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To: freelyhovering who wrote (179390)	1/15/2012 5:12:21 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 543351

Started reading Benjamin Franklin's biography by Walter Isaacson. I never really thought about it, but Isaacson points out Franklin was very much into the idea of a ruling middle class. That was a novel idea of that day. He always called himself a printer. Very germain to todays discussion of income inequality. When I worked on the Alaksan pipeline it was with strong unions and we were always treated fairly. I was always very grateful for those unions. They protected us. All we got was fair pay and the builders like Flour made billions, so they were fine.