Probably my least favorite Union Dues story to appear on EP. Okay, maybe my second least favorite, with the last being the memory loss story.
It was kind of cool to get to know the old-school origins of the Union, and it's interesting to see the old-school superhero names (where everything has words like "Patriot" or "America" in its title) and ideals up against the newer ones, but other stories have done it better, such as Pratt's Origin Story.
The government creating super-soldiers which eventually breed into the general populace creating mutant outbreaks has been done--"Push" comes to mind, though it's very possible that this story came out before that movie, it's just the order I saw them in.
Supers in the general population being distrusted is nothing new, such as all of the previous Union Dues stories, and the entire history of X-Men.
The marketing angle introduced in the Union's origins wasn't in the least bit surprising, considering the Union's current marketing behavior.
I just didn't see a single way that the rest of the stories were enhanced by this origin story. Origin stories are really only good to me if they illuminate character relationships, origins, or something else that I hadn't already guessed at. This did none of that, so it was just extra word count without enhancing the series.