Dear Anti Walker Protester,
Unions once served a purpose and were given the privilege to collectively bargain. They abused that privilege profusely. Can you honestly tell me that someone whose history went from helping to end child labor to associating itself with Jimmy Hoffa and the thugocracy called the Teamsters is not corrupt? Or that Unions have not hurt our country? Take a look at Detroit. How well did the unionized city do? Chrysler? GM? Ford? How well are they doing? How can you be okay working for a unionized business? A business that pays based on seniority rather than work ethic! All Walker did was what was best for the people of WI. The fact that they tried to interrupt the legislative process shows how much they really care about working together; not to mention those Senators who fled and are still AWOL.
Really think about it. You know your state is broke, so is the rest of the country. Trying to tell me otherwise would be ignorant.
You probably don't want to use auto industries as an example considering the companies that replaced American autos were even more unionized (you don't know the history of Honda, Toyota, or anything coming out of Europe, this is basic information here).
ReplyDeleteWhat truly doomed the auto companies was being saddled with health insurance costs due to the lack of UHC. Unlike all other foreign auto companies, American auto companies had to provide the employee's health benefits ( this is where you show your total lack of understanding regarding health insurance by trying to state that utilizing larger pools of people through employee plans doesn't work (as if to say saving money through efficiency to spend on other things does not work)). Saddling companies with health insurance rather than implementing UHC tends to do that.
On top of that, it was not the unions that disassembled R&D and design departments within the companies. That was strictly a call by upper management due to the idea that it is more important to fund outsourcing and focusing on short term gains versus long term growth.
In the end, heavily unionized motor companies from overseas countries with UHC provided more advanced and streamlined products at better prices due to maintaining investment rather than chasing short term growth through cost cuts in R&D and design.
Now tell me how unions turned Xerox, TI and Kodak from household leaders in their industries to bottom of the barrel peripherals reduced to specific marginal fields despite not being unionized while taking the same management route as American Auto companies. Tell me that it wasn't the closing of Alto facility that removed Xerox from home printing.
90 percent of federal Debt to GDP is hardly high and it is most certainly managable so long as inflationary rates are maintained. There is a huge debate right now if we're even experiencing anything more than 1 percent inflation though and that is bad. it means if the the growth of the money supply stalls, the US will have a hard time paying the money back. If we hit deflationary numbers, as a push for Austerity is supposed to do, it will cripple the US for a short amount of time and make it that much harder to pay off the debt.
ReplyDeleteDon't ever forget that 5 of the 14 trillion budget debt came from Bush tax cuts, another 3 came from Iraq, and then another 5 trillion from Reagan (when adjusting for inflation). Don't ever forget that.
If you don't want that high of a debt, don't vote republican, I guess.