Nickolai wrote:
Hey I was subjected to religious indoctrination as a child and was born into poverty when there was no relief for the poor when some poor people lived on boiled dandelions, and old people died in their tar paper shacks, teen age girls risked pregnancy, disease, and death in hobo jungles for a dime a trick, and railcars had more hobos riding the rails than paying passengers in the cars above. When extreme polarization between the right and the embattled left was rampant and in e******y gripped the land. Workers were paid s***e wages and if one talked to a union organizer it could result in getting fired or your head busted open with an axe handle by a Pinkerton agent, Evidently you prefer this kind of world
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Our society evolves.
Unions, huh? In the early stages of the American unions, they were a good thing, looking after workers who had been exploited.
Today, they are more like the mob, constantly gouging companies in the private sector and using workers' hard earned dues money to finance political campaigns that don't always reflect the preferences of members, many of whom are not pleased.
My best friend belonged to a union and was severely physically disabled on the job through no fault of his own. This involved intensive, lengthy and expensive surgery and over a year of painful therapy. The union tried to get out of their liability obligations and it took him several years of legal proceedings to make them address their responsibility per his union contract. He had a wife and four children and a mortgage, and almost lost the latter while going deeply into debt, even though his wife went back to work to help keep them afloat. That's what unions are today
Public sector unions gouge the taxpayer, getting compensation for employees that, while they work a lot less hard then their private sector counterparts, is often nearly double when you include pay and benefits packages.
And again, these unions pojr money into political campaigns of their choice without consulting the members.
Some unions (private sector) gouge companies enough that they have to downsize or relocate, often overseas, in order to maintain profitability.
Back to the evolution of our society: what you detail about paper shacks and other extremes would have passed by the wayside in the course of the country maturing and would even now be a thing of the past.
The marketplace works if left alone to develop, rather than be buried in government regulations.
Funnily enough, Conservatives are the biggest donors to charitable causes, while liberals are the smallest, preferring to force everyone else to pony up, willing or not, through their taxes.
I've donated to charitable causes, including to groups like Samaritans'Purse, the Red Cross, homeless food kitchens and others, and as is my custom I don't write them off on my taxes because I understand that not all my fellow taxpayers might agree with my choice of donations, so they should be on me.
As usual, though, you are going to extremes to make your point, as if to say that we desperately need to be a socialist country before thousands more seniors die alone in paper shacks while others run out of dandelions and starve in the streets unless Marxism "grips the land."
You really need to get out more.