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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Master (Hijacked) who wrote (95205)	11/30/2000 3:34:53 AM
From: DOUG H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Master, I enjoyed reading your post and we have similar backgrounds. My Grandparents came here from Czechslovokia and Germany near the turn of the century and as immigrants the faced far greater obstacles to success than immigrants do today. This was "pre-safetynet days". I have a young man working for me who has been in the country for 2 whole years. Last year his wife had complications with the delivery of their third child (2 1/2 months premature). I estimate the county taxpayers spent close to $1/2 million dollars trying to save the child and he still bitches about how much tax he pays. The things that are taken for granted today are staggering. My grandfather died in the bottom of a coalmine in central Illinios in per-union days and all his family got was his body back. No one needs to tell me about the good that unions played in our history. But they have gone from a movement of the workers, for the workers, to obtain a modicum of decent working conditions and rights to a mob lead, selfdefeating, extortion ring. Look what strong unions did to the automotive and steel industries. The end of a business cycles is always heraled by incresed strike activity. It's rather immutable. The past several years have been marked by ever increasing worker productivty and declining private sector union enrollment. Coinkidink? I don't think so. Don't even get me started on public sector union members. They are the biggest, fattest, pigs at the public trough. At the end of the day, there are those who put into the system, and those who take from, I know which side we're on.