when I read the comments about unions...
Feb. 19th, 2011 11:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
curmugeonMost of the comments I read seem to be people who because they didn't have an education or didn't have skills have found themselves in a low paying, dead end job with no retirement, so they have nothing better to do but berate unions based on lies and half truths they get from Faux news or from something the Kochs have cooked up.
What we need in these trying times is more unions to stand up to the management style that is typical of most businesses today. Employers threaten employees with plant closings, moving jobs offshore, or eliminating jobs when they can't get their own way, while at the same time giving obscene salaries to their management and giving stockholders huge dividends.
What these oligarchs haven't grasped is that by killing the middle class they will have less consumers buying their product and when that happens the whole capitalist bubble will burst. They may make gains in the short term, but when they don't make profits, their stock tumbles and we'll have a revolution on our hands.
If I live that long (it isn't going to happen for a while because not enough people are hurting) I want to be on the front lines as we bash down their gates and torch their palaces built with greed. Then and only then can we declare a people's democracy and watch capitalism die the death it deserves.
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What we need in these trying times is more unions to stand up to the management style that is typical of most businesses today. Employers threaten employees with plant closings, moving jobs offshore, or eliminating jobs when they can't get their own way, while at the same time giving obscene salaries to their management and giving stockholders huge dividends.
What these oligarchs haven't grasped is that by killing the middle class they will have less consumers buying their product and when that happens the whole capitalist bubble will burst. They may make gains in the short term, but when they don't make profits, their stock tumbles and we'll have a revolution on our hands.
If I live that long (it isn't going to happen for a while because not enough people are hurting) I want to be on the front lines as we bash down their gates and torch their palaces built with greed. Then and only then can we declare a people's democracy and watch capitalism die the death it deserves.
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