| Public sector unions protect some of the last relatively secure, family wage jobs in America. In fact in the sixties, when a large percentage of the middle class were union workers, wives could afford to stay home to rear their children, and almost everyone could afford to buy a house and send their children to college. Do you prefer that kind of America, or the one we have now, where unions are weak, more and more jobs are going offshore, and almost 30% of children are hungry some of the time? There are other factors in this equation besides the destruction of unions, but it is a primary one. Globalization simply benefits corporations and their shareholders. It benefits third world countries to some degree, until the workers of any particular country cost too much, in which case the sweatshops move to a place with even cheaper labor. There is tremendous environmental degradation, and of course America is in danger of becoming more of a feudal society, with a few rich powerful people and mostly poor scrambling to survive. The middle class is now hanging on by its fingernails. Do you think this is a good thing? |
