Rush Explains Collective Bargaining

Rush Limbaugh explains(tries to) to a union sympathizer about collective bargaining. 3/30/11.
Mary Jo from Madison: Okay, one thing, okay, what gives the Republicans the right to tell me that I cannot collectively get together with people about my work, about my benefits, about anything?

RUSH: Do you want the answer?

CALLER: That's my right as an American.

RUSH: Because you are collectively bargaining against your citizens. You are collectively bargaining against your neighbors. You're not bargaining against some fat cat CEO flying around in a jet who owns the company. The issue here is not about what you want. The issue is about what is affordable, what the citizens are able to pay. And they aren't able to pay what you are demanding. Collective bargaining, you are not engaging in collective bargaining when you're a public employee union. You're shaking down your fellow citizens is what's happening. And the state's either gonna go bankrupt or this is all gonna get fixed and we're going to bring things back into balance. That's where we are. The governor is trying to save the state, save your job and everybody else's job. You don't see it that way because you have the bias and the prejudice of union membership. But who elected you to get health care for free? Who decided you get health care and your pension free for the rest of your life? Where did that happen? It's unsustainable.