Yahoo and Drupal, it can work, but it’s not supported.

Yahoo server doesn’t support drupal, but for some of you with yahoo account, it might be interesting to know how to install the drupal on yahoo server.

Here is the trick.

1. Go to http://drupal.org and download the latest version of drupal .

2. Unpack the drupal-6.8.tar.gz.

3. Open the drupal-6.8.

4. Open the folder sites /default/default.settings.php and save it as settings.php .

5. Delete the default.settings.php file.

6. open the settings.php and change $db_url = ‘mysql://username:password@localhost/databasename’; to

$db_url = ‘mysql://your mysql username: yourpassword@MySQL/yourdatabasename ‘;

7. with a text editor open modeules/system/system.install and modify ($register_globals) != ‘off’) to ($register_globals) == ‘on’). ( please read this first http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/smallbusiness/webhosting/php/php-36.html )

8. Upload the whole drupal 6.8 directory to your yahoo server.

9. Login to your yahoo account /filemanager/drupal-6.8 and click on install.php.

10. It should run automatically.

Yahoo server doesn’t support drupal, but for some of you with yahoo account, it might be interesting to know how to install the drupal on yahoo server.

Here is the trick.

1. Go to http://drupal.org and download the latest version of drupal.
2. Unpack the drupal-6.14.tar.gz.
3. Open the drupal-6.14.
4. Open the folder sites /default/default.settings.php and save it as settings.php.
5. Delete the default.settings.php file.
6. Open the settings.php and change
   • $db_url = ‘mysql://username:password@localhost/databasename’;
   • - to -
   • $db_url = ‘mysql://your mysql username: yourpassword@MySQL/yourdatabasename ‘;
7. With a text editor open modeules/system/system.install and modify ( please read this first http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/smallbusiness/webhosting/php/php-36.html )
   • ($register_globals) != ‘off’)
   • - to -
   • ($register_globals) == ‘on’)
8. Upload the whole drupal directory to your yahoo server location.
9. Login to your yahoo account /filemanager/drupal-irectory and click on install.php.
10. It should run automatically.

The President’s gone Czar crazy and why you should care

Over the past few months all I have seem the current administration do is the following:

GOVI Bank

Government owned automakers such as General Motors (GM), now newly named by bloggers in the blogosphere “Government Motors (GM)”, oh and did I mention that they chose to fire the CEO, now I’m not saying whether he did or did not do a good job point of fact is that the government should not be able to come in and remove the executive leadership from any organization, period.  we also are blessed to now have a government ran financial services sector, you might recognize some of the new tank names, but due to the high percentage of ownership of these companies. It’s appropriate for rebranding, oh and did I mention I can’t wait until they decide to start firing those group of CEOs and their senior executives for their failed attempts. For those of you that are not certain this is a tongue-in-cheek. But several government firing any one or any organization is not legally justified, and if so can someone please share with me a case to review, I have lots of attorneys, Associates and acquaintances that would love an opportunity.

• Govi
• Bank of Governement
• JPGovMorgan
• etc…

Goverment Motors GM 2011 - The Libby

Every time I turn on the news these days I seem to hear about some new request, or outright appointment, of a “czar” of something or another in Obama’s new administration.  why is it that the president’s cabinet has to be approved before permanent appointment. However, the president can grant sweeping authorities to as our without any type of accountability and validation against the credentials to ensure that their appropriate person for the role. I mean, we have seen some appointments to the president’s administration but had to bow out due to personal challenges such as IRS problems from Tom Daschle and Timothy Gagner, who paid his bill to get his appointment.  As I opened up an issue of Men’s Fitness I found an editorial asking for another “fitness czar.”  Below is a listing of current czar’s that I’m aware of and I’m certain the list will continue to grow.  I would offer that you should look at the list of czars as a imperial ruler who has no accountability, responcibility other then deciding who wins and who losses.

• Bank bailout czar
• Energy czar
• Cyber czar
• Drug czar
• U.S. border czar
• Urban czar
• Performance czar
• Regulatory czar
• Stimulus accountability czar
• Iran czar
• Middle East czar
• Afghanistan czar
• Pakistan czar

This example I heard on the Fox News channel today;

an automobile dealership was being forced to close, however, after the auto czar reviewed they matter, and without any validation, other than their political leanings granted them, shall I say amnesty, which allowed them to keep their dealership doors open for business. And I bet you thought it was a lottery drawing by meticulous list of well thought out process and plans, so I guess we learned something today.

