitlement has grown so strong that they\u2019re no longer is any rationality to it. The people who feel this sense of entitlement, who think they are owed, they\u2019re union people. They are public sector union people. I\u2019m talking about government workers, federal, state. <\/p>\n

They don\u2019t even have any concept of where the money they have comes from. They feel entitled to other people\u2019s earnings. Those people, many of them, are out of work. They\u2019re not earning anything. Therefore they\u2019re not paying any taxes. Therefore the money to pay these pensions and health care plans in retirement is dwindling. They don\u2019t care. It\u2019s “Gimme, gimme, gimme, I\u2019m entitled to it. I\u2019m a member of a union. It means I\u2019ve been shafted my whole life.” That\u2019s what they obviously think, being a member of a union, being a minority, you get the shaft in America. “I\u2019m owed. I am owed for taking the hit and for getting the shaft. I want my pension. I want my health care.” <\/p>\n

Oh, okay, fine. You have this sense of entitlement. Do you have any idea where it comes from? Do you have any idea what happens when that pile of money shrinks and ceases to exist, what of your entitlement then? How about paying a little bit of your own? <\/p>\n

“No way. I have been screwed my whole life. That\u2019s what being a member of a union is. This country screws us. This country shafts us. This country takes advantage of us. We are owed.” <\/p>\n

“What if there\u2019s no money?” <\/p>\n

“Get it. It doesn\u2019t matter. Print it. I don\u2019t care where you get it. It\u2019s ours. We want it.” <\/p>\n

It\u2019s almost childlike. All of this in Wisconsin, if you want to boil it down, all of this rigmarole, this tumult, this chaos, was really about people in unions being told, “You know what, you\u2019re gonna have to pay a little of your health care and a little of your pension,” and all hell broke loose. Oh, and also the fact that collective bargaining rights were taken away. I loved reminding all these people that, you know, FDR, who was their god before Obama, FDR would not permit collective bargaining for federal union employees. You can\u2019t do it. I forget the exact quote FDR said. You cannot have the people who are paid by the taxpayer threatening to go on strike. You can\u2019t get into a collective bargaining agreement with them. It won\u2019t work. <\/p>\n

As FDR knew, it would set the American people against each other, would set the American people up as enemies of one another. At least he knew that. None of that, of course, matters. Well, FDR got up on the wrong side of bed that day. FDR was stupid that day. FDR didn\u2019t know what he was talking about that day. Jimmy Carter took away collective bargaining from federal workers. Jimmy Carter. Scott Walker only took away some of their collective bargaining rights, not nearly all of them. That\u2019s what little it was that caused all this tumult. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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