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To: one_less who wrote (165536)	7/8/2005 2:44:32 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Absolutely what you said in on the money. "People who absolutely will not stand up responsibly are typically the very people who make it more difficult for the one's who do; and I am not thinking of one political party vs another. These people seem to be very needy as they are always at the fore front of complaints and never there acting on solutions." Think of labor unions. In the late 19th century workers were being mistreated by their employers. Why was that? IMO it was because they could, there was a greater supply of labor than there was demand for it. History generally teaches that the problem was bad people in greedy companies, and that the advent of labor unions shifted the power into the hands of workers acting collectively. Fast forward a hundred years. Labor unions protect those who would otherwise be unable to keep their job. They raise the wages of the worst by limited what the best can receive. Union bosses are part of the power elite of the Democrat party, while the members (in many unions) are more often Republicans. Now the abuse is happening from within the organization purportedly benefiting the workers. Lack of responsibility and rewards for it are why collectivism can never succeed for long.