-By Warner Todd Huston
When does an unelected union without legal governing powers get a say in what the federal government does with its dealings with a state? When a president that is more beholding to unions than he is to the Constitution and the people of the United States comes to office, that’s when. And now we have that in Barack Obama.
The L.A. Times is reporting that Obama allowed the Service Employee International Union to interfere in the relationship between the state of California and the federal government over the issuance of the “stimulus” funds coming out of Congress. Apparently, Obama gave the SEIU veto power over the “stimulus” funds that was supposed to go to the Golden State because Sacramento had voted for a wage cut for state workers that belong to the union.
But this is where we are in America today. We have people in high places that either have no clue about what the rule of law is, or they simply don’t care. We are either ruled by judges that think they have been anointed by God to rule from the bench with no interest in the actual law or we are being ruled by unelected activists like in this case with SEIU president Andy Stern’s manipulation of the Obama administration.
In this case we have a bankrupt state trying to stay alive by cutting the costs of government. Those cuts are in the exorbitantly overgenerous benefits and wages of government workers. Certainly these sorts of cuts are common in real life, that where business is ruled by the reality of economic forces, but here we are in the fantasy world of government where only an upward projection of wages and benefits is apparently possible despite any such silly thing as “reality.” And these self-interested unions are being given veto power over federal funds by a president that has no desire or interest to observe the Constitution or the rule of law.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as newsbusters.org, RedState.com, Human Events Magazine, AmericanDailyReview.com, townhall.com, New Media Journal, Men’s News Daily and the New Media Alliance among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events and is currently the co-host of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Conservatism” heard on BlogTalkRadio. He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book “Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture” which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of publiusforum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions : EMAIL Warner Todd Huston
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