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In my opinion they have realized their potential in life. They have accepted it. They think everybody else should be the same and capped the same. Nobody should have better or want better. They believe the pie is a certain size and everybody should have a certain size of it. They don't believe there could be a larger pie and more pies... or they could have their own pie... They believe they should be taken care of, not that they can take care of themselves. They should be protected... Not that they can or should protect themselves.
Really? I was a union member for 25 years, 15 of them as a shop steward. I've also owned more than one business, have a 4 year degree, and own my own farm. I must not have reached my potential then, because I now make about twice what I did then. Unions are like democracy. The only system that's worse is anything else. In an ideal world, workers would not need unions, but the railroad and coal barons of yesteryear are alive and well in today's world. Unregulated capitalism is what spawned unions, and it's what keeps them alive.
Public employees' unions are a different story. It is a conflict of interest for them to be involved in political activity. Just as it is wrong for a large corporation to sway elections to their own benefit, so is it wrong for SEIU or AFSME to do the same. Public employees' unions should be barred from political activity, just as corporations should also be.
It's typical leftist thinking. Without this type of thinking among the population there cannot be the control and containment needed in a socialist/communist society.
Try this: "It's typical right-wing thinking. Without this type of thinking among the population there cannot be the control and containment needed in a capitalist/corporatist society."
Rush and the boys have all the little people who fancy themselves as business people and entrepreneurs clamoring for a tax cut that means $100 for themselves and $1 Billion each for Monsanto, Exxon, Bechtel, etc., who are laughing all the way to the bank. They've swallowed the Koolaid that what's good for business is good for America. That theory was disproven about 100 years ago, but big business has found that if they put it in terms of "saving Small Business" it still works, just like when the Liberals say it's "for the children."