Layoff veteran aims to put outsourcing ban on Nov. ballot:
“So Armstrong wants to take the message to voters. He says he and his group are 70 percent of the way toward collecting the roughly 68,000 signatures needed to get Proposal 139, “Protection of American Workers,” onto this year’s ballot. They have two weeks left.
The initiative would bar state government from hiring temporary foreign workers here on a visa. And only legal residents could perform services for the state – from cleaning the Capitol to processing unemployment claims. Private companies that work with the state could employ foreign workers, but not for work on state contracts.”
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Anything that prevents expansion of the government payroll can’t be all bad!
/sarcasm
Seriously, is anyone thinking here? By refusing to allow the state to hire the cheapest workers possible, everyone will pay more to get the same basic services. Who’s interests are more important, the few (workers) or the many (taxpayers)?
Interestingly, this appears to be socialism turned on it’s head. In an attempt to promote fairness, we are punishing the entire public sector by protecting a handful of individuals. It vaguely resembles capitalism, but with none of the crunchy goodness of the free market!
Interestingly, this appears to be socialism turned on it’s head. In an attempt to promote fairness, we are punishing the entire public sector by protecting a handful of individuals.
Indeed, and the ‘capitalist-friendly’ republicans are handing money out like it’s going out of style. But then again it only seems topsy-turvy if we haven’t been paying close enough attention; both sides of the aisle have been buying allegiances for decades, if not centuries. At the end of the day all there is is Statism, and the robbery to benefit a few in the name of the whole. Statist force to change and alter must be offered by a select few with inordinate power, otherwise it would be left to the majority to do as they please unencumbered. It passes because enough people have been conned that they get a net benefit by having official X and bureaucrat Y soaking up the mass’s funds and property. Seeming ‘contradictions’ such as this are cracks in the facade.
How can a party (such as the Democrats) support ‘workers’ in general, but be pro-race? Blue collar unionists can be some of the most racist people around, yet both are supposedly represented under the flag of the Democrats. The resolution? The Democrats are in it for themselves and only have to concede as much as necessary to secure votes. The ‘represented’? Conned. As for republicans, they talk a good game about low taxes but they don’t seem to do much about spending, so they can spend just as much for votes, especially those who think their vote is going toward fiscal restraint. Again, conned.
What disappoints me most about this article is how in many circles in which I frequent (I’m a software developer), this man is treated as a hero (www.fark.com).
Maybe it’s just me, but I sort of thought heros were people who managed to succeed as individuals, relying on their own hard work and ingenuity — rather than lobbying the government to force people to stop doing things they don’t like.
This is similar to how I feel about John McCain and his “standing up to special interests” with the Campaign Finance reform. Both are “heros” who have helped legislate freedom of choice and speech out of existence.
This is the media’s fault as much as anybody’s. They’ve been playing the outsourcing issue up so much, that people who wouldn’t even care otherwise are now willing to vote ridiculous legislation like this in.
Makes me ill.
One of the struggles at the contitutional convention was the weight and balance of trade between and among states. Thus the constitution came to provide that trade between the states was to be regulated by the Central Government. A new amendment was passed not too long ago that prevents something called discrimination with regard to work, employment and that kind of stuff. All his efforts are down the tube the first day the courthouse doors open after such writen stupidity is enacted into law. Perhapes he can get a job teaching economics at the Univ. of Colorado.But then he would not be able to keep it since on “Coloradans” could be employed; however, he might be an American Indian from times immemorial, and thus qualify. He’ll probably have to move to Texas, but only if The Colorado Department of Immigration will give him a passport.
“This is the media’s fault as much as anybody’s.”
I have a special grievance with Mr. Lou Dobbs, on CNN. Normally I find CNN to be superior to the other 24 hr news networks, but Dobbs and Larry King disgust me.
The way Dobbs plugs the economic charlatanism of “protection” reminds me distinctly of the way Larry King provides an “understanding forum” for the charlatanism of “psychics” like Sylvia Brown.
“Thus the constitution came to provide that trade between the states was to be regulated by the Central Government. ”
The Interstate Commerce Clause of the Constitution is literally the most damaging line in it. (second place is the “provide for the general welfare” line) Nearly every single market regulatory agency has its constitutionality built on that simple clause.
If I ever find the Founding Father who put that in there (and I have some suspicions), I will dig up his grave and give him a good kick in the head.
Speaking of outsourcing, I think you might enjoy this lighter-side look at its critiques:
http://tim.movementarian.com/archives/000453.html
If I ever find the Founding Father who put that in there (and I have some suspicions), I will dig up his grave and give him a good kick in the head.
Superb!
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