Entries by Jerry Winkel

Unions in China

“Increasing attention has been paid to the sharp increase in suicides this year at Foxconn’s Shenzhen factory which manufactures iPods, iPads, and iPhones. It also fills orders from a broad list of clientele including Dell, HP, Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony.” My guess is that the Chinese are going to take to Unions like a dog […]

Afghanistan means ungrateful in Arabic

We saved your country for Pete’s sake. Kids can fly kites. Girls can go to school. Men can shave. Are your brains so broken that you have no memory. Geez, you would be speaking Russian if it were not for the hundred of millions, perhaps billions of dollars worth munitions we gave you to fight […]

Stimulous

Democrats only believe money generates jobs when that money is in the hands of the poor. The won’t acknowledge that that same money creates jobs when in the hands of the rich (the owners of the money). Frustrating

Haka, the Police did nothing wrong

The police don’t need culture training. I’ve seen the Haka dozens of times. If someone blocked my exit and did it in my face I would do the same. It’s equivalent to saying, “In my culture flipping people off and shouting obscenities at them is historic.” In our culture you don’t stick your tongue out at officers. […]

There is hope…

After Ohio voted with the government unions two weeks ago, I thought all hope was lost. Host is still lost but this is good news. Poll: Voters want court to kill Obama health care law http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/11/poll-voters-want-court-to-kill-obama-health-care-law/1 A new poll shows that most voters want the Supreme Court to overturn President Obama’s health care law, with […]

Seriously??

“China claims the entire South China Sea and says any dispute should be handled on a bilateral basis only.” China is just being the big bully on the block.

Socialism on a micro level

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said, “OK, […]

Data on the size of government

I don’t know the accuracy of the quote but this is what I transcribed. Your World Cavuto of FOXNEWS November 8, 2011 Home Depot Co-Founder: A Lot of Uncertainty in the GOP Field “We bought a thousand ships a year during WWII and we had a thousand people in the Bureau of Ships. In the 1980’s […]