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Monday, February 21, 2011
I read Krugman's "Wisconsin Power Play" essay and found it wanting. Listen up, Krugman, you are a known far-left operative who speaks as an 'economist', but you overlook sound financial reasoning to advance your lefty ideology. What about 'we're broke' do you not understand?
Wisconsin is a flashpoint, you're right about that. But for the wrong reasons.
Unions are outdated and only serve today to nourish a single Party apparatus (the Democrats) at the expense of true democracy. To borrow a phrase from progressives, 'it's not fair'.
We've seen Wisconsin Senate Democrats fleeing the state to avoid doing their jobs; unable to face what the November 2nd voters mandated. We've seen government unionists 'striking' (illegally) to attend weekday protests where 'Doctors' handed out fake sick notes so these unionists can use them to avoid punishment. We've seen the unions quickly backtracking on concessions; they are now willing to take the meager financial hits necessary to balance the state's budget, because they are pants-crappingly scared that they are doomed! (as they should be). We've seen the POTUS, himself the author of trillions of dollars of debt, try to give advice to a state that's far better off. Obama opens his mouth, send forth his DNC and Organizing for America 'community-organized' goons from all over the nation, to attempt to overcome a single state's issue; the 10th Amendment be damned.
These public-sector unions need to be demolished nationwide. It's just not right for public employees to have their union dues monies forced from them without consent to be spent on political contributions to only one party. Public officials are elected, and government employees are supposed to be indifferent as to the outcome of elections. But these government employee unions not only give monies to Democrats but also contribute on-the-job time and work for 100% Democrat-only candidates; that money and time adds up to a candidate owing the unions for whatever the unions demand, be it pay and benefits increases that are well above private-sector pay and benefits, and more subtle but just as bad, they have an unfairly-constructed shield that private sector employees don't have for to shelter them from economic downturns.
As far as the non-public sector unions, their time is up too. Democrats complain about jobs going overseas. Here in Tennessee, we have the Nissan Motor Manufacturing Corp., and Volkswagen, both doing just fine sans unions. The GM Saturn plant sits idle, and has for months. Union demands made GM's products non-competitive. Unions drive jobs overseas, silly Democrats. You can't force corporations to employ people who demand more than the market can afford to pay.
Again, Krugman, what about the U.S. being broke do you not understand?
Wisconsin is a flashpoint, you're right about that. But for the wrong reasons.
Unions are outdated and only serve today to nourish a single Party apparatus (the Democrats) at the expense of true democracy. To borrow a phrase from progressives, 'it's not fair'.
We've seen Wisconsin Senate Democrats fleeing the state to avoid doing their jobs; unable to face what the November 2nd voters mandated. We've seen government unionists 'striking' (illegally) to attend weekday protests where 'Doctors' handed out fake sick notes so these unionists can use them to avoid punishment. We've seen the unions quickly backtracking on concessions; they are now willing to take the meager financial hits necessary to balance the state's budget, because they are pants-crappingly scared that they are doomed! (as they should be). We've seen the POTUS, himself the author of trillions of dollars of debt, try to give advice to a state that's far better off. Obama opens his mouth, send forth his DNC and Organizing for America 'community-organized' goons from all over the nation, to attempt to overcome a single state's issue; the 10th Amendment be damned.
These public-sector unions need to be demolished nationwide. It's just not right for public employees to have their union dues monies forced from them without consent to be spent on political contributions to only one party. Public officials are elected, and government employees are supposed to be indifferent as to the outcome of elections. But these government employee unions not only give monies to Democrats but also contribute on-the-job time and work for 100% Democrat-only candidates; that money and time adds up to a candidate owing the unions for whatever the unions demand, be it pay and benefits increases that are well above private-sector pay and benefits, and more subtle but just as bad, they have an unfairly-constructed shield that private sector employees don't have for to shelter them from economic downturns.
As far as the non-public sector unions, their time is up too. Democrats complain about jobs going overseas. Here in Tennessee, we have the Nissan Motor Manufacturing Corp., and Volkswagen, both doing just fine sans unions. The GM Saturn plant sits idle, and has for months. Union demands made GM's products non-competitive. Unions drive jobs overseas, silly Democrats. You can't force corporations to employ people who demand more than the market can afford to pay.
Again, Krugman, what about the U.S. being broke do you not understand?
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