Comments on: UPDATE III: Bar (State) Monopolies From Extortion (Reagan PATCO Remarks)

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:08:07 +0000

CAELAN – Lew Rockwell posted this article making the Wisconsin battle into one between the (evil) Koch brothers and the labor Unions:

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2011/02/krugman-explains-wisconsin-power-game.html

so this is an example of when I disagree with the Rockwellians (who often cannot distinguish between imperfect and evil or between Reagan and Stalin).

“OFF THE PIGS” – as Reagan did with PATCO was proper. I would have been upset if he tried to jail the PATCO workers – not only do I think they have a right to strike but as far as I am concerned, they are still striking. And if the Wisconsin “teachers” do not want to teach – that is fine too. What they do not have a “right” to is a monopolistic job, unlimited access to the taxpayer’s pockets, etc. The reason the OINK sector got oinky is because the politicians who should have had the taxpayer’s interest in mind sided with the tax feeders.

COLLUSION between politicians and special interests is EVIL. If it is Democratic politicians and unions, it is evil. If it is Republican politicians and certain businesses it is also evil. But give credit where credit is due when politicians actually guard the interests of the taxpayer.

By: JB

JB — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:58:21 +0000

Here in Wisconsin the observation is often made: Madison is 5 square miles of liberalism completely surrounded by reality.

By: Frank Brady

Frank Brady — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:07:19 +0000

Labor Unions are criminal gangs, licensed by Democrat politicians in exchange for union member votes. They use coercion to extort money from employers and, in the case of Public Employee Labor Unions, from the citizenry at large. That this incestuous relationship would lead to the bankruptcy of states controlled by Democrats, including Wisconsin, was inevitable. They must be abolished.

By: Stephen W. Browne

Stephen W. Browne — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:59:16 +0000

Sooner or later a state-controled economy needs a thug corps to keep the rabble (i.e. you and me) in line without overusing the uniformed police forces – who are still largely local and whose loyalty to the fed cannot be taken for granted.

SEIU members comprising mostly low-wage and illegal immigrants, and public sector unions such as AFSCME among others are potential sources of street soldiers.

SEIU beat downs of counter-demonstrators, the Black Panther voter intimidation in Philly, among other incidents seem to me to add up to what violence professionals call “the interview,” that stage of violent crime “where the criminal decides upon your suitability as a victim.”

So call me a right-wing paranoid and go back to sleep.

By: Len Cargill

Len Cargill — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 07:44:19 +0000

MY HERO!!!

By: Caelan

Caelan — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:13:41 +0000

I find it interesting that the crew at Lew Rockwell’s website have absolutely no interest in what’s happening in Wisconsin.

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:32:43 +0000

What really gets me is that when it’s a Conservative protest, like the TEA Party, the people take time off the job, come on their day off, pay their own way. But- if it is a Democrat ‘protest’ Buses are rented, people (rabble) are paid to come march. For some reason they haven’t issued them their tan uniforms yet. Reminds me of the Egypt thing, the working people there didn’t protest either.

By: Roy Bleckert

Roy Bleckert — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 04:17:01 +0000

Yep firing the PATCO patsies was the best thing Ronnie did !

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 01:58:03 +0000

Two thoughts:

(1) The Jeffersonian concept of government is to PROTECT OUR RIGHTS – hence any service that is not police/courts/defense should not be a governmental monopoly. Education, transportation, and other “services” should not be a monopoly.

(2) Probably the finest legacy of Ronald Reagan was against the monopolistic OINKers of the PATCO in the August 1981 Strike. Governors and mayors and other Presidents all caved in to Union demands but Reagan fired them all and told them not to slam the door on the way out!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Controllers_Organization_(1968)

and THAT is what needs to be done – and the problem will be mitigated by having workers performing to market standards at market rates and market compensations.

By: lonegranger

lonegranger — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:27:31 +0000

The massive corruption practiced by those in charge of the public interests has finally become irredeemable; it’s collapsing! The whole system is an illusion! What’s more fascinating are the “victims” expectations of a resolution. Both sides lived lies; both sides expect the other to yield. Maybe once the “victims” realize that there are no funds to implement their delusions and accept their demotion to the new norm, they’ll stop their cynical support for political gangsters.

Russia survived a traumatic change in their political structure and so will the US. The question is: What will the US become?

I remember some historian suggested that a society has two phases: Culture and Civilization. The Culture phase is dynamic and robust; the Civilized phase is in essence the denouement (the chickens coming to roost) where the government becomes subjective and wallows in it’s own waste.

Early in the 20th Century US society moved from being objective to being directed, for example, by the likes of Woodrow Wilson an intellectual progressive, Tristan Tsara and his Dada Manifesto, greedy financial barons, and last but not least, the chemistry inherent in the inevitable 19th Amendment to the US Constitution.

It seems that the US is in for some exciting times.

Have a nice day.