Typical Grosse Pointe ....., living in their isolated world, coddled by mom & dad, probably with a free education and a job waiting for them thanks to dad's friends. No wonder everyone hates rich people.
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Um, yes, I think with a system of national health insurance, I'd be happy to fund the system that ensures nobody has to go without treatments that extend and improve their quality of life. What's reckless and irresponsible about that? Seems to work in, oh, every other civilized country.
because "those screaming protesters outside my office has given me not only a change of heart, but a change of political philosophy"
said no politician ever.....
Unions are bankrupting our industries, our cities, and are a contributing factor in outsourcing.
It doesn't surprise me that teachers would abuse their sick time. They only get 184 days off a year.
Hey the UAW just got the jobs back for those Chrysler workers that were caught drinking and getting high during lunch [[on camera). YAY UNIONS!!!!
This is all ahistorical nonsense. Strong labor unions were an enormous part of what built wealth and a middle class in Michigan and many other northern states.
If there were no labor unions neither I nor my father nor many of my other relatives would have a college education today. We would be uneducated low-wage manual laborers just like my ancestors were before my grandfathers fought like hell [[and I mean FOUGHT - my father's father was put into the hospital with a fractured skull for weeks by a nightstick blow from a hired goon) to gain recognition for unions and workers' right to organize and collectively bargain.
And that same basic history is repeated across thousands and thousands of families in Michigan and elsewhere in the midwest. But now our wonderful state GOP, backed by huge money from wealthy contributors and the sort of zealous Limbaugh-ite know-nothings I see here, wants very badly to deny this future to coming generations so that they and their friends can pocket a lot more dough off the labor of others.
Again, I have no idea why any reasonable person would want to turn Michigan, or any other civilized state, into a backwater shithole like Alabama, Mississippi, and other states that exist under this Orwellian notion of so-called "right to work" [[i.e. right to be endlessly exploited) laws.
Completely inaccurate. Wasn't even half a million...
http://m.host.madison.com/wsj/news/l...cc4c03286.html
You do understand how labor strikes work, si?
Unions artificially increase the price and terms of their labor by threatening to walk out on the company if they don't agree to the terms.
Artificially high labor costs in the United States combined with very poor people around the world that are willing to do the job for a fraction of the cost will lead to the amazing amount of outsourcing you see here.
If you need a bolt turned on a line for 8 hours a day it's going to cost you $30 an hour + a pension for a job that doesn't even need a high school diploma.
Unions WERE good for this country. That is not true any longer.
Parents will figure out that the teachers' lesson plans must have included teaching the children how to perpetrated fraud like they did in Wisconsin. I don't think that teachers were ever prosecuted in Wisconsin but doctors who wrote them phony sickness excuses were fined.
http://www.nbc15.com/home/headlines/...116544948.html
The largest demonstrations in Madison were on weekends when teachers and other employees who didn't commit fraud had a chance to drive from Milwaukee and Chicago to complain about Gov. Walker's similar changes. Before this is over, expect protest t-shirt sales to be up, a rousing speech by Rev. Jackson at the State Capitol, a speech by Michael Moore, placards equating the Governor with Hitler, paid union members from Chicago in attendance, and a parade of sympathetic union police and firemen. Everyone loves firemen.
What the Michigan State Capitol will look like on a warm weekend in January. [[Madison shown here)
http://onepotato.net/about_us_images...olor_thumb.jpg
By the way, unions aren't just in factories. Places from grocery stores to banks have unions.
All of that is very true and this country owes an enormous debt to those people. But most of the things they fought for have been codified into labor law, so don't you think that today's workers should have the option to decide if they want to remain part of a union? If the unions still have something to offer then they will never be short of members. Right To Work doesn't eliminate unions, it just forces them to compete for members, and competition is good.
Seems I remember some workers who were so irresponsible that they pretty much crashed the national economy, resulting in trillions in equity going up in smoke, mass unemployment, millions of families losing their homes and leaving hundreds of American cities on the verge of bankruptcy.
Those workers didn't get prosecuted. Those workers didn't get fired. Those workers were given bonuses and their companies were given trillions of dollars to cover the problems they made.
Oh, but right: I'm going to get all upset about some working stiffs drinking alcohol.