Unions are a necessary evil. I have deep experience with unions so I know the downside and upside of unions. As a recent returnee to college, I studied good unionization and poor unionization.

HB1 Visas are terrible. I have never understood the argument for importing higher level skills because we don’t have it here. We don’t have CHEAP, slave wage, engineers here (although, wages for engineers is too low without HB1 Visas).

I was illegal aliened out of good wages and jobs years ago. Both parties are guilty of treason on the illegal alien issue. The demicans want voters and the republicrats want to fill a labor void. What republicrats don’t realize is that they are displacing market wages for quasi-slave wages.

Higher wages and unionists like Ceaser Chavez force industry to automate and to produce products more efficiently, while using fewer resource; unless illegal immigration is allowed.

Even though you are not a “right winger” we agree on many things.

markm

The engineers lamented that their “society” was nothing more than a shill for management.

That degree, white coat and latex gloves doesn’t assure you a livable wage. It only means they haven’t gotten to including you in the race to the bottom.

Not to worry. You’re next. A few ten thousand more Asians coming in on HB1 visas willing to compete for a job on price is all that’s standing between you and the unemployment line.

Every study of wages over the past 40 years shows that women and minorities are paid less than their white male counterparts. I guess low esteem encourages people to compete on price rather than merit and ability.

Even Cesar Chavez was against allowing undocumented workers into the country because they undercut his ability to negotiate better wages, better benefits and better conditions for his collective bargaining units.

We have the largest industrial economy in the world. Our “place” in the world economy is in producing products that require “white collars.” We are too sophisticated and advanced to be building products in old-style, dirty, and inefficient manufacturing plants. For us to survive as an economy, we must further shift to production that requires clean rooms, clean clothes, educations, and latex gloves.

We have to be on the cutting edge of automated manufacturing where workers produce products in clean environments while having the highest productiviy rates in the world. It is our lot in life!

Protectionism always harms an economy. Working smart and always increasing productivity is the key to our survival, both economically and militarily.

markm

Everybody wants government so long as somebody else is paying for it. Back in the 1950′s government built our highway system and the People whined about the gas tax and have been whining about the gas tax ever since.

More recently, our government released something called then, the super highway, that was developed with tax payer money by the Defense Department. And everybody whines about taxing the internet.

If either of our asphalt highway system or teh electronic super highway had been built with private funds, we’d all pay a toll or royalty to use these services.

Not when its government money though. The common self-aggrandizing refrain from the masses is, “I already paid for the snail-highway and the super-highway with my taxes.”

Government is corrupt alright. Corrupted by an irresponsible people demanding a free ride.

If anybody really wants to know what’s wrong in America, don’t look at government, or liberals or conservatives. Look in the mirror.

You remarked on Sussman’s show that you used simple deductive reasoning skills to create your stories. Dr. Sowell refers to different stages of thinking–as in Stage One Thinking, Stage Two, and on.

It is amazing how much information can be gleaned by asking Who, What, Why, When, or Where to any statement made by somebody.

In a top-of-the-hour network news segment on radio, the journalist loudly proclaimed that Obama had cut the budget for 2011 and that many programs would be cut or decreased in the proposed budget. The so-called journalist did not think beyond Stage One as she did not ask “how much” and “What will the deficit be for 2011″?

Answer: 15 to 20 billion in cuts and an increase in the deficit from 1.43 trillion (FY 2010) to 1.6 trillion (FY 2011). Where’s the beef? The story, in effect, was an Obama puff piece.

markm