I copied this from another website and I like it. What do you think about what he says?
It's time for straight talk. Here's Larry Winget's opinion.
I am sick of listening to the politicians blow smoke up my skirt saying that Americans are the hardest working people on the planet. They are simply pandering to our emotions and our sense of patriotism about what great people we are. That’s a load of crap. American workers are NOT the hardest working people on the planet. Read a little. Watch some educational television. Travel some. You will quickly find out that the American worker is about the laziest worker on the planet. For the most part, workers do just enough to squeeze by. Tell them that you have a problem with how little effort they put out and the crappy job they are doing and they will contact their union rep and file a grievance. Yep, I am taking on labor unions too. Originally, they were a great idea. They were formed to protect the American worker from abuse. But folks, this ain’t a hundred years ago. Working conditions are not what they used to be. Your rights aren’t being violated by expecting you to actually do what you were hired to do and are being paid to do. Now labor unions exist not to make sure that workers are treated fairly and to stop abuse but to put the squeeze on companies for every dollar they can to the point that the company can no longer be profitable or compete globally. Want to know why we ship so many jobs overseas? One of the reasons is labor unions. Highly skilled people, who are willing to work harder than people in our country are willing to work (and for less money, I know) and don’t belong to a union that has management by the short hairs. (Of course the situation is more complex than that but this is a rant, not a thesis.) In few cases does America produce the highest quality product and almost never is it done at the lowest price.
Am I anti-American? Some of you will read this and think so. Nothing could be more wrong. I am very PRO-American. But I’m not so wild about what we have let happen to our great country. GREED. A lack of INTEGRITY. LIES. IMMORALITY. Not the kind of immorality that the fundamentalists talk about. I’m talking about the morality that is based in doing the RIGHT thing. The thing that has nothing to do with religion or politics. Instead, it’s the thing you know in your heart is right because it just IS. You don’t have to ask, you don’t have to think about who will win and who will lose, you don’t have to wonder about the repercussions or consequences, you just KNOW it’s the right thing. And because you know it is the right thing, you do it. That is real morality.
posted by island602
We heard it in the 60's and the 70's. Self-criticism means you're unpatriotic. Blaming others for our own weaknesses is easier than jumping in and fixing the problem.
It's Fear versus Hope. And when fear doesn't work and things get worse, change comes.
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posted by vamunchkin
There's a little clothing manufacturer in our town, and it's non-union. It has survived all the economic ups and downs because the workers understand decreased hours, or small Christmas bonuses, in order to keep the doors open and their jobs intact. Union leaders are no better than the CEO's of major companies. They collect huge paychecks while watching their union members being laid-off as their jobs are sent overseas. I remember 40 years ago, my father-in-law refusing to join the printer's union where he worked. Every month they'd send a rep to talk to him, and every month he'd tell them he wasn't interested. He told them, he did the job he was paid to do, he didn't need to pay a union for something he already had. They told him if he joined the union he could be a foreman. He told them he liked the job he had, it paid him a good salary, and he wanted nothing to do with being foreman. He was with that company until he retired and never did join the union! We should all be paid for the work we actually do, not be given pay because that's the union wage for that job. Unions do not reward hard workers. They reward the workers who punch the time clocks each day, regardless of the quality or quantity of work they actually do.
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