THUGGISH UNIONS DO NOT GET MY SYMPATHY

When America first become industrialized, companies were trying their best to get the most out of each employee. They would work an employee endless hours, without respect to safety. Wages were minimal, and they cared very little for an employees dedication or allegiance. Companies just wanted work done so more could be done. In a way, I understand that. After all, this was all new to everyone. Electricity, natural gas. well drilling, steel plants automobile making...it was all new, and it was all great because we were coming out of a depression and were all ready to let er rip. Soon unions were started to curb some of these abuses.

Today, though, committees are more functional, and useful, than unions ever were. CEO's are more concerned with employee productivity and want employees to look at their job as an investment in the company; a place where what each employee does, does affect the bottom line, and employees are a lot more educated and dedicated than "in the day".

Here's the problem; unions did garner some strength and power over employees and employers. Today, because of yesterday, jobs have been created, and employee numbers have been inflated trying to compensate for the evils of the past CEO's. Teachers, Cops, Firemen, all government employees have their jobs, thanks to attempts at trying to right the wrongs of the past. However, the past no longer exists but we are stuck with the thinking and the employment numbers of that kind of thinking.

I used to be not only a union worker, but a union representative in the steel industry. I was good at what I did, but in time I realized I was only saving jobs for the least competent and the best workers were not being compensated for their extra efforts. Everyone got a wage determined by the union, and no one could excel on their own merits. That is where the problem exists today. Unions cater to the least productive on their roles; it its the way the system was set up, and it hasn't changed, although all the other factors have changed. Add to that, unionized government employees and agreements made with a previous administration and no matter what, we are stuck with that number of people and all their benefits which are paid for with taxes.

Private business operates differently. Private business already wants employees to contribute more to their own benefits, especially retirement, and when demand for the product they produce is reduced, adjustments are made to the company's inventory, and employee roles are reduced, accordingly. Medical  benefits and retirement benefits are put on hold, until the employees are recalled or find other work,

When taxpayers lose their jobs, operating funds dwindle, but according to union contracts, no government employee can lose their job, so taxpayers continue to pay for ALL the wages, benefits and retirement of each union member. No one considers the fact that the taxpayer has lost his job, his benefits, and he still has to pay for the government employee who very often makes more than the taxpayer does. It is simple math, no money ... no job,but the government (and I mean city, county, state and federal) just will  not do with less. Doesn't it make sense that less of the government is needed if less of the people are using governmental facilities? Why is it the government does not scale back? And even the unemployed has to continue to pay taxes for all sorts of things, mostly because of the costs to governmental agencies, which is over staffed with employees taking money from taxpayers arranged from previous administrations. Do you see the stupidity of it all?

Most unions have unfunded liabilities such as retirement, retired medical, vacations. Those things are paid for through taxes. When a governmental employee retires, all his retirement benefits are paid for by taxpayers and a new employee is hired who starts to get the same benefits, so for every one employee, at least two are being paid, and all this is through taxes. Again, when the taxpayers loses his or her job, all state, and federal taxes are still required., even though the taxpayer might very well lose his benefits, maybe even his home.

What is going on in Wisconsin is the tip of the iceberg. Governmental unions have a strangle hold on taxpayers and it has to come to an end. Any and every government employee should contribute into his or her benefit package including retirement, and retirement medical, even legislators who have legislated themselves a fat retirement package at the expense of the taxpayer. Governments should not only be allowed to cut, but should cut and reduce employee roles every chance it gets. Entitlements are no longer in vogue, not even a job, and legislators should be ashamed that they think they are entitled to 50% of their salary for only 10 years worth of work, plus all those perks they've gotten while working. Someone please do a study on what it costs taxpayers in retirement benefits to all those blasted political representatives who have stuck it to us, and then look into what it costs to retire all those employees as well. Where will all costs come from? How can it be sustained?

KUDO'S TO THE FRESHMEN IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

For too long we heard a bunch of clap-trap from our establishment Republicans. Wanting our vote, they would promise the voter all sorts of things, then renege blaming the house rules or claiming their counterparts were just more sophisticated, politically. But there is a "new day dawning" to borrow a quote from Congressman West. The freshman class has caused the establishment R's to make good their promise to slash 100 billion dollars from the budget in their first year. Of course McConnell and  Boehner were trying to pass  the notion that the year is already one third over so a 50 billion dollar cut was all they could possibly find. Not so, say the freshmen. And isn't it a bit curious that every budget passed has no problem with  30 or 50 billion dollar earmarks, but we just can't find a way to cut 100 billion.

