I’m going to harp on one of ‘Puters favorites – Unions. Sure, at one time, unions were necessary to ensure the fair treatment of workers. And maybe, in some industries, that’s still needed. Many times, however, the general public doesn’t hear about the darker side of unions. How they abuse federally or state paid resources for their own direct, political purposes. How their leadership takes home obscene amounts of money for not doing much to help the industry they serve. While it’s highly protected, it’s not hard to find examples of the fraud that our teachers are suffering at the hands of the NEA – $56.8M for administration in addition to the $64M for “general overhead” (2006 numbers)…almost $12,000 for Yacht Charters…and the president took home a base salary of $272,170 plus $98,258 of allowances for benefits and living expenses. Really? And then there are the UAW workers paid to do nothing (or next to nothing) driving up the costs of American made cars. Finally (h/t GorT Sr.), we come to this data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the years 1997-20007. In “union” states, productivity growth was 17.3%, job growth was 8.9% and economic growth was 33.5%. In “right to work” states, the productivity growth was 18.6%, job growth was almost double the union states coming in at 17.6% and economic growth was 41.6%. Glad to see that this administration thinks the encouragement of lower growth potential is good.

GorT

GorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from the future and return it to the past for retroinvention. The profits from this pay all the Gormogons’ bills, including subsidizing this website. Some of the products he has introduced from the future include oven mitts, the Guinness widget, Oxy-Clean, and Dr. Pepper. Due to his immense cybernetic brain, GorT is able to produce a post in 0.023 seconds and research it in even less time. Only ’Puter spends less time on research. GorT speaks entirely in zeros and ones, but occasionally throws in a ڭ to annoy the Volgi. He is a massive proponent of science, technology, and energy development, and enjoys nothing more than taking the Czar’s more interesting scientific theories, going into the past, publishing them as his own, and then returning to take credit for them. He is the only Gormogon who is capable of doing math. Possessed of incredible strength, he understands the awesome responsibility that follows and only uses it to hurt people.