Well the people have spoken!

And while I can already see many hard core Democrats going off the deep end over the loss it's somewhat frustrating at the same time.

This issue as it pertains to public unions has been a problem for far too long and while I feel private unions are not doing enough for it's members the very idea that the vast amounts of union money spent trying to recall a governor that turned a few billion dollar deficit into a several million dollar surplus was a complete waste that would have been better spent on the members of said unions.

The idea that a public union keeps public employees employed when they screw up time after time is wrong on so many levels. Public employees should be held to a much higher standard, and they should take this burden freely as to promote the public confidence in the government. Often times I have seen public corruption with some prick on the other end feeling high and mighty because his union will allow him to get away with his lack of professionalism. I am here to say this needs to STOP. Yes the majority of public employees are professional and live up to their positions, but the ones who don't make their jobs that much harder. Unions feed into this problem and even make it worse when they fleece their members for dues weather they want to pay them or not, it becomes even worse when these unions start to feel entitled and then spread these cost to the tax payers with the threat of shutting down our government if we do not comply. Its wrong on so many levels that the genuine function of a union has become corruption, money and power rather than bettering the lives of it's members. Unions are not bettering the lives of its members when they drive a company into the ground, and they are not bettering the lives of the people who rely on government workers by shutting down the government or running it into a deficit.

Private unions are also in need of some reform. The idea that private unions get to extort a business by way of stike seems illegal any way you slice it, and outside of unsafe or dangerous working conditions or outright failure to pay its employees there should be no right to extort.

There is also a big issue in my mind as it pertains to a conflict of interest when it comes to the UAW. Here in Detroit the UAW is very big because we have a lot of Automotive plants and business. I find the conflict currently with the simple fact that the Obama administration has pretty much given two of the big three to unions. How is it that a union who is supposed to be exclusively looking after the well being of its members can own the very business that it's supposed to be protecting them from? It's a clear conflict of interest that only serves to undermine the many UAW workers who pay dues. While many Democrats are up in arms about the loss of collective bargaining for public sector unions in Wisconsin there was very little to no anger when GM and Chrysler took away it's union members right to strike after the bail out! Do you know why? Because of that thing called a conflict of interest that would place ownership of these companies in the hands of the Unions who are supposed to be only looking out for it's members. There was no big recall effort when this happened, and the unions were able to get their members to agree to this without much of an issue, but this is only because who were the Union members going to complain to?

It's quite clear to me that while Unions may have at one time forced big companies to do right by employees it seems to me now days that with all the laws on the books as it pertains to labor the unions should be filling the gaps in other areas, rather than forcing its members to pay dues weather they want to or not, and then giving said money to Democrats even though some of them union members might be Republican. I know that if I worked for a union and payed dues and that money was spent to promote a political campaign that run contrary to my beliefs I'd be pissed. The only fair thing to do is get Unions out of politics and force the union to look after it's members exclusively. It also shows the level of corruption in government when Unions and Businesses alike struggle to lobby and put their guys in government positions in an effort to change and make laws to benefit themselves.

It just seems to me such things as professionalisim, honesty and integrity have all but been replaced by greed, corruption and lies.

Just my 2 cents.