Below is a slightly modified version of my column in USA Today on the apoplectic response of Washington to the efforts of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk to reduce the size of government. Democrats have declared the effort to be pure “evil” and responded with rage rhetoric and profanity in public demonstrations. In a town with only one industry, reducing government is a sacrilegious act. It is one thing to run on reducing government and quite another thing to actually mean it. However, the deferred buyout shows how both members and unions are working against not only constitutional powers, but the desire of the employees themselves.
Here is the column:
Thomas Paine once remarked, “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.” With the approaching 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, much has clearly changed.
President Donald Trump’s move to reduce government is now portrayed as evil in its own right. Elon Musk’s move to draw down various agencies was presented as a virtual return to the state of nature.
Democratic members staged protests in front of various agencies to declare “war” and to accuse Trump of “destroying the government” by shrinking it. Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D., Md.) declared “Every time you hear DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, you just remember it is the department of government evil.”
Americans say Trump is keeping his promises
The coordinated efforts of Democratic leaders and the mainstream media have once again not resonated with the public. Trump, according to polls, is now at higher popularity levels than during his first term. And a strong majority of Americans say Trump is keeping his promises, including in his efforts to reduce government spending and waste.
Those efforts include a generous buyout offer for federal employees. The Trump administration offered federal workers the chance to stay home for months while receiving full pay if they would agree to resign from government employment.
It was an extremely clever move. The best way to shrink the government is to get people to leave voluntarily. But Trump and Musk also have warned that layoffs will follow if not enough federal workers accepted the buyout.
It is a type of self-deportation from government service. And it worked, with about 75,000 federal workers accepting Trump’s offer before the deal ended Wednesday.
It worked so well, in fact, that Democrats rushed to stop the voluntary exodus by falsely suggesting that it was a scam. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., warned employees that Trump would “stiff you,” even though the offer comes with the authority of the federal government.
His colleague, Mark Warner (D, Va.) added ominously for workers to “Think twice. Has this individual in his business world ever fulfilled his contracts or obligations to any workers in the past?”
At the same time, unions (looking at a major reduction of force) have filed with Democratic groups to stop these employees from taking the offer. They found a favorable court with U.S. District Court Judge George O’Toole who enjoined the program. However, after citywide celebrations over the injunction, the court then lifted the injunction on the buyout program, agreeing to allow the buyouts to go forward.
Unions representing federal workers and liberal legal organizations are likely to now appeal O’Toole’s decision. The unions, which are facing a major reduction in dues-paying members, have a disturbing conflict of interest in trying to deny federal workers the benefits of an offer they chose to accept.
The legal challenges to the buyout have relied on a plethora of arguments asserting that a president cannot allow employees to stay home and receive pay pending their departure from federal employment. Those arguments cited the Antideficiency Act, which bars agencies from spending beyond the money appropriated by Congress.
President has the authority to manage the executive branch
The counterargument is that money used for the buyouts was allocated to pay employees whose service normally continues year after year. Under Article II of the Constitution, the president is given ample discretion in running the executive branch, including the work status of federal employees.
Congress clearly has a role in controlling use of the federal purse. For example, Congress can determine whether to allocate money to build certain Navy vessels. However, once the ships are built, it is the president who decides where to send them and who will serve on the crew. The commander in chief also can expand or shrink the size of the crew.
Trump was well within his authority in offering to change employees’ duties while they look for new positions, and the employees had every right to agree to eight months of paid leave in exchange for their resignation from government service.
The opposition from Democrats and labor unions is the ultimate form of paternalism. In the name of protecting employees, opponents fought to prevent workers from accepting offers they believe are best for themselves and their families.
Federal employees are entitled to protections in their employment. But they’re not entitled to permanent employment. Congress is entitled to appropriate money for specific purposes. But it is not entitled to manage the executive branch.
Trump is very willing to fight on this hill. He holds a strong constitutional position and an even stronger political position.
For those who proclaimed themselves as defenders of democracy throughout last year’s election cycle, this is what democracy looks like. Voters made clear that they want changes in the size and the focus of government.
Those voters are unlikely to be convinced by the warning of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., that Musk is “taking away everything we have.”
