wow...sounds like canada, unions hold a huge billy club over the government and private industry up there
Look what the unions have done to CA~
wow...sounds like canada, unions hold a huge billy club over the government and private industry up there
Not just that yurt, but industry and the work place is SO regulated that companies have had to create HR departments that make certain every I is dotted and every T crossed with regards to company safety/sick pay/ overtime...etc- that the "protection" that unions once provided has likewise become irrelevent. Look what unions have done to compaines and now even to state economies---bankrupting them! Then how the fuck do they expect to earn a living??? It is pure chaotic craziness that sets up a situation, like unions do, one that is bound to failure. Here in WA teacher and law enforcement unions have forced the lay offs of hundreds of co-workers because they would not accept a 2 year cost of living freeze...and we have a governor who is dependent on guess what...yeah unions! She, the governor, actually has the power to fight these union interests...but will not do it because of her party loyalty.
If unions are legal and embraced, then manufacturers, suppliers, retailers, wholesalers, should all be allowed to fix the prices of their goods and services.
All any union is, is an organization that fixes the price of labor in a particular market. If GE and Whirlpool did that with the price of dish washers, the public would cry foul, but do it with the labor cost on a car, and the public jizzes all over the streets, then blames management when they collapse because they have to pay for retirement of people and their families who haven't worked there in 30 years.
Then we bitch when our cars are more expensive than japanese cars. And the left can't buy enough kleenex to wipe up their joy.
Look what the unions have done to CA~
That government jobs are unionized is, imo, antithetical of a republic.
crippled california
we need pension reform, but the unions will never agree to it
state/local government workers in california make an incredible living...
Yes they do. In some instances you might even have workers who are willing to accept a freeze, but they face a union leader who won't let them.
check out how much the union workers had to give back in wages to the car companies
No. Your post contained no elements of relevance.
I invite anyone reading this to explain how his rant about japan means outsourcing key capabilities shouldn't be a concern.
wow...sounds like canada, unions hold a huge billy club over the government and private industry up there
You will notice, this thread doesn't begin with a cut-n-paste 'ope-ed' from some partisan internet source, like those on the left typically give us. My threads tend to come from me, and my thoughts, and if there is information online to support what I am saying, I may or may not reference it. Unlike mot pinheads, I have enough competency to articulate my own thoughts, and can compose a fairly decent thread without the inclusion of the work of others. But... I understand, it has become a kind of internet tradition, to post a 'cite' to illustrate how your point is valid, because you need support for things that are otherwise insane. If you didn't post those links, people might have you committed or something.
I saw desh's thread entitled; why tax cuts do not create jobs, and I resisted the urge to click it, I knew what was in there already! Yet another piss-pants liberal blogger opinion, rooted and steeped in left-wing myopic idiocy and total misconception of reality. But it's important I resisted the urge to click the link... for a week! That's progress for me!
The very idea that lowering tax rates on the people who would create a private sector job, wouldn't cause conditions more favorable for them to create a job, is incomprehensible. It defies any reasonable logic. Instead of relying on logic and reality, this viewpoint must rely on incompetent analysis of the information at hand. A presumption that defies reality, and maintains that all rich people will behave in a particular way, all the time. This, of course, is a incoherent thought that is enabled through a developed class envy, which dictates that all rich people will always do and behave in the same manner, regardless of the circumstance. Therefore, in the mind of a pinhead, it makes perfect sense.
In reality, there is no true definition of "the rich" ...it's a label. Some people have great assets, but are not rich. Some people are very rich, yet have very few material assets. Some people are wealthy and don't consider themselves wealthy, others are not wealthy, but think they are. And wealth itself, comes in many different forms. Some pinhead will chortle out the stupidity that 40% of rich people inherited their wealth and didn't earn it...but that means 60% of them earned their wealth, every penny of it!
In all of my years of being a jack of all trades, master of none... (I have held about 100 different job titles in my life) I have never once been offered a job by a poor person. The people in our society, who create the jobs and hire the people for those jobs, are not poor, and mostly not even middle class, they are wealthy. To people with millions or billions of dollars, a 3% increase in tax rate is a pretty big deal. And pinheads can parade around with stupid little numbers trying to show where it doesn't amount to all that much cash to a rich person, but the point is not the cash. There is a cumulative effect when taxes are lowered, it helps promote and create optimism, and encourages those with wealth to become prospective again. Sure, it only means a few more dollars in a rich man's pocket, but he is motivated by things other than money. Knowing the tax rates are lower, he also knows tax rates are lower for his competitors, from the others at the top of the food chain, and realizing this, coupled with the drive and determination that brought wealth in the first place, the rich person acts on this impulse.
Oh, but Dixie.... 1% of the people controls 85% of the wealth!! ....Then you'd think it would behoove us to treat them a little nicer!
If unions are legal and embraced, then manufacturers, suppliers, retailers, wholesalers, should all be allowed to fix the prices of their goods and services.
All any union is, is an organization that fixes the price of labor in a particular market. If GE and Whirlpool did that with the price of dish washers, the public would cry foul, but do it with the labor cost on a car, and the public jizzes all over the streets, then blames management when they collapse because they have to pay for retirement of people and their families who haven't worked there in 30 years.
Then we bitch when our cars are more expensive than japanese cars. And the left can't buy enough kleenex to wipe up their joy.
Dear fucking idiot, if you had clicked you would have realized the cut n paste was a harvard economists study which found that food stamps and unemployment are teh best stimulus and matched the findings of other studies.
Quote of the year. Cannot agree more. And the public is goatse about it.(Originally Posted by Ice Dancer)That government jobs are unionized is, imo, antithetical of a republic.
What type of service/performance could we expect from non-unionized employees? It would result in a high turn-over of staff. No one really interested or responsible for anything as what happens in companies that have a high employee turn-over.
Then there's the political implications and elected officials wanting to get their buddy a job by driving out an employee.
Dear Even Bigger Fucking Idiot, maybe we should all quit our jobs and draw unemployment and food stamps? That would SURELY get our economy back on track! At least, according to you and some doofus who went to Harvard.
Where is this idea that government employees could not work unless they are unionized coming from?
And political patronage happens at the heads of agencies. Those aren't the "working folks" at the bottom of the totum pole.
So what is the retired person supposed to live on if not a pension from their former employer?