Tenure - WHY?

Who has tenure? Mostly union members: tradespersons, teachers, firepersons, police, teachers and professors who are mostly union members. WHY? There is zero reason unless you make up some anti-management reason. If a tradesperson doesn't do a good job, a business or home could burn down. Shouldn't we be able to fire them? What about teachers? Whatever you think, teachers for the most part are not doing a good job in teaching our grades 1 thru 12. At least that is what the world ranking of USA students suggest USA = #17). Our teachers are paid the highest of all countries. WHY?

Then there are the police and firepersons - all public employees. They have unbelievable pensions. WHY?
Because the unions negotiate them with the people we elect. Why should these people have power over my real estate burden??? Over half the states are unable to meet the obligations the unions demand for pensions of police and firepersons. And these states are running budget deficits plus raising sales taxes and state taxes and real estate taxes. WHY???

Least of all are professors. Colleges have been drinking at the public dollar for decades now.
HOW???
Because we have student loans and the colleges know that. So they raise the tuition which suggests that students borrow more.
WHY?
Who says that college is for every one??? If less students apply for colleges, tuition will have to fall. That's competition and it works. That will keep the tuitions lower and then less student loans would need to be made and then college professors would not get any raises or maybe lose their jobs. This brings us to where we started.
Why tenure?
Tenure is a penalty tax on the rest of the USA tax paying community which is only about half of all citizens.
Again why? Cut Federal taxes and replace with a sales tax. Then almost 98% of all the people will be paying taxes.
Tenure? Who needs it? Only the few at the expense of the many. We need to get rid of the concept of tenure. If you are good, no employer would think of firing you. If you are a bad worker/teacher who needs you. They need to find work elsewhere.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford

American Workers - You Decide

The day after the Supreme Court upheld the obamacare, I have a thought.

Say I'm a business owner of any size and I'm faced with the extra costs
associated with obamacare, what do I do ???

Well for one thing, If obama gets re-elected I would tell my workers that with
costs going up, I will have to cut my workforce. Then I would tell them, that
if obama does not get elected, and obamacare gets rescinded (That means
erased as if it never happened), then I would be able to keep all the workers.

So it boils down to this. If obama gets re-elected, some of you will lose your jobs.
And conversely, if someone else gets elected and actually rescinds obamacare,
then I will be able to keep everyone and possibly add a few workers; maybe
someone you can refer to me.

The choice is yours.

You decide when you vote Nov 6th.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford

ObamaCare cheats most non-union people

The ObamaCare law was passed with lots of exceptions for mostly union members
to be able to avoid following by the new law.

Why did they get these exemptions?

Because the bill signers needed a bribe to get the law passed. But in Congress,
they do not call it a bribe - They call it PORK!

These union members will not have to abide by the many rules if this new law.

And who will pay for these non-union members' benefits?

You and me Mr and Ms Taxpayer. Anyone who works and pays taxes will
pay for these union workers.

Do you think this is fair? Are the Union members PAYING THEIR FAIR SHARE?

NO WAY!!!

This obamacare law needs to be rescinded and replaced. That is what the
Nov 6th election is about.

The takers will vote for obama.

The tax payers will vote for Romney.

Which are you? A TAKER or a TAX PAYER?

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford

Unions Have Passed Their Day and Use

What's wrong with unions today? First, when an electrician need to move something
out of their way to get at an electrical box, that electrician needs to wait until a
loader or general worker comes over to move the item a few feet. If that worker is
at lunch or doing something else, the electrician might have to wait several hours.
This adds to the cost of the job. Definitely not a good union rule.

Another scenario is when a plumber connects a hot water heater. BUT the hot water heater
needs to be grounded. That requires an electrician. Come on. What os so complicated. All
that is needed is to apply one wire from the hot water heater to the ground on the
electrical panel. But no, I had to wait for an electrician to arrive to connect that one wore.
I could have done it but the plumber would not let me do that on my own hot water heater
in my own house.

And when I told the plumber to do something else because I was not paying for his time to
wait for the electrician to arrive, he complained loudly. SO I fired him and paid him for his
time. Then I called the electrician and canceled his coming to me. He complained and he
was not even able to get there inside 2 hours. Geesch! I thought.

Then I called a handyman. The city install papers were still good and the handyman did
the job completely - hot water heater and ground in very little time. The city inspector
looked at the completed install and checked the ground and passed the installation.

Best of all I saved a lot of money in less time.

Union rules block good business practices. They are part of what is wrong with unions.

One other general problem with unions is their demand for raises when the economy is
turning down; like it is today. Instead of asking for more and more, they should be happy
that they even have a job. BUT NO!!! Unions think they have to get raises because then
unions can raise their union dues. It is all about union dues. Never forget that one fact.

It's time for unions to back down - before they become obsolete.

And that 's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford

Wasted union dues

Can you imagine how every union dues paying person feels when they see how many
millions of dollars went to the Wisconsin recall vote??? That money could have been used to
help union workers. That money could have been put into college scholarships for
union workers. That money could have helped pay for food for unemployed union workers.

It is time for dues paying workers to stand up to these "mob-like'" union bosses and stop
paying dues. Most union workers get nothing for their dues. That is a fact. The raises
and benefits for union workers is not much different than non union workers. The one
big exception is that non-union workers keep several hundred after tax dollars in their
pockets every year; instead of the pockets of the union bosses.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford

The taxpayers VS the union workers

Now Wisconsin has voted and Governor Scott Walker remains as Governor of Wisconsin. The majority have seen that they were being bullied by a few tough and rough union workers to pay for union pensions while the non-union people of Wisconsin had no such pensions. They is basically unfair.

Public workers are servants of the State - not the other way around. Public workers wages need to be capped by the budget of the State - not the threat of walkouts. Public workers are overpaid and they need to have their wages frozen until the private sector's wages match and surpass pubic workers' wages.

Public workers need to pay more into their pensions and their health insurance premiums. They need to be paying as much as any private sector wage earner pays or more.

Unions are the tail of the dog and the dog needs to wag their tail - not the tail wagging the dog.

This vote tonight begins a pendulum reversal long overdue for union whose powers need to be curtailed to fit into the budget.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford

Unions have reached their diminishing return point

When employers were taking advantage of their workers, inions played a good role in getting better working conditions and wages for workers.

BUT NOW, unions are all about corruption and unbelievable selfish tactics. Take the teachers union. They are producing less educated students ( we are 25th in math in the world), The teachers have less work then ever with smaller class sizes.

And unlike in the real business world, it is almost impossible to fire a bad teacher. These bad teacher hang on for decades never teaching their student anything.

Then in the midst of a widespread and deep recession, they have the nerve to ask for a pay raise. REALLY??? A PAY RAISE with their terrible performance???

And who pays for their pensions???  which they hardly put anything into their pensions???

The taxpayers - that is who.

When many homeowners without jobs or without any pension pay increasing real estate taxes to pay for the teaches' pensions.Talk about an unfair tax on the majority of tax payers!!!

Then when Wisconsin wants to separate unions negotiations from politics, the few union workers in Wisconsin and all over the USA are demanding that they can control the money that the taxpayers must pay to union workers who do not even produce a good result.

If Wisconsin unions prevail in Wisconsin, then there will never be any freedom from union's excessive and ever increasing tax on homeowners.

My thought is to keep everyone in office in Wisconsin.

And that's the way I see it...

Straight Talk by Jay Clifford