We've been listening to propaganda for months now about how grass root TEA Party conservatives are "hostage takers", "terrorists", and violent. As usual, this is a classic case of projection by the leftists. See here:
Union Members take guards hostage and damage property in rampage
Not only do these union members take hostages, they damage property that doesn't belong to them because they're aren't getting everything they want. While millions of people have no jobs, and millions more are working part time when they want to be working full time, these fools walk off their jobs, then get violent because the company goes and hires other (union) people to do the work that needs doing. So now they're going to cause the price of grain to rise even more than it already has by wasting this food, and damaging the means of transporting it to people that need it.
On top of that the damage that will need to be repaired and cost the companies more money -- money they won't have to give any raises or bonuses to their employees or hire more people this year and perhaps beyond.
I guess the one good thing is they didn't listen to Hoffa and "take out" the "SOB" hostages while they were at it.
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Showing posts with label unions. Show all posts
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
The ramblings of the entitlement-minded
By now, everyone has heard of what's going on in Wisconsin. It really started here when the governor of New Jersey put is foot down -- right on the feet of the NJEA teachers' union. So this was the comment of one "teacher"
"If your delighted with NFL football played by substitute players wait untill the schools are taken over by 'substitue teachers".
As a teacher where should I go for my best chance of obtaing day labor to teach in the schools? McDonnald's, Denneys, Waffle House or?
Should the students learn Spanish as the migrant labor is brought over to teach and lower the cost of teaching?
Will the National Guard be allowed to carry their weapons into the schools if they are assigned to teach?"
Wow. I tell you what. Isn't that what you want teaching your child? My response was simple:
"And also it's "you're" not your. Between your attitude and your grammar yes, you can go work at McDonald's. We don't need you teaching our children. Responsible teachers understand it's long past time they start contributing to their own well being instead of expecting others to do it for them. The gravy train is coming to an end, buddy. You either are going to get paid what what your bosses, the taxpayers, wants to pay you or you can find a different job. It's how it works in the real world. Welcome to it."
Keep stirring the pot guys. People are losing their jobs, their homes, their life savings. I am one of millions of those people. And yet we still see our taxes rising due to pigs like that guy. There's more of us than you, and all you're doing is ensuring another large defeat for your buddies in elected office in 2012 and making it even easier for us to clean up this mess you all have caused through your greed, and due to us that were too busy with our own lives to notice what you were doing. We are awake and paying attention now, however.
"If your delighted with NFL football played by substitute players wait untill the schools are taken over by 'substitue teachers".
As a teacher where should I go for my best chance of obtaing day labor to teach in the schools? McDonnald's, Denneys, Waffle House or?
Should the students learn Spanish as the migrant labor is brought over to teach and lower the cost of teaching?
Will the National Guard be allowed to carry their weapons into the schools if they are assigned to teach?"
Wow. I tell you what. Isn't that what you want teaching your child? My response was simple:
"And also it's "you're" not your. Between your attitude and your grammar yes, you can go work at McDonald's. We don't need you teaching our children. Responsible teachers understand it's long past time they start contributing to their own well being instead of expecting others to do it for them. The gravy train is coming to an end, buddy. You either are going to get paid what what your bosses, the taxpayers, wants to pay you or you can find a different job. It's how it works in the real world. Welcome to it."
Keep stirring the pot guys. People are losing their jobs, their homes, their life savings. I am one of millions of those people. And yet we still see our taxes rising due to pigs like that guy. There's more of us than you, and all you're doing is ensuring another large defeat for your buddies in elected office in 2012 and making it even easier for us to clean up this mess you all have caused through your greed, and due to us that were too busy with our own lives to notice what you were doing. We are awake and paying attention now, however.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
On the Public Sector and Taxes
I live in the State of New Jersey. It's well known by the people of this State, and outside of it as well, that we pay the highest property taxes as a percentage of income. And the #2 state is not even remotely close. Before I bother to give out my own anecdotal information, you can look at this map showing the figures from the year 2008 and compare for yourself. And that was 2008 before salaries stopped going up, house values went down, and taxes by golly kept going up. And oddly enough, those assessed property values that they use to determine your tax bill just never comes close to matching up with what you would actually get for your house if you sold it.