What is the true “responsibility” of a czar? To pontificate? And what is the accountability and authority? Without authority and accountability, responsibility is a myth and true performance is probably a pipe dream. Czars without authority and accountability set targets and goals, which simply leads to gaming the system by those also without accountability to the authority-less czar.

Ah yes… this will be fun. Czars and czarinas, already redundant with the responsibility of existing government organizations, spewing targets and goals galore with no one truly accountable to them, all trying to figure out how to make themselves look good. Gotta love it. Let the dysfunction begin.

I’m not certain how you feel about this, I’m concerned, the founding fathers are probably rolling over in their graves.  From my vantage point, it looks as though we are moving towards a dictatorship and our next step is an oligarchy style government.  Now I don’t know about you, but this is very concerning.

is larger government and dept our Great, Great grand children will never be able to pay back and that was NOT a hand he was dealt. We as U.S. Citizens need to focus on NEEDS not WANTS and get back to basics, no longer can the U.S. afford to continue spending on WANTS. IMHO

What is a TexAPlex?

With national headlines looking down see why Texas is looking up this is worth watching

Comments welcome

My comments to Karl Rove’s article “It’s the economy stupid”

Karl Rove

Well will miracles never cease, I had the distinct pleasure of providing a comment to Karl Rove’s article on the Wall Street Journal’s site below is what I wrote:

Mr Rove,

I would first like to say. Thank you very much for your continuing efforts to make sure the real message is out in the public.

Nowadays I watch with shock daily as my great, great, grand-children’s future is squandered on useless efforts. The only result I am seeing is a rapidly growing federal government; and I doubt our founding fathers would ever have imagined a government so large and still yet doing so little. Is the current administration suggesting that the current state of the world economy requires the federal government to become a banker and automobile builder?What ever happen to the open market and market forces, I know they still exist we only need to get back to the basics (God, Family and Friends). Does the current state require such a behemoth federal organization, should we not just adhere to the laws of the land as they were initially created. This was never the intended goal of the founding fathers, how do we turn this around.

I would like to offer an opinion; we as American citizens need to stop and realize the difference between our “Needs” and our “Wants” and manage them more successfully than we have in the past. It certainly looks like were heading down the right path with our savings rate starting to increase. However were only saving because we know its bad times were not saving because we know smart thing to do.

I would also suggest that maybe it’s time that we review the need for a federal minimum wage, now I know this is an extremely hot topic and will raise the dander of many a liberal. But let’s look at it a different way, what if we were paid for the value we bring to an organization and not paid based on the value that the government deems we are worth. I would suggest with the current bail-outs, the government has no ability to determine the worth of any asset of any type. Free market must dictate the value of assets and products. Now I know there’s no way to back-out the minimal wage policy, but this can be done over time.

This should be something that is considered and looked at as one viable solution. Did you know that if you removed the minimum wage barrier that your goods and services would have the potential to start going through a deflationary process and we could see a loaf of bread under a dollar. Would really like to talk in more detail about this idea and provide more granularity with explanation and an approach.

My apologies if this comment was not briefed on how often you get a forum to provide an input option. I want to extend a sincere appreciation for your ongoing and proactive attempts to make sure people understand “it’s the economy”. I would be glad to help where needed.

Cheers and best regards,
Harold C. Heard Junior
http://www.twitter.com/haroldcheardjr

Your new Supreme Court Justice!?

Barack Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court is a disaster for average Americans.  For one thing, if she’s confirmed, there’s every indication she’ll be a big promoter of the radical gay agenda on the court.  She’s replacing David Souter, a lifelong bachelor and recluse who lived with his mother when he was appointed.  President Bush Sr. assured us that the unknown Souter was a real conservative, but he turned into one of the biggest champions of gay rights on the court.  Likewise, Sotomayor was briefly married thirty years ago, had no children, and has never remarried.  She’s certainly not going to be a friend of the traditional family, to put it mildly.

She is also a radical left wing Hispanic with deep seated biases in favor of her own race, and against other ethnic groups.  Her ethnicity and her radical liberalism are the only reasons she’s being considered for the high court.  Qualified?  Hardly – five of her rulings have been appealed to the Supreme Court, and they have overturned three of them, an appalling sixty percent rejection rate.  This is all about pandering to Hispanics, and getting a radical liberal race hustler on the court.  Sotomayor unashamedly belongs to a number of race based organizations, including the Puerto Rican Bar Association, the Hispanic National Bar Association, the Association of Judges of Hispanic Heritage, and the National Council of La Raza.

