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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

When Libs Say They Want "Free Choice"...

regarding abortion, we know what they mean. And the results are not good.

There is another type of "Free Choice" that Libs are pushing and the results from that are likely to be not good, either.

In this case it is the "Employee Free Choice Act", which according to Bernie Marcus (who has well-demonstrated his business acumen), will eliminate most, if not all, take away an employees right to a "secret ballot" in union elections. [I thought Libs were big on "privacy", but I guess it is only when it suits their needs.] We know the history of unions and what the lack of a secret ballot means regarding dissenting voices. I don't need to draw you a picture.

What it also may do, in the words of Marcus is:

..."give unions the option to have federal arbitrators set the wages, benefits, hours and all other terms and conditions of employment."...

By some definitions, this is fascism - federal control with private ownership - or at best Socialism Lite.

As it stands, the Senate with its artificially imposed 60-vote threshold has been the major roadblock to passage of this bill previously, though it likely would have been vetoed by President Bush. If the Dems pick up enough Senate seats, with Obama, Pelosi, and Reid, it will sail through with the economic and business efficiency of a runaway torpedo.

[A minor caveat here, I am not anti-union, I believe they are a part of our series of checks-and-balances and some unions have a history of good behavior. But we also know the history of the bad players and their thuggish tactics towards independent thinkers and business owners. The bottom line is that the union does not sign the paycheck and while local unions may be concerned about the health of their prospective industry, the national union hierarchy is more interested in power and its trappings.]

According to Bernie Marcus, even George McGovern recognizes that this is a bad bill.

Another aspect of an Obama victory - with Senate gains for the Dems - is that if talk radio is silenced by the "Fairness Doctrine" and (as predicted), that doctrine is extended to the internet, how will dissenters get the message out to the American people - about this bad piece of legislation as well as others?

The Dems constantly cry about the Bush Administration "exporting jobs", something that has been going on for a while, without recognizing (or admitting) that government micromanagement is one of the things that drives businesses overseas (or south across the Mexican border). Increased micromanagement (including Carbon Taxes of any form) is only going to make it worse.

The vast majority of Democrat Senators and Representatives (and a goodly number of Republicans) have probably never had to meet a payroll nor concern themselves with running a profitable business. That also goes for John McCain, but at least he knows the benefits of his wife's business acumen. The growth of that particular Anheuser Busch distributor is not just a function of the national advertising for Bud and Bud Light.

So for a few more days, we have to suffer through the lies of the DNC speakers that decry the "failed policies" of the last eight years, while never acknowledging Congress' role in making business-unfriendly regulations and policies.

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