The Only Real Choice

THE AD, which appears here often, has rand paul, son of the always entertaining renegade conservative libertarian ron paul, asking people to sign a "right to work" petition which, according to the ad, president obama is afraid of. Typical political advertising tactic: denigrate those who disagree with you, call them names, call them cowards.

Say what you want about president obama, and there's a lot you can say, the truth is, he aint afraid of much, not even bad legislation and legislative proposals, like, right to work laws. He aint afraid of 'em, he just doesn't like 'em; there's a big difference.

Oh yes, he is opposed to right to work laws, so he must be afraid of them. How juvenile a lie to tell.
And, truth is, we should all be afraid of bad legislation, and the people whose ulterior motives hide a sinsiter agenda.

Those who oppose right to work laws will probably tell you that concern for individual workers, and the power that unions seek to exercise over them, motivates right to work lobbyists.. In point of fact, a basic hatred of labor unions is the real motivation, hatred of labor unions because they are too effective...

...too effective in securing improved working conditions for otherwise exploited workers, and because by strengthening the bargaining power of all workers unions mitigate the power of ownership to exploit workers as a means of increasing profits for owners. Its that simple.

On the surface, right to work laws benefits all workers by giving them the freedom to not participate in labor unions (thus weakening labor unions); in other words, the freedom to opt out of the only effective means they have of coming to the bargaining table on even remotely equal terms with employers.

Freedom of choice is worth nothing if there is only one acceptable choice, and for the workers on the bottom of the pecking order, organizing themselves is the only real choice they have. It always has been.