If you’re not familiar with La Raza, it’s a left wing Hispanic “advocacy” group whose name means “The Race” in Spanish.  It’s quite clear what they stand for, and Sotomayor has no problem being a member of such a group.  (Just try to imagine the reaction if a white male judge belonged to a white advocacy group called The Race.)  La Raza supports amnesty for illegal aliens, increased immigration, more affirmative action and quotas for Hispanics, more welfare spending, and countless other big government programs to benefit Hispanics, whether here legally or not.  They also have mounted a campaign to outlaw what they call “hate speech” about illegal immigration.  They want it to be against the law to use words like “illegal alien”, “invasion”, “hordes”, etc, to describe the hordes of illegal aliens that are invading America.  In their view, pointing out that most illegals are poorly educated, low skilled, and often illiterate is also “hate speech” that should be criminalized.  If they have their way, anyone who talks honestly about illegal immigration will risk going to prison.  This is the group that Obama’s Supreme Court nominee is proud to be a member of.

Sotomayor is proud of her racism.  In a speech given at a law school in 2001, she said that a female Hispanic judge like herself is probably superior to a white male judge:  “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion [as a judge] than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”   (Again, imagine the reaction if a white male judge had made the reverse argument.)  She also said: “Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.

My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.”  You’d better believe there are going to be “differences” in Sotomayor’s rulings based on her gender and ethnicity.  Nominating this brazen racist for the Supreme Court is nothing less than an assault on the rights of white working Americans.

If you need proof, just ask Frank Ricci.  Who is Frank Ricci?  He’s a white firefighter in New Haven, Connecticut who wanted to be promoted to lieutenant.  To qualify, he had to pass a test.  So Frank Ricci quit his second job, spent a thousand dollars on study materials, and because he’s dyslexic, paid a friend of his to spend hours reading the study materials onto audio tape.  He then spent six months studying, about eight hours a day, in preparation for the test.  All his hard work seemed to pay off, because he came in
sixth out of dozens of applicants for eight promotions.  I say it seemed to pay off, because despite his extraordinary efforts and his high score, Frank Ricci didn’t get that promotion to lieutenant.

Why didn’t Ricci get his well deserved promotion?  It’s because he’s guilty of a crime – the crime of being a white man.  Due to the fact that no black firefighters passed the test, the city of New Haven threw out everyone’s scores, saying the test was “racially biased”, even though they’ve spent millions of dollars to heavily stack the deck in favor of the black applicants.  With the stroke of a pen, they destroyed Frank Ricci’s dreams, and trashed his months of hard work, all in the name of affirmative action, quotas, and diversity.

So Frank Ricci and a dozen other white firefighters sued the city for violating their civil rights.  The first court, incredibly, ruled against them.  So they appealed, and the appeals court ruled against them, too.  Guess who was one of the judges on the appeals court that upheld this blatant anti-white discrimination? Sonia Sotomayor!  Not only did she uphold it, she wrote a terse, one paragraph ruling dismissing their claims.  This is unheard of.  Judges normally write lengthy rulings, sometimes hundreds of pages long, explaining their decision.  In an equally unheard of development, one of her fellow appellate judges spoke out against this travesty, saying that Sotomayor’s one paragraph ruling “contains no reference whatsoever to the constitutional claims at the core of this case” and its “perfunctory disposition rests uneasily with the weighty issues presented by this appeal.”   The U.S. Constitution, legitimate claims, weighty issues – those don’t matter – not to Sotomayor to whom Frank Ricci is a white male oppressor, which means the government is free to trample his rights in order to benefit minorities.

With his first opportunity to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, Barack Obama has openly declared war on middle class America.  This Sotomayor nomination is an ominous sign of just what the remainder of Obama’s term holds for people like you and me, and our families.   In his heart, Obama is a radical black activist who has nothing but contempt for people like us.  During the campaign, lots of people exposed him as a racial radical with a chip on his shoulder, and a desire to “settle the score” with mainstream America on
behalf of minorities.  These researchers were ignored and marginalized by the mainstream media that fawned over Obama, who allowed him to cover up his past, and present himself as the “post-racial” candidate.

That “post-racial” business was an outright lie.  He has now made that crystal clear by nominating Sotomayor, to whom race is sometimes all that matters.  Obama said he looks for “empathy” in selecting judges for the federal bench.  Make no mistake though. By “empathy”, he doesn’t mean what you or I mean when we use that word.  We want judges who have empathy for victims of crime, for people who’ve been defrauded, assaulted, or otherwise harmed, and are seeking redress and blind justice from a fair and impartial court system.

