Another sign that 2012 may be the end of the world

A sign of the end of the world would be things like:

• The moon turning to blood
• The sun refusing to shine
• Earthquakes in various places
• Wars all around the world

Now yesterday another sign that this may be the final year.... Michigan has become a right-to-work state.

Who would have thought that the most union owned-corrupt-state, although Illinois is in a very close second, could turn from its union masters and allow anyone who wants to work to work without being FORCED to pay union dues.  Nobody saw this one coming and even though President Obama put his two cents into the discussion saying that "This is not the direction we should be going"  (guess they didn't get his memo on what "Forward" meant or what direction forward was), the governor signed the bill passed by the legislature.

Of course Michigan still has a long way to go.  The unions will continue to put pressure on their "members" to pay their dues (looks like a good year for the tire stores and auto paint industry), but slowly they will be drained of their money as in these hard times, families need every dime they can get their hands on and dues will have to wait.   Also, the unions will be more active to punish the politicians who voted for it and get "their guys" back into power but hopefully the people of Michigan will see that more jobs is better than NO highly paid union jobs (zero time anything is still zero).

Hopefully this will bring much needed jobs back to Michigan.  For too long jobs have left this state that once was the envy of the world.  Over the past several decades, the unions inflated wages and benefits well beyond what was sustainable, but even worse is their constant interference in how businesses operate.  Far too often they would limit the kinds of work the employees can or cannot do.  For example, Teamsters unions Hostess Bakeries to use different truck drivers for those who deliver bread and those who deliver snack foods.  Really?  What would be next, Ho-Ho drivers and Ding-Dong-drivers?   Of course this is just their way to get more work for truck drivers, but it just adds more to the cost of what we buy until the company cannot function anymore (as was the case with Hostess) and close their doors.

While this is good news to me... it's a little unnerving.  If Illinois or Wisconsin becomes a right-to-work-state too, I may have to hold off on buying that "University of Illinois 2013 Calendar" as it might be a waste of money.