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To: Road Walker who wrote (114946)	6/7/2012 7:44:38 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 149317

Workers must have unions. People have to understand that. There has to be a countervailing force to business and especially large businesses, or they will take advantage of the worker most of the time. Does anyone really think Exxon or the Koch brothers will pay fair wages if not forced to and provide safe working conditions. No way. Just compare the wages and safety records of unionized coal mines to non unionized coal mines. So to the fry cook at Harry's Diner, and even the farm workers need uions. Farm workers work for slave wages now and have forever and we accept it. 48% of the people in the country are now considered low income. Our income inequality is 65th in the world and at historical highs. My daughter the scientist, read me a study that showed how destructive to a society income inequality is. Eric Fromm said: The most neurotic society is one that adjusts successfully to a neurotic society. We are doing that now. We are adjusting to crazy simplistic thinking. We have become Palinized i.e. she thinks at the level of a mean 10th grader and now that is becoming acceptable. Both the Walkers, Niky Haley (sic), the entire Republican party has become like a mean 10th grader in their thiking. They are wrong about almost everything and mean too boot. And the very rich are using and fooling the Republican worker to take over the country and it is frightening, or should be to anyone paying attention. Every time they interview a Republican worker like, Joe the Plumber, or a women who voted for Walker last night, what stands out is their ignorance of world events.