The recent ad by the firefighter’s union in the Enterprise Record typifies what I have been preaching in this blog for a long time and is truly scary. They don’t get it. Just like the auto worker’s union, police unions, the teacher’s unions, and the rest of the unions, they are so caught up in their own self interest that they are failing to accept that the hey-day is over and that our economy and all their unemployed taxpaying bosses cannot support them at their current standard of living. The old saying “Sorry, but money doesn’t grow on trees” is what my mom or any responsible parent would say to these unreasonable or ignorant of the times crybabies.

Big news you union folks----our country is broke, our state is broke, our economy is broke, and we can no longer afford to support you. Jump into the unemployment line, no health insurance line, and the no retirement line with your fellow Americans that pay your wages. You are not better than us and there is no reason that you should expect immunity from our economic times. As every auto worker’s job and benefits are lost and every construction worker’s job is lost, a government worker’s job should be lost as they are their wage payers. Is there something hard to understand about that??? If so, you need to get off your high-horse. The game is up.

Our economy is in its infancy of collapse and its inevitable re-adjustment into the world economy. Our wage earners in our economy can expect to lose virtually all of their health benefits and retirement to once again become competitive in our new world economy. The longer these unions fight and the crybabies cry, the longer and more severe our country will suffer. Matter of fact, if they refuse to submit to our economic realities, they could actually cause a complete breakdown of our society and political system. After all, imagine massive unemployment and even hunger, and perhaps our government’s inability to meet welfare payments, and the government workers demanding their “rightful pay”. How do you think that would play out my greedy friends.

Even worse yet, is that Obama is either blind to our economic realities, ignorant, or plain stupid, as he and the Democrats are taking major steps in strengthening the unions stranglehold on our society now when the opposite is necessary. Sure, he owes payback to them for their support in his election, but at the demise of America? His “bailout” package requires all work be done at prevailing wages by unions. We all know these wages are triple non-union actual market wages and anyone can see that such waste in this economic downturn is not prudent. And, Obama, Pelosi, and their crew are actively trying to implement open ballet union elections so everyone gets to see who votes to stay non union so they can be pressured to change their votes to union, which is about as un-American as it gets as we all know the sanctity of privacy when voting our conscious.

Here Obama and the Dems are ripping at the seams of our economy at a time when it is on the ropes just to seize more control and power without regard for our country’s long term health.

Folks, America is beginning a much overdue re-adjustment into the reality of the world economy and it will be grueling and take many years- perhaps two decades- to fit back in by accepting massive cuts in wages, benefits, and our overall standard of living so as to put our factors of production in line with the rest of the world including India, China, the Philippines, and other developing nations. So that our economy can rebound and become healthy once again. Breaking the union greed is key to this healing process and our acceptance of our real economic value, which has become nearly irrelevant in this world economy, is also essential.

China and India alone have a quarter of the world’s population and their economies will recover in the next few years but the United States and the other developed nations who’s wages have become grossly out of line with the rest of the world will miss the boat on their economic upturns probably three or four times over twenty years until this adjustment takes place once and for all. And don’t kid yourselves folks, our piddly 300 million people are irrelevant when these underdeveloped nations with their ten dollar a day wages begin to sell their goods to each other’s billion plus consumers. They can and will do so as their wages and other factors of production are in balance so as to allow them to do so right now. That is why we will be left out.

Unions stepped up and met their purpose to protect their workers health and secure fair treatment of them at a time when this was practical and needed. Now they are their to unjustly and unrealistically fatten their gluttonous members without regard for America or our economic realities.