As people who read me already know, I am a member of an “association” which is, of course, essentially a union.  They negotiate for our contracts.  Our contract expires in 2014 and I shall, with much luck, be retired before its expiration.  And no, upon retirement, I don’t get “medical for life.”  As a matter of fact, my medical coverage stops completely when I retire.

I don’t, however, get to throttle the county into bankruptcy if everyone in my department were to engage in a strike (which won’t occur for a myriad of reasons, lawfully).

Precisely as a number of unions did against Hostess Brands, Inc.  And with that, the company shut down its plants, laid off 18,000+ workers and stopped baking.

From back in April of 2012:

A union official representing workers at Hostess Brands Inc. said Monday that he isn’t optimistic the two sides will come to an agreement over workers’ contracts before the dispute lands in bankruptcy court.

Hostess has said it will ask the court this week to toss out its existing union contracts if its workers don’t accept cost-cutting proposals in its “final” offer. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in January, citing rising competition and pension and medical costs.

Ken Hall, general secretary-treasurer of the Teamsters union, says his union’s members will walk off the job if the court throws out the contracts. CEO Greg Rayburn says a strike will force the company to shut down and liquidate.

The court threw out the contracts.  The unions struck.  And the company shut down

Hostess is going through a liquidation hearing today, as a matter of fact, regarding its 33 nationwide plants, one of which is in Sacramento where I work.  There were 300 workers laid off in Sacramento, and about 1,850 in the state of Fornicalia.

A bit of a final notation: how can one company function competently and efficiently under the 12 unions and 327 separate contracts formerly operating at Hostess Brands?

Apparently: it cannot.

BZ

 

It’s a sad week for America.

They broke it.  They bought it.

OBAMA 60,085,524*
ROMNEY 57,401,992

Moreover, Tuesday’s vote for Obama will soon — very soon — herald incredibly painful times for America.

Times more painful than they will need to be.

The Dow crashed 313 points on Wednesday, immediately following the election.  That’s the largest downturn in all of 2012.  The DEM/MSM said: “it’s because of Europe.”  The truth is: it’s because of the re-election of Barack HUSSEIN Obama.  Reinforced by Bill O’Reilly’s opinion on Wednesday.

Tuesday’s results confirmed this fundamental statement on my blog:

Remember THIS America

(in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) – a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.

Hugh Hewitt, whom I greatly admire, wrote on his blog:

President Obama’s speech tonight was gracious and optimistic, and we have to hope he does move to the center because as Congressman John Campbell said on the program tonight, the GOP is not going to accept a slow move towards socialism.  The president won re-election, but not a mandate.  Not even close.  This wasn’t 1984 much less 1964 or 1936.  The GOP owes Mitt Romney and the all of his supporters the continued control of the House, and for that we should be very grateful.

However, “we have to hope he does move to the center” is not a platform or a philosophy or a manner on which we can hang actual Conservative hats.

Here, I have to diverge from Hewitt.  He is simply WRONG.

Battle — combat — fighting — now THOSE are actual tactics.  And tactics that Republicans eschew because they are predominantly not fighters and gutter dwellers.  They’re not much interested in blocking and tackling.  Sometimes you have to lose teeth and endure concussions and muscle pulls and broken bones.

“Evil prospers when good men do nothing.”

The Demorats are willing to engage in every bit of combat.

If you want to get into the pen with the pig, then you’re going to have to — likewise — get dirty and muddy and possess a Combat Mindset.

Even Bill O’Reilly, on his Wednesday show, indicated that he thought Mitt Romney was clearly too polite and too kind and too nice to get into the politics of this level.  And frankly, I completely agree.

Romney is good and smart and has a nice family.  And that’s where his competency — clearly now — ended.  He had some interesting ideas but not the balls or the penis to match the genitals of the Demorats.

I don’t know of any other way to place this point in time.

— Kind doesn’t work.
– Nice doesn’t work.
– Considerate doesn’t work.
– Recessive doesn’t work.
– Smiles don’t work.
– Steamrollers: they work

How many times have I and/or the readers of my site said, the Republicans need to sack up and push their programs, make a stand, make backtalk, show some disrespect, kick some sand, get into the mud, STAND UP for themselves!

Yes.  Since roughly 2000.

Yet, the day-after bleats seem to indicate that the Republicans need to make the Blacks and the Asians and the Mexicans and the Cubans and the Hispanics and the Puerto Ricans and the Haitians and the Hawaiians and the Filipinos and the Saudis and the Ethiopians roll into the GOP ticket.

That won’t happen.

Being “inclusive” won’t work.

Being “gatherers” won’t work; that is, trying to include many more persons of a higher melanin count into the GOP conduit.

There is only one paradigm that will work:

GIVE ME MORE.  Give me more FREE CHEESE.

Bottom line: if the Republicans are not the party of More Free Cheese, they will lose.

Plain and simple.

The writing isn’t just on the wall, it has become the wall.

BZ

 

 

Frankly, in a way, I am relieved.

Clearly, there are more parasites than hosts in America.

More persons who not only want — but DEMAND — their Free Cheese from government.

It becomes clear to me now.

We are going to have to take this government down.  Right down to the ground.  Right down to its fundamental joists and pins.  On second thought, the government is going to do that for us.

Americans are going to have to die in a myriad of grisly forms.  And they will.  Particularly via the loving ObamaKare.

They are going to have to experience a depth and breadth of pain and torture and fiscal vacuity they’ve never before slathered upon their coddled and entitled entities.

Mr Obama has acquired his second term.

I think perhaps it’s time I simply step aside and become a sightseer, a watcher, an observer of the demise of this great nation.

My God, America, I cannot simply stand with you any more.

If you are sufficiently daft as to re-elect this disinterested, underachieving, entitled, narcissistic, steaming-piece of detritus, then I simply cannot be with you any more.

Because you have spoken.  You want Free Cheese.  You demand Free Cheese.  You don’t care from where it sources.  You don’t understand economics.  You don’t understand your own system.  You don’t understand politics.  You don’t understand the limitations of and constraints of budgets.  You don’t understand your own government.  Nor does it understand or respect itself.

But that doesn’t matter.

Oh my gosh.

Wait until next year.  Wait until January 1st.

It’s about to matter a great deal.  And more.

You want chaos and uncertainty, America?

You got it.  You just now elected it.

Again.

BZ

 

 

Personally, I think that’s far too early.  The Romney camp is unconvinced.

Too many votes yet uncounted.  Yet, again, this predication is based upon electoral college votes.  States garnered.

Ohio going presumably to Obama put him over the top.

BZ