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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Martini
	Date:	1/18/2010 9:48:35 PM

I don't think so and besides, a great many union members are conservative. It's just the labor leaders that are almost 100% an arm of the Dem party.

Unions are not responsible for employers providing health insurance to their employees. In fact a good many of our employer-provided benefits came about because of wage and price controls by the government during WWII they looked for other ways to be more competitive and attract/keep employees, especially with a scarce labor pool because of the number of men in the military. Then the government once again stepped in and forced employers that voluntarily provided health insurance to keep the programs, all to benefit union members. So it was an employer-inspired idea (the FREE MARKETS!!) that brought about their providing health insurance to employees followed by the distortion of that idea by government at the point of the gun on behalf of special interest groups. Your idea that unions are responsible for my having to provide health insurance to my employees is about as off the mark as Hillary saying Mary and Joseph were homeless when she gave birth to Christ.

Unions may be responsible for the expansion of these benefits but at the expense of sound business judgment thereby causing the monstrous underfunded liabilities at companies like Government Motors.