JLT: Collective Bargaining Is “God-Given Right”
From the Freedom @ Work blog:
Jill Long Thompson, the Democratic nominee for governor of Indiana, is campaigning on the promise that her first action as chief executive of the state would be to impose union monopoly bargaining on Indiana state employees (and ultimately compel them to fund unions against their will, I presume). Her reasoning could even be viewed as sacrilegious by some:
“I think (collective bargaining) is a God-given right,” she said.
For the record, union monopoly bargaining is not even a constitutional right, but rather just a controversial statutory privilege granted by certain legislatures.
I must have missed that in the Ten Commandments.
Reminds me of the time that Baron Hill said that the Constitution contained a right to health care.
That was a declaration he was later forced to retract and replace with a pledge to make health care a constitutional right.
That pledge, in turn, he retracted and replaced with the idea of creating yet another commission to merely study health care.
(This post is also available at the Hoosierpundit)
July 17th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Before a candidate talks about God and God-given rights, they may want to read up on what brighter minds have already said about the subject before they go out and create wholesale new “God-given” rights.
Of course, this statement makes perfect sense if we assume that JLT believes that God=Government and vice versa.
July 20th, 2008 at 10:22 am
I would surmise that JLT, just as any Socialist leaning Democrat would, believes that God is FDR. Therefore, in her mind collective bargaining is a God-given right.