Category Archives: job creation
We can survive without public sector unions. They cannot survive without us.
I call for the formation of a new union, one representing the over 80% of all workers who are not currently represented. I suggest that membership be open to all taxpayers not belonging to a union and that membership can be begun and ended year by year, with a prorated refund of dues anytime a politician you don’t want to support is supported. I suggest that we vote ourselves the “right” to bargain and the “right” to have union members pay OUR retirement and healthcare. In fairness, the unions will likely loose the ability to negotiate pension and healthcare soon either way. Perhaps we should only reserve the one right we truly do have; the right to the pursuit of happiness; the right to keep our property. I suggest we organize a taxpayers union and strike to end the extortion of our property on the threat of public employee sickouts. I want the right to strike and put the golden egg laying goose out of the egg laying business. I want to strike to end the practice of borrowing from our children without their informed consent, to send from balanced-budget/right-to-work states like Virginia, to states like Wisconsin. Continue reading
The Teacher’s Unions in Wisconsin have hastened the demise of public sector unions.
The teacher’s union could have simply allowed this proposed bill to pass quietly, then wait a couple of years and have the union supported Congress that would one day return, “fix it,” and get back to negotiating ever increasing benefits. What a fitting end to public sector union conflict-of-interest, at the hands of voter solidarity. Continue reading
Dennis Kucinich is the domestic enemy he is sworn to defend against.
It seems obvious to me that Mr. Kucinich turns to his sense of morality for guidance instead of his sense of reason. It does not take courage to do what feels right. Courage is doing the right thing when people like Kucinich want you to feel like it is wrong or immoral. Vegas was built and thrives on people waging their own money on hope and a roll of the dice. Consider how powerful such hope is with other people’s money and a belief in “moral responsibility.” Continue reading
How much worse do we have to pollute the environment before we do something?
When you increase the cost of doing something, you get less of it. A regulation on production has compliance costs, which makes less regulated locations more competitive and attractive to industry. When such regulations involve pollution, regulating industry away from the regulation, increases pollution. Continue reading
WTF, Beer and Toilet Subsidies?
In-vest-ment noun \in-ves(t)-mənt\ – the outlay of money usually for income or profit. Much political discussion involves terms and phrases used in ways contrary to their definition. The cynical call it spin. President Obama says he wants to “invest” in … Continue reading
Teach a man to fish
I am challenged about the extension of unemployment payments to people who have been getting them for 99 weeks. I have avoided responding to such a narrow part of government spending because it does not behave or produce any differently … Continue reading
Is the Pendelum Swinging the Other Way on Cheap Labor?
Check this out. The company in China that produces many of the parts found in today’s Apple iPod and other electronics felt enough pressure from it’s employees that it needs to start paying a decent salary. Recent events at Foxconn‘s … Continue reading
The Green Eyed Monster with Spittle
Lest we forget that the modern “Progressive” movement wants to take us backwards to the systems we had prior to our independence . . . this is a cartoon, reportedly from 1948 making fun of the very things we are … Continue reading
Will Teach for Peanuts
Did any of you notice that the President wants to spend the “leftover” TARP money on “job creation?” Why do I care? We were told that the money, once repaid, would be used to pay back the loans taken to … Continue reading
Have it both ways.
I watched a man who labels himself as an economist who said that the only hope we have to create jobs is a “massive” (his word) government spending at least two times that of the previous “stimulus”. I ask this: … Continue reading