And now, time for Filthy Liberal Theater
Jul. 13th, 2007 07:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
napoleonherselfSomeone's profile in City of Villains:
Ugh, yeah, those villainous unions. I miss the good old days, you know? The days where people could be made to do backbreaking, potentially lethal work, twelve, sixteen hours a day, without anything as laughable as benefits, vacation time, the right to express workplace grievances without getting fired immediately to be replaced by someone else who was desperate enough to feed his family that he'd be willing to keep his mouth shut...
The good ol' days.
The be fair, SOME unions are "greedy", and may even be worse for their members and their trades than the lack thereof. SOME does not equal ALL. But hey, might as well whine about unions as some tentacular monolithic evil that's "ruining America" by allowing its working citizens to have rights, y'know? Everyone has to engage in some BLITHERING IDIOCY now and then. And painting something with a broad brush has never done any harm in the history of the universe! Nope nope.
PS: I like how businesses are apparently completely innocent in the matter of outsourcing jobs to other countries. Boo hoo, those poor multinational corporations. All they want to do is rake in massive profits by only bothering to pay their workers a quarter an hour; is that so wrong? Stupid greedy unions. We need another raid by the Pinkerton guys, I say. It's been too damn long since a bunch of poor miners have faced the prospect of being gunned down simply for refusing to be pushed around anymore.
...I'm too easily amused, aren't I.
Ugh, yeah, those villainous unions. I miss the good old days, you know? The days where people could be made to do backbreaking, potentially lethal work, twelve, sixteen hours a day, without anything as laughable as benefits, vacation time, the right to express workplace grievances without getting fired immediately to be replaced by someone else who was desperate enough to feed his family that he'd be willing to keep his mouth shut...
The good ol' days.
The be fair, SOME unions are "greedy", and may even be worse for their members and their trades than the lack thereof. SOME does not equal ALL. But hey, might as well whine about unions as some tentacular monolithic evil that's "ruining America" by allowing its working citizens to have rights, y'know? Everyone has to engage in some BLITHERING IDIOCY now and then. And painting something with a broad brush has never done any harm in the history of the universe! Nope nope.
PS: I like how businesses are apparently completely innocent in the matter of outsourcing jobs to other countries. Boo hoo, those poor multinational corporations. All they want to do is rake in massive profits by only bothering to pay their workers a quarter an hour; is that so wrong? Stupid greedy unions. We need another raid by the Pinkerton guys, I say. It's been too damn long since a bunch of poor miners have faced the prospect of being gunned down simply for refusing to be pushed around anymore.
...I'm too easily amused, aren't I.
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Date: 2007-07-14 12:01 am (UTC)-Cortel
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Date: 2007-07-14 12:03 am (UTC)