It has been a busy couple of days here at chez Murphy with Thanksgiving on Thursday and then my now extended family decided to all come back and do it again yesterday so blogging has been light from me. It has ALSO been very light from pretty much all the other Groksters as most of us got hit with power outages. Yeah, *I* had power but the rest were pretty much part of the 200,000 other New Hampshireites that did without – news reports say this was the fourth largest state wide power outage event in history.
Anyways, catching up bit by it and this caught my ear on Fox News this morning as I played back yesterday’s DVR’d Special Report on the Walmart protest:
Protester with bullhorn, call and response: “IF WE DON’T GIT IT?” “shut it down!“
Really? Is this another instance of the Union “Goon Face” (and make no mistake, that’s what this is ALL about – not the workers but all those millions of union dues flowing into the hands of the union bosses) basically saying that if they don’t get what they want, then NO one should have anything? Shades of elementary school: “if you don’t have enough for everyone, come spit out that gum, Johnnie!”. If you don’t bow to our demands, then NO one should have a job – no one!
Yeah, like that’s a persuasive argument! And then someone that seemed to be more of a union flack had this astonishing economic nugget meant to persuade we shoppers to go along with them:
We want the public to understand how bad the low prices, what these low prices do to the economy so they’ll either shop somewhere else or at least pay attention what they’re spending.
Let me see here – lower prices for the same product that I’d have to pay MORE for somewhere else. How does that even START to make economic sense for ME to artificially lower my standard of living? If I did that for everything (and be sure, there are a lot of elitists that believe that we ALL should be paying far more for food and far more for energy than we do now – it’s good for us! We’re (seemingly) too dumb to figure it out for ourselves…
…that paying more for the same thing lowers our standard of living and we’ll be happier doing it. Reason? We’ll appreciate it more! But that doesn’t resonate with me and:
Observation: shoppers, on the busiest day of the year, didn’t seem to listen
No, why should they? Consumers are smart enough to not commit economic suicide just for unions that would make things more expensive for their families.
