The World According to Michael

I always find it interesting when public workers unionize to increase their yearly coffers and benefits at the expense of the tax payer.  The mere fact that public employees unionize is mind boggling to me.  Aren't unions supposed to exist to provide collective bargaining agreements between their union member (employees) and the employers?  This particular employer being the state.  Isn't the state a union in itself?  Do the public workers really need to unionize?  Is the state really that oppressive (I know, silly question)?  Using this logic, then sub groups of individuals could form a union to do collective bargaining to the main union.  What if someone formed a alternate union to compete for the job contracts?  This of course would shake up the monopoly of the union.  I won't even get into the monopoly of the state.

Recent studies have shown that public sector employees make upwards of 20%+ more than their private sector equivalents.  Now wrap your head around this one.  The private sector secretary gets taxed at an extreme rate, which reduces their income dramatically and is then forced to give it to the public sector secretary that makes 20% more.  Not only does the public sector make more money at the expense of the private sector, they continue to demand & receive more.  Now we see them striking, boycotting and protesting that they don't want to concede a few percentage points of pay or benefits because the state is bankrupt.  I find it highly offensive that the state is bankrupt because of all the mismanaged & expanding public sector, yet the public workers which helped facilitate the bankruptcy still want more.

If the state is bankrupt and the public sector employees get their money from the state, where do they think the money is going to come from?  The reality is these public sector workers & unions are waging a proxy war on individuals that work in the private sector.  They are using the power & full force of the state to accomplish this.  If the state acquiesces to their demands, then the state has to somehow come up with the money to pay them.  How do they do this?  They raise taxes & fees on the rest of the private individuals that want nothing to do with the public largess.  And the proxy war rages on.

The public sector workers are slowly killing the economic system.  What happens when there are not enough taxpayers & fees to pay for your salary & pension?  The reality is public sector jobs degrade the economic strength overall.  The private sector runs out of money to give to the public sector.  Not to mention the services rendered by the public sector are mostly not wanted or needed.  The state & unions is a racket focused on taking more money & power for their own benefits.  Yet they produce nothing for the economy as a whole.  It's a liability, not an asset.

In Greece the people have been rioting over "Austerity" measures where the government has been forced to cut back because the country is bankrupt.  This does not deter the public sector workers & unions from demanding more however.  This is a perfect example of state workers gone wild.  It's also one step away from becoming a socialist/communist system where all of the citizens work for the state and are only allowed to keep a small amount of their money.  The system has to be paid for somehow, right?  The USA is not any different than these socialist/communist countries.  We are one step away from becoming just like them.

I'm hoping that people will realize that the state is a machine that will always continue to grow at the expense of the people.  It will do anything in it's power to stay in power.  A perfect example of this is all of the turmoil in the middle east.  Where the governments are killing their own citizens because they don't want to lose power or the revenue stream that comes from it's citizens.  The state is a virus, a parasite that spreads rapidly and attaches itself to it's host victims.

Throughout world history governments and rulers have always taken more from their "Subjects".  They are willing to kill or imprison the dissenters when they remove their compliance to state edicts.  This includes the United States.  We have a long history of killing citizens or placing them into prisons for dissenting.  

The government thugs that are killing people in Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya etc... are all state workers.  They are the public sector.  They are the people that are employed by the state.  They are the ones following orders to kill or detain their fellow citizens, brothers, sisters, mothers & fathers.  It is the public sector worker that are the pawns for the state.  They do not want to lose their inflated salary or golden pension (all of which is paid for by the private citizens), so they would rather kill the private citizen in order to keep what they have.  What happens when all of the private citizens or dead or are in prison?  How are these state workers going to get paid?  Where is the money coming from?

The question is, which entity is more evil?  The State or the Public Worker?  They are in fact one in the same.  It's time to "Free up the future" of all state workers.  Allow them some self respect and welcome them into the private sector, where they can produce things of value to society.  The alternative is the state and their minions will turn on it's own people. Continuing the machine that will forever grow until the wheels come off.  This will not only destroy the public sector, but the private sector as well.

There are those of us who want no part of this madness and we DO NOT CONSENT!