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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (57510)10/24/2012 4:28:45 AM
From: RMF  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
Their's nothing wrong with progressivism, just as their's nothing wrong with unionism.

It's just that they, as with anything else, have a tendency to overreach their initial aims. They get taken over by guys looking to make a buck.

I worked in a steel mill in my youth and I was pretty shocked at how things worked. When I first got there I worked my ass off and I found that I was called upon to work every crappy job that came up. I eventually figured out that I was called upon so often because the other guys knew that with the union we had you didn't have to do much of anything because you couldn't be fired unless you killed somebody. From that point on I just went through the motions and left work feeling more invigorated than I did when I got there.

Unions were created to give workers an EVEN break, NOT to extort management. Things got out of whack in favor of the unions for about 30 years but now the pendulum has swung back the other way.

Today, at Walmart, workers can get schedules that have them working 4 hours here and 4 hours there and whatever hours Walmart needs them to work to avoid "full time employment" and the benefits that might accrue.

If you've read Sinclair Lewis' book, "The Jungle" you'll get a handle on what progressivism was all about under Teddy Roosevelt. It wasn't a bad thing. It helped people at the bottom move up. Those people weren't bad people, they worked hard and raised families. They just needed an even playing field.
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