Im sure i am going to offend someone but
We (United States) need to remove the unions, they are a huge waste of money for corporations and the rest of us, that's why they ship jobs overseas. Some guy or gal wants $30/hr and full benefits and retirement to put bolt A into hole B then pass on the part, or have 1 guy working while 4 watch. I get tired of hearing picketers complain that they are being asked to pay $20/ month towards their health insurance while im paying nearly $900 a month for decent insurance. You want to buy things made in america then make it possible to do so with-out having to pay an arm and a leg more. I believe and the constitution states that when a government becomes corrupt WE THE PEOPLE have the right to abolish the govt, and form a new one. It seems like its at that point. Everything is screwed up, I dont care for the current president at all, but i do know that this has been along time coming. Also make drug testing mandatory for all welfare/ unemployment recipients. I don't care what the aclu stats that is not right or any of their other BS. :hungry:
There are many bibliographies on the history of Labor Unions in America that make for a very interesting read. Including very vivid descriptions of the massacre that occurred when, for the one and only time in our country's history, the US government sent military planes and bombed the hell out of coal miners and their families. That, and the hiring of the notorious Pinkerton Agency to cage unhappy laborers and use them for target practice.
Not to be outdone, there are similar, interesting bibliographies on the history of corporations in America....My favorite is a book on Henry Ford...the same Henry Ford that purchased a castle in Ireland, had it disassembled block by block and then reassembled near his home town (around Ford Lake) in America. Inside, what was then
his castle, was where he had constructed a dining room that seated 100 guests, each guest having privelege to their own individual servant. Too bad Henry Ford very seldom had 100 people who were willing to be his guests. No problem for Henry Ford, though. He just bought 100 monkeys, had them dressed in appropiate white-tie-and-tails dinner suits, and had them seated around the dining room table, filling whatever empty chairs there may have been on a given night. This ensured he wasn't to become too lonely and to have plenty of work for the 100 servants to perform. This was going on while his factory workers were asking for a 15 cent raise.
The audacity of some folks!!!
It took more than 50 years for that factory worker to be in that $30 hr range....but the corporate managers during the same time frame were also being rewarded, only at an exponentially greater rate. In the last 10-15 years these $30 jobs were greatly reduced by Union and non-Union represented companies, with everyone agreeing to Competitve Wage Agreements, whereby new hires would only reach parity in wages (but never in benefits) that would take 10-15 years to attain through a yearly, set-in-stone, non-negotiable wage percentile increase (usually 3% annum).
{What happened: If there's no longer a "company" (in America, that is).....no longer any hiring agreements...no longer any American employees to be bothered with....whether the company's workers were organized or not!}
All of this would seem reasonable, due to the "hardships" corporations were having. But, LO and Behold...the corporations were relieved of some of their "hardships" by being allowed, through some magical trade agreements our government dreamed up for their corporate cronies, to move their operations offshore and 'pay' the local laborers at their discretion. Ever seen the accomodations that Mexican workers are able to afford? That's evidently what our country's work-force (what's left of it) will be forced to shadow...unless we get our jobs opportunity, and our dignity, back on course. I believe many, many corporations don't 'need' any more our 'help' to line their bulging....greedy to the point of being obscene....wallets.
At least some areas of our country are still taking "prevailing wages" into consideration for their local work force's wages/benefits. Wonder who in their right mind dreamed that up?! I'd bet it wasn't corporations!
Many Americans are finding it harder and harder to purchase much of anything. Not easy if your not gainfully employed. Or your wage doesn't provide for the necessities, or even a chance at quality-of-life as outlined in our Constitution.
That's why I would never advocate the overthrow of our government. Why have to stoop to writing up a new Constitution for insurgents? We've got a real good one now! Instead I'm a proponent of ousting the people in power...sometimes our votes do count.
BTW...What ever happened to the protest movements?
The kids that are fortunate enough to attend our colleges and universities are said to be our future. Maybe it's time for them to start some 'movements' for their
own future's sake. I remember when 'movements' had meaning...and the politicians did take notice.
Drug testing is often a requirement for becoming gainfully employed....along with random drug testing after being hired...to be on that company's payroll. I see no reason, then, why those receiving pay for not being gainfully employed, and "on the dole" from our country's largest employer...The US-Citizens'-Taxes-That-Are-Being-Controlled-and-Misused-By-The-Feds Corporation...should be treated otherwise.
Hope my Country uprights itself soon...too many disgruntled Americans in my viewpoint.
Note: I hardly ever get offended.
Bob
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