How? All offices- President, IRS, EPA, DoJ, all the way to dog catcher are rife with corruption... Italy, Russia, Greece, etc., have nothing on us, in that dept.
So, what, I ask back, is keeping greedy, bent labor leadership from emulating the country's elected narcissists? Nothing.
I belong to the group the elite pencil necks call the 'little people', the
working stiffs, and while (about every election time) those elites running for office tell us 'stiffs' how they "love and admire" us and how they are "in our corner". And, guess what, we believe them.. enough to vote them back into office where they suck up the nation's wealth and mismanage ever thing they touch.
So, if we think of individual labor unions as miniature countries... well, there it is, don't you think? You have your classical 'working stiffs-- the little people' and you have your grasping, self-aggrandizing elites pocketing everything of value- including our child-like trust.
I, like most folks I have discussed this with, serve as a wind vane, a compass needle, pointing out the problem areas... but, so far I have met no one with the answers. . . . not even the slickest politician.
How? All offices- President, IRS, EPA, DoJ, all th... (