That is precisely what Americans asked for in reelecting Donald Trump.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
What the Democrats and unions fear is not the loss of workers or dues at this time. What they rightly realize is Trump is not going to replace these workers and will change agencies’ Tables of Organization to reflect this lower headcount. This all needs to be done NLT September 30, 2025 as the FY 2026 federal budget starts on October 1, 2025. That budget will be a doozy!
I wonder how many NGOs Obama is involved with that were getting USAID money?
And how did Samantha Power get so wealthy?
Or Elizabeth Warren?
This form of employee separation happens all the time in the private sector. Nothing nefarious here! In my opinion, they should all be at will employees. As a UAW factory rep once told me he was there to protect to 10% that, as he said, backed up to get their paycheck.
When I think of the public workforce I think of the days I worked when these pampered grifters were not. As a young man I worked for the state of California. I actually went to work on some goofball holiday – Julio Englacious Day or something like that – only to find the doors locked.
Today is President’s Day, a Monday. Are you at work? ‘Cuz they ain’t.
“Taking Away Everything We Have”
Nope. They are taking away everything they took.
When Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi were 30 years younger than they are today, both of them were increasing their ‘power’ within the Party and witnessed Al Gore and Bill Clinton eliminate several hundred thousand government employees. And the Clinton Administration got kudos for ‘balancing the budget’ (along with Gingrich) —-
Chuck and Nancy are STILL in government, and as recently as a year ago were telling the American voter that Joe Biden was sharp as a tack, continuing the falsehood we didn’t want to see but was impossible Not to see.
And this piece by Turley is documenting the falling apart of the once-powerful democrat party, which is deteriorating before our eyes much like Biden deteriorated before our eyes.
Bill Clinton and Al Gore were handed the win-fall from the end of The First Gulf War, that the Republicans had fought and won under (George H.W. Bush). This provided healthy cover for Budget reduction (they were on easy-street).
Further the preceding Republican Administration succeeded in:
• The signing of the START I (with the Soviet Union) and START II (with Russia) treaties for nuclear disarmament.
• Victory in the Cold War over communism.
• Revolutions of 1989 and the collapse of Moscow-oriented Communism, especially in Eastern Europe
•The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, replaced by the Post-Soviet states (Russia and 14 other countries).
• German reunification in 1990, with the democratic West Germany absorbing the ex-Communist East Germany.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_George_H._W._Bush_administration
Excellent reminders of what Gore and Clinton were handed in 1992-3 —– and with Gingrich’s Contract for America, they didn’t screw it up too badly —-
This current progressive/left-wing dem party would have screwed it up royally! Ilhan Omar? That Pressley woman? the Bartender from Westchester AOC? And lately, this guy Chris Murphy would manages to get his face in the news daily — save a spot at MSNBC for him —-
Here is a new motto for this new crop of Republicans: “Living under the fear of what a tyrant might do is still living.”
I disagree. A better motto is “Do we want to find out what national insolvency is?”
The Democrats’ rhetoric is reminiscent of some January 6 protestors’.
The party appears to be torn between an originalist faction demanding action to restore the party’s 20th century values and a populist faction demanding further advances into identity politics and government suppression of free speech. It seems to parallel the MAGA uprising within the GOP.
Um… appears… parallel? Nice try. Maga uprising? Gee, I wonder where you were when that was all happening maga pushing ID and censorship.?
OT. #74
Solomons temple was constructed BC and destroyed by Rome in 70 AD. It was rebuilt and housed the ark of the covenant. Again it was destroyed between 600-700 AD. The ark was never recovered. Islam built the dome of the rock in the same place keeping the cornerstone and well of souls. The wailing wall has stood since. The Jewish people have prayed and cried at the wall for a 1000 years.
Why is this Jerusalem not recognized as Jewish property? Christ was in Solomons temple. Christ was in Jerusalem. There is an historic record.
Why is that not understood?
Relevance check please. Anyone, someone…
#74 it’s off topic…OT.
What a great way to run a country…
“The Trump administration has halted the firings of hundreds of federal employees who were tasked with working on the nation’s nuclear weapons programs, in an about-face that has left workers confused and experts cautioning that DOGE’s blind cost cutting will put communities at risk.
Three U.S. officials who spoke to The Associated Press said up to 350 employees at the National Nuclear Security Administration were abruptly laid off late Thursday, with some losing access to email before they’d learned they were fired, only to try to enter their offices on Friday morning to find they were locked out. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.”
