Right-To-Work Arrives In Michigan: The Protests Seem Hollow To OS

Wow. The Michigan House and Senate, both firmly GOP institutions, passed identical Right-To-Work legislation yesterday.

Man bites dog. Someone got something done.

The Democrats, predictably, screamed cursed and walked out.  That's who they are, that's what they do. They can't stop the legislation from being passed, signed, and made the law of Michigan. Since it contains an appropriation, it can't be put on the ballot for recall, either.

Remember 2009/2010, Washington DC, when the Democrat Congress and Democrat House pushed through the BiggestPileOfPorkInHistory, followed by Obamacare? The GOP members did not scream curse and walk out. They did vote against it, though, and were chastised for being 'partisan'.

Labor types flooded the capitol building in Michigan Thursday, cursing and screaming, attempting to disrupt business. No one in the press or GOP called them names.

Tea Party types wrote their representatives, called their offices, traveled to DC to respectfully protest. They were called horrible names, characterized as ignorant, racist, the scum of the earth. Dads and Moms and children, the people who still maintain intact families, own little businesses and go to church. These became The Enemy.

In early 2009, there was a meeting with House GOP members and Himself, with the GOP members begging the President not to pursue this course of action. They were dismissed out-of-hand, with Himself not attempting to conceal his contempt when he crowed 'Elections have consequences'.

Then he accused them of partisanship.

So, here we are, in Michigan, the home of the US Labor movement. Elections do have consequences, and the GOP is control. (How was it that Obama won the state, given the House and Senate results?)
The place is bleeding jobs, with firms moving to Indiana.

Legislation has been passed, which states that union participation is voluntary, and that payment of dues is voluntary. The Democrat cash cow has just been taken to the slaughterhouse. Union leaders will have work for their money, just like everybody else. Businesses will be able to establish and hire people without threat. Employment may return. Can't have that, you know--it may mean the free market actually works, and make people suspect that the union types may just be thugs after all.

The Justice Department will, of course, sue to overturn. It will lose, but it will burn a lot of Michigans' time/money/energy in the meantime.

So, one final thought for the Michigan Democrat and labor machine: Elections have consequences. 
It sucks to be you.

Where Words Fail, Pictures Illuminate

Calculated Risk, in my humble opinion, is the best of the blogs documenting events in the economy. Accurate, insightful, no axe to grind, no hysteria, and to the point.

Today's notice about the GM bankruptcy is typical of the spare and factual style found at CR.

But, from a more colorful corner, the UK Libertarian Party, comes the perfect image to portray the 'New GM', aka 'Guv'mint Motors'.

Now, all we lack is a name for this creature.

Your suggestions welcomed below.

Gomer Pyle, Second Stanza

Sargeant Carter!! Sargeant Carter!! You'll never guess what just happened!!

GM will default, and finally do what should have been done long ago--head to bankruptcy court.

Now, how much money did the politicians hand these clowns in the effort to avoid the obvious?

Remember December, when Senator Corker tried to negotiate a deal that looked like bankruptcy, with the taxpayer playing a 'debtor-in-posession' role?

Remember how the head of the UAW, Gettlefinger, arrogantly rejected the deal, vilifying Corker in the process? Remember how he demanded to see the books of Toyota before he would consider a deal for GM?

When the press begins the crocodile tears, remember how GM got here. Remember the decades of shabby cars, rip-off financing, dealerships that made their fortunes with inflated prices on cars, parts, service, bogus fees, and general rank dishonesty.

They weren't too big to fail. They were too stupid and greedy to succeed.