Liberal myths and Conventional Wisdom

Through decades of main stream media reporting we have things that have become conventional wisdom that with a little bit of observation make no sense whatsoever.

Myth 1: Women make 75 cents on the dollar what a man does. The smell test makes me wonder how that is possible.

The liberals in our midst tell us that greedy businessmen will do anything to increase the bottom line. We see offshoring and outsourcing which is decried by left. They say they don't care about people only profits.

If this is true, and businesses could hire women for 75 cents on the dollar to what they pay men, why would anyone ever hire a man?

Myth 2: Oil companies have manipulated the price and not market forces. Prices are high for gasoline in the liberal world because of oil company manipulation. Things such as hurricanes, wars in the Middle East etc did not.
If this were true, would they allow prices to come down right before Labor Day one of the busiest driving weekends of the year? The recent decrease in price started the week before Labor Day. I saw gas a 1.99 as gallon yesterday.

Myth 3: Unions created prosperity and quality in the early and middle parts of the last century. The labor movement in the last century was important. They were horrible working conditions and slave wages that the power of unions helped to remedy. To extend that to say that they created prosperity and quality is yet another thing. I know some older retired workers who like to say that everything they have is because of unions.

If this were true, wouldn't it make sense to unionize offices? Wouldn't web designers, accountants, etc. be even more efficient and dependable if only unionized? Simply put the growth of unions corresponded to a time when most towns did not have competition for manufacturing workers. At that time our population had a work ethic that is largely absent today in many entry level workers. Unions were a necessary force and still are, but cannot claim credit for increasing quality or efficiency. Only competition and a commitment to excellence can do these things.

Myth 4: Democrats are for the working man, Republicans are for the fat cats. At the beginning of the 20'th century I would agree with this generalization. Today the largest contributors to the Democratic party are Trial lawyers, Entertainers, Organized labor (who get their money by force from their membership. A much smaller percentage of union membership actually votes Democrat). Big Business contributes to both parties. My theory is that they use it as protection money as they would with the mob. Big Business CEO's tend to be more left wing that right. Off the top of my head I can think of Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Ted Turner. There certainly are CEO's who are right wing, but they cannot be lumped as Republicans. College Professors are almost exclusively on the left. Not exactly the salt of the earth working men, although very definitely an important profession. Trial Lawyers as working man? They do work very hard in their professions, but not exactly the little guy. Today the Convervative Republican's natural ally is small business. Unfortunately the current Republican party has forgotten this alliance for the most part, and has adopted the party in power alliance of 'anyone who will trade votes for projects'.

I'm sure I could think of many more, and I'm sure someone on the left could do this same exercise with beliefs on the right. It is fun though.