UNIONS....THE DESTROYERS

In the private sector of our economy, nearly everything union has been, or is being destroyed. A large part of our auto industry and its suppliers has collapsed, with the help of the UAW, in the face of foreign imports, leaving that industry near rock-bottom. Today, Boeing and the state of South Carolina are threatened by Boeing's machinists union and the National Labor Relations Board.


Nearly everything union is destroying all of us who are non-union....that means the greatest majority of us. In the name of taking all that they can for themselves, at the expense of mostly non-union citizens, jobs have left many of our states, excessive pensions are under-funded, legislators remain addicted to spending money they don't have and public employee unions continue to demand more of it.

Unions have become nothing less than just another big business. Worse yet, unions produce nothing! Unions are consumers who exist today for the primary purpose of demanding more money and benefits from all of us. Their achievements are paid not by the companies who are extorted, but by the end-users of the products manufactured by those companies. Considering present circumstances, is it really in our individual best interests to buy union-made goods? I suspect it may be….if you're a union member.

Remember, every time unions have achieved major increases in pay and benefits, non-union citizens found themselves with less purchasing power. By the time the rest of us caught up with prices, the unions were demanding more pay and better benefits, starting the cycle all over again. A perfect excuse for the rest of us to join unions, right? We could have thereby expedited the exodus of jobs from our states and bankrupted our economy twenty years earlier.

It most certainly is not in our best interests to allow public sector employee unions to dictate to the citizens who must pay for the excesses allowed to them by our pandering and weak-willed politicians. Is YOUR PENSION, guaranteed by a state constitution....by the citizens of your state? Unless you’re a teacher or public employee, I don't think so. It's way past time to amend our state constitutions to eliminate this ridiculous burden on taxpayers who will be stuck with the bill for the under-funded pensions of teachers and other public employees.

It's time teachers and public employees were using 401k and similar programs, like the rest of us who pay the freight....paying all the while our kids receive VERRRRY low quality educations in our public schools. There is no valid excuse for constitutionally guaranteed pensions for teachers, or anyone else for that matter. Just shows us all how corrupt our governments have become....suckling at the breast of the NEA.

It should be noted that a large percentage of school teachers retire when they are 52 or so because they can buy years of service. Many are retired longer than they actually worked. Many teachers 'got drunk' on the good times of the last 50 years and it’s time for them to 'sober up'. The effects of their overindulgence have devastated our once-great public education systems....K-12 and universities, alike.

Further, it's about time that we give all of the other unions a reason to sober up. There are way too many options available to us to have to settle for high prices resulting from continuing union demands for more and more at the expense of anyone on the other end of the transaction.