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Taking No Solis
OPPOSE HER LABOURIOUSLY
Re: W. James Antle, III's Payback Time:
It is too bad that I can't form a black border around my emails, especially after having read the article "Payback Time" It is too horrible to contemplate with Miss Solis as our new Secretary of Labor. I definitely need the black borders for the next four years. The prices will go up, up and up since the unions will be even more powerful than usual.
Merry Christmas,
-- Mabel Rockwell
If indeed this article is correct, and Ms. Solis mindlessly supports unions, America will have a long day's journey into night.
Labor unions are the most reactionary of American organizations. They cannot understand change; they cannot discuss change and will not look to the future. This is why American manufacturing has died. Unions refuse to permit technology; they refused to accede to innovations such as just in time inventory and robotics which vastly increase quality and reduce waste. Unions' loss of members comes from the inability to work with the industries that sustain membership to keep them viable.
The ability to accomplish long-term employment for their members will only come when unions realize that change is immutable. It cannot be denied or ignored. If it doesn't occur in one place it will occur in another and that change brings with it success. If we look at life itself, we find that few species last very long unchanged. Extinction is the reward for foolish consistency. That is the path today's unions have chosen to walk.
If they wished to bring real value to the table, unions would use the billions of dollars they have foolishly spent on the political "finger in the dike" to train their members. They would be the developers of the workforce of tomorrow, highly skilled and adaptable. Members would be educated on the facts of life. You go with technology, work rule changes and above all you everywhere and whenever you can. This union boss would not be dependent on the democrat party to provide life support. This union would have a product its consumers would wish to purchase. Unions would then be viable on their own merit, not because they and a political party force people to join.
But the hobgoblin of little minds rules today, in unions and in the Democrat party. That team has chosen a totalitarian path. One man or woman, no vote. "Do as you are told, we know what is best for you." Cuba Si, Yanqui No!
What will be next: political prisons?
-- Jay Molyneaux
I need some assistance. Please tell me what part of the
Constitution authorizes a Secretary of Labour.
-- W. B. Heffernan, Jr.
THE CONSTITUTION IS CRIME-THOUGHT
Re: Brett Joshpe's Protecting
Free Speech:
An excellent article and I hope that Congress does pass such a
law. I also think there needs to be a constitutional
amendment. That is to say, that no treaty shall supersede
the Constitution of the United States.
-- Tom MacKay
We have now domestic terrorism equal in power to that of the Islamo-fascist kind, consisting of affirmative action, diversity, multiculturalism, sensitivity training -- all enforced by government lawyers, human rights lawyers, intellectuals infesting our universities, bureaucratic enforcers, community organizers, Hollywood pinheads, Democrat lawgivers and judges, and many other such societal parasites.
It all reminds me of the communist regime from which I escaped
some 40 years ago. There we had "block committees" consisting of
Communist Party members and their acolytes who had the duty of
spying on citizens living in their block of apartments while
listening to their talk and words. Especially the jokes about our
"avant-garde" leaders were a prized catch -- such words would
lead to an immediate expulsion from the government-owned
apartment, loss of job, a stretch of forced labor in a
"re-education camp," or worse. If anybody thinks we are living in
a free country any longer -- they are delusional.
-- Marc Jeric
NO MERKEL ON OBAMA
Re: Joseph Lawler's
Deficit of Courage:
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frost| 12.22.08 @ 8:46AM
Remember, back in the Northeast some years ago, Connecticut, I think -- the painters were NOT permitted to use rollers, just brushes; those pesky rollers were just so much more efficient, and so much faster... union rules.
That some union workers aren't allowed to change a lightbulb because they're in the 'wrong' union? Can't plug in a tool either...?
But, in another area today, Eric Peters slams management of the car companies, with plenty of justification -- they caved to the UAW and gave 'em 'most all they wanted. So few legitimate excuses for ineptitude, kinda like the White House, 'ay?
Appleby| 12.22.08 @ 9:53AM
To Generation Whine and their GrabbyBaby offspring: if any of you could read, I would recommend that you look up an old story called The Monkey's Paw (or perhaps Ursula K. LeGuinn's story "The Lathe of Heaven") -- as you cannot, or worse still, will not, I decree that soon you'll see the denoument printed in big glowing letters above your head and on the screens of your blinking Binkies.
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR -- YOU MAY GET IT.
You got what you asked for. Hope you enjoy it. For the rest of you, see you at Galt's Gulch.
Marc Jeric| 12.22.08 @ 10:59AM
Mr. Jay Molineaux is so right. The most reactionary part of our nation are not the rightwingers - it is the unions. After the diesel engines replaced steam locomotives the union insisted that the jobs of those shoving coal into the steam locomotives be preserved; and so, for the next 50 years several thousand union workers rode diesel locomotives doing nothing - just nodding off for hours on their chairs. When containerships replaced old breakbulk cargo ships, in a similar fashion thousands of longshoremen with nothing to do sat in union halls for 40 years, being paid by shipping companies. That was the price extorted by unions to avoid interminable strikes and deadly violence. They could have instead embraced the technological progress by re-educating their members to new ways of doing business - but no; the "strong" unions are destroyers of industries in which they work.
Greg| 12.23.08 @ 3:56PM
Unions do worse than make work and guaranteeing jobs. They openly defy the all the other laws the leftist force everyone else to abide.
I was in Las Vegas once and walked into the restroom to find blood and broken glass all over the floor. It was a hazard and clearly violated several OSHA laws (if not health department laws). I asked the guy cleaning the sink if he was going to mop that up or call someone and I got the usual Union worker answer, "that's not my job" and he walked away.
I felt like shoving his worthless face into the broken glass and blood.
I also worked for two summers in a union shop in Ft. Smith, Ar (Whirlpool) and saw the workers cheat, steal, lie, walk off the job (to then come back and claim they weren't asked first, by rule, to work overtime so they filed a greivance and got paid anyway), gamble, drink, do drugs, commit sabotage to stop the line, etc.
I also noticed most of them were the dregs of society with low IQ's. But they thought they were gods. Funny, Whirlpool finally even closed that factory and moved it to Mexico. I guess that was before they had access to so much local Mexican labor (wink, wink).