Pasadena Politics

The story from Allentown, Pennsylvania, is that volunteer work can get a city sued.   The SEIU is already noted as a bully and the percentage of Union membership in general may soon be surpassed by the unemployment number.   Oh course, Unions are hard at work to ensure they can use a few bad apples to spoil the entire barrel via Card Check, but there is currently enough attention fixed on Health Care reform that it has not come up again as of late.

Unions, as a whole, are much akin to Tape Worm.   It gets inside, absorbs nutrients from host, and in some cases released eggs can get into the blood stream and then into the brain.    While there are good uses for Unions, they are not well realized today and best represent where the employee is at the weakest: seasonal and short-term work.   In those cases, Musicians, Metal Workers, Farm Labor, etc. they can benefit the employee best by supplying the employee with benefits that would often not be realized due to the short term nature of much of their work.   Of course, Real, Genuine Health Care reform would take care of that last excuse to hold onto Unions beyond the occaisional need for an employee revolt against an oppressive employer.    Of course, then the Union is only necessary for a short period, not longer than the immediate need for employees to work together.

So… back to the point: Boy Scout helps a city by clearing a path.  The local SEIU threatens the City with a lawsuit for allowing someone to work for free when people in the Union could be employeed.  In a sane world, the good People of Allentown would give their City Council and Mayor another term for using their tax dollars wisely.  Somewhat to the SEIU’s credit, they did say the President of the SEIU chapter in Allentown was speaking out of place.  Still, perhaps they should think about unionizing the Boy Scouts?   Imagine the classic image of the Boy Scout helping the elderly lady accross the street then asking for his madatory tip?

Besides, wasn’t it Obama who said Volunteerism was a good thing?

Complete list of the House members who voted for Health Care and it’s subsequent and logical tethering of freedoms.   Will update in the future with information concerning their districts and those running against them.

Obama is sure to sign it if it makes it through the Senate.

Prepare for a rapid erosion of your rights.

They really need to take it back.  A Third Party will be useless.  Moderates will not save the Republican Party but Conservatives will.  The principles of Limited Government are what this Nation needs, not an expansive Government as the larger a Government is, the fewer rights and freedoms you have.

This last week with the Owens-Hoffman-Scozzafava race in New York’s 23rd we see a prime example of why Obama is in the White House.   Hoffman did not lose because he was a conservative.   He lost because the Republican leadership chose a Liberal (who then dropped from the race a few days before the election and endorsed the Democrat opponent).   One has to ask the only logical question possible: Why does the Republican Leadership insist on shooting itself in the foot with people like Scozzafava?   Did they learn nothing from the McCain campaign?

Perhaps instead of blaming Palin they should have done some soul searching and really looked at why McCain lost to Obama.    It is quite simple actually: why vote for the wannabe Democrat when you can vote for the real one?   The past 10 years Republicans have been morphing into Liberals and giving it the quaint name: Moderate.    I honestly cannot blame people for voting for Obama when the choice is rewarding Republican leadership for choosing a path of Liberalism.   Sure, if they really thought about it, they would have seen Obama as an extreme Liberal and either voted for McCain or sat it out.  But it never hurts to have the majority of the Media sharing your same ideology of anti-Americanism, liberalism, and a disdain for limited government to obscure the details of a Candidate so that all people really know about you is “Hope and Change”.

Yeah… What’s the hope?  What kind of change?

So what the Republican Party needs is a Conservative leadership and a very clear platform that extols limited government and why it promotes freedom over liberalism.