The were all probationary employees. They have less than 2 years experience. They can go.
If their jobs are necessary I am certain someone else in the federal government that is at risk of being laid off is capable of doing their job and would be happy to do so.
No one is irreplaceable.
#74. By an interim secretary, not Trump appointee? Could be sabotage. There 65,000 employees. 50 let go and probationary.
See how it washes
Was that not rectified? I think so. Also, if you work in DC and you’re not prepared to be RIFed, then you’re not paying attention. Retaliation, these folks haven’t had swat at their doors at 6 am scaring the life out of children and parents. Now that’s retaliation.
MSM is scraping the bottom of the barrel. To be a news anchor on CBS you literally have to think the holocaust was caused by free speech. Smh
What Margaret Brennan said about the Nazis and free speech was literally the dumbest comment made by a non-MSNBC anchor in a very long time.
Also please note how Brennan was sneering at Rubio, one of the most moderate, polite, serious and judicious politicians in all of DC. The attitude that Brennan shows when interrog…er, I mean interviewing a Republican is down right sickening.
Why does CBS want people of such low IQ out in front making the network look ridiculous?
Why did you elect a person with such a low IQ to b e President?
They are trying to be as dumb as ABC with the Majestic News division show The View!
Margaret has that sneer down pat. It’s not attractive and is becoming a popular meme.
Another ahistorical “bubble-headed bleach blonde”(figuratively):
I think that was written for Mika Brzezinski though!!
#74. You bring up a hopeful point. Musk and the musketeers may be able to change the programming. Get rid of the punishing ugliness and doom and gloom, breathless anxiety and bring in the sunshine.
BS, Why do people like you make up utter BS? To make yourself feel so big and smart? Your cult leader talks like a Kindergartner with his pre pubescent insults. So you have to act like him to feel good? Get a grip. You elected a person with a sub 70 IQ to be president. Give it up, he is an idiot, he is not your savior.
BT – What are you talking about ? You spray a raft of ad hominem
But there is neither a point nor even a target to your post.
Worse your insults are so stupid – even Van Jones knows better.
“Guys, can we cut it out? Donald Trump is not an idiot. Let me just be very clear. Donald Trump is smarter than me, you, and all of his critics,”
“You know how I know? Because he has the White House, the Senate, the House, the Supreme Court, the popular vote,”
There’s just no arguing with his success, winning a presidential election in the face of overt mainstream media hostility and other huge headwinds,
“He has a massive media ecosystem, bigger than the mainstream, built around him, and for him, and a religious fervor in a political movement around him. And his best buddy is the richest person in the history of the world, and the most relevant Kennedy is with him,
’The Democrats’ strategy of hostility toward Mr. Trump and contempt for his supporters is just a losing formula,
When you say that someone who CLEARLY is smarter than you has an IQ of 70 – you make a fool of yourself.
If you want to be taken seriously – quit saying stupid stuff.
#74. I’m going to go to the WH website and read his actual EOs. There’s stuff like the border EO that was written and it says–> to stop the flow of fentanyl.
There’s little tidbits that are left out in MSM and elsewhere.
GET a grip BabyTrump. You voted for KAMALA! HA HA HA
#74 you just told a bunch of lies. Free speech is the exchange of ideas. What is the value of a lie and the idea it created?
Plead hyperbole.
“You elected a person with a sub 70 IQ to be president.”
Gee, just imagine how much dumber Kamala is, for 77 million voters to choose Trump instead.
Also, are the 67% of native Americans who voted for Trump stupid too? Or the 45% of Latinos? Or the 20% of blacks, which is double the percentage that Republican presidents usually get?
How do you suppose that a guy with a sub 70 IQ amassed a net worth of six billion dollars? Does it make you feel bad that you’re smarter than he is, and you don’t have six billion dollars?
#74. Now you’re just being silly. There aren’t any 20-40 year olds who’ve heard of the holocaust. They think you mean holograph.
A wonderful side effect of DOGE is the robust sell off of Dim property in The People’s Republic of Northern Virginia. Those too poor to flee ( you know houses worth under $5 million) might have to weather the Red Tide. Trump just might return our Commonwealth to red sanity after years of blue occupation. Viva la revolución! Where can you find a good gallows carpenter these days?
