[FR thread] Scott Walker Stands By Claim Reagan's Union-Busting Was 'Most Significant' Foreign Policy Decision
Posted on 03/02/2015 12:15:56 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
[FR thread] Scott Walker Stands By Claim Reagan's Union-Busting Was 'Most Significant' Foreign Policy Decision
Wow. Walker sounds pretty awesome.
“SEIU, for example, was one of the Wisconsin unions in 2011 that got their teeth kicked in.”
....and they filed and unfair labor practice lawsuit because kicking teeth in is THEIR job.
This author is a douche. I am not part of the 1% and I despise unions. I hope he gets elected and makes fedgov unions illegal as they should be. I can just imagine the whining now.
This union activist, aka a journalist, is trying to mimic and roll back Ronald Reagan's success.
This is a good read: The GE Years: What Made Reagan Reagan ".....A slick monthly magazine often tied Reagan’s GE Theater news to ideological messages. And a defense quarterly, featuring GE’s efforts in the field, was enhanced by commentary from leading experts (e.g. well-known academics and occasional Cabinet officials) on military and geopolitical matters. The evidence is compelling that Reagan read all of these. The frequent question periods after his talks with GE workers insured that he would be asked about them. They influenced his foreign policy as well as his domestic views. An article in the defense quarterly presaged the Reagan Doctrine and contains the earliest mention of what later became the strategic defense initiative.
The subject matter of the publications ranged from narrow employment issues (“How Big Are General Electric Profits – Are They Too Big?” “Why the company can expect union officials to ‘demand’ a strike from them”) to broader economic concerns (“Let’s Learn from Britain”--which concerned the failures of socialism and a government-run medical profession--and “What is Communism? What is Capitalism? What is the Difference to You?”). The folly of many government programs and the negative consequences of burdensome taxation were frequent topics. The book clubs of employees and their spouses spent thirteen weeks discussing Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt or How You Really Earn Your Living by Lewis Haney and other conservative offerings.
In time, Lemuel Boulware and GE CEO Ralph Cordiner mounted a national grass roots campaign, recruiting major corporate allies, creating schools where GE employees and others could learn the fundamental political skills to win elections, developing shareholder lists for political mailings, and turning GE workers into “communicators” and “mass communicators” (Boulware’s words) who could spread the message of free persons and free markets to a decisive number of local voters. In the course of this Ronald Reagan was taken out of the plants and put on what he called “the mashed potato circuit” of civic forums largely in the south and smaller states, often towns where GE dominated the economy, where he would be most effective. In due course, the “great communicator” was born. In today’s parlance, most of these states turned from blue to red......"
Julie would disagree -- Watch [and giggle] 3 minutes of a confused liberal, who wonders why there were STAND WITH WALKER lawn signs in poor neighborhoods, then she gets into guns and religion.....
Some of Reagan's main themes and source of his success:
Lower taxes
Face down unions
End the Cold War [SDI]
And we all knew he loved America!
Scott Walker is cut from the same cloth.
all those words come down to this.” For example, Walker’s anti-union laws have reduced union membership in Wisconsin by 50 percent since he defeated the “Wisconsin Uprising” in 2011, a battle victory that the super rich consider more heroic than the campaigns of any current military general.”
People opted out. They weren’t forced. All the arguments in the world can’t get past that.
Spot on!
The GOLD STAR take away.
The rank and file removed the chains of union bosses. They voted. They keep their money. They earn their jobs. The economy grows. Dependence on government weakens.
I had to supervise Union thugs (Teamsters) for decades before moving on.
There is typically a percentage of whom are absolutely devoted to that gang of rogues who simply refuse to behave reasonably or rationally consistently. The threat of violence, usually against non conforming ‘brothers’ is enduring. Most members in my experience are regular working people who simply pay their dues and get their work done.
For those few, the union is akin to their religion, and they are absolute cultists.
More frightening to me however is the union movement in the public sector. These groups are fundamentally undermining the country with their antics but mostly their completely unsustainable benefits and pension plans.
There is absolutely no valid reason that government employees should be involved with organized labor. Politicians who agree to deal with these groups should be tarred and feathered.
bttt!
...........Getting back to those pesky facts, it is important to keep updating the progress of real per capita disposable personal income, per capita GDP, and total GDP over the course of the Reagan and Obama administrations......
Do these people not notice Detroit?
This Ronald Reagan speech is as true today as it was in 1964.
the real issue is, the one the people leaching off the workers refuse to admit, is that unions have succeeded. If you agree with that premise then theres no reason for their jobs. If there are no jobs for them there are no perks to hand out.
Theres no doubt ( though some here have argued otherwise) that there was a time and place for unions. Look no further than coal miners. There are laws protecting workers here that no politician will ever overturn. In truth theres still a need for unions but not in this nation. Try Pakistan or China or India. In this nation they did their job. Now they’re overstaying their welcome.
CPAC the 1%?
Somehow I doubt it.
The folks who own the Democrat party?
Yeah. That’s the 1%.
wow!!!!
Do these people not notice what has happened to NJ?
I have no problem with private sector workers organizing; that is their right, and they reap the benefits (and consequences) of exercising that right. I have a huge problem with government employees strangling the taxpayers (and eventually the whole state); too often they themselves don’t pay for that damage directly, while the state dies a slow death.
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