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Tag: Control

Frustration Is

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Wed May 11, 2011 at 08:58:41 AM EST
Tags: Frustration, Control, Lansing, Snyder, Legislators, MBT, Taxes, Change, Labor, RTW, Right-To-Work, Michigan, Activism, Tea Parties, 912 (all tags)

For many of us:

Frustration is seeing an unprecedented opportunity to fix the labor hold on Michigan and watching that opportunity potentially slip away because legislators seem to have forgotten already, the force that hired them.

Frustration is knowing the CO2 scam has not yet been fully purged, and that there are still government implementations being put in place to solve the non-existent problem. Including in Michigan and even locally.

Frustration is seeing some of the good things like elimination of the MBT being accomplished not by straight out cutting, but by a shift to other victims.

Frustration is not having enough time to offer all the solutions we have properly, because those solutions are nearly immediately eclipsed by the next round of idiotic government actions designed to create more issues that complicate the previous ones.

Frustration is having a skill and not being able to apply it, because of an unconstitutional application of federal law, and the failure of the states to assert their authority, and protect the rights that guarantee the ability to use that skill.

I could add a hundred more to the list

Frustration is not an entirely crippling problem I have however.

Go below.

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Right to work - Right to contract - Right to control?

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Sun Jul 11, 2010 at 12:10:50 PM EST
Tags: Right to work, Control, Laws, Limitations, Michigan, Liberty, freedom, minimum wages, unions, business (all tags)

Unemployment is high. Manufacturing is moving out of state, and sometimes taking a "moving" opportunity" moving out of country.. Permanently.

While the meat heads in the labor unions are figuring out new ways to persuade our leaders to LIMIT the ability of Michigan business to operate, the scholars in many other countries are figuring out what made America so great for so many years. And while our leaders in Michigan insert their own brand of controls on Michigan residents and business owners, it offers an opportunity for those who create jobs to "supersize" their crap sandwich from the drive-through window of Lansing's growing bureaucracy.

Laws that tell you what you pay.. Laws that tell you whom you can hire.. Laws that tell you what legal substances can be used in the business you "own." Laws that govern whether you dismiss someone appropriately, the hours they work, and soon whether you should be providing insurance for them. Add to this, the business owner has become the tax collector.

Is this truly Liberty? The top four definitions would say not:

lib·er·ty
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-noun, plural -ties.

freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control.
freedom from external or foreign rule; independence.
freedom from control, interference, obligation, restriction, hampering conditions, etc.; power or right of doing, thinking, speaking, etc., according to choice.
freedom from captivity, confinement, or physical restraint: The prisoner soon regained his liberty.

Even as "right-to-work" legislation is being discussed, there is still absent a consideration of what it is that allows the government to set such controls on our ability to contract for ourselves in the first place.

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