Sho are you going to kill? Please tell us. The neighbor down the street? His 10 year old daughter? Who are you going to kill?
@SillyBaby
Gallows are a powerful historical symbol but an unecessary extravagance. Unless they are part of frequent pay per view events.
We hope that the USA is repaired via our justice system. We chose that path when we voted last November.
Never the less, invaders and parasites are not safe. If they persist, you’ll discover that, once awake, Americans can take care of business in short order.
So who are you going to kill? Sounds like you already have your sights set on some people. Who? What will you do to their 10 year old daughter? Kill her to? Their son? Their 1 year old baby? Kill the baby? Can’t have those parasites around can you. You are sick. Get some help.
The uniparty is beyond corrupt and deserves the ultimate penalty.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/racist-judge-jack-mcconnell-who-halted-president-trumps/
Like Musk said: we need to turn it off then back on again, like a product running garbage software.
Or, as X commenter Stonetoss Comics said: “turns out the shadowy billionaire funding all of the libtarded nonsense was the US taxpayer”
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“Elon Musk’s Toxicity Could Spell Disaster for Tesla”
“Staggering sales drops, swastika-daubed EVs, companies culling fleet models, and fan-forum owners selling their cars—Elon Musk’s alt-right antics are seriously impacting his electric car business.”
– Carlton Reid
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“Carlton Reid is an award-winning freelancer who writes about cycling, transport and adventure travel for numerous titles including Forbes, The Guardian, and Mail Online. He is the author of Roads Were Not Built for Cars and Bike Boom.”
– Wired
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Carlton Reid floats an agenda-push Musk hit piece, in my opinion. Is this written as investment “sell” advice or political agitation?
Yes, Tesla had its first ever drop in sales in 2024 – from 1.81M to 1.79M.
The entire auto industry is down – not just Tesla.
tesla is doing fine.
Keep telling yourself that. It will sound more convincing the more you say it.
“‘Noxious practice’: Fox legal analyst blasts Trump and Pam Bondi for weaponizing the DOJ”
Wait, I thought weaponizing the DOj was bad and only Demos do it. Dumb me. Oh wait, I get it. It is only bad if Demos do it. Not that only Demos do it. If trump does it it is fair play and all is well.
Sheeeeeesh, dumb me, here I thought trump supporters had upright convictions. Nope. There A Holes.
The Trump DOJ is not weapons yet. I hope they weaponize it to punish all the illegal lawsuits ok’ed by crooked judges and prosecutors including all the J6 bs and all the Trump bs…….
Firing people who engaged in weaponization is not weaponization.
It is getting rid of weaponization.
You are not immune from consequences because you did a bad thing.
It is NOT trump “Doing it” – is Bondi going after Clinton ? Biden ? Schummer ?
Is she targeting pro choice groups ?
No she is firing the people who engaged in political prosecutions – some of Trump. Some of ordinary americans whose values they disagreed with.
Regardless, Government is getting a house cleaning. Those who can be terminated FOR CAUSE mean Fewer people will get laid off.
And Trump is not doing even close to enough – apparently a Huge Portion of Biden’s jobs growth in the past 4 years was increases in government employment – and much of the rest was illegal immigrants.
Aparently real job growth for ordinary americans was a paltry 38K/month – when in a robust economy that number is 150K/month.
Starting to understand why the past 4 years felt like a recession ? Because it was.
The bad news – For Trump and For the country is the mess YOU made will be hard and painful to fix.
Those of you on the left who said Trump was lying when he said he would bring inflation down day one. Were correct, But they again most people KNEW the mess you made would not be easy to clean up.
There are 3 ways to end inflation.
The first is to grow your way out of it. That one has been tried many many times and NEVER worked.
Once the economy is inflated – growth itself can trigger additional inflation.
The second is to raise interest rates. That causes a recession and clears the inflation.
Biden’s FED has been trying to do that – Without cause a recession for the past 3 years.
The clear people is that if you do not raise interest rates enough all you do is supress the inflation for a while.
In Mid 2024 Inflation started rising again – it is still rising slowly. Either the FED must raise interest rates enough to cause a recession or we must now try the Third way.
