Fuck the Dispatch Editorial Board
Hey Folks,
Here we have the same old shit. Think about it!!
"Anytime a law or government regulation puts additional burdens on business, the very people who are supposed to benefit from it are hurt."
Ok, then I guess if government tries to hurt people by giving business a freer hand it helps the very people who are supposed to be hurt. Sending jobs over seas, eliminating pensions, reducing or eliminating health benefits, busting unions, shredding the safety net, etc. really helps the very people who are supposed to be hurt.
What bullshit!!!
"Businesses saddled with extra costs because of government mandates look elsewhere for savings, cutting other benefits and reducing the work force."
No shit!! The owners and stockholders come first!! Do you see anything in this comment about cutting profits? Fuck no. That's taboo /can't do/ unthinkable / illegal / immoral / and fattening.
And very often it has nothing to do with competing, in the sense of the cost of a product or service. Businesses "look elsewhere for savings, cutting other benefits and reducing the work force" even when they are doing quite well in relation to their product/service competitors. They often screw the workers NOT to sell their product, and not even to make a profit, but simply to make MORE profit. Everything gives way to the accumulation of ever more personal wealth.
Look carefully at their arguments and it's inescapable that they are focused solely on themselves with no regard for their fellow man, their community, nation, or world. Essentially, their position is that government (even one of, by, and for the people) helps the people best by helping them least, leaving it all up to business to "take care" of the workers "based on marketplace competition."
That's worked so well in the past.
Fuck the Dispatch Editorial Board !!
- Uke Man
p.s. Since the first editorial (below) was published April 22, another appeared on May 21 (also below - my comments in green). Nothing new - just re-fried shit !!!
Ill-chosen plan
Sick-day mandate would further hurt Ohio's ailing economy
Sunday, April 22, 2007 3:55 AM
Requiring Ohio employers to give their workers at least seven paid sick days a year sounds good to many people. Ohioans who might favor this idea if it comes up for a vote would be wise to take a serious look at the negative consequences of such a move.
Some businesses can afford to provide seven sick days, but others cannot.
Anytime a law or government regulation puts additional burdens on business, the very people who are supposed to benefit from it are hurt. Businesses saddled with extra costs because of government mandates look elsewhere for savings, cutting other benefits and reducing the work force. If they can't find other savings, their competitiveness is harmed.
Gov. Ted Strickland has made revival of Ohio's slumping economy one of his signature issues. He should oppose the proposal by the Service Employees International Union District 1199 as a jobs-killer.
The plan would require employers with 25 workers or more to give full-time staffers at least seven sick days, while part-timers would have their paid sick days prorated.
The plan is generous about what constitutes a sick day. Employees could use the days for themselves, a child, spouse or parent. Physical and mental illnesses would be covered, as would injuries, other medical conditions and preventive care. Given such broad parameters, many workers would use all of the days each year.
The union filed 1,800 petition signatures with Attorney General Marc Dann earlier this month. If 1,000 of the signatures are valid and the issue's language is approved by Dann and the Ohio Ballot Board, the union then needs 120,683 valid signatures to submit its proposal to the legislature, probably next year.
If the Republican-controlled General Assembly rejects the proposal [does anyone think they WON'T? - Uke Man], backers can submit another 120,683 valid signatures to put the issue to a statewide vote.
Fringe benefits, such as paid vacations, group insurance and sick leave, improve workplaces. But the employers, not government, should be the ones to decide how generous those benefits should be, based on marketplace competition [i.e. as little as possible and less than that - hence outsourcing to India and encouraging illegal immigration - Uke Man].
Ty Pine, legislative director for the National Federation of Independent Business/Ohio, had it right when he called the proposal a "one-size-fits-all, mindless" plan.
The market rules
Sick-day policies shouldn't be imposed on Ohio's businesses
Monday, May 21, 2007 3:21 AM
In the competitive world of business, imposing costly mandates on companies to provide benefits is a bad idea. If these pricks had their way, there would be NO benefits !! THAT's why they go to sweatshops over seas !!!! It has nothing to do with competition and everything to do with establishing virtual slavery!
