middle class = privileged class
hahahah. Keep it up and I may make some real money.
Yeah seriously. Billionaire banksters are the poor and downtrodden that needs a helping hand. Whining about public unions is fucking stupid when it's wall street that's going to destroy this country. The credit ratings agencies are already rating wall street firms on the assumption of 'perpetual bailouts'. 100% of our anger and fury should be directed at them before we even talk about unions. Fuck this shit.
why can't we discuss all potential issues? I see no reason why we can't tackle multiple issues at once. This is America goddamnit, we can do whatever the fuck we put our minds to.
I haven't forgot about wall street, but I believe them and our current government which caters to them are the #1 enemy, not just wall street solely. Like I said, I'm not against going after them I'm just curious why discussing other issues and potentially tackling those at the same time is off the table? I mean we have quite a few reps, quite a few senators and the president has a whole team of people who work are supposed to work on these issues.
I mean would you have preferred my way of dealing with things and saying "fuck you wall street" and letting the entire economy collapse? People would be a lot more pissed at the assholes who made billions off it than they are now.
You think it would have, I tend to think it wouldn't have and even if it did I'm ok with it. BTW I'm not saying unions are a big problem, my biggest position on them is that they don't need extra government regulation outside of the 1st amendment to protect them. Anything else is bullshit stacked on top.
Yes, those damn privileged workers.
Learn something about the history of the American people and the workers.
Uh yes, it would have destroyed the world economy. Companies would not have been able to even make payroll, lending would have ceased, liquidity nonexistent. I don't know about you, but i'm not thrilled with the prospect of the grid going down and looting/murder/raping to be a commonplace occurrence.
You might as well say you want unions to go away if they only have the '1st amendment' to go on. Unions have little to no leverage. Private Unions have already been decimated.
Shocking, a Republican strategist puts out propaganda against unions.
Yes now that workers are the dominant power in the country, who needs unions?
For the last few decades, worker income has gone up far faster than than of the billionares, and unemployment is at a low point. Time for a shift to the rich.
It's sad some people fall for this crap, not understanding the role unions play - imperfect as they are - in giving workers some power against the corporations.
As for their funding democrats - unions are a David to the Republicans' corporate Goliaths, now unleashed by the Supreme Court to give unlimited amounts in elections.
In the last election, most top givers were corporate donations, 93% of the Chamber of Commerce went to Republicans.
This is nothing but partisan political attacking against Democrats' funding.
I'm looking for one word in this Republican's oh so concerned for society article against the corruption of the corporatocracy, against the Wall Stree too big too fail - not a word.
This guy is just the sort of poster child for the forces that are destroying the country - a hired hand propagandist to get the people to vote against their own interest.
Fact is, unions not only protect their own workers, the things they get raise the compensation for non-union workers as well. If you like the third world, listen to McKinnon.
Oh noes the US dollar would have been worthless, what ever shall we have done? The world has switched reserve currencies before, it has entertained the thought in relatively recent years and who's to say a complete restructuring of the way our national banking and currency system wouldn't have been a good thing? I don't deny that the out come could have been terrible, but I must have a higher opinion of us humans than most.
A minimum wage. A set total number of hours people can be forced to work. NO child labor. Thank you, Unions. If it wasn't for you I wouldn't have these things and if you stop they'll just take them back away. PS. If these idiots talk shit in front of you I'd be glad to kick their ass so you can keep saving mine from slavery.
Whether or not you're willing to admit it, you enjoy the benefits of what they have been able to accomplish. If you can't stand up for something that helps you, you've got more problems than worrying about me.lol, such a good little union fluffing thug...
The outcome would have been extremely terrible. We're talking about the ability to pay employees. If nobody gets paid, nobody has an incentive to work. That's extremely risky. I'm all for restructuring how we do banking, but it has to be in an orderly fashion.
Whether or not you're willing to admit it, you enjoy the benefits of what they have been able to accomplish. If you can't stand up for something that helps you, you've got more problems than worrying about me.
Unions protect workers from unfair practices and are critical to American prosperity.
The banks don't deserve order since they caused such chaos. We won't ever know though because we took a different course of action, which imo seems to be leading us down a road of prolonged death(seems to be the American way) instead of swift so we could start rebuilding. It will take a very very long time to root out the issues we've compounded on ourselves, especially through legislation which is a huge part of the problem anyways, when the system you're talking about restructuring has a stranglehold on our political process and economic politics.