Archive for February, 2010

Feb 28 2010

Live Free Or Die

Posted by: Not The Only One in Free State Project, Civil Rights, Labor, Economics, Personal

If you live in a blue state like I do, you are undoubtedly beaten down with rules and taxes; rules which make living more difficult and expensive and taxes and fees which only increase the financial burden.

As a native New Yorker, I’ve seen things go from bad to worse.  Both my home city and state are good examples of a kleptocracy, where the state is run by people who are socially conservative and economically liberal and the city is run by people who are socially liberal and economically liberal, but not socially liberal in the sense that would allow for any kind of observance of civil rights.  Government is as expansive and as expansive as you can imagine, except no liberal goals are actually being met.  Modern-day liberal milestones like gay marriage and legalized medical marijuana do not exist here.  (more…)

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Feb 03 2010

UAW Bums Should Not Be So Smug

Posted by: Not The Only One in Media, History, Labor, Economics

In this day and age where news commentary often dwarfs actual news reporting, it’s hard to not see union spokespeople on television grinning ear to ear as Toyota launches a massive worldwide recall of over four million Camrys and Corollas.  United Auto Workers reps have been more than happy to appear on all major networks and news channels to suggest that Toyota’s failure to catch their defective parts before the cars left the factories because the company’s nonunion workers were “not committed to the product” because the company was “not committed to them”.

These union flunkies are capitalizing on the collective short-term memory of the American public.  Say what you want about Toyota, but they never received a bailout from Congress because for the last 30 years they have been manufacturing automobiles that Americans actually want to drive.  While car makers around the world have seen a loss in sales in the last few years, it was the Big Three that have been hemorrhaging red ink since the 70s. (more…)

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