It has come to my attention that an entire generation of my fellow Americans have grown up and are being born under the greatest scam machine since Himmler--much greater than Himmler perhaps since those duped live in the greatest country in the world.
I spoke recently with some young college educated adults of the Christian persuasion who are hard working/not shirking examples whom we hope our own kids, pray God, might emulate. While their single mindedness and intelligence is most joyful, I did noticed one over shadowing flaw. These otherwise admirable youngsters believe that trade unions are bad!
Not only that, but that the very thought of collective bargaining is akin to communism.
I have further come to understand that there are citizens who are convinced that the very existence of labor unions is significant to the demise of large, formerly enduring U. S. companies. And some even fear for the future of any business when they hear the word "union".
The first thing that had to happen to let the barbarians over run our gates was to break unions, thereby allowing agreements like NAFTA to move forward. Deregulation had to be seen as a good thing, and if you talk with most young people today, you will see what that fine piece of propaganda has done to their thinking. After laborers had fought hard and yes died for regulation and labor reforms, all that good work was thrown out Mister Regan's and Mister Gramm's respective windows.
Strong unions could have and no doubt would have prevented much of that nonsense.
There is strength in solidarity. Ask the history books. Our U.S. soldiers were scared to death of a simple religious ceremony because all the Indian tribes of the west came together to celebrate it. That was dealt with though. At Wounded Knee Creek. Mr Eastman took the pictures but the damage was irreparable.
Did you know the barbarians who caused this Great Recession gave it a "trial run"? The great Texas depression of the nineteen eighties had exactly the same starting point as this world wide meltdown. There were even lenders and financial groups with cutesy names similar to those more recent twins "Fanny" and "Freddie". There were, shall we say, "creative" contracts in mortgage lending. Sound familiar? Oh yeah , and there were a lot of creative bankruptcies too.
Mergers and hostile takeovers flourished; people lost jobs. Domino effect. In the middle of all that some union busting took place and soon, in a great state of which it was once said "if you can't find a job; you ain't lookin', life grew, not only meager, then mediocre, but the proceeding land and business rezoning reflected --not the tenants and owners needs-- but what city and state planners had decided would help their own or their benefactors' coin purse. Rev that up you get the nationwide take over of property rights: Imminent domain.
Of course the precursor to Texas' plight was greed. Bets were hedged by enticing ordinary blue shirts to join in. For awhile, fortunes were made on paper,. Unfortunately, most were lost in tangibles. Ah...how I remember those signs that remained even after stick homes and brick ones were selling for pennies on the dollar. The huge freeway signs that read: Homes! Starting at $300, 000!, Sale! starting at $150,000!, Invest! etcetera, etcetera, etcetera...
And parked underneath many of those signs were brand new automobiles with smaller signs that read: Lost job! Please! Take over my payments!
So the Texas thing worked pretty well --for those in the loop. Why not try it on a much grander scale?
After you've been sold a bill of goods--TWICE (three if you count the great depression), are these sons-a-birthers trying to make you believe UNIONS are the cause of business failures in the United States?
I pose the question...
...Why were we so prosperous at the very height of union strength?
Unions had little if anything to do with big companies going under. But it's a good talking point to steer you away from digging for the truth.
Happy New Year,
Salty
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