What planet are you on these days?

But it makes no sense to trash a good concept because dishonest people corrupt it.

See: America, United States of

And when I see the damage that public unions are doing to the economy I find little to respect or like about unions anymore. I hope I’m wrong. I really, really hope I’m wrong.

No, I am not blind to unions’ shortcomings.  But for every Jimmy Hoffa there is a John L. Lewis.  For every Andy Stern there is a Cesar Chavez.  Tarring all unions with the same brush shows a basic ignorance of the good they have accomplished.

So far no answers, though barter and share is probably as close as you can come.

I was trying to figure out if there were a “safe” place to put my pitiful retirement fund.  mr. creeper said, “It won’t matter if it’s safe if it’s not worth anything.” 

{sigh}

It’s hard sometimes to rec a comment that posts bad news.  But you can’t stick your head in the sand and ignore it.  Doing that is what got us here.

If you believe a “load of crap” if you simply swallow whatever b.s. the media and the politicians are feeding you, you end up with “shit for brains”. I always wondered how that happened.

Puzzle solved. Ingested.

Travel in Asia today, and not just China, but all over Asia and you can see we have gotten our clock cleaned by these “third world” nations. Put some A/C in these countries like they have in all their massive high-rises and they went from sleepy subsistence into brain-power dynamos. At half the cost. No unions there. Just pure motivation, talent and wide open horizons.

This is not a temporary “crisis”. This is a new US reality. Prepare for this changed world. The train has already left the station and we are not on it. They took the best we could offer and plowed and fertilized it on their native soils. We got left in the dust. Go East, young man. Go East.