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After he failed to deliver on the unions’ top two priorities – passing card-check legislation and comfirming their anti-business NLRB nominee, SEIU lawyer Craig Becker – Obama may now be trying to pay back labor unions by appointing SEIU boss, Andy Stern, to the administration’s newly created debt commission. The question is this: why is Obama considering appointing a union boss to a commission tasked with lowering the deficit when that union boss is only interested in increasing government spending and expanding the number of (unionized) government workers?

As The Washington Post points out, the influence of labor unions in the public sector has led to unsustainable increases in state spending: 

The more pertinent claim against organized labor may be on the public-sector side, where unions put significant pressure on state budgets, particularly with pension obligations. A new study by the Pew Center on the States finds a $1 trillion gap between what the states have promised their workers and what they've set aside.

Stern’s right hand man, failed NLRB nominee Craig Becker, even admits that it is in their interest to increase government spending. In a 2005 law journal, Becker described the unions’ anti-business Employee Free Choice Act as a way to “increase government funding.”

Despite promises to control federal spending, the Obama administration is willing to make political paybacks at the expense of tackling our burgeoning national debt.  But as VP Joe Biden told labor unions back in May, “we owe you.”