Theodore's World

Saw that vulture Howard Dean doing his spin on it yesterday. He just plain lies.

I just don't understand how anyone could believe this is good for us. I guess it's that "we know better than you do what's good for you" with some of them, but it's a plain old payback system if you ask me.

Labor costs from unions were the cause of beginning the transfer of American jobs offshore. High business taxes were the next reason. Now almost everything we buy is made out of country even if it has a traditional US brand name.

The worse the financial situation of a state, the more likely it is to be a highly unionized state. The right to work states have the most robust economies.

The Union is the first things Socialist reach for when steering towards the far left economy. The Prolectariat, the bottom rung of the ladder are the serfs and as you graduate up the ladder, i.e., if you know somebody,(because hard work has nothing to do with any kind of reward in a Socialist society) you have your own elitist class. Those who have been there, or have more than a moments experience in life, realize that the more government controls, the less freedom there is, and like socialist Germany, the Soviet Union, China, they all fail. As will this innocuous experiment.

This is the biggest reason these huge government bills must be defeated. Our Freedom and Liberty are at stake. Obviously, only we can protect it, there is no one in Congress willing to take a stand against this wanna be dictator. Talk about an oligarchy, obama and his band of 40 thieves(accountable to No One) are leaving Congress by the wayside to play with themselves and they are also too stupid to even see what's happening.

Union Bosses, you've struck a nerve.

I have one longtime friend from the rust belt, he bailed out after he lost his leg in a rail-road accident and hit the road in '76, working all over the country and abroad. Another from the same area still lives in Alaska, both have the same philosophy about their former cities, the steel mills and labor took from but never reinvested in their future, always demanding more and putting less and less into the infrastructure, the mills foundered because they were too run down and obsolete to compete. It wasn't either faction but both labor and management in the steel industry along with government regulations. It simply isn't like what that bloated asshole Michael Moore paints it to be in Roger & Me.

Theirs and my mutual ideology are that if a city is self sustaining let it survive, if not let it become a ghost town, they and I absolutely don't support bailing out any city that can't support it's own population with meaningful jobs and a reasonable revenue base. I can't help but agree with that.
Are you paying attention Arnold Swartzenneger? This is about assholes like you in every city with grandiose ideas and the backs of the people to pay for them.

There are many cities prior to 1933 that went under for the same reason, they are name places on the maps. Those porkchop constituents that have been chronically out of work who set on their asses and lobby for pork from the federal coffers instead of picking up and going where the jobs are are the primary problem, they want us to support them forever instead of finding and moving to where the work is like most of the rest of the nation's workers do.

As so well put by Mark. I belonged to a guild for two years, the teamsters for two years and the IBEW for 5 years, paid my union dues, took the requisite courses spelled out by my employer, not the union and became a journeyman. The very day we 10 were promoted all but two of us were laid off as the union now had a ratio of too many journeymen to apprentices, what a kick in the nuts for busting our asses for 4 solid years. Not only that I was on strike twice in that 5 year stretch, there was not one red cent of strike fund money dispensed during the 1-1/2 month first strike and the 4-1/2 month second strike and I commuted 110 miles RT on my own nickle to picket and go to college at night. That last strike I honored had two members die from the violence, I terminated the same week after the strike settled, I'd kept my word and had honored my obligation to those sorry bastards. Once I left I didn't need a rigger to set up or hold the ladder, an apprentice to hold the fixture, an operating engineer to tell me which way to turn the bulb, a millwright to turn the bulb, no pipe fitter to turn off the water in the bathroom and no laborer to clean up after me nor a teamster to deliver the frigging light bulb in the first place, neither did I have some snitch ratting me out to the union reps either.