By Oscar Y. Harward
As we review the economic status of today in America, we must see that Labor Unions have and are destroying our private, commercial base. Unions have made demands for additional salaries, wages, and benefits to the point that manufacturing businesses can no longer compete in the worldwide economy. This is why so many jobs, and specifically manufacturing, have left America for friendlier environments.
The largest Labor Unions left are for service workers, such as Service Employees International Union (SEIU), in government. Labor Unions have demanded too excessively as these employees now receive some 28% more salaries and benefits than equal jobs in the private sector. Additionally, Labor Unions’ demands in salaries, wages, and benefits have stretched the taxpayers’ pay checks to the limits.
From the U.S Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, “In 2010, among full-time wage and salary workers, union members had median usual weekly earnings of $917, while those who were not represented by unions had median weekly earnings of $717” http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm.
Even today, with our U.S. economy on the brink of bankruptcy, Labor Unions are not conceding. It is as if Labor Unions are willing to annihilate America and our economy rather than to compromise a little to save our nation.
President Obama and most Democrats on Capitol Hill and across America are intent on continuing with the out-of-control spending in support of all Labor Unions’ requests and demands. Most Republicans on Capitol Hill and across America are attempting to save America, our economy, our Constitution, and all the freedoms within.
To save America’s economy, businesses must have lower taxes, less government interference, qualified employees at competitive salaries and benefits, and be allowed to make a profit in the world economy. American businesses and taxpayers are Taxed Enough Already (TEA). With these issues resolved, America manufacturing will come back.
Over the past three to four decades, many Presidents, members on Capitol Hill, and many other states and local governments have become out-of-control big spenders. In doing so, grants have become a way of elected members to spend taxpayers’ monies and then to receive the votes for the candidates’ re-elections. A massive number of taxpayers’ grants in thousands of dollars have become millions of dollars. A massive number of grants in millions have become billions of dollars. A massive number of grants in billions have become trillions of dollars, and it goes on and on. Our U.S. treasury is near default as most of our 50 states. Now, California, the richest of the richest and many other states, are considering asking the American taxpayer to bail out their own state’s created out-of-control financial disasters.
We have reached a point where each and every American must take a look at himself/herself and decide as to whether he/she is willing to sacrifice in order for America to survive. It is a choice for you and I. Will America choose greed or liberty?
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