This morning I am considering fairness. Our President likes to lecture us on his concept of fairness. But like so many things, we don’t agree.

Take for instance, unions and strikes. The President and his friends on the left think that it is fair to allow unions to organize and to use strikes as leverage for better wages, benefits and working conditions.

I would not deny workers the right to organize and strike if the law was not squewed in their favor. When I think of laws, I think of it as my neighbors telling me what I can’t do. I have no issue when my neighbors say I can’t break into their home and take their stuff. I have no problem when they say I can’t drive through the neighborhood at 90 mph. But I do have a problem when they tell me I can’t fire a worker. My neighbors have no idea how my business works and how my employees fit in.

So when it comes to striking, I see it as fundamentally unfair for my neighbors to tell me that I can’t replace workers who refuse to work.

That is essentially where we are in this society.  Under the guise of fairness, workers have been granted all kinds of privledges at the expense of business owners. To claim this is fair is to show that you are not considering one side of this equation.

So please spare me your lectures on fairness. It is a undefined term used by politicians to whip up the public into an emotional frenzy.

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