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Wrongo. Americans like revolution, heck, we were born from it. Why do you think Reagan termed his program the "Reagan Revolution"?
But you do reveal one thing, that the environmental movement is where most of the communist/socialists went after they could no longer defend their totalitarian/authoritarian schemes. The problem you Europeans have is that you are prisoners of your history and bound by a static society and sclerotic statism. Where Americans embrace change, Europeans fear it, where Americans embrace the future, Europeans remain mired in their past. No wonder your best leave.
>>In a nation where only 11% of the people are unionized, it's going to take a bit more than a "worker's revolution" to set things straight, especially when these "revolutionary workers" can be replaced with cheap Mexican labor.
Yeah, ain't a free society a hostile environment for Leftist ideology. I guess you're still working on your doctorate in international economics so I'll ask you to think "comparative advantage". Both the US and Mexico benefit - the latter far better than any foreign aid ever could. And isn't is amazing that the US has revitalized so smartly as unions declined - that is no aberration, all the declining or stagnant US industries are the ones most heavily unionized - except government, where unions have no competition. It is no wonder that the best US made automobiles come from non-union plants, Honda and Toyota. And their workers are smart enough to vote the union down every time.
Read a little Milton Friedman, there is only one economic case for the existence of unions and that is in company towns were there is realistically only one employer. In all other cases unions merely transfer the wages of other workers to themselves, reduce investment and ultimately lead to sector decline. |
