coachisright.com ^ | May 4, 2012 | Kevin "Coach" Collins
The Department of Labor classifies almost half of America’s private union pension funds as either “endangered” or “critical” because they are so grossly underfunded.
Among the unions on this list are the Democrats’ favorite piggy banks; “the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), the International Brothers of Electrical Workers, the Laborers International Union of Northern America, the International Association of Machinists, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, the International Union of Operating Engineers and the National Plumbers Union.”
On average all private union pensions are almost 40% underfunded. In real life terms this means less than 1 of every 160 private union workers has a pension plan that can actually meet its contractually required monthly payouts.
Drunk with self delusion about the chance to create of a “Socialist Worker’s Paradise” since Barack Obama beat a rather weak Republican candidate in 2008 unions, both private and public, have been shoveling money into Democrat campaigns around the country.
Immediately after the 2008 election they donated heavily to try to unseat Georgia Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss in a runoff election and lost. Then in 2009 they poured millions into the campaigns of Democrat’s in Virginia and New Jersey trying to win governor’s races and lost.
By 2010 panic and desperation set in and private unions raided every available source of money in their control – most likely including pension funds – to hold the House and Senate.
They held the Senate but only because they redirected their contributions from dying Congressional Democrat campaigns and lost the House in record numbers. The SEIU put up $44 million and the National Education Association gave the Democrats $40 million of their members’ money.
No one in the media asked where this money came from, but we can guess……
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