A large number of people have recently come out in support of extortion, bribery, coercion, and even slavery. They don't realize it, but I can make a rock-solid case.



Here is a partial list of prominent names willing to support or ignore slavery for political reasons.





Paul Krugman, a Nobel prize winning economist and writer for the New York Times

Bill Maher, an extremely popular stand-up comedian and host of HBO Real Time with Bill Maher

Stephen Colbert host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report

Harold Meyerson, a columnist for the Washington Post .

. Yves Smith author of the site Naked Capitalism and one of the most popular economic bloggers country

and one of the most popular economic bloggers country Rick Ungar, a writer for Forbes magazine.

Coercion, Bribery, Threats

Give up the Bucks

SEIU Spokesperson Threatening California Lawmakers with Union Retaliation

Collective Bargaining is Extortion

obligation

have to

have to

voluntary

Collective Extortion

Convenient Nonsense

Economic Policy Institute

Job by Job Comparison

Education Red Herring

Do we need the Department of Education? The Department of Energy? The BLS?

Public Unions Have Bankrupted Cities and States

PBS News Hour Interview

PBS News Hour

GINA RAIMONDO: Today, Rhode Island has a $5 billion unfunded liability, which is the highest unfunded liability per capita of any state in the country.



In 1998, our budget was paying $145 million into the pension. This year, we will be $335 million. And five years from now, it will double again.



PAUL SOLMAN: In Rhode Island, as elsewhere, the root cause is plain and simple: Governments gave workers benefits instead of raises, salting away a pittance to pay for them.



GINA RAIMONDO: So, I could promise you today, in 25 years, when you retire, you will have a very rich benefit. And by the time you come to collect, I'm long gone. I'm no longer in office.



PAUL SOLMAN: But without dramatic changes to the pension system, Rhode Islanders face dramatically higher taxes and/or austerity.



GINA RAIMONDO: This problem of the pension, Rhode Island faces it; every state in the country faces it.



The unfunded pension liability nationwide is a $3 trillion problem. TARP, we were prepared as a country to put aside $700 billion. The bailout of Fannie and Freddie was $400 billion. They all pale in comparison to the enormity of this financial challenge.



And marginal change won't fix it. Tinkering won't fix it. Pretending we don't have a problem won't fix it. Looking in the eye of this enormous financial problem honestly and recommending fundamental changes to a system, I believe, is the solution.

How Badly is Your State Underfunded?





Promises Cannot, Will Not Be Met





Proposed Pension Underfunding Solution

Colbert Report

and

HBO Real Time with Bill Maher

Real Time

Lies Exposed

Public Union Members Contribute Nothing

Executive Pay Distributed

Exactly how would giving everyone in the country $500 fix a $6 trillion (or whatever) pension hole?

Exactly how would it fix the problem of union extortion, bribery, coercion?

Preposterous Math

Even FDR Understood the Problem

Message from FDR

All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management.



The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations.



Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees.



A strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable.

Political Power Play





Union Intimidation Tactics Harm Public Safety

Chris Olbu's Story

To get employment Chris has to be in a union he does not want to be in.

Chris has to pay union dues for causes he does not support.

The International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) union (not Boeing), forced Chris to resign from the volunteer fire department.

His resignation harms public safety

Chris is a Slave

I am looking for free legal assistance from lawyers in the state of Washington willing to pursue this case for Chris, all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States if necessary. I am also looking for similar volunteers in other states for those in a situation like Chris.

Corporations are Slaves Too

President Obama is the Slave Master

... They are trying to distract you to make you think that what they are all about is the right thing. In reality you’re just a pawn to them, a pawn that the Democratic Party and Barack Obama are using to keep them in power. This is a form of slavery. Liberals are enslaving themselves. Barack Obama is their slave master and they are doing his bidding for him. They don’t see it that way but that’s how it is.

Racism and Incivility

Slave States

Willingness to Overlook Slavery

Challenge to Stephen Colbert

Numerous Problems

Please play the following video to the end. It's depicts an extremely important concept about liberty.

Philosophy of Liberty

The Philosophy of Liberty is a flash animation created by Kerry Pearson based on the prologue of Ken Schoolland's book, "The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey".



It's a basic summary and introduction to the theory of individual rights.



"It certainly presents basic economic principles in a very simple and intelligible form. It is an imaginative and very useful piece of work."



--Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Economics

Slavery is the Issue