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To: grusum who wrote (277017)9/19/2010 10:17:07 AM
From: bentwayRespond to of 306849
 
This is just all just regurgitated ideological bullshit. 7% of employed Americans work in unions, down from an all time high of 22%. Unions and union employees are a non-factor nationally. They have a local effect in the rust belt, where they are clinging by the fingernails.

I've never been in a union, and don't like them much. They have given American workers rights and pay they would have never had otherwise, you have to give them that. But, they were taken over by organized crime and corruption, and still have those problems to this day.

It's too bad, because the American worker NEEDS an advocate, now more than ever. The corporations own the government. The little freedom we have is because no one consortium of corporations has control.



To: grusum who wrote (277017)9/19/2010 10:35:00 AM
From: neolibRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 306849
 
You failed to note that prices are set more by foreign competition from countries with substantially lower standards of living. Instead, you're sure its Unions and the Government. I have no problem with placing some blame on Unions and Government, but I place even more on free trade, especially free trade with crooked partners. But free trade alone will do it, until the trading partners raise to within some margin of our standard of living and hence cost.


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