ETHICAL ISSUES: UNIONS

ETHICS, UNIONS, and UNIONIZATION

I’ve long suspected that the rampant liberalism of the 1960s would have toxic effects on our society in the future. The future is now. That being said, I propose the following:

[My own well-documented research in this area in preparation of my MBA thesis (Unionization And The Professional; Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1970) was done at the very time the movement was active, so I have more than a passing knowledge of the subject. An interview with Fred Siegel by Matthew Kaminski (Wall Street Journal, November 26-27, 2011) brings it into sharper focus.]

Unfortunately…

Believe it or else: our current financial crisis is in large part a result of public sector unions. The decline of the blue-collar worker in the ’50s resulted in decline in union membership, heralding a decline in union stature and commensurate decline in union power. In order to survive, unions had to look elsewhere for membership. Failing in their attempts to unionize private sector (the economy) professionals and white-collar workers, they turned their efforts to the public sector.

DONALD J. TRUMP – Our 45th President

THE TRUMP REVOLUTION

“The times they are a-changin’.” For the first time since Andrew Jackson, our President is a populist, not a politician. Donald Trump will prove to be a better President than Jackson, if only for the fact that he speaks and listens—daily—directly with the electorate. All of them. Think about it: Ever since the earliest days of his candidacy, Trump has been the headline of virtually every political and other news article. Every day, In every media. Even the mass media who apparently hate him.

Donald Trump is in your face no matter the channel practically 24/7. If you don’t know who he is and what he stands for, you haven’t been paying attention. He clearly is not a politician—ask any politician. If he lies, it’s usually hyperbole and it soon becomes clear what he means, and he

ETHICS, LAW, and THE RULES of LAWYERS

ETHICAL ISSUES: THE LAW

“The rule of law is the most significant issue facing our civilization, an insidious deterioration of the principles on which the republic is built.” So said Robert Bartley in The Wall Street Journal of September 19, 2000. He was right then, and he’s right now.

In the eight centuries since the Magna Carta, we have increasingly taken the rule of law for granted, not to mention bending, folding, spindling and otherwise mutilating it along the way. Our law has been molded by hundreds of years of subjective experience, shaping our behavior to the point where its beginnings are lost in clouds of uncertainty. Further, this vast accumulation of experience encourages us to selectively pick only those pieces that seem to justify our need at any given moment. This is fodder for lawyers, whose job it is to sort through the plethora of records and determine a course of action for any given situation. Somebody has to do it.