RULE I: ALL GUNS ARE ALWAYS LOADED
RULE II: NEVER LET THE MUZZLE COVER ANYTHING YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO DESTROY
RULE III: KEEP YOUR FINGER OFF THE TRIGGER UNTIL YOUR SIGHTS ARE ON THE TARGET
RULE IV: BE SURE OF YOUR TARGET
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Here’s a spoof on the GM lie, this one is actually more like the truth.
I won’t buy another GM brand vehicle as long as the government is involved in any way, shape, or form. I used to be a GM guy. Now I’m not. In fact, I think my next truck will be a Ford. That’s the free market for ya.
Emphasis on morons…
An interesting look at unions and how they’ve pretty much ruined California.
How public-sector unions broke California
The camera focuses on an official of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), California’s largest public-employee union, sitting in a legislative chamber and speaking into a microphone. “We helped to get you into office, and we got a good memory,” she says matter-of-factly to the elected officials outside the shot. “Come November, if you don’t back our program, we’ll get you out of office.’
Illustration by Sean Delonas.
The video has become a sensation among California taxpayer groups for its vivid depiction of the audacious power that public-sector unions wield in their state. The unions’ political triumphs have molded a California in which government workers thrive at the expense of a struggling private sector. The state’s public school teachers are the highest-paid in the nation. Its prison guards can easily earn six-figure salaries. State workers routinely retire at 55 with pensions higher than their base pay for most of their working life. Meanwhile, what was once the most prosperous state now suffers from an unemployment rate far steeper than the nation’s and a flood of firms and jobs escaping high taxes and stifling regulations. This toxic combination—high public-sector employee costs and sagging economic fortunes—has produced recurring budget crises in Sacramento and in virtually every municipality in the state.
How public employees became members of the elite class in a declining California offers a cautionary tale to the rest of the country, where the same process is happening in slower motion. The story starts half a century ago, when California public workers won bargaining rights and quickly learned how to elect their own bosses—that is, sympathetic politicians who would grant them outsize pay and benefits in exchange for their support. Over time, the unions have turned the state’s politics completely in their favor. The result: unaffordable benefits for civil servants; fiscal chaos in Sacramento and in cities and towns across the state; and angry taxpayers finally confronting the unionized masters of California’s unsustainable government.
A follow up to my previous post on unions.
Teachers Unions: Don’t Work Too Hard!
John Stossel
Jaime Escalante — the math teacher who became famous for teaching even the poorest kids calculus in a failing Los Angeles school — died this week at age 78. His story shows not just what can be accomplished by great teachers, but also what damage unions can do.
Escalante got national attention when 14 out of 15 of his students at a low-ranking Los Angeles school passed the Advanced Placement Calculus exam. By 1987, 73 students from the school passed the AP calculus exam — more than all but six other schools in the country. After a movie about his success, called “Stand and Deliver”, was released in 1988, Escalante became an icon for showing that even the most disadvantaged kids could learn complex subjects if given the right instruction.
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Every time I see a “Work Union, Live Better” sticker, I want to drive the douche-bag off the road.
It makes me want to hurl. I almost become incensed from the sight. Almost as bad as “Obama-Biden” stickers.
Both have screwed up America. Both deserve your derision.
Anyway, the union folks might be decent people, but the organization they have representing their “interests” is corrupt and has been shoving money at the Democrats as long as I can remember.
Look at what they have achieved at your expense! They own a good chunk of GM at no cost to them. It was handed to them by the Douche-bag-in-Chief.
They drive up the cost of goods and services across the broad spectrum of anything and everything that involves a union. Businesses have to compensate for the ridiculous sums of money they spend placating unions by raising the price of their product.
Unions make America’s situation even worse than it should be.
Yeah, work union, live better my ass. Maybe it should say, “Work Union, We Screw the American People so WE can Live Better!” Do you people that work for a union pay attention to the politics that these assholes play?
Somehow I doubt it.
Now, government unions outnumber private sector unions. Now these bastards will never lose their job, no matter how screwed up they are.
Check this out:
“We’re twisting arms. We’re threatening people.”
Posted By Ivan Osorio
So said United Teachers of Los Angeles President A.J. Duffy at a rally, which reason.tv now makes available in a new video on public sector unions [1]. As host Nick Gillespie notes, “as unemployment hovers around 10 percent and any sort of recovery seems to be forever and a day away…the one part of the economy that is going gangbusters during the Great Recession is government work.” Now that the number of union members working for government has surpassed the number of union members working for businesses [2], and compensation for unionized government workers is straining public budgets to a crisis point [3], this issue needs all the attention it can get.
For many years I have bitched about unions. Unions are a pox on society.
At one time, they had their purpose. They succeeded in creating better working conditions for many, who would have had it rough otherwise.
Now though, they are not conducive to a stable economy. If anything, they are a reason why America is in the dire straits that it is in.
Here are a couple articles that discuss unions. Those people that belong to unions, should relook their membership. Whether they like it, or not, they are supporting everything that Democrats stand for.
If you are against abortion, you support it indirectly through your union.
If you are pro Second Amendment, you fight against it through your union.
If you consider yourself conservative in any way, shape, or form, your union is supporting everything that you stand against.
Why do we call them ‘public servants?’
Ed Lasky
Have you ever noticed the steps cities and states take to make our lives miserable in order to extract tax increases from us? When budgets are cut back because of fewer taxes, what goes first in the triage that politicians engage in? Libraries shut down early or are just closed or longer waits at drivers license bureaus, among other inconveniences.
We are also warned that fire and police forces will be cut back (invoking fear). The children are made to pay the price, too. Bands, sports, afterschool clubs all go by the wayside. Field trips become a nostalgia item. Students are forced to use old textbooks, falling apart at the seams. The PTA is asked to make up the shortfall and parents fees go up for an odd assortment of items.
Public workers unions have it backwards
Ed Lasky
Numerous articles and blog posts at American Thinker and elsewhere have begun to highlight the time bombs that are exploding state and federal budgets across our nation. These are the demands made on the public purse (and our wallets) by public employee unions who want to protect their gold-plated salaries, health benefits, and pension windfalls at all costs.
These unions are often behind secretive and shadowy efforts – such as the one in Illinois – to destroy the Tea Party because they see the people who want to restore fiscal sobriety and to protect their children from a life of penury as the enemy. The SEIU, for example, funded this anti-Tea Party website. Funds from unions, including from the public employee union Amercian Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), are pouring into political slush fund s for Democratic activists.
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