Can't anyone connect the dots? Watch the news on any channel and the news is the same. All these cities that are having to go bankrupt have exactly the same problem. You don't know what that problem is? Unions. Unions are just like the mafia figures that you watch in the movies only they are real and are extorting your tax money rather than the lunch money from small businesses. What unions have found is that their members have no soul and no love for this country. They only look at their personal appitite. The unions play into this mind set and extort money from weak kneed polititians. It is not their money so why should they care. In a business, it is the owner's money and they work to protect it. That is not the case in the public sector. Once a union gets so strong that they can put their elected official across the table from them, the party is over. The gate to the tax payer's money is "open". That is what this is all about. We have become so personally selfish that we have become stooges for the union organizers. We have become simple prostitutes with a very low price.
Watch the news and see what is happening in community after community. It is the teachers, the policemen, the firemen. For some reason these people who were once sitting next to you in grade school have become monsters and are killing this country with their greed. Business men are not killing us, it is the unions and the union mentality that is killing us. My problem is that I do not see any way to turn it around. Even at the depths of the great depression, unions grew. I do not understand my fellow man. In the union greed, they are killing the goose that layed the golden eggs. It is that simple.
I am a systems man and know that some times a system has to hit bottom before it can be restarted back on the right track. The problem is that once a system hits bottom, there is no garrantee that it will restart on the right track and that is my concern. The problem that I have is that many of the people who I thought I knew hold these same strange notions that union members hold. It maybe that we have all become, in our minds, victims. I used to think that only Blacks saw them selves as victims, but now it seem anyone who does not have every thing they want is some how a victim. I have blogged on this before. To be a victim, some one or some system has to be making you a victim, but who is that? We seem to be going down a rat hole. It is clear that we, as a country and as individuals, have spent more than we have earned for the past 25 years. When we look at the national debit, it is not the government that has the problem, it is us who have the problem. We consumed more than we produced. We are the ones who ate the steak and have not paid for it. We are the problem. Our greed and our desire for a free lunch are the problem and until we admit to that, there will be not fix. Again, it is that simple.