Employers base sick leave and other benefits on what the market can bear. Fuck the "Market" !! It's designed and maintained for the purpose of exploiting workers, and THEN used as the reason workers MUST be exploited!! It is an arbitrary construct designed to benefit a few at the expense of many. Some businesses can afford to provide seven or more sick days; others cannot. What's important for Ohio's business climate is that sick-leave policies not be forced on employers by government fiat or by a vote of the people. Right!! This is a DEMOCRACY, for god's sake!! We can't have elected officials or the voters determining what's good for America - that's the Market's job - or maybe the Dispatch editorial board's job.
The Service Employees International Union District 1199 has begun a petition drive to gather signatures to put the Ohio Healthy Families Act on the statewide ballot, perhaps in time for the November 2008 presidential election. If passed, the initiative would require employers with 25 or more staff members to provide seven days off with pay for full-time workers who are ill. Part-timers' sick leave would be prorated.
The union is trying to obtain through a statewide plebiscite what it has been unable to gain via collective bargaining.
Perhaps it shouldn't be a surprise that 66 percent of 939 Ohioans responding to a phone survey by Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., endorsed the seven-sick-days requirement. The poll question did not lay out the potential consequences of such a law.
Interestingly, respondents agreed, by 48 percent to 43 percent with 9 percent not answering, with the statement that wage and benefit mandates "lead businesses to close or move out of Ohio." So while the respondents like the sick-leave requirement, many of them understand it could have negative results.
Business groups aren't trying to scare Ohioans when they say that putting extra benefit mandates on the backs of employers could cost jobs. This is the reality of an economy where marketplace conditions are fluid and companies move to other states or countries to reduce costs. So, there it is. Business to the citizens: "You fucks who have jobs better put up with the shit we shovel and be prepared to take more, or we'll take even that away."
Ohioans should understand that this proposal would do workers more harm than good. Yep, the sacred Market has decreed: the only way Ohio can rise above its present problems is to screw workers even more; the only way to make life for Ohio's people better is to make it worse.
George Orwell is spinning in his grave.
- Uke Man
Here we have the same old shit. Think about it!!
"Anytime a law or government regulation puts additional burdens on business, the very people who are supposed to benefit from it are hurt."
Ok, then I guess if government tries to hurt people by giving business a freer hand it helps the very people who are supposed to be hurt. Sending jobs over seas, eliminating pensions, reducing or eliminating health benefits, busting unions, shredding the safety net, etc. really helps the very people who are supposed to be hurt.
What bullshit!!!
"Businesses saddled with extra costs because of government mandates look elsewhere for savings, cutting other benefits and reducing the work force."
No shit!! The owners and stockholders come first!! Do you see anything in this comment about cutting profits? Fuck no. That's taboo /can't do/ unthinkable / illegal / immoral / and fattening.
And very often it has nothing to do with competing, in the sense of the cost of a product or service. Businesses "look elsewhere for savings, cutting other benefits and reducing the work force" even when they are doing quite well in relation to their product/service competitors. They often screw the workers NOT to sell their product, and not even to make a profit, but simply to make MORE profit. Everything gives way to the accumulation of ever more personal wealth.
Look carefully at their arguments and it's inescapable that they are focused solely on themselves with no regard for their fellow man, their community, nation, or world. Essentially, their position is that government (even one of, by, and for the people) helps the people best by helping them least, leaving it all up to business to "take care" of the workers "based on marketplace competition."
That's worked so well in the past.
Fuck the Dispatch Editorial Board !!
- Uke Man
p.s. Since the first editorial (below) was published April 22, another appeared on May 21 (also below - my comments in green). Nothing new - just re-fried shit !!!
Ill-chosen plan
Sick-day mandate would further hurt Ohio's ailing economy
Sunday, April 22, 2007 3:55 AM
Requiring Ohio employers to give their workers at least seven paid sick days a year sounds good to many people. Ohioans who might favor this idea if it comes up for a vote would be wise to take a serious look at the negative consequences of such a move.
Some businesses can afford to provide seven sick days, but others cannot.
Anytime a law or government regulation puts additional burdens on business, the very people who are supposed to benefit from it are hurt. Businesses saddled with extra costs because of government mandates look elsewhere for savings, cutting other benefits and reducing the work force. If they can't find other savings, their competitiveness is harmed.
