It’s easy to assume the unions are so vocal, and physical, proponents of the Democrat Health Care plan because they believe the issue is important and they want it to succeed. It’s even logical to assume they are fighting because the are political allies of the Democrat party and share the same goals.
However, when you look at the health care bill they are stomping people over, you see the real reason they are out in force.
They get paid $10 billion if it passes:
Antilabor forces say it’s welfare for the UAW and Democrats’ union allies. Labor supporters say it falls short of what’s needed as tens of thousands of union members are pushed into early retirement as employers cut back health care coverage.
They’re both talking about a $10-billion provision tucked deep inside thousands of pages of health care overhaul bills that could help the UAW’s retiree health-care plan and other union-backed plans.
It would see the government — at least temporarily — pay 80 cents on the dollar to corporate and union insurance plans for claims between $15,000 and $90,000 for retirees age 55 to 64.
Follow the money. Follow the money. Follow the money.
Ed Morrissey writes:
That’s explicitly a bailout. It comes on the heels of tens of billions of dollars committed to GM and Chrysler, as well as politically-motivated bankruptcies that violated the rights of senior creditors in favor of the unions. The unions have overcommitted and underresourced their health plans, and now Congress wants to surreptitiously bail them out from bankruptcy — all while making them more or less immune from the restrictions in the rest of the bill.
That $10,000,000,000 bailout certainly gives the unions a big incentive to crack heads and intimidate people into retreat on ObamaCare, doesn’t it? That’s the granddaddy of all Astroturfing efforts.
Stephan Tawney says:
We’ve entered into a new era of corruption, the likes of which hasn’t been seen in Washington in recent memory. At least politicians had the decency to pretend that they weren’t being corrupt in the past. Obama and his Congressional allies really don’t even care about whether Americans see their money going to fund liberal allies and pet projects. Mainly because they don’t care what the American people think about anything anymore.
The Commander-in-Thug and his left-wing allies are rapidly forming an oligarchy under our noses.
What say you?
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