Archive for April, 2010

Why does anyone take the current global warming alarmism seriously?

(Thanks to @Capt_Kirk45 for the following list.)

Earth Day Predictions, from the first one in 1970….

“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” -George Wald, Harvard Biologist

“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.” -New York Times editorial, the day after the first Earth Day

“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.” -Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.” -Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.” Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day

“Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.” -Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University

“Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….” -Life Magazine, January 1970

“At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.” -Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

“Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.” -Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“We are prospecting for the very last of our resources and using up the nonrenewable things many times faster than we are finding new ones.” -Martin Litton, Sierra Club director

“By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.’” -Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

“Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.” -Sen. Gaylord Nelson

“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.” -Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

Frederick, Maryland talk radio station WFMD 930 brings you the The Forgotten Men show on Saturdays from 12 noon to 1 pm.

The show is available as a podcast. Please check it out if you get a chance. These are two citizen activists who work hard for the liberties of the people of Maryland and the rest of the country.

Joshua Lyons

Mark Kreslins

It has always been my perception that labor unions came into being as a way for employees (or “workers” if you prefer the socialist parlance) to organize themselves as a defense against the actions of an unscrupulous employer who takes unfair advantage. This is still the image that is used to counter any criticism about union thuggery and corruption. If you denounce unions, you hate the “little guy” fighting for a fair wage.

Now add to that mix the fact that it is the labor unions who are at the forefront of the demand for government controlled healthcare. This is where  confusion arises because it is public sector employees who are the most heavily unionized by far. According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, public sector employees are unionized at five times the rate of private sector employees.

Rate of Union Membership
	2008	2009
Private Sector	8.4%	8.0%
Public Sector	40.1%	41.7%

Now going back to the supposed purpose of labor unions, one could draw the conclusion that public sector employers are the most threatening to employees. After all, if the government were such a benevolent employer why the need for the employees to organize at a much higher rate?

There seems to be a contradiction here. On one hand, the labor union bosses are telling us that the only fair way to reform health care is to get the government more heavily involved with it, but on the other hand the same bosses would appear to be saying that public sector employees need greater protection from unscrupulous management. If the government induces employees to organize for their own protection at a higher rate, why would the government being more involved in everyone’s health care decisions be a good thing?

In reality, the only contradiction is between truth and the supposed honorable purpose of labor unions.

Labor unions today are about political power and political power only. The union bosses have simply muscled the unscrupulous employers of the past aside and stepped into that role themselves. Where greedy employers once short changed employees on wages and working conditions, union bosses now exploit rank and file union membership by taking their money and using it to buy political influence.

The Democrat politicians the union bosses install in office then push legislation like the anti-freedom “card check” bill, the purpose of which is to boost union membership through intimidation. This gives the bosses an even greater ability to purchase Democrat politicians.

It is a vicious cycle and intentionally so.

Fat cat union bosses like Andy Stern and their Democrat party stooges become more rich and more powerful on the sweat of America’s blue collar employees. If you are in a labor union, you are being exploited.  You are being lied to and stolen from. It’s time for you to organize against your real enemies, those who work against individual liberty and and the United States Constitution.