Colorado’s Amendment 49- Vote YES!

Do you enjoy having Uncle Sam dip his filthy hand into your pocket every paycheck to extract Federal Income Taxes, State Income Taxes, FICA, and Social Security??  What if instead of the Government dipping in for their pound of flesh it was a union boss?  At least the Government has been voted the power to do its dirty deeds.  The union bossed figured out that having the government collect the money for them was a great idea.  After all, the Government collects its money with the inherent threat of someone with a gun showing up to collect it should you get “uppity”.  All Amendment 49 does is remove the Government as a middleman.  The union bosses will get to do their own dirty work.  Real pity there.  NOT!!!! 

I am disgusted by the TV ads that I have seen where the union bosses have the unmitigated gall to state that Amendment 49 takes away workers right to choose.  It’s more accurate to state that Amendment 49 takes away the union bosses right to do whatever they damned well please with workers money.  One thing you really need to remember when you are ready to vote is that the only sector where union membership has increased is with GOVERNMENT workers.  The reason is pretty simple.  Workers have seen the damage that unions do to businesses.  A belligerent union can cripple a company and that company will fail when it attempts to compete in a market while it is handicapped by union action.  Instead of getting better working conditions and better pay that the unions promise, workers get laid off.  This is happening to Detroit autoworkers as we speak.  Many of the companies that have moved overseas have done so to escape aggressive unions that want high school grads to make as much or more than college grads, all in the name of “fairness”.  All of that risk goes away when unions talk to government workers.  You can’t run the government out of business.  Run out of taxpayer money?  Just raise taxes!!!  Wow, problem solved right?  WRONG!!  If I am correct almost every major school district in the metro area has a 3A and 3B measure on their ballots.  With those spending measure and Amendment 59 the teachers unions are trying to mainline tax dollars to feed their habit.  This has to stop!!!

Do not believe the unions.  They are not on your side.  Take away their last bastion of safety and vote yes for Amendment 49!!

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