That’s what being a judge used to be all about and that’s what most people understand when they hear the word “empathy” with respect to judicial nominees.  That’s because they think they’re still living in the old America, and haven’t yet come to grips with the fact that we’re now living in Obama’s America.  In Obama’s America, empathy in judges doesn’t mean sympathizing with people who have been wronged by someone else, and striving to ensure that they get justice.  It means sympathizing with and taking the side of “the oppressed,” i.e. non-whites, homosexuals, radical feminists, illegal aliens, etc.

The flip side of Obama’s “empathy” is apparent hatred and contempt for white people, traditional families, small business owners, evangelical Christians, conservatives, and everyone else that liberals call the “racist, heterosexist,  nativist, Christianist, capitalist, homophobic power structure” in America.  In other words, what most of us call normal people.  These radical leftists regard folks like you and me and our children as the enemy, and it’s their mission in life to put us in our supposed place, which to them means at the back of the bus.  They’re in charge now, and they fully intend to use their power to remake America in their image.  If the Senate approves Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, Obama will know that he has carte blanche to escalate his all out war on traditional Americans.  We’ve got to contact our Senators and demand that Sotomayor and all other far left nominees for the court be rejected or we’ll vote them out of office.  We cannot allow Barack Obama to get away with this.

If they approve her (and to be honest, with only 40 squishy Republicans in the US Senate, it’s unlikely), it’s time to get serious about finding a way for our beloved Texas to exit a system where Barack Obama and his racist friends interpret the laws that undergird our very life, liberty and material security.  I have faith liberty will prevail, but only with much travail.

Moving from Object by Reference (ObR)

For an extended period of time I have been working with the IBM Content manager product and it has provided value. Citi has adopted it as one of the “Standard” solutions for the organization world-wide. One of the major challanges that all products have is a ObR (Object by Reference) access, meaning that images are stored on a file location and the database provides a reference ID that allows the image to be located and retrieved for business process action. The problem with this approach is that images on the reference location sometimes come-up missing and that data therefore is lost and will require recovery action to occur. I have long been an advocate of moving from a Object by Reference towards a embedded object approach. That being a image is stored in the database along with the metadata related to the image.

My question is has anyone ever attempted to leverage this type of usage for business process and if so would you be willing to discuss in a level of detail.

In GM (Government Motors) We Trust

I’m what you live broadcast of General Motors technology but of the bankruptcy filing that they issued this morning, by GM’s Henderson. His comments were we stay we want to reward taxpayers with good performance, I question the ability help you do that with an ongoing contract reviewed six strikes and you’re out and turned underperforming employee I’m and shocked.

How can he in good conscience makes these statements when he knows full well that the UAW’s contracts are not in the best interest of the “New” General Motors.

By some comments Mr. Henderson technologies that General Motors has led many people down in history. I’m just not clear on how he plans to clearly and successfully fixed that problem.

Richard Henderson continues to say that they will have far less debt and fully competitive resources. I disagree.

As he talks about his ability to say he’s to prove themselves. And they will suggest that that is still a challenge to be faced with dealing with the UAW and internationally competitive markets.

GM’s Henderson stated that the talent Mexico is not impacted however, only impacts United States and Canada are not sure how this is fair, based on the comments he has made it appears that he plans on utilizing international assets and resources to be part of the “New” General Motors.

My opinion synopsis the United States does have a lawmaker. It’s called the government motor is no longer General Motors it’s government motor’s and I’m sure we’ll start looking for consumers high-quality government cars and trucks that are so capable of building. Produce such a marvelous job in managing the current economy, job loss. Loss of revenue away and let us not forget their natural tendencies to feel the failing GDP for the nation.

Wow how the times have changed, I listened to the the broadcast of General Motors bankruptcy filing conference meeting on CNBC this morning.  GM’s Henderson: His comments were “We want to reward taxpayers with good performance”, I question the ability doing that; has anyone read the UAW’s contract that they “renegotiated”, with this type of negotiations. I want to sign up with the “New” General Motors, I mean. Just listened to some comments that were made on the contract were astonishing. Where in the world can you get a job where you’re late for work six times, I excused and with no reason before eating being considered for any type of reprimand or corrective action.

