Saturday, July 03, 2010

Scott Ott on Unions and Jobs Americans Can't Do

Scott Ott claims that big union collectivism is turning us into a nation of brain-dead robots, incapable of filling open jobs even if any are available. Why?


1) Job compartmentalization by powerful unions discouraged cross-training and skills development in exchange for “security.”


2) Teachers’ unions continue to produce high school “graduates” whose mental capabilities make them unworthy of the title.

In other words, the anti-competitive spirit of private- and public-sector unions conspires to dumb down its victims, making them into dependents — first of the union and then of the state, when the employer lets them go, or goes under. Even workers in non-union jobs and plants have felt the impact of career compartmentalization as unions have bullied employers to transform the logistics of the factory to suit their members’ alleged need for “security.”

It even extends to our political class. You just have to shake your head at the following gem from Nancy Pelosi earlier this week.

You can almost hear the dull hum of lethargic synapses in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s numbed skull as she says that extending unemployment benefits is “the best way to stimulate the economy.”

That’s right. Rep. Pelosi says the productive members of society should pay others to remain unemployed as a way to generate the juice that keeps our economy surging forward.

If she really beleives that, the brain rot has set in much deeper than I thought or she thinks we're stupid. Go and read the whole thing.
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