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Let’s cover some ground today shall we, on a couple of fronts.
First this caught my eye this yesterday morning over at RedState. Wm Craig wrote this. I haven’t quite decided whether I completely agree with his points, or think its more of an anti-American coincidence. I’m also not convinced that it’s not a distinction without a difference. Here’s part of it, but do read it all, it makes a lot of sense.
Fredrick Douglas Republicans. That title caught my attention, and made me realize that I am overdue fulfilling a request. I have three points to make. First, just distrusting, despising or disputing President Obama is not a solution for this country. We first must understand what the Democrats are doing and how our preconceived notions may in fact be facilitating their success by our resistance. Second we must work to change the message and expose the Democrats for what they are, what they have been and where they are taking the country. Finally, we need a solution that works in both the Red and Blue states and in the big blue cities. A republican solution to the problem of prosperity for all. I will begin by reproducing the comment originally posted on WCP’s Watercooler about Louisiana State Senator Elbert Lee Guillory’s reasons for changing parties.
I know everyone talks about how “liberal” Obama is, but his “liberalism” even Socialism seems to be one of those things that he lets people conclude and encourages. But the truth is that his behavior is more like Jim Crow Democrats than Leftists. This patronage economy, with big banks and wall street getting rich while the population is segregated and intimidated into submission with the help of Eric Holder is a lot like the government that George Wallace and Bull Conner grew to power within.
One of the odd things we have let happen is to assume that Jim Crow laws were about keeping blacks alone in place. Actually then as now, everyone had a place. And the laws were about keeping everyone in that place. Whites (meaning WASPS) “colored” which included just about every immigrant group (Irish, Italian, Arab,and a whole range from Spanish speaking countries here and abroad) Jews, Arabs, Indians, Asians and of course blacks. Remember the sign said “whites only” not “no blacks”. That is a very significant difference. And each group was pitted against the other, kept in line by attacks through fear and intimidation. Look at what happens to black conservatives, it happened to non-colored liberals under Jim Crow.
The point is, while we are jousting with windmills of false socialist or leftist constructions the real danger is that we are being segregated, intimidated and manipulated into compliance with a very well established crony capitalist system of elite, manor politics.
Black people who can remember Jim Crow days might think, it is our turn on top. But the truth is, most whites suffered under Jim Crow, their options, their place in the world defined by a very few people who manipulated everything to insure their own power and to feed their greed.
Obama is not acting like a leftist, he is acting like George Wallace.
Obama needs us to think he is a leftist, because it our opposition to him on those grounds that gives him the support of the leftist and socialist supporters. But his behavior is not socialist. Socialists build factories, and coal plants.
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One of the themes we as conservatives keep getting beat over the head with is our dislike for OSHA and its apparatchiks, and no, I won’t apologise for that. Nobody, and I mean nobody has done more in the last 20 years to cause jobs to go overseas than OSHA. I’m not saying that workplace safety isn’t important, cause it is. But you know, if a company is to be profitable long-term, it can’t go around killing and maiming its employees.
Yes we’ve all read about the heartless railroads in the golden age. But like everything else, there are at least two sides to the story. Remember, except for a few outstanding railroads, read that as Pennsylvania, Burlington, and maybe New York Central, these road were all wildly undercapitalized, usually by British firms. Remember also that railroad cars were much smaller than even the semi-trailers we are used to, so there were a lot of cars. Same thing in locomotives.
So given the givens as my chemistry teacher was wont to say, how much do you think it cost to equip every rail car and locomotive in the country almost simultaneously with air brakes (which are still expensive, ask any truck driver) and the Janney automatic coupler. In 1880 dollars, I’d guess about $250-300 per car and there were thousands of cars. And if you put a train together without an air system in the middle, you don’t have brakes on the train behind that car, and if you reshuffle the train to put it at the rear, you’re going to be very inefficient. Same thing with the couplers.
So the thing is, like everything else, there is a cost benefit ratio involved here. Workplace safety is always a priority, at least in any field with skilled labor. One of the thing that OSHA has done is remove that responsibility from the employers, it’s assumed if you follow OSHA that you are doing it right, and so innovation ceases because innovation is never government approved, and therefore you are sticking your neck out and God help you if it doesn’t work.
This came to mind yesterday as the London Daily Mail had an article on a safety magazine for workers on the Great Western Rwy. (UK). Here’s a bit of it.
Health and Safety in the workplace began with an illustrated magazine for workers on the railways 100 years ago this month, according to a historian.
The magazine paved the way for today’s health and safety laws, said Dr Mike Esbester, of the University of Portsmouth.
The feature attempts to inform workers for Great Western Railway of the dangers they face in August 1913.
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Clik here to view.Modern attempts to inform workers of the dangers they could face at work began with this illustrated magazine published in 1913
The railway workers were reminded to carry out their work as safely as possible, whether crossing the railway line, wearing goggles to protect their eyes or loading and unloading goods.
Having studied the evolution of health and safety messages over a century, Dr Esbester says that the country has seen enormous changes in the way we have been ‘taught, cajoled, encouraged and warned’ by the authorities to safeguard ourselves.
He said: ‘Before 1913, safety warnings to workers were very top-down and text heavy.
‘August 1913 saw an entirely different tone and style, it was a massive change.
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Good workers have always been rare, and worth protecting, Government has made that job harder, not easier
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