{"id":472,"date":"2006-05-14T19:09:06","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T02:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=472"},"modified":"2006-05-14T19:56:39","modified_gmt":"2006-05-15T02:56:39","slug":"the-truth-about-labor-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/05\/14\/the-truth-about-labor-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About Labor Unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/unionfacts.com\/ads\/downloads\/tv_unionBosses.wmv\">this TV spot ad<\/a> for a few weeks now, and I finally found it on-line thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gopbloggers.org\/\">GOP Bloggers<\/a> who referred us to <a href=\"http:\/\/unionfacts.com\/\">UnionFacts.com<\/a>. Unions universally cripple employers, but tragically, here in California, they have brought public education down to the lowest levels of functionality. This not only hurts the taxpayers, but the students. It&#8217;s time for competition in the learning system and to run racketeering teachers unions out of power.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/unionfacts.com\/ads\/downloads\/tv_unionBosses.wmv\">this ad<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/unionfacts.com\/\">UnionFacts.com<\/a> website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0605\/unionad.jpg\" class=\"left\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/unionfacts.com\/\">The Center for Union Facts | UnionFacts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Running nationally this week, our <a href=\"http:\/\/unionfacts.com\/ads\/downloads\/tv_unionBosses.wmv\">new commercial<\/a> asks what you love about your union: is it the forced dues, political spending, discrimination, or corruption?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nMy opinion? The only difference between <em>organized <u>labor<\/u><\/em> and <em>organized <u>crime<\/u><\/em> is the way the second word is spelled.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been seeing this TV spot ad for a few weeks now, and I finally found it on-line thanks to GOP Bloggers who referred us to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-whacko-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}