F107HyperSabr
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SEIU - Service Employees International Union
These folks helped write the stimulus bill. Now why on earth would a union have a hand in writing a bill passed by both houses of Congress and signed by the POTUS? Unions make up (brace yourself) a whopping 12% of the workforce in the US. Should such a minority have a stake in writing legislation that spends almost a trillion taxpayer dollars? SEIU has it's fingerprints all over the Obama administration.
No special interest of any kind should be the sole writer of any bill. They can have their say and in certain cases should have their say. For example a bill on veterans benefits should haveinput from the Veteran Service organizations.
During the Bush administartion industries of which regulations bills were being worked were asked to actually write some bills not just help as you said about a union. I don't have to "brace myself" about the percent of union membership because union membership has been falling and the decline in union membership has fallen roughly in pace with the decline in our manufacturing levels.