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SB5 and the Verizon walkout are two of the same kind of blackmail. American taxpayers, ununionized, self-employed or retired must pay for union members with special privileges. Some workers ARE more equal than others. Strikers and opponents of SB5 say it's about the middle class, but that's a fraud because there is no set definition of middle class. By saying the standard of private, low-wage jobs is being used against them, the strikers and opponents of SB5 prove they want to be privileged above fellow citizens. Saying they refuse to pay even $100 for health-plan premiums, shows that they choose to be superior to other, less fortunate and powerful (think blackmail) employees. Who must insure payment of benefits, pensions and special conditions if the unions cannot sustain the payouts? Now and in the future? Who indeed! You and me.

It's gets worse. Workers who are forgoing pay and benefits during the strike would be paid $200 a week if the walkout lasts for 15 days; $300 beyond 30 days. I wish I could be counted in on this sweet deal union workers have secured for themselves. Paid not to work and then more pay to return to work. But just as in Animal Farm where the unequal animals must serve or die, some Americans are more equal than others.