On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > We need a new mechanism to bring equality back to wage distribution, but > it > > ain't gonna be unions so we should just let them die so we can get on > with > > it. > > I'm more interested in the outcome than the mechanism. I don't think > that there is anything magical about Unions but at the same time, I > still think they serve a purpose and I am loathe to get rid of them > until we have something better in place. > Here's where I believe we need to be bold. Public sector unions need to go. Private sector unions can stay, though they are dying out anyway as their real utility fades. What needs to become clear to Americans is the growing wealth gap between older Americans and younger Americans, investors and workers. Because unionized public sector workers make so much more than private sector workers in similar jobs, public sector unions hurt the overall cause of wage equality by skewing the income numbers and alienating workers in the private sector who fail to receive similar deals. Chop the public sector stuff and all of a sudden rich people look a whole lot richer and the middle class shrinks. Republicans who are currently going after every low-hanging fruit of federal dollars targeted at the poor and the young fail to understand that, by dismantling the middle class, they are sowing the seeds of their own destruction. If they were smart they would be pushing to continue this subterfuge by extending union contracts and finding the money for budget cuts elsewhere. But they are not going to, because there are only two places to look - military spending and entitlements. Until Congress manages to find the cojones to take on entitlement reform and military spending, the entire budget process is a sham from start to finish. Our current system is in the process of self-destructing, pushed along perhaps by economic warfare from abroad as well as at home. For now I'm content to watch it implode. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:334838 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
