Now is the Time to Dismantle All Unions
If there were an organization today forcing people to pay into a fund to help slaves escape from Southern plantations, you would rightly ask, "In this day and age, why is such an organization even necessary." Certainly there is no longer slavery in America, and there ain't no blacks seeking sanctuary from Simon Legree.
Even more outrageous, imagine that this organization uses those funds to lobby state legislatures and the US Congress to keep those enforcements in place. Whatever usefulness the Underground Railroad provided, it has long since been made moot by progress.
I will not argue here whether unions were ever useful, my own position is that they were always counter-productive to both the employees and the industries they eventually destroyed. My argument is that today, there is absolutely no use for unions, and if there ever were some utility it has long passed into obsolescence.
Unions today spend more money keeping their rotten corpse alive through thuggery, make-work jobs, compulsory unionism, and lobbying than on helping employees learn new job skills or cope with unemployment. They are industry killers. They killed the railroad industry, the textile industry and lately, but for a $50 billion federal bailout, the automobile industry in Detroit.
Unions are filled with vicious thugs who cannot retain their current membership without political graft, violence, and corruption [see a revealing article on union thuggery at the Blaze here].
But worse than their destruction of American industries is their thwarting of potential, future industries. For example, in my article Michael Moore and what killed GM, I reported that Michael Moore suggested that GM, instead of making cars, should be building bullet trains just like the ones in Japan. Here is my response to his suggestion:
That's hilarious! Excuse me, you poor, deluded moron: the reason we don't have bullet trains in America is because of Unions. Unions do not want trains to go from New York to Florida in less than six hours; they want it to take 24 hours so that 3 shifts of workers can be feather-bedded.
If you see a politician who supports a specific union, you can bet money that he is corrupt and has been bribed by that union.
Long ago, one could honestly say, “What’s good for General Motors is good for America.” But the United Auto Workers turned that into a laughable slogan.
