The Lion Is Prowling

I was sickened today to hear about the union in Washington state that stormed a place of business, damaged their property and raged about, including holding guards hostage.  They were infuriated because they felt they should have been given the work that was assigned to another contractor.  Sorry to be blunt, but what is this crap?  This sort of junk does NOT belong in this country.  Between unions demanding what they have not earned, marching and screaming that they're being violated and illegals demanding citizenship and then DARING to march on OUR capitol, screaming that we're unfair, I'm beginning to think we're surrounded by brats.  I want all those union members, who DARE to storm someone else's property, damaging it in the process and demanding something that is NOT theirs, to move over to Greece and join their chaos.  We don't want it.

Though it is not their intent, rot gut, despicable behavior such as that provides more damning evidence as to the effects of unions and advances the argument for continuing to undercut and eliminate them.  Just who do they think they are?  I do not understand the union membership mentality.  I'm in a union and I can tell you the attitude and mindset of it is the members are, almost second class, if you will, or limited, and have no choice but to demand what they want and make threats if it isn't given to them.  It's the members vs. "the boss man" and any presumption that one of them could attain the position of "boss man" someday isn't even entertained.  To embrace the union premise, one first has to accept the notion advancement is not possible.  It is expected getting what is wanted will be secured through muscle and not earned through hard work and respect.  I cannot grasp the mentality.  I am my own person.  I make my own decisions and if I'm unhappy with something in my life, I am the one who will be changing it and in no way will I be relying on anyone other than myself to ensure that happens.  That's it.  This is how I was raised. Isn't it the American way?

When our son was granted the opportunity to have his first job at age 15, his dad & I made it clear to him that his new employer was expressing faith in him and expecting him to do his assigned duties to the very best of his ability.  We told him this was the first, extremely important and foundational step in his career.  Work hard and you'll likely earn a good reference, we told him, which then carries into the next job.  And so on and so on and so on.  We told him that business did not HAVE to give him a job, but they chose to and he should be grateful and appreciative toward them and show it in his work.  We categorically reject any other kind of attitude toward work.

"Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands...so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody."
I Thess. 4:11