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

To: Thehammer who wrote (129156)	2/26/2001 11:15:32 AM
From: ThirdEye	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Forgive me for the delay in pursuing this point. My DSL modem crashed over the weekend. A "pro-business" environment by definition continues the "us vs them" condition. You may point to the vastly increased numbers of individual shareholders in the past few years, but I daresay they don't all hold stock in their own companies and the ones who have 401Ks can buy anything they want. Blue-collar workers have to scratch and fight for every pension crumb. Companies do not hesitate to do everything possible to bust union shops by relocating manufacturing overseas or to Mexico when it benefits the bottom line, 40 million people still do not have health insurance, white-collar jobs are cut ruthlessly when the business environment dictates a need, thrown in mergers and the increasing use of temporary employees to avoid having to pay for benefits, Bush's original appointment of a Labor Secretary who didn't even believe in the minimum wage and you get a picture of what is happening. Bush cannot have it both ways. His "pro-business" attitude includes driving wedges between workers for the benefit of management. Management has never and will not now give anything they are not forced to give. United Airlines is one exception I can think of. Being completely owned by the employees, all employees have a real stake in the conmpany's operations.