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Pres of AFL-CIO What to Do About Anger of the Working Class

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by glynch, Apr 9, 2010.

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    Who can say? The unions can put boots on the ground, while corporations can put together lucrative little deals like sweetheart "loans" to certain senators. The advantage swings like a pendulum. Is it fair to say that few political dealings ever come in neat little packages? Is your thinking sloppy in that corporations may have almost 100 times the resources, but there is a caveat you failed to provide -- the unions can use 100% of their resources to wage a political fight while corporations must expend 99% of their resources on overhead and stockholders, leaving them 1% -- about the same as the unions to expend on a political fight.
     
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    You've got the spin down fine. Unions spend a lot of their money on overhead just like corporations on buildings and secretaries etc. They also spend a lot of their money on grievances and day to day work such as bargaining. Corporations can put boots on the ground, too. Corporate lobbyists and ersatz grass roots groups like those who founded the Tea Party.

    The Fox News corporations has turned their millions of viewers making $20/ hr or less into folks who fear the "death tax" which kicks in only on estates of $7 million or more.

    Got to love it. Unions are the problem. I am a populist. I like the Tea Party that was started by such populists as Dick Armey.
     
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    Next time I'm in Houston maybe we'll sit down to breakfast at La Madeleine and solve the question of which political handmaiden is the fairest of them all. It would be interesting. I'll buy.
     
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    Does this offer extend to me
     
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    When you establish a history as worthy as glynch or some of the others I enjoy duking it out with, yes.
     
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