My Commentary on Unions

My commentary on the closure of Hostess: While I'm sad that 18,000 plus people have lost their jobs. I'm encouraged that this is one more nail in the coffin of the union movement that is already dying in America. (May unions die out as swiftly as possible) 

Unions claim to be for the "workers". However, this is how negotiations with unions almost always go. Unions strong arm employers who only have so much capital to work with. Hostess had already filed bankruptcy in 2004. Union bosses seem to have no math skills and continues to push for more than Hostess has. Hostess warns them that they will have to close their doors if the unions will not be reasonable. Union bosses refuse to negotiate and threaten to strike instead. Hostess has no choice. They close their doors. All 18,000+ workers (people with families going into Thanksgiving and Christmas) lose their jobs while the union bosses continue to draw their salaries and keep their pensions and I

'm sure will have a wonderful holiday season and lose no sleep over destroying almost 20,000 families.

The so called "working person" they supposedly represent will suffer and Hostess will sell off their assets to someone smart enough not to hire union workers and will prosper, but those union (and non-union) workers will go into the holiday season without a paycheck. Way to go unions!!! Way to care about your workers!!! NOT!!!

I'm not railing against those who have been duped or strong-armed into joining a union. You just want to provide for your families and in many states you must be in the union to find work. No. I'm railing against the arrogant, uncaring union bosses and the union organizations themselves. How they can ever claim that they represent the working man I will never understand. They pit worker against employer when they should be working as a team. Everywhere I look in America right now, I see someone pitting one group against another and no one coming together. We have become more divided than ever and I'm sick of trusting people being hurt because they have been misrepresented and lied to. Union leaders are absolutely corrupt and all unions need to be done away with in this man's opinion. If you disagree, that's fine. I see unions only raising the cost and proficiency of doing business. I see unions intimidating their rank and file. I see unions not living up to what they have promised their members and ruining people's lives.

I know many fine people who are union members. But enough is enough. When is it going to be your union and your job? Believe me, you are not exempt from the idiocy which is the union leadership. I pray your job remains secure, but I don't see how with fiscally impaired individuals running these unions and ruining the lives of the union members and their families. That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.

Until Later...

Don

Reason for the Petition To Secede

It has come to my attention that some have misunderstood the petition for secession as a hatred for our country. Nothing could be further from the truth and those who post things like that are simply misinformed. Those who have signed petitions are those who deeply love this country and hate to see it following the way of Vladimir Lenin and Karl Marx. It is a cry out to our federal government to please listen. No one really wants to separate from America, but our nation needs to chart a different course or the United States of America as we know it will cease to exist and terrible things are on the horizon. Thomas Jefferson said, "What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?" 

So, what do we really want from the petition? We want the issues that are destroying our nation to be taken seriously. Signing a petition does NOT in itself split a state from the nation. This petition is simply to get enough signatures to make the White House respond to these issues. That's what this is about. It's NOT a return to the Confederacy or anything of the sort. It is a peaceful petition to hear us and finally do what has not been done in the past 4 years. We are heading towards a cliff at a rapid speed. The President and Congress need to stop playing games and fix things.

The main issue is that this government has basically thrown the Constitution to the side and is ruling as a dictator. If Congress will not pass what this President wants, he rules through executive order. This must not continue!!! The issues at hand are the escalating national debt. The congress must pass a balanced budget that begins to pay down the ridiculous debt. We MUST stop borrowing from places like China because we spend more than we bring in. We need a business environment where the private sector can once again create jobs. The federal government cannot create jobs. They can however stifle the ability for the private sector to create jobs. We must stand up for religious liberties and stop forcing those of faith to do things which fly in the face of their religious convictions. We need to lower the cost of health care, not force everyone into expensive health insurance plans. We must not burden the citizenry with higher taxes. We must protect the lives of every citizen including the unborn.

This is not a complete list, but it is a good start. This is what we want answered. This is what we want done. That's what the petition is about. Texas is already a Republic. That status was never removed. We are simply reminding the White House that things need to start improving because we have other options. We do not need to go down the road of the former Soviet Union. We need to return to the rule of the Constitution.

Now I think I'm done with political commentary for a while and will return to my true love. Promoting the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

God bless you. God bless The United States of America and God bless Texas.

Until Later,

Don