Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians.
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The most fundamental fact about labor unions is that they do not create any wealth. They are one of a growing number of institutions which specialize in siphoning off wealth created by others, whether they are businesses or the taxpayers.
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At one time, U.S. Steel was the largest steel producer in the world and General Motors the largest automobile manufacturer. Not any more. Their unions were riding high in their heyday, but they too discovered that there is no free lunch, as their members lost jobs by the hundreds of thousands.
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While oil could replace coal, while U.S. Steel dropped from number one in the world to number ten, and Toyota could replace General Motors as the world’s leading producer of cars, government is a monopoly. Nobody is likely to replace the federal or state bureaucracies, no matter how much money the unions drain from the taxpayers.That is why government unions continue to thrive while private-sector unions decline. Taxpayers provide their free lunch.
The creation of wealth, or lack thereof, and the ramifications involved — it’s fascinating how so many of our progressive friends remain ignorant of these crucial concepts. Many of them boast impressive educational credentials, and you’d better believe that means something, because if you ever forget they’ll remind you. But if you just listen to them distinguish “private sector” and “public sector” a little while, it becomes apparent they haven’t a clue.
The most usual pattern is that they’ll happen upon some talking point about what wonderful programs some government agency is enforcing and what disenfranchised oppressed minority is being helped — that makes the agency wonderful, therefore all the people working within it are wonderful. I often wonder if any of these people have visited a government agency to see all the billowy passion that radiates down to the lowliest copy-making worker bee and positively electrifies the entire setting so you can feel the excitement cackling in the air…as some gender-ambiguous version of Ferris Bueller’s math teacher drones away on the loudspeaker “now serving…A-119…window…fifteen…”
Meanwhile, you just know the businesses are evil because they work for — (one eye starts to twitch uncontrollably) — PRRROOOFFFFFFFFFIIIIIITTTTTT!!!
As far as the real difference, the creation of wealth. Even our highly intelligent left-wingers, and yes there are some. The worldly, the well-traveled, the well-read, the erudite. Not. A. Single. Fucking. Clue. Just talk to them a little while about it. Focus on that one point, and see what they know. Or not.
Just amazing.
They’ll just go through the usual ritual, paint themselves into a corner and start looking for an out. So get ready to be called a racist teabagger.
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