That is dramatic cuts to govenrment spending. When governemnt must borrow from the FED that causes inflation.
When the FED buys treasury Debt that increases the money supply and you get inflation.
Milei has brought inflation down 3000% in Argentina in 18months. Fortunately the US is not starting with hyper inflation – YET
But we are at the early stages that leade to Hyper Inflation – if we continue to do nothing.
So you have a choice – a deliberate recession ? Or cuts to government spending ?
How dare you interject facts and common sense into this conversation?
The rapist who leads the US is about to normalize relations with the homicidal leader of Russia, to give Ukraine to Russia and pretend Russia is a respectable country. Then, the rapist with withdraw from the most important military alliance the world has ever seen and responsible for maintaining safe international commerce.
To Trump, America is not a beacon of freedom. It’s a place to make a lot of money. He chastises Romania, a fledging democracy which cancelled an election, addressed the Russian hacking, and turned around to run that election again. Trump should be trying to help Romania. Instead, Trump wants to help Putin, one of the most evil dictators the world has seen in many decades.
The freer a country is the more prosperous it is.
Numerous independent polls in Romainia confirmed the result of the 2024 firs round election.
This is the same nonsense as left wing nuts claimed in 2016.
Did Russia want Georgescu ? Probably, just as Putin most likely wanted Hillary.
But what Russia wanted was irrelevant Georgescu was leading in the polls. He was going to win, and the EU did not want that to happen
Currently the Romainian electoral commission is blocking Georgescu from running in 2025.
Doesn’t sound like free and fair elections to me.
In the end this is not about what Russia wants, it is not about what You want or I want.
It is what Romanians want.
I’ve never forcibly inserted my fingers into a woman’s vagina like Trump has. Why have you?
You mean like Joe Biden has.
BIDEN IS OUT OF OFFICE ANON!! TARA REID AND ASHLEY BIDEN AGREE WITH YOU!!!!!!!!!
Ukrain was trying to get a peace deal in May 2022 – Biden killed it.
Biden has been prepared to fight russia right do to the very last Ukrainian.
If Ukraine wishes to continue – then they have my support.
But they do not. This is a war of attrition – Russia is doing HORRIBLY.
But they are NOT losing.
Unless Europe or the US are willing to put boots on the ground – this will go on for a very long time,
and eventually Ukraine will collapse.
That is reality. No amount of high tech weaponry is going to change the fact that killing 3 russians for every lost Ukrainian is still going to lose.
The US – and particularly Democrats owe Ukraine a great deal.
It was Hillary manipulating the orange revolution and talking about Ukraine join NATO that cost Ukraine Crimea.
It is Biden talking about Ukraine joining NATO that resulted in the current Mess.
It is the Bushies talking about Gerogia joing NATO that lead to Putin invading Georgia in 2008.
Reagan Promised Gorbachev that NATO would not get to within 1000km of Russian borders.
Russia did not start invading its neighbors until the US and EU started talking about countries on Russia’s border joining NATO.
The US – JFK risk global nuclear war to avoid Russian missles in Cuba.
We would have invaded had Russia not backed down.
You can dislike Russia invading its neighbors when they talk about Joining NATO.
You can call it wrong – and it is.
But whether you like it or not – Russia has made clear – The countries along its immediate border are not joinging NATO.
It is highly likely there is going to be a peace deal. Continuing is fruitless for Ukraine.
I think Trump has far more to negotiate with than you left wing nuts give him credit for.
But no one is going to like any deal that is made.
But more dying is not liked either.
“The rapist who leads the US”
LOL. I guess you didn’t hear that ABC News just had to pay Trump $15 million for falsely calling him a rapist.
And if you believe that Trump, a celebrity billionaire who cannot go out in public without security guards, waltzed into a NYC department store dressing room and sexually assaulted some random woman, you are at the proper intellectual level to vote for Kamala Harris.
“Everything we have”
What Trump and the revolution he ushered in has taken from the hard Left is not just money. It is not even primarily money. It is the dream of an ascendant cultural Marxism. It is the rule of wokeness and a flat-out bizarre, lunatic ideology. That ideology promotes drag queen story hour for kindergartners, open borders, men in women’s sports and locker rooms, vaccine mandates, the green new deal (America’s off switch), ministry of truth censorship, debanking of truckers who only want bodily autonomy, deplatforming of medical academics who question covid orthodoxy, and many other outlandish concepts … and it had cast a spell on much of the world making people afraid to say the most basic common sense things.
