Obama's Road To Nowhere - Mark Steyn

‘There are always going to be bumps on the road to recovery,’’ President Obama said at a Jeep plant in Toledo the other day. “We’re going to pass through some rough terrain that even a Wrangler would have a tough time with.’’ His audience booed. They’re un-fire-able union members with lavish benefits, and even they weary of the glib lines from his twelve-year-old speechwriters.
We’re not on the road to recovery. You can’t get there from here, as they say. Obama was in Toledo to “celebrate” the sale of the government’s remaining stake in Chrysler to Fiat. That’s “Fiat” as in the Italian car manufacturer rather than “an authoritative or arbitrary decree (from the Latin ‘let it be done’),” which would be almost too perfect a name for an Obamafied automobile. The Treasury crowed that Fiat had agreed to pay a whopping $560 million for the government’s Chrysler shares.

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Leftist Union Thug Attacks Conservative Dr. William Greene

"Strikes, sabotage, violent action and terrorism of every kind are not economic means. They are destructive means, designed to interrupt the movement of economic life. They are weapons of war which must inevitably lead to the destruction of society.Strikes, sabotage, violent action and terrorism of every kind are not economic means. They are destructive means, designed to interrupt the movement of economic life. They are weapons of war which must inevitably lead to the destruction of society." - Ludwig von Mises

I think some of the operative words here are "Sabotage, violent action and terrorism". Unions in general are designed to become monopoly owners of the labor market and therefore be positioned dictate to the owners of a company their terms of employment. Their actions on the compensation issues drive up the cost of labor and dramatically reduce the profit margins of the owners and investors. Sometimes, this continues until the company is driven to the point of bankruptcy and the company closes it's doors and goes out of business.

Public sector unions, like the SEIU, attempt to strong arm the government, using the same tactics as those unions in the private sector. The problem here, of course, is the company they work for never goes out of business. The profit margins are not affected. When they government gets strong armed by the public sector unions, they simply raise taxes or print more money to pay them, which in turn is passed on to the rest of us.

They think nothing of resorting to violence whenever the regular extortion methods stop working so well for them. During the town hall meetings leading up to the vote on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a young man named Kenneth Gladny was beaten and hospitalized by members of the SEIU. Violence is the favored tool of the labor union. There are hundreds, if not thousands of examples violence associated with union activity and apparently today, my friend Dr. William Greene became another.

"Get A Little Bloody" - Whose Rhetoric Is Violent, Again?

Sometimes it's necessary to get out on the streets and "get a little bloody," a Massachusetts Democrat said Tuesday in reference to labor battles in Wisconsin.Rep. Michael Capuano (D-Mass.) fired up a group of union members in Boston with a speech urging them to work down in the trenches to fend off limits to workers' rights like those proposed in Wisconsin.

"I’m proud to be here with people who understand that it’s more than just sending an email to get you going," Capuano said, according to the Dorchester Reporter.

"Every once and awhile you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary."

Political observers have been the lookout for potentially incendiary rhetoric in the wake of January's shooting in Tucson, Ariz., where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) survived an assassination attempt, six were killed, and 13 others were injured. Political rhetoric has become especially heated in Madison, Wis., where Republican Gov. Scott Walker has proposed major labor reforms that sparked more than a week's worth of rowdy protests at the state capitol.

"We take security seriously, whether it's for me, the lieutenant governor and all 132 members of the state legislature, Democrats or Republicans alike, because there's a lot of passion down here," Walker said Tuesday on MSNBC about his safety in Wisconsin.

"And particularly when we see people coming in being bussed in from other states, that's what worries us."

Capuano made his remarks before a crowd of union members in Boston, along with other members of the state's congressional delegation. Massachusetts has an influential union population that could loom large over the 2012 Senate race. Capuano is considering getting in that race to challenge Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) next fall.

“This is going to be a struggle at least for the next two years. Let’s be serious about this. They’re not going to back down and we’re not going to back down. This is a struggle for the hearts and minds of America,” Capuano told union members.

Union Led "OneNation" Rally Leaves DC Covered In Trash

Once again union thugs and the supposed environmentally conscious Democratic Party supporters have descended on Washington DC, and once again they left tons of trash in their wake. The ONE NATION rally yesterday, run by union leaders, who in turn bussed in thousands of their membership and likely paid them to be there as well, was a show of support for the policies enacted by the Democratically controlled Congress and our President. This total lack of respect for the city of DC and lack of respect for their environment is indicative of how they govern the country. They are consumed with greed, and will by any means necessary take what they want and expect others to pay for it. They are a hoard of locusts destroying everything in their path with no concern about who will clean up after them.
By comparison, when the 9/12 rally was winding down, the mall looked like this: