by Lou Rountree

Created on: June 05, 2010   Last Updated: June 06, 2010

Public employee’s benefits and pensions are a disgrace.  The unions have stratified our social working order and the city employees are living like high society.  Even the police and firemen are fast becoming unionized nationwide and the same results occur.  It has served to take much too generous amounts of the working class tax gathered money and establish a “have” and “have not” order, while cementing the ever-increasing demand for more and more benefits and higher pensions via political efforts of the union workers and the unions. This is directly analogous to having racial qualifications for higher paying jobs with limited membership requirements and rules by the unions.

Recently when the State of Arizona passed their new immigration law, the political nature of unionizing public employees such as the police, resulted in Latino police showing up at the anti-Arizona national demonstrations with their vociferous declarations of opposition to the new law.

Thus you automatically have the danger of racial bias as well as high amount of dollars for benefits and pensions when only pennies were earned, if that much. Couple this with the fact that unions have the power to obtain your political vote selections and a chance to retaliate or threaten union employees for the very free will this nation is supposed to protect and the bread and butter for the family.

Joining the union puts limits on what each employee may earn related to how much you adhere to union preferences and the union may even prohibit your membership because of your age. Thus, unions have great capacity to promote age discrimination.

In the City of Los Angeles city employees receive average salaries of an estimated $115,000, plus benefits and pensions. Benefits and pensions take care that when the employee retires, he receives approximately 80 to 90 percent of their active salary for life and excellent benefits.

Meanwhile outside the public employee country club many young people are entering the job field and working for twelve dollars per hour, some less. They become sick and they are in bad need of money for medical expenses and too many times the sickness becomes a handicap for the rest of their lives. This is especially sad for the children they may have to provide a living.

At this juncture the unionized worker will loudly announce that their work is special and more responsible. This may be true if you consider letting illegal immigrants text

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