The annual cost to keep me from being thrown out on the street and the government taking ownership of the house that I live in is over $4,000. That was well over 10% of my income. (And that was before I lost my full-time job. Now it's even worse). Tack that on to my federal and state income taxes and well, I was working close to 40% of the time for the government just in the form of income and property taxes. That's not counting sales taxes, excise taxes, and other taxes. It's really no wonder I struggle from week to week to make sure all the bills are paid on time. Yet if I were to listen to the Left, all my woes are to be blamed on Big Oil, Big Pharma, or Big This, That or the Other. No, my eyes are quite open, I live in reality, not Propagandaville, and the problem is Big Government. Government grows in good times and bad. And even when you say NO to more property taxes as you struggle through losing your job and working three part time jobs, elected officials over turn your vote and raise taxes anyway in deferment to the public sector unions. In good times we're told it's our patriotic duty to pay our taxes. In bad times it's "Oh you're going to lose your house? Suck it up. The government employees are still underpaid." If I only sleep five hours a night instead of six, maybe I can cram another seven hours of work in...
I'm sick of it, and so are many other people. Not just in this state, but other places where hard working, tax paying citizens are being abused as well. People voting with their feet and moving to more tax payer friendly States is resulting in places like NJ and California having a shrinking tax payer base which further results in more people sucking money out of the system than paying in. It's a death spiral all the way down, and now the Leftists want to impose it upon us at a national level as well. Checkmate. No escape.
Now be a good little boy/girl and go work very hard so you can pay your taxes to fund government excess and waste.
The annual cost to keep me from being thrown out on the street and the government taking ownership of the house that I live in is over $4,000. That was well over 10% of my income. (And that was before I lost my full-time job. Now it's even worse). Tack that on to my federal and state income taxes and well, I was working close to 40% of the time for the government just in the form of income and property taxes. That's not counting sales taxes, excise taxes, and other taxes. It's really no wonder I struggle from week to week to make sure all the bills are paid on time. Yet if I were to listen to the Left, all my woes are to be blamed on Big Oil, Big Pharma, or Big This, That or the Other. No, my eyes are quite open, I live in reality, not Propagandaville, and the problem is Big Government. Government grows in good times and bad. And even when you say NO to more property taxes as you struggle through losing your job and working three part time jobs, elected officials over turn your vote and raise taxes anyway in deferment to the public sector unions. In good times we're told it's our patriotic duty to pay our taxes. In bad times it's "Oh you're going to lose your house? Suck it up. The government employees are still underpaid." If I only sleep five hours a night instead of six, maybe I can cram another seven hours of work in...
I'm sick of it, and so are many other people. Not just in this state, but other places where hard working, tax paying citizens are being abused as well. People voting with their feet and moving to more tax payer friendly States is resulting in places like NJ and California having a shrinking tax payer base which further results in more people sucking money out of the system than paying in. It's a death spiral all the way down, and now the Leftists want to impose it upon us at a national level as well. Checkmate. No escape.
Now be a good little boy/girl and go work very hard so you can pay your taxes to fund government excess and waste.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Don't Say Your Vote Doesn't Count
Here in New Jersey we vote on the local level on school budgets. Most years the teacher's union wins their massive increases with rhetoric about "the children" while they continue to rake in what now surpasses private sector wages and pay nothing for their health and other benefits. This year however the feeling was quite different among the people with a new more responsible governor pushing back against the union, and all other kinds of out of control spending. So the local school districts took it upon themselves to try to authorize a massive increase in local property taxes.
In my town, the elementary school alone wanted 1.4 million dollars OVER and ABOVE regular base curriculum spending at a time when people have been out of work for six months or more in record numbers. In my town, the budget was defeated by TWO votes.
Two votes is going to force some actual responsibility from these people for once.
Now don't say your vote doesn't ever count for anything.
Across the state, nearly 60% of budgets were defeated in a promising sign that people are not going to put up with any more out of control spending from the local level all the way up to the federal government. Watch out come November.
In my town, the elementary school alone wanted 1.4 million dollars OVER and ABOVE regular base curriculum spending at a time when people have been out of work for six months or more in record numbers. In my town, the budget was defeated by TWO votes.
Two votes is going to force some actual responsibility from these people for once.
Now don't say your vote doesn't ever count for anything.
Across the state, nearly 60% of budgets were defeated in a promising sign that people are not going to put up with any more out of control spending from the local level all the way up to the federal government. Watch out come November.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
The Future of the US
Just seeing news in Greece and the protests and rioting going on there. It's like looking into the future. The future that "progressives" are progressing us toward here in the United States. An entitlement mentality so ingrained that even when the country and currency is about to collapse under the weight of debt, a large portion the people still don't want to make sacrifices. Perhaps if they hadn't run up the credit card so high the bill that came due wouldn't have been so bad.
Can you say $55 trillion in underfunded liability to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid? Yeah, I've got a great idea. Let's expand that massive Medicare program that's bleeding red ink to EVERYBODY in the country.
The credit card bill goes even higher. What's going on in Greece will look like a playground fight between 7 year olds compared to what is going to happen here when the bill collectors finally come calling. Unless we stop the out of control spending and this rogue government now and start reversing the damage.
