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ORIGINAL: WhoreMods

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ORIGINAL: HaveRopeWillBind

The middle class in America was basically brought about by unions.
Now that the unions are being killed off, the middle class is vanishing.
No economy based on consumerism can survive without a middle class.
Killing off the unions means the death of the middle class, and that means the end of the US as a major world power.

Sadly, the sort of "libertarian" who thinks that they'll magically become a member of the plutocracy if they spout enough drivel dissing the uppity proles online seem to have more of a voice than any rational analysis of the situation.
Great, innit?

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ORIGINAL: vincentML

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ORIGINAL: HaveRopeWillBind

The middle class in America was basically brought about by unions.
Now that the unions are being killed off, the middle class is vanishing.
No economy based on consumerism can survive without a middle class.
Killing off the unions means the death of the middle class, and that means the end of the US as a major world power.

You may have something there, sport.

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ORIGINAL: ThatDizzyChick

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If "unions" weren't synonymous with both organized crime

Unlike corporations and political parties, eh?

LOLOLOLOLOL

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ORIGINAL: Dvr22999874
Does anybody remember a song by the 'Strawbs' entitled. "I'm a union man" .............It was meant to be tongue in cheek but then again................ !!!

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

I remember my dad, union man, Striking in the UK...coming from a family of steel and coal workers on my mums side, unions were big for the working man.
As a nurse I was in a union, and have been in several others.

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ORIGINAL: Dvr22999874

I've been a Union man all my life and held a few minor positions a few times. My life would have been hell without the unions and even with them, in some cases, it was still pretty bad. The National Union of Seamen in U.K. springs to mind as being known as possibly one of THE most corrupt in the country, but even then, conditions gradually improved, which would never have happened if it had all been left to the bosses.
When I came to Australia and went to sea here, I found out just how powerful a union could be and the conditions were streets ahead of their U.K.Brethren and it is here, for the first time that I heard the expression, "If you stop fighting for improvement, you start going backwards, because the bosses NEVER stop trying to take things from you." and I'm sorry to say, that is exactly what is happening in Australia today. Between the weak unions and the corrupt unions, the workers rights are gradually being eroded by the Liberal party ( Our version of the G.O.P ) and the Labour Party ( see Democrats) is too busy fighting within the party to worry about it's roots and supporters.

Does anybody remember a song by the 'Strawbs' entitled. "I'm a union man" .............It was meant to be tongue in cheek but then again................ !!!

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

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ORIGINAL: vincentML

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ORIGINAL: HaveRopeWillBind

The middle class in America was basically brought about by unions.
Now that the unions are being killed off, the middle class is vanishing.
No economy based on consumerism can survive without a middle class.
Killing off the unions means the death of the middle class, and that means the end of the US as a major world power.

You may have something there, sport.

Will we here live long enough to go to the funeral ? Will anybody or even everybody, be able to afford it ? I think we may have to have to put it on our credit cards. Wait, that's what FEMA is for right ?