Ive said it before, I will say it again, the Unions are killing America.

DETROIT — (AP) The United Auto Workers has set a deadline of 11 a.m. Wednesday to agree on a new contract with Chrysler LLC or workers

I’ve said it often enough… Unions are killing America.

Here’s yet another example.

Interesting note from Russell Roberts, in the Los Angeles Times: (Not exactly a right-wing outlet…)

LABOR UNIONS’ importance in the workplace has fallen steadily since 1950, when roughly a third of American workers were unionized. Today, that number is

Me at Q&O  just now…

I have always seen the union as the core of the issues with domestic automakers. I submit that the quickets and most efficient way to get GM back in the black and on a growth

Interesting site, LaborPains.ORG.

They make a few points, today:

• Union membership is down to 7.4 percent of private sector employees and down to 12 percent overall (government employees are highly unionized, at a rate of 36.2 percent) – that’s down

Since today is supposedly a day in celebration of unions, and since my position on unions is fairly well known, perhaps I should make an effort to catalog some of our comments about them in the past.

Unions are Killing

Welcome one and all to the most intense nightly read on the ‘sphere… Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble

Snow, freezing rain, grey skies, just plain yuck, miserable driving, freezing my cheeks off… yep. Gotta be the holiday season. I know I’ve not

So says MSNBC, this morning. 

At some point, we’re going to accept what I’ve been saying for years; The unions are killing America.

So American auto companies have been struggling for these last twenty years, trying to keep things afloat, and usually not succeeding by much.  What does the united auto workers union figure is the answer to that problem?  A strike.

DETROIT

First stop this morning was in New Paltz New York, essentially within shooting distance of McPhillips. I regret my schedule doesn’t leave me enough time to offer him some coffee. It would be an interesting meeting, I think.
I managed

Ed Morrissey asks via Twitter:

Does Panetta memo published by Time show Obama ducking responsibility for OBL call?

Says Ed….

No, not really

Frankly, Ed, of itself, no it doesn’t. The thing is, there’s certainly enough out there even absent

Suffield,CT— I’m currently waiting for a trailer to get offloaded so I can continue on Mendon, MA.  While waiting, I did manage to download a few pics that I took of my truck after it’s bath on Monday. Here’s a

Westbury Long Island, NY–

David points out in this morning’s Scramble:

…three years after Mrs. Clinton raised the issues and after months of the media claiming that it was legally impossible, Barack Obama finally  releases his long form certificate of

Florence, NJ– Eric is a hurting unit, today. I fell off the truck day before yesterday, while doing a roadside repair, and I’m felling all of it, the day after. Other than that, I’m actually doing fairly well, I think. 

Obama dithered while the Gulf burned, a time line from Doug Ross:

Perhaps if the oil breached the Louisiana levees, then caught on fire, and then turned New Orleans into a Dresden-like inferno, the President would stop campaigning