Bobert, from your "you were never a union man" remark, it appears obvious that you don't know what a union shop steward DOES Why don't you find out instead of shooting from the lip with one of your smart-assed lines that does nothing but denigrate the other fellows statement. It you spent a little more time defending YOUR statements with facts and a little less time putting down others, your posts might have a little more impact than they do.
As it is, you seem to be more interested in letting everyone know how clever you are than in putting forth any meangingful rebutal.
The fact that the union allowed me to provide a good life for my family has absolutely nothing to do with the face that it is the unions that have pushed the wages in this country to an extremely high level. It's a vicious circle of higher wages, so higher prices to cover them.
Whencompanies were content with small profit margins, it was workable but with the advent of the information age and global competition, it doesen't work anymore.
Add to this the "bottom line" mentality of managment in the last 25 years and the situation becomes impossible.
Someone asked how the corporations managed to sell $150 shoes? Simple; take a look at the consumer debt in this country. Someone has sold the American consumer a bill of goods. If you don't wear Nike, drive an SUV, and have a DVD with a wide-screen TV, you have failed as a parent and as a human being and you probably have disgusting personal habits as well.
Kendall, they don't put prefit before country. They are multi-nationals and they don't HAVE a country; only a Board of Directors.
We watched TV and believed that "Friends" and Ally McBeal" and the other sitcoms were what we should aspire to.
Welcome to the good life.

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