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Originally Posted by Minte
There is a reason the unions always support the democrats. They wrote some great deals together. Unions give the right people a lot of cash to get elected. and they in turn give the unions sweetheart deals. Unless you live in Wisconsin. Our governor had the balls to stand up to them. Twice!
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This happens on both sides of the aisle though. Oil companies contribute heavily to various politicians(many republicans, but also a good number of democrats including Obama) and in return they get anywhere between $10 and $52 billion per year in subsidies and the government gives them rights and locations to drill. I'm not a union lover. I think they have some use, but in many cases they protect lazy workers and often end up screwing over their members, but I think it is fair to say that big companies play the same games with politicians as unions do.