Unions

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Add to that all the mistrust fostered by the south through ignorant racsim against the many people of color who were for over a century after the war which freed them oppressed sometimes in a state of complete peonage, and the mistrust created when the big monopolys and business of the those like found in the Tweed ring showed their true colors in keeping the workers of many industries underpaid and ill treated and you have a well proven track record of a real reason to mistrust people in power.

If you loook at the history of labor in general in several countries, you see a imilar trackrecord where the unions and peoples workers groups however corrupt they may have became over time was only a natural and quite nessesary responce to tyranical and oppressive regimes of unfairly privelaged capitalists and monarchies.

Like Snark said...this kind of thing was no secret to students of history in every era.

Including the history of corperations themselves, which at one time, were temporary arrangments between individuals for the express purposes of building a public water works, or a park or transportation system evolving rapidly over time into facelss, unacountable, oppressvie mutil national monstrosities who can directly control entire governments and are now moving to get rid of the only remaining opposition to their outright rule (the unions).

People of money and power have always been getting one over on the hard working backs of their fellow man ever since recorded history, perhaps even before that if you study anthroplogy you can see a tendency in primates to do the same thing.

Just look at GE...they say they go outside our country becuase taxes are too high here for them, yet when the facts come out its shown that not only did they pay no tax what so ever...they recieved taxpayer money as an incentive 3 some billion dollars above and beyound their profit margin which was allready counted in the double digets in billions of dollars.

Then turn around and raise the price of our power bills claiming they have to to cover costs due to taxes...smh.

Heck they even bought our own Surpreme Court off to increase their own rights at the expence of indivual citizens...if your american and you thought your vote had little meaning before, guess what..now corperations can spend as much money as they wish with ZERO transparency and full anominity on any canidate they wish at any time. What do you think thats going to result in huh?

Oh thats right, we have seen what it rsulted in, people like Scott Walker being elected and now striking directy at the unions in an attempt to start the ball rolling for their complete destruction.

Riddle me who is more corupt and needs to be refomed
now Batman.