Saturday, December 26, 2009
The Labor Movement strikes again!

Michelle Berry runs a private day-care service from her home on the outskirts of this city, the birthplace of General Motors. "The Berry Patch," as she calls the service, features overstuffed purple gorillas, giant cartoon murals, and a playroom covered in Astroturf. Her clients are mostly low-income parents who need child care to keep their jobs in a city that now has a 26% unemployment rate.
Ms. Berry owns her own business—yet the Michigan Department of Human Services claims she is a government employee and union member. The agency thus withholds union dues from the child-care subsidies it sends to her on behalf of her low-income clients. Those dues are funneled to a public-employee union that claims to represent her. The situation is crazy—and it's happening elsewhere in the country.

Check the rest of the article out courtesy of The Wall Street Journal:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703478704574612341241120838.html

Hope-N-Change Baby!!
2 Comments:
Blogger Bob G. said...
Tim:
Oh, I'll just bet that it's happening in neighborhoods ALL over the damn place.

All you have to be is ethnic, have a good sob story, and a friend or two in some gub'ment agency willing to make some "after hours" money, and VOILA!

Another instant entitlement, courtesy of the U.S. taxpaying public!

Kind of makes all those "nail salons" pale by comparison, eh?

:)

Have a safe new Year, my friend.

Blogger Tim Zank said...
Back at ya Bobby!!

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