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To: tbancroft who wrote (82381)	11/1/2004 11:46:25 AM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793843

By way of clarification, I think I need to point out that the language "overfed, overindulged, undereducated Americans" was not mine, but was a direct quote from the post to which I was responding. I have nothing against hard-working factory workers. My point is that they have been sold a bill of goods by the Unions, which seem to exist more as a way to perpetuate jobs for union management than to protect the rights of the working guy. Many factory workers also find themselves squeezed by the cost of labor in the US market, which again is largely a function of unions demanding more and better wages and benefits everytime a contract came up for renewal. I hope that folks realize that there are a lot of good and honorable people who have been working in the factories of America for a lot of years. While they may have believed the lie that the union bosses fed them about their financial security and the specific value of their labor, I don't think that many of them are properly described by the pejorative terms above. In fact, I guess I'm reacting because I've got friends and family who have provided for their families via their factory jobs, and in most cases, are re-training and finding new ways to participate. To denigrate them with such broad brush strokes seems as unfair as the unreasoned and logic-free attacks by many of the ABB crowd. Sorry, but just had to get that off my chest.