Hugh, it would be great if you thought your posts through a bit longer. You are actually playing right into the banksters hands when you are critical of union labor. The banksters exported manufacturing to defeat the unions so the average worker could be forced to work at slave wages.
America was at its most prosperous when Unions were at their height. It wasn’t causing inflation; it was causing a standard of living that allowed people enough quality of life and leisure time to become politically active.
The corporations were all profitable using unionized labor. The problem began in the late sixties when young adults whose parents could afford to send them to higher education institutes and provide them spending money to boot, began to become political activists.
The anti-war protests, and pro-drug protests on the mall rattled the powers that be in Washington, they knew they had no way to control such crowds if they became violent or bent on over through of the Government.
Yet every protester on the Mall in those days had to have the bus or plane fare or gas money to get there and a way to eat and stay there. That money came from their parents. Many of their parents were adequately paid blue collar union workers.
The people were reaching parity of a sorts with the elites in that they had money and time to do other things beyond slaving away at 7 dollars an hour.
It was a strong system that took them decades to break. Buy American, boycott non union businesses and striking businesses, support unions and a decent living wage.
Today you buy cheap made in China junk from people paid seven dollars an hour for one reason and one reason only. The government and corporations don’t want Americans to be anything but slaves for slaves wages.
Your advocating defeating the last of the unions because you fell for the corrupt media’s, government’s and corporation’s propaganda is in essence a vote for slavery.
The correct position for anyone who wants to see real prosperity to America is support unions, encourage unionization, boycott any business that attempts to thwart unionization, boycott any business that does not use unionized labor, boycott any business that does not use American labor, and don’t buy any foreign made products.
The unions didn’t screw the pooch Hugh, you did.
Think it through a little better. The wise move is elevating everyone up, not dragging everyone down.
You can’t afford a car because you work for slave labor as most of your friends do and you are too gutless and unmotivated to rally together to demand a real living wage.
You keep looking to the government to save you when you should be saving yourself. That’s what unions do. They represent the little guy and make sure he gets what is fair.
What the government does is represent the big guy and makes sure they get and get away with what isn’t fair. Hence bailout after bailout, 46 billion to Citigroup yet again, while Hugh gets 750 dollars? Wow Hugh don’t spend it all in one place now brother!
The two principal owners of preferred, not common Citigroup stock that the government is buying are worth in excess of 600 trillion dollars. We have to bail them out? And you get 750.00 dollars to look the other way?
Better stop your crying Hugh and start really thinking before it gets worse, and it’s going to keep getting worse until all the Hughs of the world stand up and say no.