It's very possible, the insistence from the freshmen will cause the Obama people to claim if the requests are not removed, the budget won't pass, and the R's will be the blame for shutting down the government. Well I say, SHUT IT DOWN, we can't afford all their crazy spending habits anyway.

And what about that straw poll; Ron Paul wins again. Mitt Romney is likable but he gave Massachusetts what Obama has given the entire USA. Romney IS an establishment Republican and shouldn't get near the presidency. We're done with smooth talkers, now we need someone to walk the talk, Ron Paul is that sort of guy. He no longer talks scarily about closing the IRS, or the FBI or the Federal Reserve, but he still abhors those agencies because of what they have morphed into. No matter what tax system we have, we need an agency to make those collections and distribute those collections into the treasury; we need spies, we need a  new tax code and a return to the full intent of the constitution, no matter what we call the agency. Ron Paul, is not alone in his distaste for powerful agencies that control us instead of we controlling them. The TEA party was born out of that "fed-up-with-emism". Just look at the departments and what funding they get. What ever happened to capitalism? Do you mean to tell me there is no one out there that wouldn't want to be the next Bill Gates or Steve Jobs? Well, how can that happen when the government has taken over the creative agencies of this country through funneling our taxes into departments and colleges so THEY can come up with next great thing, under federal regulations, of course.

Farmers get way too much money to grow food they should be growing on their own because that is what farming is all about; then they can reap the profits, but the costs would be drastically reduced to the consumer because right now the government pays farmers NOT to grow stuff. Farmers have insurance options to protect them against losses, and if they cannot be successful at farming, then they ought to get another job, not expect taxpayers to prop them up.

The government wants to spend more money on education; our system is one of the most costly in the world and yet, according to the D's we aren't keeping pace with the world. Well, how is it, we can't compete with other countries that spend less and have better educational outcomes?

You all know the drill. So, let's keep their feet to the fire. We voted new thinking, new promising, new creative people into office because we are fed up with the same-o-same-o. Get behind them and assure them they are on the right track. For once in your life, make a phone call, send an email and encourage these people to stay the course. We need to rid this country of the establishment and instill free thinkers, who have a vision that America is the greatest country in the world with the most creative people in the world. This country IS the shining light upon the hill, and we want, nay we demand the new politicians to restore our glory.

MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS

Don't you just love to listen to guys like Sean Hannity who trip over their own tongues trying to explain why America has a right to be within some other country's borders and why our presence there is essential to a national survival, like Egypt?

Sean, you sound like some sort of establishment Republican when you attempt to justify why America is financially funding and politically backing a dictatorship like Hosni Mubarek. Where are our morals and principles? There is absolutely no reason for our country to be associated with men like Mubarek, in Egypt or in Iraq, or in Afghanistan. Our countrys' problem is we stick our nose where it shouldn't be, then in the final analysis, we can't find a way to withdraw ourselves without looking like the fools we are.

Look, I'm all for helping out, when we are asked to, but that's it. Help, then go home. Kuwait asked for our help when Iraq was poised and threatened to attack it. Under George Bush the father, Desert Strom was formed, did their job, defeated Saddam and gave Kuwait back to its own people. THAT should have been the end of it. But no!! George Dubya wanted to change the regime in Iraq. Well, he made a monstrous blunder when he thought that the money this country (politicians) was sending to certain people would guarantee that if Saddam Hussein was removed, the country would form a new government and we could all sing Kumbai Ya. Well, we are still in Iraq, and now Afghanistan, because THAT is where the real enemy is from, (and actually those that attacked America were Saudi's not Afghanistani's) and NOW all is well, right? Ixnay; our boys are getting killed for absolutely now reason; and don't forget about those rules of engagement where our soldiers cannot shoot the enemy, unless they are being shot at (IED's don't shoot, do they)? It is political poppycock to think we can "earn the hearts and minds" of Muslims. They do not want to be changed. They are quite happy the way they are. They are NOT asking to be changed, so why are we in their land telling them how to live? They didn't even ask  us to come there, in fact, nearly every day some one is asking us to get out of their land, that is get out or give them more money, like Karzai of Afghanistan. He has no intention of making his country look like America, but he'll gladly take our money. And what about those poppy fields? Well, the people need work, don't they?