I remember my previous jobs. Granted that being non-white-collar roles, if I was late. More than twice I was written up and talked money for my payroll.    How can he in good conscience makes these statements when he knows full well that the UAW’s contracts are not in the best interest of the “New” General Motors.  By some comments Mr. Henderson technologies that General Motors has led many people down in history. I’m just not clear on how he plans to clearly and successfully fixed that problem.  Richard Henderson continues to say that they will have far less debt and fully competitive resources. I disagree.  As he talks about his ability to say he’s to prove themselves. And they will suggest that that is still a challenge to be faced with dealing with the UAW and internationally competitive markets.  GM’s Henderson stated that the talent Mexico is not impacted however, only impacts United States and Canada are not sure how this is fair, based on the comments he has made it appears that he plans on utilizing international assets and resources to be part of the “New” General Motors.  My opinion synopsis the United States does have a lawmaker. It’s called the government motor is no longer General Motors it’s government motor’s and I’m sure we’ll start looking for consumers high-quality government cars and trucks that are so capable of building. Produce such a marvelous job in managing the current economy, job loss. Loss of revenue away and let us not forget their natural tendencies to feel the failing GDP for the nation.

DISCIPLINARY ACTION: SUSPENSION AND DISCHARGE

• Probationary Employees. The University may discharge probationary employees for such cause and in such manner as it, in its sole and absolute discretion, deems appropriate and in the best interest of the University. Such discharge shall not be subject to the grievance procedures of this Agreement.
• Non-Probationary Employees. The University may discipline or discharge a non-probationary employee only for reasonable cause.
• Representation and Notice of Discipline. Should the employee desire a union representative to be present at the time of discipline, suspension, or discharge, she/he shall have that right. The University will provide the employee a form to check off and sign whether or not they choose to have a Union Representative present. The University shall give written notice of any written discipline, suspension, or discharge action, stating the specific reasons for such action, to the employee and to the Steward, with a copy to the President of the Union, by certified or registered mail or by hand delivery within five (5) working days.
• Grievance on Suspension or Discharge. A grievance on a suspension or discharge may be initiated at step three of the grievance procedure no later than five (5) working days after receipt by the Union of the written notification of suspension or discharge.
• Use of Past Record. The University will not take into consideration, in applying the corrective discipline procedures set forth in this Article, any previous disciplinary action of record in an employee’s personnel file which occurred more than twenty four (24) months prior to any disciplinary action that is taken on a current charge. Upon written request by the employee any record that cannot be considered in effectuating the provisions of corrective discipline shall be removed from the personnel file of the employee.

Okay now as always I have given only one single example of some of the lunacy of the contract, I suggestion you do some of your own research.  however my research tells me that we’re in deep trouble with the way unions are ran and supported by the current administration we are buring ourselves too deep in debt.  To be clear I stand firmly in favor of a well balanced position between both unions and business, where both business and unions coexist equally equably balanced, not like it is today nor how it was when they started.  The current state of the situation is that ALL unions are overpowering the business and will consequently drive the business to failure.   Listening to comments are made on CNBC this afternoon with all the bailouts of the automakers, financial services, residential real estate and soon-to-be commercial real estate; every man, woman and child will need to pay more than a half $1 million dolloars to balance the budget.  I do not know about you, however that’s a lot of money, and I’m concerned our government is spinning rapidly out of control, or as I like to call it “Government gone Wild”, who will stop this reckless spending

Your comments and rebuttals are appreciated, however sarcasm will be ignored.

A New wave of collaboration is coming

Google Wave

Okay, I just spent one hour and 20is minutes going over the newest application from the makers of Google Maps now have come up with Google Wave and I must say it looks impressive and best of all its an open source application and they are looking for contributor.  Below is a brief summary from the Google site and its very impressive at first glance.  I will be working to add this technology into the ChapmanFusion product solution offerings.  Below will explain in brief the collaboration capabilities and strengthen.

Google Wave is a new communication and collaboration platform based on hosted XML documents (called waves) supporting concurrent modifications and low-latency updates. This platform enables people to communicate and work together in new, convenient and effective ways. We will offer these benefits to users of Google Wave and we also want to share them with everyone else by making waves an open platform that everybody can share. We welcome others to run wave servers and become wave providers, for themselves or as services for their users, and to “federate” waves, that is, to share waves with each other and with Google Wave. In this way users from different wave providers can communicate and collaborate using shared waves. We are introducing the Google Wave Federation Protocol for federating waves between wave providers on the Internet.

