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To: RMF who wrote (788471)	6/8/2014 2:12:02 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575653

I have looked at the union question my whole life and have to say I think your personal experience was the exception rather than the norm. Right now the top thinkers in our country feel the largest threat we face is from the plutocrats. We are actually operating as a plutocratic oligarchy. We are 65th in the world in income inequality which is nuts. And the 1% control the congress. Since Raygun and the pubs started purging the unions in 1980 the rich have made all the gains in production over the last 35 years. But worse, the plutocrats by using the right wing has also put us under the burden of the right wings primitive culture. So we are getting a double whammy without the unions as a counter balancing force. More and more wealth being concentrated in the hands of the richest people and increasing poverty for the other 99%. Plus, as the plutocrats are using the right wing by indulging their primitive ideas on say birth control, god, guns and gays, we are devolving back to the 19th century. There must be a counter force to the plutocrats control over us. I know of no better way to do it than unions. Raw power. We also must have public financing of campaigns.