Niether Obama nor Unions are Right for Economy.

Union politics in the workplace is a strange animal. It feeds on power culled from the mass of labor, but it doesn't necessarily represent them. It represents its own interests, which is self preservation by any means it feels that it can get away with. There was a time long, long ago when unions actually aspired to a higher ideal, which was to champion the rights of every one of its members.

Now unions revel in the political power that they wield. They use union dues to purchase favor from politicians directly, or they pay professional lobbyists to curry favor for them. Either way, unions are no longer about their membership, they are all about power.

They certainly are not about unity within corporate structures. They foster an "us verses them" mentality within its ranks. They create a rift between management and labor rather than building a bridge between the two. Any corporate entity can only function at peak performance when a healthy symbiosis exists between management and labor. As long as unions are fomenting an adversarial relationship with management, then corporate efficiency and productivity are less than optimal.

And what is needed now more than ever due to the crumbling economy, is unity of purpose, efficiency of resources, and maximized productivity; every non-monetary thing that the unions use as leverage to gain the power that they desire stands squarely in the way of true progress against alleviating the casualties of our souring economy.

True harmony of purpose is mired in the morass of union politics as the victims are felled by pink slips every day. And yet Barack Obama has used the powers of executive order four times in just 17 days as homage to unions even though I have just proven why unions are not helping our economy!

Is it just me, or does it seem that he is a walking contradiction? The conundrum of a brilliant orator that can articulate a plan, but cannot execute it. His own party has been hijacked by the Queen, Nancy Pelosi who has authored the massive stimulus package that is filled with 88% of all the democrats pet pork projects that they have been waiting for the right moment to foist on an unwitting population.

She got the mandate from the President to author the bill and she went right down the aisle of the house and asked every liberal democrat what they would like to put into this farcical bill for their district. And even Obama knows that this is what is happening here, but now that the conservative talk radio show hosts are informing everyone just what is in this bill and the backlash from angered taxpayers is starting to build to a crescendo, all that he can do is keep stammering about passing this bill quickly. Get it done quickly, before the population becomes fully aware of just what they will be paying for. It is an outrage to be sure.