Again the GOP "fixes" programs with problems like vets "fix" horses with broken legs.
Joel Send a noteboard - 02/02/2013 07:50:10 PM
Times change, a once-good-cause has turned into a monstrosity, that is reason enough to kill it.
Which, of course, is why I am typically very leery of GOP "reforms:" In the Republican Party, "reform" is usually a euphemism for "kill." So tell me again how ya'll are gonna "reform" Social Security and Medicare to "save" them. All things considered, I think I would prefer Republicans "reformed," say, campaign finance.
Yeah, modern unions have serious problems, though their US effects on non-union members are largely nil thanks to Taft-Hartley killing US unions. However, let us not pretend all the abuses unions were created to reduce (and could never hope to end) would not explode overnight in their absence. To a great degree, many abuses such as requiring overtime, sometimes not even paying time-and-a-half for it, paying less than subsistence wages, offering health insurance and pensions, etc. have ALREADY returned in full force precisely because US union membership has fallen to around 10% since Reagan used Taft-Hartley to cripple unions.
So instead of just finishing the job by OFFICIALLY outlawing/killing the anemic union presence still present, why not ACTUALLY reform unions flaws while preserving/restoring their valuable safeguards against industry abuses? Why are unions ALWAYS, and industry NEVER, the villain in the Republican narrative? Maybe the "problem" with unions is not all the money they give politicians, but that they give it to the WRONG politicians....
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This message last edited by Joel on 02/02/2013 at 07:56:26 PM
michigan governor admits "right to work" law was not necessary
29/01/2013 11:12:20 PM
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The Civil Rights laws of the 50s & 60s only affected 10% of the population. Why did we need them?
29/01/2013 11:53:08 PM
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probably because the Constitution demanded it. that pesky equality thing applies equally to all....
30/01/2013 12:08:58 AM
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I really have not seen anyone so stupid on these boards in a long time. You reason like a union thug
03/02/2013 12:03:31 AM
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Right to Work laws are very important.....
30/01/2013 12:29:29 AM
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Modern unions are morally corrupt and antique, don't pretend you disagree
30/01/2013 02:38:39 AM
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legislating their ability to exist does nothing to address this problem.... *NM*
30/01/2013 03:05:09 AM
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then it is good thing that isn't what they did. Kind of like what you quoted isn't what was said
30/01/2013 04:32:40 AM
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Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize they banned unions. Oh wait, THEY DIDN'T.
30/01/2013 05:29:50 AM
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Again the GOP "fixes" programs with problems like vets "fix" horses with broken legs.
02/02/2013 07:50:10 PM
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