Can you say $55 trillion in underfunded liability to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid? Yeah, I've got a great idea. Let's expand that massive Medicare program that's bleeding red ink to EVERYBODY in the country.
The credit card bill goes even higher. What's going on in Greece will look like a playground fight between 7 year olds compared to what is going to happen here when the bill collectors finally come calling. Unless we stop the out of control spending and this rogue government now and start reversing the damage.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Still Alive and Kicking...
Haven't posted here since Election night, but I haven't been carted off by the same people that are trying to suppress our right to voice our opposition. I've just been engaging people around me in person rather than spending the time on here. Between that and keeping up with the daily new things this administration is throwing at us is almost a full time job in itself.
Everybody has been talking about the decision to bring those confessed terrorists to trail in the States. I don't think I need to say anything more, as any sane person knows this is a mistake, and turns historical precedent of prosecuting acts of war on its head. But of course that's what this administration is all about. Doing things exactly the opposite of how they've always been done. Because they say so.
But what really caught my eye this past week was a statistic. It was the fact that only about 8% of private sector workers are now unionized. This compares to almost 33% of government workers. When you find this out, you realize exactly why the union bosses have thrown in with the Democrats. Union bosses fill their coffers with dues, and if government workers are more unionized than private sector, then it makes sense to get in bed with the party of government, doesn't it? Screw over the private sector, promote government takeovers (health industry, automotive industry), get more members, then they can fill their coffers even more, give more money to the liberals, get them elected more and more, and the cycle starts to resemble that spiral of dirty bathwater going down the drain. Too bad it's the country going down the drain and not liberals and their policies once and for all....
Everybody has been talking about the decision to bring those confessed terrorists to trail in the States. I don't think I need to say anything more, as any sane person knows this is a mistake, and turns historical precedent of prosecuting acts of war on its head. But of course that's what this administration is all about. Doing things exactly the opposite of how they've always been done. Because they say so.
But what really caught my eye this past week was a statistic. It was the fact that only about 8% of private sector workers are now unionized. This compares to almost 33% of government workers. When you find this out, you realize exactly why the union bosses have thrown in with the Democrats. Union bosses fill their coffers with dues, and if government workers are more unionized than private sector, then it makes sense to get in bed with the party of government, doesn't it? Screw over the private sector, promote government takeovers (health industry, automotive industry), get more members, then they can fill their coffers even more, give more money to the liberals, get them elected more and more, and the cycle starts to resemble that spiral of dirty bathwater going down the drain. Too bad it's the country going down the drain and not liberals and their policies once and for all....
Monday, September 7, 2009
Happy Labor Day Indeed
Isn't it ironic that we celebrate what the labor unions brought to the table by taking a day off and not doing any work? I wonder how that's different from any other "work" day for them these days?
Yes, yes. Labor unions were needed last century and did help improve working conditions in this country. That said, their time is past. Just like everything else that becomes large, unwieldy and corrupt, labor unions are nothing more than large money sinks that cause more harm than good to both business AND workers in the 21st century.
And I'm not the only one with this view. More than half of Americans now view labor unions unfavorably.
People have finally seen the consequences of unions in the downfall of Chrysler and Government Motors along with the struggles of Ford. They've seen union goons beating up old people at town hall meetings. They see that unions have gotten far away from their original intent of protecting their workers to attacking ordinary Americans, both physically and in government. Their leaders push agendas in government like ObamaCare that are bad for not only ordinary non-union citizens, but also will be bad for their members too down the road when their private benefits disappear as well. And for what? The promise of Democratic support for "card check". The union leadership is only concerned in increasing their ranks in order to keep filling the coffers, not about you, not about me, and not even their workers.
Yes, yes. Labor unions were needed last century and did help improve working conditions in this country. That said, their time is past. Just like everything else that becomes large, unwieldy and corrupt, labor unions are nothing more than large money sinks that cause more harm than good to both business AND workers in the 21st century.
And I'm not the only one with this view. More than half of Americans now view labor unions unfavorably.
People have finally seen the consequences of unions in the downfall of Chrysler and Government Motors along with the struggles of Ford. They've seen union goons beating up old people at town hall meetings. They see that unions have gotten far away from their original intent of protecting their workers to attacking ordinary Americans, both physically and in government. Their leaders push agendas in government like ObamaCare that are bad for not only ordinary non-union citizens, but also will be bad for their members too down the road when their private benefits disappear as well. And for what? The promise of Democratic support for "card check". The union leadership is only concerned in increasing their ranks in order to keep filling the coffers, not about you, not about me, and not even their workers.
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