AFL-CIO Whines For Their O-Care Waiver

by JASmius

First they came for the communists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist. 

Then they came for the socialists,  and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist. 

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist. 

Then they came for me,  and there was no one left to speak for me.

-Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)

I especially think of that third verse when I see stories like this one:

The AFL-CIO is ramping up pressure on the Obama administration to change parts of the health care overhaul law that could impair benefits for millions of union members.

The nation's largest labor federation approved a strongly worded resolution on Wednesday that says the Affordable Care Act will drive up the costs of union-sponsored health plans to the point that workers and employers are forced to abandon them.

Some individual unions have complained about the law's impact for months, but the resolution marks the first time the AFL-CIO has gone on record embracing that view. It comes from one of the president's major boosters just as the administration is rolling out a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign to encourage Americans to sign up for health care exchanges starting October 1st.

Unions were among the most enthusiastic backers of the law when it passed in 2010. The resolution says labor unions still support its overall goals of reducing health costs and bringing coverage to all Americans, but it complains that the law is being implemented in a way that is "highly disruptive" to union plans.

Oh, yes, because the problem isn't the law itself and the psychotic, Marxist-Alinskyist bilge dogma that animates it, which was corruptly and authoritarianly rammed down the collective throat of the American populace against its collective will, and is producing actual results on the proverbial ground diametrically opposite its ostensible "goals," exactly as we dissidents and enemies of the state always said it would.  No, no, no, the problem is that the Regime is just botching its implementation, y'see.  Primarily by having forgotten to issue the AFL-CIO its waiver.

I'd love to tell Dick Trumka that this proves that cheesy 'stache of his is a "dirty Sanchez," but does anybody have any serious doubt that Big Labor's caterwauling will get them exempted from the tyranny they helped foist on the rest of us?  Fear not, Richie, your political coprophilia will not have been in vain - and will probably win you a bonus breath mint subsidy to boot.