It is different in this way. The guy who replied to the fellow complaining about unions advised the complainer to join the class struggle and win benefits from capital. He should not complain but see the union members as a model. The Fox news fellow just says that the rich deserve what they get you should not be fighting the rich and capital at all. That is you are a bad guy involved in nasty class warfare. The other chap is saying that you are a worker like me and you can do what I am doing and should. What is your point exactly? They do not seem alike at all in relevant features to me. The argument is not about income inequality per se so much as not seeing what value those making more than you could be for you (or others).The parallel answer from the Fox news side would be not to talk of class warfare but to say that in the U.S. every one has a chance to be rich and successful not to talk about class warfare but the American Dream etc. etc. Everyone can be a Horatio Alger.
Cheers, ken Blog: http://kenthink7.blogspot.com/index.html Blog: http://kencan7.blogspot.com/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: raghu <[email protected]> To: Progressive Economics <[email protected]> Cc: Sent: Friday, June 8, 2012 4:08:56 PM Subject: [Pen-l] The New Republic on the decline of unions http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/103928/not-bang-whimper-the-long-slow-death-spiral-americas-labor-movement?page=0,1 This article has a telling quote that I think goes a long way towards explaining why and how unions lost the battle for the hearts and minds of the US public. ---------QUOTE----- One guy stood up and said something like, “Why should I care about your membership? They’re making more money than I am, they have better benefits than I do. Who needs you or them?” Wimpy’s response was to turn on the guy—again, this is from memory, but it’s of a piece with his career—and bellow, “What are you yelling at me for, you jerk. Rather than attack workers who have organized themselves into a union and are doing better than you because of it, why don’t you organize a union yourself?! Then you can get better pay and benefits, too!” ---------QUOTE----- How is this response any different to those idiots on Fox News who whose all-purpose response to concerns about income inequality is to yell "Class Warfare!!" and preach about how you should not envy the rich for their well-deserved success? -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