On 11/5/24 the spell started losing power like some water thrown on the wicked witch of the west. With Trump’s nominees being confirmed and DOGE making incredible progress towards sanity in government spending, the spell is basically broken. People are no longer afraid of the woke left.* That is the most valuable thing we have taken from them: their ability to make us fear them.
*One piece of anecdotal evidence: two days ago in ultra liberal New Zealand a group known as Man Up used the Maori Haka war dance to block drag queens from accessing kindergarteners.
Separately, Super Bowl beer and burger ads are once again featuring testosterone laden themes unapologetically, and gone are the toxic male-shaming ads (like Gillette’s) of yesteryear.
What a bunch of horsesh!t.
It is the dream of an ascendant cultural Marxism.
We are already there
it all started with Karl Marx, followed by Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Michel Foucault.
Question: how many people do you know who have read the works of Marx? Nietzsche? Sartre? Foucault?
Estovir, thanks for the clip, it was very enlightening. Who is the speaker, he is a fantastic lecturer?
“it all started with Karl Marx, followed by Friedrich Nietzsche . . .
“Question: how many people do you know who have read the works of” Nietzsche?
Apparently, you haven’t.
Nietzsche was his entire life a staunch critic of Marxism — of Marx’s foundations, demands for redistribution, and of its form of government. Among his countless critiques of Marxism, he wrote: It is “the tyranny of the meanest and the dumbest.”
Turls: We know you’re paid to echo the MAGA propaganda, but Americans did NOT elect King Donald to let his biggest campaign donor to play president by trying to fire the federal workforce, freeze all government spending, download the Social Security and Treasury Department database to their personal computers or shut down agencies .
Never forget that the lie about immediately dropping the cost of groceries is what got substantial numbers of people to vote for him who otherwise would not have.
Didn;t someone else just comment “We must never forget….”?
Gigs gets so inspired by reading and emulating others.
Stag alert, folks: When all else fails, Democrats rally around inflation, after ignoring it or downplaying it for years.
GIGI PROMOTES DEM Propaganda!!!!!!!
Gig, please consult Trump’s platform Agenda 47 as well as his campaign speeches.
What you are bi***ing about – less the idiotic spin is EXACTLY what Trump promised and what people elected him to do.
He made it Crustal Clear that he was going top greate DOGE and put Musk in charge of it to root out waste and Fraud in govenrment.
No we did not expect Trump to freeze spending – we expect him to CUT it.
When Pres. Obama put VP Biden in charger of DOGE in 2011 the american people thought Obama/Biden could slash federal spending by 1.6T
How well did that work out. VP Biden said many of the same things that Musk is now. But he did not DO them.
Yes we expect LOTS of govenrment employees to be fired or layed off. We expect waste and Fraud to be eliminated.
Trump voters are SKEPTICAL even now that Trump will succeed – we have been promised serious spending cuts before.
We are angry with those like YOU at the small possibility you might stall or thwart these cuts.
Overall we are getting LESS that we hoped for – but more than we expected.
Yes, we did, moron.You leftist retards weren’t paying attention, and now you’re getting it good and hard. You earned it.
Oh yes we did.
It’s all abut the union DUES! The unions could care less about the Constitution and/or the ability of taxpayer-paid employees to elect what they believe is best for them, including months of pay while being excused from working. And … those DUES support Ds in elections (even if union members, such as UAW and USW, support President Trump).
Unions are unconstitutional criminal organizations whose only bargaining points are being AWOL as breach of contract, criminal trespass, vandalism, property damage, bodily injury, etc.
If unions were compelled to obey the law, unions would not exist.
Unions only exist because unconstitutional anti-American communists exist and function in America.
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
#74. Unions can serve to limit monopolies. If Walton had to pay workers 49% and he kept 51% then his expansion and monopoly on cheap goods would have slowed. Monopolies have taken over. 15 minute cities just need a supercenter and a lumberyard.
People are now confined to cheap 3rd world goods most of which are made from PVC and bamboo should really itch. Someone grow some American cotton and make some Levi’s.
Sounds like the Sons of Liberty.