Labor Unions a Bigger Threat to Sununu and Gregg than al Qaeda

Look for the union label.. (0.00 / 0)

The biggest threat to the United States is WMD's (Warmongering Mindless Deciders)

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by: EqualityPress @ Thu Mar 08, 2007 at 22:45:24 PM CST

I never understood (0.00 / 0)

why people are so against labor unions. 

Did you see Fergus Cullen's latest gem of a press release?

REPS. HODES, SHEA-PORTER SAY THANK YOU TO LABOR UNION BOSSES

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by: Nicholas Gunn @ Thu Mar 08, 2007 at 23:02:34 PM CST

The operative word is "union" (0.00 / 0)

Some people are still hung up on the Soviet Union and, not having studied Latin, don't know that "union" and "united" refer to the same principle.  It's probably why these same people get their knickers all twisted over "civil unions."

Besides, "civil" is a sissy word, as in "keep a civil tongue in your head."

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by: hannah @ Fri Mar 09, 2007 at 00:44:52 AM CST

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Labor (0.00 / 0)

Labor is a friend. It reminds me of my research that I am currently doing. it amazes me that this administration does not believe that these people are vital to our system and have the right to unionize. Much like that of the Reagan administrations firing of the air traffic controllers in 1981. Every component is very important to the whole system of Air Safety and Homeland Security. the equipment at least that the scanners have is more up to date than what air traffic controllers STILL have to work with. It is there right to unionize and let them. This is vital to our system to our country so that these people can secure better wages, benefits, hours, and equipment. This is what these people need and deserve. let us welcome them into our union family as brothers and sisters.

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by: democratsox33 @ Thu Mar 08, 2007 at 23:11:56 PM CST

You're missing the point. (0.00 / 0)

The basic principle of economics is that "man prefers leisure and must be made to work."  What this means is that most humans are lazy and somebody has to force them to be productive, mostly by depriving them of sustenance and shelter unless they do what they are told.
A guaranteed wage, or any effort to impose reciprocal obligations on those who do the telling (whose virtue is certified by their accumulated wealth and social standing), violates the necessary power relationship between those who deign to give orders and those who need to take them.
Fair compensation arises out of the egalitarian impulse and, while human equality is nice in theory, in practice it is anathema to those who are convinced that they are essentially superior.
That "leisure" actually refers to man's preference for following his own law (doing his own thing), rather than being lazy as the economists imply, is beside the point.  The point of the assumption (ecenomics is full of assumptions, many of them false) or prejudice, if you will, is to justify the behavior of those who give orders, or "decide."
The MBA curriculum was not actually entirely wasted on the "Decider."

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by: hannah @ Fri Mar 09, 2007 at 01:00:27 AM CST

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it's simple, really (4.00 / 1)

Unions infringe on the corporate ability to pay people slave wages to work in dangerous conditions.

When people are organized, they have power - the power to demand better wages and safe working conditions.

This country has a long history of fortunes built on the backs of exploited labor. Some would do anything to ensure that continues on.

When people live in poverty, they don't have time to pay attention to politics, because every waking moment is spent on trying to keep a roof over their heads, and food on the table. Poor folks don't vote. There isn't a poor people's lobby working the halls in DC - and many of our legislators would like to keep it that way.

NH Kucinich Campaign

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by: susanb @ Fri Mar 09, 2007 at 08:45:03 AM CST