Working Wage

There's more to a working wage than simply gross pay. If you are a union worker you are forced to pay money to the union machine. If you live in a Liberal state most likely you're paying higher taxes - including taxes on the necessities your family needs.

I keep getting emails from unions about how their interest is for the American worker, the American family - so I decided to do a little experiment.

Food is an obvious necessity and represents a significant expenditure for the American worker. So what if I compared a random sample of grocery items of a union store with a non-union store - which store would be more family-friendly? Which store would help the American worker's wage go farther? Union, or non-union?

Basic rules:

• Items had to be national brands
• Items had to be regular priced, not on special and not lower if the purchaser belonged to any store club
• Items had to be exactly the same - manufacturer, title, size, weight, etc.
• Both stores were compared within 4 hours of this post
  

The Stores:

• Union: Albertsons
• Non-Union: Wal-Mart Super Store
  

The Items:

1. Tostitos (cheese dip) Salsa Con Queso, Med, 23 oz
   Union: $4.99
   Non-Union: $3.18
   
2. Coka Cola, 2 Liter, Classic
   Union: $2.39
   Non-Union: $1.25
   
3. Progresso Soup, Lt, Home Style Veg. & Rice, 18.5 oz
   Union: $3.49
   Non-Union: $1.50
   
4. Best Foods Real Mayo, 64 oz
   Union: $7.99
   Non-Union: $6.19
   
5. Hidden Valley Original Ranch, 24 oz
   Union: $3.28
   Non-Union: $2.98
   
6. Pace Chunky Salsa, 16 oz
   Union: $3.29
   Non-Union: $1.66
   
7. Minute Rice, White, 42 oz
   Union: $6.89
   Non-Union: $4.18
   
8. Betty Croker Potato Buds, 28 oz
   Union: $4.99
   Non-Union: $3.28
   
9. Jimmy Dean Cooked Sausage, 9.6 oz
   Union: $4.99
   Non-Union: $2.23
   
10. Oscar Meyer Premium Beef Franks, 16 oz
    Union: $5.49
    Non-Union: $2.76
    

If you put 2 of each item into your cart, you would have to pay $37.16 more for shopping at a union store:

Union total: $95.58
Non-union total: $58.42

So who do you think helps the American family more - unions or non-unions? Just wait until Barack Obama and his Liberal Congress pass forced unionization!

Meanwhile, the Liberal controlled union puppets in Congress are trying very hard, along with dooms-day threats from union bosses, to dump billions of hard working American taxpayer dollars into the hands of the UAW union.

If you think you have some duty to shop union - then by all means - waste your family's money. The smart shoppers know better!

NOTE: We don't buy any of the items in this survey, so there was no prejudice in what was selected.

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Secret Backroom Agreement EXPOSED!

Secret meetings, secret deals. Flowery talk on the surface, crooked deals and corruption behind closed doors, backroom promises in exchange for money and support, mob deals, etc. Is there no limits to what a corrupt Senator will stoop to?

I never trusted the guy - Barack Obama. I've posted about his shady business dealings in the past, his lack of character, his ties with the mob, and his very tight ties with the big union bosses.

I even detailed the legal problems of various crime bosses - the first 5 weeks of 2008. There are many more since then. Typical mob crimes - embezzling, bank fraud, false statement and representation, theft, forgery, mail fraud, falsifying union records, racketeering, filing false union reports, grand larceny, etc.

I made the claim that these were the type of people and crimes Senator Obama feels at home with. Now today, in the WSJ article Obama Says Teamsters Need Less Oversight, my stance has (again) been proven true.

The Teamsters - headed up by James P. Hoffa, son of Jimmy Hoffa has endorsed Senator Obama earlier this year. Turns out boss Hoffa had a private talk with the corrupt Senator about what he is expected to do in exchange for the Teamster union pumping millions into his election bid for president.

So Obama gets their money and the unions get the promise that Obama will support ending the strict federal oversight - imposed on unions to root out corruption and monitor for mob activities.

Don't expect Senator Obama to come clean with all the other secret back room promises to other organizations. From protecting unions to promoting a return to the racist past this guy is trouble - with a capital T.

Let's peek at April's tally from the U.S. Department of Labor ESA - not quite the clean slate the unions or Senator Obama wants people to know about:

• April 21 - Stephen Priese, former Financial-Secretary of UAW Local 516, pled guilty to embezzling union funds
• April 16 - Kim M. Van Handel, former President and Acting Treasurer of Steelworkers Local 1980, pled guilty to embezzling union funds
• April 16 - Sheila Rushing, former office secretary for Bakery, Tobacco & Grain Local 482, indicted on one count of embezzling union assets, destruction of union records and making false entries in required union records
• April 14 - Fredrick W. Jones, former Vice President of Glass Molders and Plastics Union Local 285, pled guilty to embezzlement of union funds
• April 14 - Brian Dolney, former President of Machinists Lodge 2333, pled guilty to bank fraud
• April 11 - Kathleen Drake, former Secretary-Treasurer for Machinists Lodge 2339-C, pled guilty to one count of falsification of union records
• April 9 - Gary Smink, former President of Steelworkers Local 1-962, indicted on one count of theft
• April 9 - Linda Leonard, former office secretary of Laborers Local 216, pled guilty to one count of making false entries in union records
• April 7 - Amy Cross, former Secretary-Treasurer of Utility Workers Local 308, charged with one count of embezzling
• April 7 - Heather Lott, former bookkeeper of Teamsters Local 19, pled guilty to one count of embezzling union funds
• April 7 - Michael Rutowski, former Treasurer of AFGE Local 2913, pled guilty to one count of making a false and fraudulent representation to a federal agency, embezzlement
• April 4 - Karimah Bailey, former Treasurer of AFGE Local 3197, pled guilty to embezzling union funds
• April 4 - Zona Albritton, former Manager of General Services for AFSCME, pled guilty to one count of embezzling union funds
• April 4 - Darrell Pendergrass, former President of International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 699, pled guilty to embezzling and willfully evading the payment of taxes
• April 3, Louella M. Zieman, former office-secretary of Ironworkers Local 709, indicted on embezzling union funds
• April 1 - Michelle A. Meek, former Treasurer for AFGE Local 3435, pled guilty to theft
  

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