Quote:I'm only against Public Unions, because it's organized labor against the tax payer.

 

As a Libertarian I don't see any problems with private unions or individuals bargaining on a collective place, but it's when government get's involved that I object.

 

Your position here makes you what is known as a convenient stooge. Big business was able to easily break private unions with scabs and slimey management practices. It's been much more difficult with public unions due to their inability to have direct control of management. The goal of breaking public unions is to continue their quest to destroy the American middle class and turn the nation into another China.


 

Again the relation to the amount of jobs and the wages paid is easily observable. If you look at the Median Income (that's the average) and also look at the Employment Ratio you'll see an undeniable correlation that as jobs decrease or become in demand by the worker the median income gradually decreases. As job's increase and workers become in demand by the employer median income increases.

 

Actually the relation is between demand for product and the availability of jobs. No business hires people to sit around not doing anything just because they can pay them less than they used to have to pay them. All of the problems the nation currently face can be solved by returning to the policies started by FDR in the 30's and continued through the 70s. A strong nation is based on its ability to spread wealth and knowledge out as widely as possible, not its ability to make things as favorable as possible for international corporations.


 

It's not faith in business, it's an observation in the laws of economics. Supply and Demand, if you want to drive the price of something up (in this case wages) you need to create a demand ( in this case workers). The only way to create a demand for workers is to create more work. Regulation does not create work.

 

You're engaging in magical thinking here. The way to create more work is to change the regulatory environment so that work must be done in the USA instead of outsourced to third world nations.

 

Work doesn't get created by lower wages, all that does is removes the wage floor and allows for the possibility of employers abusing labor to an even greater degree than it currently does.

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