As you probably know, the people of NJ have been subservient... some might even say at least partially enslaved... to the same master for some time now. That master is the labor unions. Political parties come and go, but until Chris Christie (a name we now say in my house with a substantial degree of reverence) no one and I mean NO ONE, stood up to the unions.
They didn't dare. The unions voted as a block. Their members all received the same continual class warfare indoctrination and believed that taking from those who earned it and giving to those who didn't was just fine ... so long as they were on the receiving end. They manipulated the labor laws and political contribution legislation to gain massive economic advantage over other groups, and used that to influence elections. The public official who offended the unions would see their competitor gain a big advantage in contributions from union PACs.
They were the power behind every throne; the force behind every battle. They made the rules of the game then played the game as well. They made institutionalized envy a fixture in NJ's public policy debate.
We're on to them now, and that great hero of the humble tax payer, Chris Christie, is finally pushing back against the worst abuses of big labor. The unions, particularly the civil service unions, were a parasite that was bleeding the host nearly dry. And now finally, it seems he's managing to turn the corner on the worst of NJ's problems from big labor.
Now it's the federal government's turn. But if there is one thing you can say about Barak Obama, it's that he's no Chris Christie. On the contrary, Barak Obama has always been a product of the unions efforts to enslave the rest of the country as they have NJ. He's the figure head - the sock puppet, carefully fitted over the hand of big labor. He's the president from central casting, if central casting had been taken over by the AFL-CIO. He was presented as the post racial, post partisan president; totally above the usual political fray, and concerned only with the working class and ensuring 'redistributive justice'.
Many of us are on to the union's game now. The image of Obama from the election has fallen away and we can now see that the man behind the curtain is the same old infantile, economically illiterate Democrat we've grown accustomed to. And the while we used to ask what a 'community organizer' actually does, we now know that radicalizes victim groups and divides people by race and class to try and gain a personal political advantage. He's an empty suite - delivered to America by the labor unions and their vast political treasure chests.
His popularity has fallen now that people see what he really is, but the unions haven't given up. The civil service unions are the biggest spenders in this election cycle, by quite a lot. And to get the country back on track after this election cycle is won, we'll need to implement legislation to prevent civil servants from organizing into unions. We will also need to take the rest of the teeth out of the worlds of US labor law that has driven so many production jobs overseas.
Eliminating the unions is to make America more of a meritocracy. Merit is a better way to reward people than union politics, politically motivated wealth redistribution. But that's in the long term. In the short term we just need to keep shining light on the cockroaches.
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We can only hope that the Tea Party "Radicals" rally to a repeal of the statutory "labor exemption" in the Clayton Act, along with a strong enough statement of legislative intent that undercuts judical application of the labor exemption in areas where statutory antitrust laws do not apply. The proof that Unions are in restraint of trade and harmful to economic progress lies in the present condition of Detroit.
Gee Rob, you think anyone will be able to guess your career choice from a comment like that? (lol)
Thanks for the specifics though. That's the kind of thing I'll pull out of my hat in the middle of an argument to stop some liberal in their tracks.
I'll pretend it's all my idea of course.
Sometimes I flaunt it, just to irritate ;)
As it stands now, so long as a union acts unilaterally and in its own interest, it immune from claims its conduct restrains trade. This was not always the case. Before the 1914 Clayton Act and the 1932 Norris Laguardia Act, "a combination of laborers to obtain a raise in wages was itself a prohibited monopoly" under the Sherman Act.
Ascribing monopoly status to trade unions did not effectively end until Norris Laguardia - passed March 23, 1932. The DJIA chart really seemed to like this dandy piece of legislation. Triple top in early March, as it came out of committee, then the luge run begins yet again.
If you pull repeal of the Clayton labor exemption out to a hard laborit, get ready for exploding heads.
Interesting - looking at DJIA chart for March 1932. The last top is March 8 before the last leg down to the depression bottom.
4 were killed when police fired on 3,000 unemployed workers marching at the Ford River Rouge plant on March 7. The market probably knew Norris Laguardia passage was a forgone conclusion within 1 1/2 days of the River Rouge incident.
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