The Perfect Solution to a Difficult Situation

I was going through my emails today and found an article from a friend where he wanted me to review an approach to his economic situation and well you can read and comment.   Is this what we have come too, I am hearing that these similar types of actions have also been take related to the automotive companies.  But this was done to Conservative owned auto dealerships I was informed, nevertheless these are interesting times, and people should take that into consideration.

To ALL Employees:

As the CEO of this organization, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barrack Obama is our President and that our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way.  To compensate for these increases, our prices would have to increase by about 10%.  But since we cannot increase our prices right now due to the dismal state of the economy, we will have to lay off six of our employees instead.  This has really been bothering me, since I believe we are family here and I didn’t know how to choose who would have to go.

So, this is what I did.  I walked through our parking lot and found six ‘Obama’ bumper stickers on our employees’ cars and have decided these folks will be the ones to let go.  I can’t think of a more fair way to approach this problem.  They voted for change, so I gave it to them.

How The Union’s Are Killing The Econmy

Earlier this month, Service Employee International Union President Andy Stern told the Las Vegas Sun, “We spent a fortune to elect Barack Obama — $60.7 million to be exact — and we’re proud of it.” Stern should be proud of his $60.7 million investment. There is a good chance that thanks to the Obama administration, big labor will succeed in passing legislation that has the potential to reverse big labor’s decades long decline. And that will mean less jobs and a slower economic recovery for all of us.

3/10/2009–Introduced.

Employee Free Choice Act of 2009 – Amends the National Labor Relations Act to require the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to certify a bargaining representative without directing an election if a majority of the bargaining unit employees have authorized designation of the representative (card-check) and there is no other individual or labor organization currently certified or recognized as the exclusive representative of any of the employees in the unit.

Sets forth special procedural requirements for reaching an initial collective bargaining agreement following certification or recognition.

Revises enforcement requirements with respect to unfair labor practices during union organizing drives, particularly a preliminary investigation of an alleged unfair labor practice (ULP) which may lead to proceedings for injunctive relief.

Requires that priority be given to a preliminary investigation of any charge that, while employees were seeking representation by a labor organization, or during the period after a labor organization was recognized as a representative until the first collective bargaining contract is entered into, an employer: (1) discharged or otherwise discriminated against an employee to encourage or discourage membership in the labor organization; (2) threatened to discharge or to otherwise discriminate against an employee in order to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees in the exercise of guaranteed self-organization or collective bardaining rights; or (3) engaged in any other related ULP that significantly interferes with, restrains, or coerces employees in the exercise of such guaranteed rights.
Adds to remedies for such violations: (1) back pay plus liquidated damages; and (2) additional civil penalties.

Proponents of big labor argue that unions “give workers a stronger voice so that they can get a fair share of the economic growth they help create.” But that “fair share” does not descend like manna from the heavens.  It has to come from somewhere.  And that somewhere is the unionized firm’s bottom line.  Studies typically find that unionized companies earn profits between 10 percent and 15 percent lower than those of comparable non-union firms.  But big labor’s effect on the economy does not end there:

Unions Compress Worker’s Wages: Unions want employees to view the union–not their individual achievements–as the source of their economic gains (without the union, workers wouldn’t get “fair share”). As a result, union contracts typically base pay and promotions on seniority or detailed union job classifications. Unions rarely allow employers to base pay on individual performance or promote workers on the basis of individual ability. Consequently, union contracts suppress the wages of more productive workers and raise the wages of the less competent. They may raise the overall wages of workers as a whole, but mostly unions just redistribute wealth between workers.

Unions Kill Jobs: By eating up 10 to 15 percent of a firms profit, unions both make undertaking new investments less worthwhile and reduce the money that firms have available for new investments. Over time, this makes unionized firms less competitive. Consider the manufacturing industry. Most Americans take it as fact that manufacturing jobs have decreased over the past 30 years. However, that is not fully accurate. Unionized manufacturing jobs fell by 75 percent between 1977 and 2008. Non-union manufacturing employment increased by 6 percent over that time. In the aggregate, only unionized manufacturing jobs have disappeared from the economy. This pattern holds across many industries. Union jobs have disappeared especially quickly in industries where unions win the highest relative wages.

Unions Slow Economic Recovery: By raising their member’s overall compensation, unions reduce business investment and the overall number of jobs in an industry. Economists have found that states with more union members took considerably longer than those with fewer union members to recover from the 1982 and 1991 recessions. 

This is absolute madness, and needs to stop.  Who will take this cause up!