The Daily Caller ran a story this weekend about a book set to come out tomorrow, by Mallory Factor, called “Shadowbosses: Government Unions Control America and Rob taxpayers Blind“.
The premise of the book is that Obamacare was just a big ploy to unionize the estimated 16-17 million strong healthcare workforce (12.5% of US workers, 17% of US GDP/economy – projected to reach 20%), and that by proposing an acceptable plan for nationalized/unionized healthcare, the union got behind Obama in the election of 2008, helping him win the Presidency.
But by the looks of this, Obamacare wasn’t just about healthcare, in the same way that “sustainability” isn’t just about the environment…
It is also estimated that 20% of all new jobs, through 2016, will be in the healthcare field and that we will need another 3.5 million workers to staff a potential future single-payer system. According to this 2012 NPR article/interview, the US Healthcare workforce is “larger than ever” and “growing like crazy”.
At just over 2 million members today, the recently nationally-consolidated SEIU stands to become a behemoth if their legislative goals are achieved. Working closely with the 1.4 million-member AFSCME (State, County, and Municipal Employees’ Union)/AFL-CIO (which coalesces 11 million members), ACORN, and Planned Parenthood, SEIU would attain political clout for workers unrivaled since the Bolshevik takeover of Russia.
Speaking of the Bolshevik takeover, is it starting to feel like this could be the next chapter in American history?
The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917 was initiated by millions of people who would change the history of the world as we know it. When Czar Nicholas II dragged 11 million peasants into World War I, the Russian people became discouraged with their injuries and the loss of life they sustained. The country of Russia was in ruins, ripe for revolution.
This 2008 SEIU booklet sure sounds like a mix between plans for battle and a Communist Manifesto:
SEIU’s health care profile – and power – will only continue to grow. And after we elect a pro-worker president and stronger pro-worker majorities in Congress, we will take all our energy, ideas, organizing strength, grassroots lobbying and political muscle, and make it happen. Next year, 2009, we – all of us – will make history. We will achieve quality, affordable health care for every man, woman, and child in America.
The health care crisis affects everyone. We will only solve it if all of us – workers, businesses large and small, health care providers, and elected leaders – are part of the solution.
Through national days of action, SEIU will take on the enemies of healthcare reform, the people and organizations trying to prevent positive change from happening – whether they be insurance companies or John McCain.
With almost 20 million people in a single, nationwide union, SEIU could easily shut down or topple the government, and turn the United States into a horrific combination of Mexico, Great Britain, Greece, and Somalia.
This is the most potent argument for enacting “Right To Work” legislation, or for disabling public-sector unions altogether.
Of all people, FDR warned us about this, when he said:
“I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place” (in the public sector). “A strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct [or control –Grok] the operations of Government.”