While you yourself may be a shining poster boy for free-market economics, that does not prove to me that it works for everyone else. And how is giving up the freedom to belong to and organize a labor union trading freedom for security? It's actually giving up both and letting the bosses stomp your head in with their giant jackboots. Consider this: one of the reasons you and I have been able to go through our careers without requiring union representation is that the unions have raised the standards of wages and working conditions for everyone, union or not. In a free-market unionless economy, it is entirely possible that the employers may see that since those high-paying union jobs don't exist, they don't have to compete and they can cut or renegotiate to pay less for labor. Granted, this is more true for unskilled and semi-skilled workers than professionals - for example, while supermarket employees in many states get close to minimum wage, here in Colorado they have a union and actually make enough to almost scrape by.
Do you really think these people will be content to stop with the first steps of their overall plan to eliminate the middle class? What's next to fall after unions and health care? Social Security? Medicare? They may be after public employees in Wisconsin now, but what if the next thing is retired public employees in Colorado, or diabetic technical workers on the West coast? I'm not paranoid - they really are out to get us.
The only thing I'm not sure of is whether you're being deceived, or you're deceiving yourself.
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Date: 2011-02-20 07:53 pm (UTC)Do you really think these people will be content to stop with the first steps of their overall plan to eliminate the middle class? What's next to fall after unions and health care? Social Security? Medicare? They may be after public employees in Wisconsin now, but what if the next thing is retired public employees in Colorado, or diabetic technical workers on the West coast? I'm not paranoid - they really are out to get us.
The only thing I'm not sure of is whether you're being deceived, or you're deceiving yourself.