Comments on: Barry Goldwater On Coercive, Compulsory Unions

By: Myron Pauli - a NOBODY

Myron Pauli - a NOBODY — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:10:04 +0000

The “original sin” in giving labor unions coercive power is Fascist Delano Roosevelt’s Wagner (NLRB) Act:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Labor_Relations_Act. Of course, at least auto manufacturing requires WORKERS. The whining “Dealers” are the ultimate monopolistic parasites protected by statist coercion:
http://www.autosavant.com/2009/02/24/how-about-some-restructuring-in-the-auto-retail-arena/. While I feel some empathy for the pensioners who worked 30 years at the auto plants, a contract between (company) A and (retiree) B cannot be guaranteed by (taxpayer) C! In fact, that principal is a philosophical flaw in The Fountainhead movie where Roark holds the City Housing Authority to a contract that he made with Peter Keating to not change his design!

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:40:31 +0000

Powerful comment Myron. Whatever made me think that government was the answer to anything? Coercion is a good word and it seems like government is going to become more coercive as the Obama regime chugs on.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:51:50 +0000

While the US taxpayers prop up the GM auto dealers and retirees and the few active employees, US sales of Toyota, Nissan, and Honda are dropping – e.g. the parasitical sick are taking down the healthy (and superior cars). GM and the unions made unsustainable and unfunded contracts and are relying on government-mandated theft to make good. Through NADA and corrupt laws, the auto dealers maintain a monopoly to charge thousands per car rather than permit consumers to buy cars online (test drive them by renting for the weekend rather than pay a dealer $2000). Whether one labels it socialism, fascism, corporatism, mercantilism, favoritism…. it is all coercive, collectivist, THEFT. Encouraging people to scrap cars with several years on it for new cars is actually environmentally wasteful. “I do not recognize anyone’s right to one minute of my life”, said Howard Roark in the Fountainhead – and that should apply to one dime of my property as well. Nowadays, the government coerces (or nudges) us into economic decisions, debts, taxes, and currency debasement based upon the corrupt whims of bought politicians responding to whatever union, dealer’s association, bankers, retirees, ethnic group, or lobby wishes to pick the pockets of others.