We’ve made mention of the coming socialist progressive GOTV rally on October 2nd, but this is more revealing.
Move over Andy Stern, it’s time to call it like it is: Today’s union bosses are out of the closet, pushing a socialist agenda.
[via The Blaze]
Heh…and you thought union bosses actually cared about America?
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“I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.” Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776
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Unions love socialism
Loren Heal (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 2:59PM EST (link)It’s the same idea, really. People give up. They feel they can’t compete, so they want to outlaw competition.
Like the rules about the minimum wage, OSHA, and the web of regulations facing people on the job, labor unions fight to keep wages high and work rules complex. That means that everyone on the outside looking in can’t get a job, and gets no pay at all.
Which is not … fair, to use a leftist whining point.
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Unions ARE socialism in today's world.
Achance (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 3:42PM EST (link)At one time, unions were what in Marxist terms would be the historic compromise. They gave labor the right to collectivise in the form of a union to counter capital’s right to collectivise in the form of the corporation. Where it is an economic question only, collective bargaining works; the only way the union makes money is if the company makes enough money to pay them. So, they have some mutual interests.
Where it all goes awry is when governent and politics get involved. So, Acme Enterprises is resisting being organized by the Amalgamated Widget Makers and is resisting the organization effort. The Amalgamated Widget Makers gave a bunch of money to the Governor. The AWM calls their friend the Governor who calls his hack the Commissioner of Labor and suddenly the Wage and Hour investigators and OSHA inspectors descend on Acme. Acme gets a call from the Business Manager of the AWM who tells him how easy it would be to make all those problems go away and advises him to be sure to read the morning paper. The lead article on the Daily Cage Liner is about the unsafe sweat shop Acme is running. That doesn’t have to go on long before Acme is a nice, safe unionized employer. Before long, Acme is working with the union on getting government contracts, promulgating regulations to bar entry into widget making, putting up licensure requirements for Widget Installers. It just goes on and on. And don’t even get me started on how much worse it is in the public sector.
In Vino Veritas
Unions Are Now Cartels
Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 3:29PM EST (link)They used to serve as a counter-balance to the overimpowered, but they are now just part of the Aristocracy of Pull.
” I side impenitently with the human race against the modern reformer.” – C.S. Lewis
California Radios spots for Brown
izoneguy (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 10:35PM EST (link)I am in California today for work.
Heard Jerry Brown Ads – paid for with public sector union money.
I was in Minnesota yesterday and saw a great for Michele Bachmann.
TRUTH TEST: Michele Bachmann’s First TV Ad Of Season
http://ksax.com/article/stories/S1720507.shtml?cat=10320
The ad begins by stating basic facts about Clark, then ends by making just one claim about her record in the state legislature. Jim says, “Tarryl Clark loves taxes.”
It is true that during Clark’s first year in office, 2006, Clark supported a constitutional amendment to raise the sales tax three-eighths of one percent. While voters would have ultimately decided whether to approve it, Clark did vote to put in on the ballot. As for the other four years Clark spent in the state senate, it’s true she voted to increase gas and income taxes in 2007 and 2008. In 2009, Clark voted to raise taxes on high-income earners, along with liquor and cigarette taxes. In 2010, she cast the deciding vote in favor of another high-income tax increase.
Because the ad is accurate on the limited information it gives, it gets an “A” on the Truth Test.
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
Love that Flag, LUR
Vassar Bushmills (Diary) Friday, September 3rd at 8:00AM EST (link)Gotta get some t-shirts, shoulder patches on that.
Robin Hood Tax? Are You Kidding Me?
ywhyvon1 Friday, September 3rd at 9:52PM EST (link)Nope, he actually said that.
Socialist with fork looking for Socialist with pork pie-unknown
Does anyone remember
Kudzu (Diary) Sunday, September 5th at 8:56PM EST (link)Another nation that had extremely high debt? Massive unemployment/underemployment? Political and social turmoil? All where unions drove the power of the “workers” and “progressed” towards enabling the People to have equal distribution of capital?
My tin foil is tingling
It always did take two of you to take down one of me. – Jo Bob Priddy, North Dallas Forty.
Now on at http://kudzu630.wordpress.com/
Laboring not in Camel-Not? GC's take
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Monday, September 6th at 9:20AM EST (link)http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2010/09/05/labor-day-in-camel-not/
Wondered what the LUR’s take is.
Nice post brother
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“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
"Happy" Labor Day!
jsanzone (Diary) Monday, September 6th at 2:06PM EST (link)Indeed.
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