“In case you haven’t noticed, the state of Wisconsin has been making some noise of late. Yet somehow, a week-long fight over collective bargaining rights for union workers has morphed into a politically polarizing smack down between opposing voices with the landscape of American media.”
If you listen to the Right Wing, they’d have you believe these Unions are out to destroy America and can be linked to chaos around the World. What is happening in Wisconsin is a peaceful movement that CNBC’s Rick Santelli equated to a national security threat. WTF? Glenn Beck goes full mental. Check out the video.
“Although Beck may believe so, the protests have nothing to do with religion, Karl Marx or terrorism. They are about the voice of the American middle class; a collective voice arguably being muted by bickering broadcasters.”
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Politically Polarizing Unions
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Things change over time, and this is just as true of unions as anything else - except, in this case, what was a good thing 80 years ago has become a corrupt organization that does more harm than good.
Unions are responsible for the destruction of Detroit. They cause horrible, inept, beholden politicians to be elected - all so they can maintain political power and rake money from the workers they supposedly help. The great pay distortion of $30/hour for nothing but a high school diploma comes with a cost. It took decades, but Detroit, and other midwest cities are imploding.
The long "hollowing out" of the economy did not create a middle-class in union towns. It merely created an ignorant, over-paid, lower-class that resented the very people who provided them with a job from which to suckle.
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