prole

Things are moving very quickly and getting mighty ugly in a hurry. Some articles: The Fed Throws Darts Blindfoled Times Uses Dreaded "R" Word in Headline The Dollar Circles The Bowl The Domino Theory

I don't think they should! In fact, if you have a problem with it, I would recommend you work on (re)organizing private sector workers for greater job security, better wages, and benefits. It'd be rather more productive than beating up on unionized workers and crying like a child whose ice cream cone went plop and now wants someone elses. How has that worked out for, oh, say, the United Auto Workers-- or, hmmm, I don't know; the textile industry? Better wipe my ice cream off of your shoe, junior--and shine mine while you're down there. A trip through any virtually any small town in the Northeast will drive home the same point. The number of vacant and decaying mills and factories lining the shores of virtually every river in the region is staggering. Combine high fixed costs with low productivity and the outcome will be the same every time. We've certainly passed through the looking-glass now. What exactly is the point here? Unions are to blame for capital's neverending quest find the cheapest possible labor for any given task and externalize as many social and environmental costs as possible? Workers are to blame for not wanting to return to 19th century working conditions and social arrangements found in Chinese sweatshops? Once again, I'm puzzled at your confusion as to why people aren't willing to commit social suicide for the free-market jihad or kamikaze themselves under the banner of stockholder well-being. What might American and European societies look like now if worker's combinations, unions, and other collective bargaining institutions had been absent the historical scene? Realizing of course that economic history isn't nearly so popular at Beacon Hill cocktail parties as Cato papers.

I don't think they should! In fact, if you have a problem with it, I would recommend you work on (re)organizing private sector workers for greater job security, better wages, and benefits. It'd be rather more productive than beating up on unionized workers and crying like a child whose ice cream cone went plop and now wants someone elses. How has that worked out for, oh, say, the United Auto Workers-- or, hmmm, I don't know; the textile industry? Better wipe my ice cream off of your shoe, junior--and shine mine while you're down there. Oh, I'd say it worked out pretty good for 2 or 3 generations of white American working class families that saw, yep you guessed it, greater job security, the ability for a single wage to support a household, and benefits. BTW, nice Joe Pesci imitation. Now get me a fuckin' Coke.

I don't think they should! In fact, if you have a problem with it, I would recommend you work on (re)organizing private sector workers for greater job security, better wages, and benefits. It'd be rather more productive than beating up on unionized workers and crying like a child whose ice cream cone went plop and now wants someone elses.

prole would hump Lenin's mummy if he had a chance. Yeah dude, she's a milf.

For a start, I'd suggest some reforms on this front. It's simply ludicrous to imagine that such arrangements truly reflect the "value-added" by these men even as the ships they're supposedly piloting are running aground. In other words, you would impose, by the power of the state, restrictions on the maximum benefits an employee can receive at a private corporation? You'd make a fine totalitarian. Jay plays the tune, Kojak and Fairweather provide the muscle/comic relief.

For a start, I'd suggest some reforms on this front. It's simply ludicrous to imagine that such arrangements truly reflect the "value-added" by these men even as the ships they're supposedly piloting are running aground.

How about we stick with jobs with decent wages and benefits? I'm for them. Are you?

Ahh yes, the "Buy the product of their labor" fallacy. Unless the guys in the shipyards fabricating the yachts can all afford to buy...yachts, it'll all come crashing down. Yachts? Oh, sorry I thought this was about jobs with decent wages and benefits. Please continue with your regularly scheduled magic show.

Careful there, keep rushing to put people out of work and they won't be able to buy all the crap you mentioned that you make your living selling.

Wow, the economy's circling the bowl. What a golden opportunity to gut some of the few remaining unionized living wage jobs with benefits for working class folks! Ideological opportunism cranked up to 10 while the shell game plays out here, here, and here. You whack-jobs really take the cake.

Step right up everybody! See, right before your very eyes, an article on cutting services in an economic downturn miraculously transformed into an opportunity for union bashing. No tricks here ladies and gentlemen, it's just a matter of selecting a single sentence and then framing the debate! Oooh...Aahhh.

It's full.

There's also a pretty good chance that she's got an STD.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

HOW DARE YOU!!!!

I wonder if he's considered a prosthetic.

What those guys need are some tee-shirts.

Thank God for the 12 billion a month it's costing to protect these freedoms! Fuckin' ingrate.

Helen, Georgia would be cheaper. Old world charm and good barbeque nearby.

Dad?!

You can warm the sausage in this, The iwavecube Personal Microwave The world's first and only personal, portable microwave! As seen on The View.