Don't you see how convoluted it all is? How we have to suspend all intellect in order to accept what politicians are telling us is good for this country. Well, how about this  ......Mind our own business. We should stop funding dictators, and leave everyone alone. Let them have their own civil war; we had ours and didn't ask anyone to take sides, why do we think we have a right to take sides in theirs? Humanitarian aid? Bull.....that's political speak for trying to influence a person or a country to do what we want them to.

We need to just pull it all back home; let "them" sort it out and we'll deal with the leadership that prevails. No choosing sides. Just get out of it all and take care of our own.

TAKE A DEEP BREATH AND THINK A LITTLE

Good gravy, what a bunch of dunderheads.

In an op-ed, Michelle Malkin wrote about the abortion production line in the city of Brotherly Love, Philedelphia Pennsylvania, where under the watchful eye of one of the establishment republicans, Gov. Tom Ridge, hundreds of abortions were performed in such a vicious and cruel way that murder, is the only word you can use to describe it.
Dr. Gosnell and his band of accomplices, regularly delivered live babies in their third trimester, then murdered them by severing their spinal cords. And you don't think there is a difference between tea party republicans and the establishment republicans?

While I was on Eric Cantors' web site, I looked at some of the comments made by readers and discovered that there still are people that believe there is money in some sort of trust fund for social security. Man, I thought this subject had been so chewed up and digested that there couldn't be a soul, taking in air, that could believe that. What planet does that kind of person live on? Am I bonkers or is he the only one left that believes there is a social security fund somewhere?

And did you hear this one; Repeal of the Health Care bill will add about 230 billion dollars to our national deficit. WHAT!? If we simply eliminated the Health Care program, just simply eliminated it, and returned to what we had before it was passed, and by the way, nothing has changed since it was passed, except to make tax payers pay for this thing, while not getting any thing out of the program until 2014, there would be no cost; nothing added to the national debt. Just use some common sense, how could eliminating something that isn't in effect, cost anything by eliminating it? If anything, tax payers should get a refund on the additional costs they have been charged, while waiting for the year 2014.

And now the broo-ha-ha over Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and the rest of that stuff. What?! Is it any of our business? Sure, we have to watch what goes on there, because in the future we will need to develop political relations with the government of those countries, but for now, what goes on there is their business. How do you think America would have acted if some foreign country interfered with our civil war? Naw, it's their civil war, let them decide how they want their country to look. Afterwards, we can decide if we want to have any kind of political relationship with them, but for now, it is simply none of our business.

WHO IS GETTING ALL THOSE SAVED OR CREATED JOBS?

President Obama has often told us that his administration has created or saved millions of jobs since he was elected into office. Yet, America has a realistic 9.8% unemployment record plus, when you account for the underemployed that figure is more like 22%, and I reiterate, those figures are for America.

So, one has to ask; if jobs have been saved and or created, where did that occur?

Obama has invested over 2billion dollars in the drilling of oil in the Gulf, but in a foreign country, not America.
His administration has invested over 100 million in a battery production company, again not in America.

The list goes on and on, so one has to come to the conclusion that creating jobs or saving jobs IS happening, just not in America. And the worse part of that equation is those jobs are being created with the taxes of underemployed Americans.

The Obama administration takes the taxes from Americans, gives them to other countries, then borrows money from other foreign countries like China, and promises to rebuild the infrastructure of America...to create jobs for Americans. Tell me, can you do these sorts of things with your own household income and expenses? Can you take your household income, give it away to someone unrelated to you, then go to the bank and borrow the money you need to run your household? IF you did do this, how long do you think you could manage your household before you realize there is no way to pay the debt from borrowing? Why do the politicians in DC think America is on the path to recovery? Where is the money going to come from to pay back all the debt from borrowing, while promising to invest in America to create jobs? I'm not a financial whiz, but what the heck are you talking about? What the Democrats are doing is destroying the very foundation of our country. Am I the only one who can see this?