Michigan Republican Governor Rick Snyder is set to sign a law that will cap how much the state will pay towards health coverage for public employees. This is another example, just like in Ohio and Wisconsin, of right-wing extremist Governors attacking unions. When workers band together, they get paid better wages and get better benefits, but it seems as though the Republicans don't want this to happen.
Republicans try to portray themselves as the party of the little guy, up against the big bad government that is taking away their rights and hard earned money. However, unions are most beneficial to people who in fact are "little" in the sense that they have no political power to change the system. They don't have the funds. And then Republicans take away benefits from these people, and claim they are helping everyone in the process. George Orwell would be impressed by the amount of double think that goes on in American society today.
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