Wow! A new CNN poll shows that a majority of Americans think that the federal government threatens their freedom. “According to CNN poll numbers released Sunday, Americans overwhelmingly think that the U.S. government is broken.”
The in-the-pocket-of-the-unions legislature of Michigan passed a law that forced 40,000 day-care businesses in the state to unionize. At the stroke of a dictitorial pen people providing child care out of their homes became government employees and union members. They did not have a choice. Involuntary servitude is statutorily sanctioned in the economically hemorrhaging State of Michigan. Michigan now takes money from the child-care subsidies paid by the state to the new union employees and give it to the AFSCME, the government workers union, and the United Auto Workers. One estimate is that the state will take $3.7 million a year from the pockets of these hard working “union employee” and give it to the AFSCME.
Fox News commentator John Stossel’s article on this topic says,
Fourteen states have now enabled home-based day-care providers to be organized into public-employee unions, affecting about 233,000 people. . . .
[A lawyer] sued Michigan on behalf of the day-care owners, but the case was dismissed.How can a state force a person to become a member of a union? What happened to the concept of “involuntary servitude?” Once upon a time somebody said “no taxation without representation.” A phrase that rallied patriots during the revolutionary war days has now been grotesquely turned into “massive taxation with representation.” Why isn’t this legalized theft of money a violation of the Fifth Amendment of the United State Constitution that says:
No person shall be . . . e deprived of . . . property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
NY Daily News: “A 12-year-old Queens girl was hauled out of school in handcuffs for an artless offense – doodling her name on her desk in erasable marker, the Daily News has learned. Alexa Gonzalez was scribbling a few words on her desk Monday while waiting for her Spanish teacher to pass out homework at Junior High School 190 in Forest Hills, she said. “I love my friends Abby and Faith,” the girl wrote, adding the phrases “Lex was here. 2/1/10″ and a smiley face. . . . She was led out of school in cuffs and walked to the precinct across the street . . . .”
See “2 Weeks After Class Action Lawsuit Filed Over Police in NYC Schools, Another Child Arrested for Desk Doodling,” which states:
“This should be a wake-up call to the mayor, the City Council and the Department of Education: There is a crisis in our schools because they put the police in charge of routine discipline that ought to be handled by educators,” said Donna Lieberman, executive director of the NYCLU. . . .
Since the NYPD took control of public school safety in New York City in 1998, more than 5,000 School Safety Officers, NYPD employees assigned to the schools, and nearly 200 armed police officers have been assigned to the city’s public schools. This massive presence makes the NYPD’s School Safety Division the nation’s fifth largest police force – larger than the police forces in Washington D.C., Detroit, Boston, Baltimore, Dallas, Phoenix, San Francisco, San Diego or Las Vegas. The number of police personnel assigned to patrol New York City public schools has grown by 73 percent since the transfer of school safety to the NYPD, even though school crime was declining prior to the 1998 transfer and even though student enrollment is at its lowest point in more than a decade.
Los Angeles Times: “A proposed law would require new homes, larger developments and some redevelopments in Los Angeles to capture and reuse runoff generated in rainstorms. The ordinance approved in January by the Department of Public Works would require such projects to capture, reuse or infiltrate 100% of runoff generated in a 3/4 -inch rainstorm or to pay a storm water pollution mitigation fee that would help fund off-site, low-impact public developments.”
Why not require all new homes to have a mini-nuclear power plant so the homes do not use electricity produced by the few power generating facilities that provide power to California? Why not require that all waste water (toilet water, kitchen sink water, etc.) be recaptured and processed in a self-contained mini-water recycling system in all new homes? Why not require people to check the amount of air in their car tires and put them in jail if the do not? Oops, I forgot, California already wants to do that. See “Kalifornia Tire Nazis Will Fine & Imprison People Who Don’t Check Tire Inflation.”