Tag Archives: Jobs
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
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
You would think they should be saying thank you!
President Obama and President Mubarak have a lot in common. Americans also have some things in common with the Egyptian people. We will likely have more in common in the coming years. The question is, will we go to meet them, or will they come to meet us? 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
Taking my Tonka truck and go’in home
Think for a minute about Kindergarten. Imagine the teacher asks her class of 30 students to bring in a stuffed animal to play with. If they would like, they can bring more than one. Imagine that the next day, 5 … 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