Gov. Ted Strickland has made revival of Ohio's slumping economy one of his signature issues. He should oppose the proposal by the Service Employees International Union District 1199 as a jobs-killer.
The plan would require employers with 25 workers or more to give full-time staffers at least seven sick days, while part-timers would have their paid sick days prorated.
The plan is generous about what constitutes a sick day. Employees could use the days for themselves, a child, spouse or parent. Physical and mental illnesses would be covered, as would injuries, other medical conditions and preventive care. Given such broad parameters, many workers would use all of the days each year.
The union filed 1,800 petition signatures with Attorney General Marc Dann earlier this month. If 1,000 of the signatures are valid and the issue's language is approved by Dann and the Ohio Ballot Board, the union then needs 120,683 valid signatures to submit its proposal to the legislature, probably next year.
If the Republican-controlled General Assembly rejects the proposal [does anyone think they WON'T? - Uke Man], backers can submit another 120,683 valid signatures to put the issue to a statewide vote.
Fringe benefits, such as paid vacations, group insurance and sick leave, improve workplaces. But the employers, not government, should be the ones to decide how generous those benefits should be, based on marketplace competition [i.e. as little as possible and less than that - hence outsourcing to India and encouraging illegal immigration - Uke Man].
Ty Pine, legislative director for the National Federation of Independent Business/Ohio, had it right when he called the proposal a "one-size-fits-all, mindless" plan.
The market rules
Sick-day policies shouldn't be imposed on Ohio's businesses
Monday, May 21, 2007 3:21 AM
In the competitive world of business, imposing costly mandates on companies to provide benefits is a bad idea. If these pricks had their way, there would be NO benefits !! THAT's why they go to sweatshops over seas !!!! It has nothing to do with competition and everything to do with establishing virtual slavery!
Employers base sick leave and other benefits on what the market can bear. Fuck the "Market" !! It's designed and maintained for the purpose of exploiting workers, and THEN used as the reason workers MUST be exploited!! It is an arbitrary construct designed to benefit a few at the expense of many. Some businesses can afford to provide seven or more sick days; others cannot. What's important for Ohio's business climate is that sick-leave policies not be forced on employers by government fiat or by a vote of the people. Right!! This is a DEMOCRACY, for god's sake!! We can't have elected officials or the voters determining what's good for America - that's the Market's job - or maybe the Dispatch editorial board's job.
The Service Employees International Union District 1199 has begun a petition drive to gather signatures to put the Ohio Healthy Families Act on the statewide ballot, perhaps in time for the November 2008 presidential election. If passed, the initiative would require employers with 25 or more staff members to provide seven days off with pay for full-time workers who are ill. Part-timers' sick leave would be prorated.
The union is trying to obtain through a statewide plebiscite what it has been unable to gain via collective bargaining.
Perhaps it shouldn't be a surprise that 66 percent of 939 Ohioans responding to a phone survey by Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., endorsed the seven-sick-days requirement. The poll question did not lay out the potential consequences of such a law.
Interestingly, respondents agreed, by 48 percent to 43 percent with 9 percent not answering, with the statement that wage and benefit mandates "lead businesses to close or move out of Ohio." So while the respondents like the sick-leave requirement, many of them understand it could have negative results.
Business groups aren't trying to scare Ohioans when they say that putting extra benefit mandates on the backs of employers could cost jobs. This is the reality of an economy where marketplace conditions are fluid and companies move to other states or countries to reduce costs. So, there it is. Business to the citizens: "You fucks who have jobs better put up with the shit we shovel and be prepared to take more, or we'll take even that away."
Ohioans should understand that this proposal would do workers more harm than good. Yep, the sacred Market has decreed: the only way Ohio can rise above its present problems is to screw workers even more; the only way to make life for Ohio's people better is to make it worse.
George Orwell is spinning in his grave.
- Uke Man
1 Comments:
Hi Tom,
You do a wonderful job presenting the facts and the horrors that face us. All so very depressing for me. Some people think a revolution will solve the problem. My sister thinks "the Lord" will come back and save ...
I guess I'm glad I'm old, but I do fear for the future of those we care about. Sondra
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