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In reply to the discussion: A Romney presidency will NOT take us back 50 years [View all]ecstatic
(32,679 posts)18. When I listen to his policies, I picture the pre-Medieval era
It was in that period when some people finally realized that unions might be helpful:
The medieval business world became dominated by the Guilds. When merchants found they could accomplish more as a group rather than through individual effort, they banded together to form guilds. Guilds formed for bakers, butchers, grocers, millers, smiths, carpenters, weavers, mason, shoemakers, in fact, nearly every trade had its own guild. Standards such as just weights and measures evolved from the guilds, and searchers would inspect shops to ensure rules were being followed. Guilds would help members that were sick, or in trouble, and would sometimes take care of families after the member died.
He wants to take us back even further than medieval times!
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I think he is trying to say it would be even worse than 1962, not saying that 1962 wasnt bad
stevenleser
Nov 2012
#27
While most of your post is a nice read, I just can't let those last 2 paragraphs go unanswered.
DRoseDARs
Nov 2012
#31
Romney would take us places none of us have ever been reserved for Central Europe in the 1930-1945
gordianot
Nov 2012
#7
The post you are referring to was not intended to be a historical comparison between now and
plethoro
Nov 2012
#12
Everyone I know has started preparations, from cursory to exhaustive. I am in the middle....Good
plethoro
Nov 2012
#24
Take it back about *150* years and you'd have that about right - The Robber Baron/Gilded Age
We People
Nov 2012
#33