Yeah, the quote Junior Bush couldn’t get right. Kay at Balloon Juice writes that Indiana is still busting unions relentlessly. after taking down the public sector unions, Mitch Daniels and the legislature have been pushing right-to-work laws to bust the private sector unions. And the song and dance is that busting unions will attract business to Indiana and grow jobs and increase wages, blah blah blah.
That was what they said about dismantling rights of the public sector unions also. There’s no evidence that it worked.
Mitch 1.0 was the prototype.
And, so far, has had some decent success – for the powers of darkness and evil, not of light and decency.
The successors to Mitch 1.0, the newer mode’s, Kasich 1.0, Walker 1.0, were surprisingly not as well received, and actually met resistance.
Maybe because, like certain MicroSoft products, the flaws in the earlier Mitch 1.0 model were exposed and were there for everyone to see, and rather than fix or tweak them, the Conservatives decided to sell those flaws to buyers as a feature, rather than a bug. Instead, they seem to have proven this old axiom: “You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can’t…” well, you know the rest!
But the sad and unfortunate thing for this country is, all it’ll take in 2012 and in future elections, is one fool over 50%. And we may be facing many shortages in the near and distant future – but I don’t think fools will be one of them…
And if everyone was paid minimum wage we could have no unemployment. Are people not able to connect the dots between 1)get rid of unions so that 2) wages and benefits can be lowered so that 3) employers can hire more people. Only #3 never happens, instead we vault over to 4) employers pocket the extra money while pressing for more productivity from the workers so they can make even more money.
I always found that misstatement from Chimpy McStagger very telling. It wasn’t that he forgot the saying he was trying to repeat, but his prickly ego and arrogant, I’m-never-wrong mentality wouldn’t allow him to even say the phrase “shame on me”.
I take a quick look around the world and discover that the lower the wage in a country the higher the unemployment and strange enough the higher the wage the lower the unemployment. Why believe what these people say when its so easy to check. These fools are destroying America.
That makes sense when you understand that workers with money in their pockets are more likely to buy stuff, thereby driving up demand for stuff, thereby increasing jobs.
The titans of industry in the U.S. seem to think the population consists of a pool of consumers and a pool of workers. They don’t grasp that the consumers and the workers are the same people, and that when they all squeeze their workers they are draining the consumer pool as well.
maha,
Here, from Steve B and WaMo, is a guy who does get it:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_12/raise_nick_hanauers_taxes033863.php
Let’s see what the right does to discredit this guy for speaking the truth.
I hope he’s ready for all of the Flying Monkey’s coming his way soon.
That was what they said about dismantling rights of the public sector unions also. There’s no evidence that it worked.
Evidence? Proof denies faith, and without faith conservatism is nothing.