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To: Mr. Whist who wrote (85905)	11/23/2000 11:31:28 AM
From: briskit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

flap what union are you? I'm for the camisados doing better, too, as that is who works for me. They aren't union and they understand partnership with a small business. I just had a guy who thought his job was to be on the clock. He never made a penny for the company and I let him go. He cost me money, made others on the job mad because they had to carry him. Now he is going to file claims against us to boot. I've also worked in carpenter's and laborer's unions and know something about going along to get along. Big companies with guv contracts can afford to carry people. The rest of us can't.

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (85905)	11/23/2000 11:43:21 AM
From: Michael M	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Labor muscle? UGH! Pretty sad when individuals are told how to vote. Not the will of the people. How can people claim to be confused by a ballot when they don't know jack about the candidates to begin with?

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (85905)	11/23/2000 11:49:22 AM
From: RON BL	Respond to of 769667

Flap I worked in Detroit as a machinist and then later took my first computer job at Pontiac Motors. I have a lot of respect for the union workers of this country. The jobs they do are often very repetitive and boring to say the least. In reality the unions aren't going to get anything from either Party. If the Kyoto treaty were to pass it would destroy all labor jobs in this country. We all know who wants that to happen don't we? The sad part is that the harsh reality is that the open boarders of the world are allowing us to get cheap labor from other countries. This is effecting not only union workers. I see it in the computer field where much of the work is being shipped overseas. What is shaping up is that in the future it appears that the world will boil down to the technical elite and everyone else. Like it or not technology will ultimately deal a death blow to the concept of a nation state. With the advent of the Internet there are people working in India doing jobs in Indonesia and being paid in cyber cash deposited into accounts in the Cayman Islands. No taxes collected. What will end up happening is governments will be forced to attract these people by drastically lowering taxes. Governments will compete to attract the best and brightest. Those economies that try to keep massive tax laws will simply lose their tax base. Brain Drain it is called. The best and brightest doctors in Canada are here in the United States for that very reason. There is a book called the Sovereign Individual that is worth reading in these regards.