From some of my Facebook friends comes this:
As it turns out, the Big Corp CEO was working 12-16 hours per day, seven days a week to research recipes, ingredients and the cookie market; convince investors to put up the money to buy the ingredients, build the industrial kitchen, and buy and install the equipment to bake the cookies; and hire and train the cookie chefs. The Big Corp CEO then oversaw the baking of the cookies, and sales and marketing. There were some trial and error along the way, and the whole operation was almost shut down in the struggle to survive, but finally there was a successful recipe that was well-produced and people wanted to buy the cookies, so they were being sold by the dozen.
During all of this, unionized public employees were interfering in all of the voluntary exchanges taking place to bring about this cookie making business, restricting options, taking some of the money off of the top, and slowing things down. They even were trying to charge a special fee, claiming baking the cookies was causing local warming or local climate change.
One of the chefs turns out have joined the TEA Party. (Of his own free choice. He wasn't forced to join to get a job, or forced to pay union dues against his will.)
The employees working under the Big Corp CEO agreed to get paid in cookies. So when the latest dozen cookies comes out of the oven, the Big Corp CEO hands one to the TEA Party Member/Chef and warns the Chef about the unionized public employee. Sure enough, the unionized public employee takes a third of the Chef's cookie, and tries to convince the Chef that making the Big Corp CEO "give" six of the remaining 11 cookies to the unionized public employee will somehow help the Chef, even though the Chef's livelihood depends on the well-being of the Big Corp CEO's business, not just for employment, but because the Chef has chosen to be an investor as well.
A unionized public employee, a member of the Tea Party and a Big Corp CEO are sitting at a table. In the middle of the table there is a plate with a dozen cookies on it. The CEO reaches across and takes 11 cookies, looks at the tea partier and says, "Look out for that union guy, he wants a piece of your cookie."Wait a minute. Where did those dozen cookies come from in the first place?
As it turns out, the Big Corp CEO was working 12-16 hours per day, seven days a week to research recipes, ingredients and the cookie market; convince investors to put up the money to buy the ingredients, build the industrial kitchen, and buy and install the equipment to bake the cookies; and hire and train the cookie chefs. The Big Corp CEO then oversaw the baking of the cookies, and sales and marketing. There were some trial and error along the way, and the whole operation was almost shut down in the struggle to survive, but finally there was a successful recipe that was well-produced and people wanted to buy the cookies, so they were being sold by the dozen.
During all of this, unionized public employees were interfering in all of the voluntary exchanges taking place to bring about this cookie making business, restricting options, taking some of the money off of the top, and slowing things down. They even were trying to charge a special fee, claiming baking the cookies was causing local warming or local climate change.
One of the chefs turns out have joined the TEA Party. (Of his own free choice. He wasn't forced to join to get a job, or forced to pay union dues against his will.)
The employees working under the Big Corp CEO agreed to get paid in cookies. So when the latest dozen cookies comes out of the oven, the Big Corp CEO hands one to the TEA Party Member/Chef and warns the Chef about the unionized public employee. Sure enough, the unionized public employee takes a third of the Chef's cookie, and tries to convince the Chef that making the Big Corp CEO "give" six of the remaining 11 cookies to the unionized public employee will somehow help the Chef, even though the Chef's livelihood depends on the well-being of the Big Corp CEO's business, not just for employment, but because the Chef has chosen to be an investor as well.
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