Want to better secure our ports, reduce outsourcing and return America to

[maxrandb]

greatness?

Then IMHO, we need to strengthen Unions, not diminish them.

I am so sick and tired of the union bashing, and how Repukes have been able to blame the Unions for every ill in our economy or job market.

Just who are these evil people that are destroying America?

Well, they're your Fireman

They're your Policemen

They're your Teachers

They're your Meat-packers

They're your Truck Drivers

They're your Janitors

They're your Cashiers

They're your Stevedores

They're your local grocer

In other words...They're your NEIGHBORS. They're your FRIENDS. They're your CO-WORKERS. They're your FELLOW AMERICANS. and they have helped make this country great. We need to strengthen them so that the American people are not required to "beg and plead for scraps from the corporate table, just so they can have a shit-job, with shit-benefits and shit-pay".

Sometimes, the country seems so "effed" up, that I think the only thing that will solve our problems is a Nation-wide General Strike.

[acmejack]

1. There is no question about that.

The problem is that the Country is so fractured that it is virtually impossible to get everyone to act with anything resembling unity. If we could get a fifty percent participation I would be shocked.

[DaveJ]

2. We just needed to add a few more unions to keep up to date...

It's not to 60s anymore, so in order to maintain the thriving economy that we had back then we should have added a few more unions to include scientific and techonological professions. Instead the top .2% decided to take over any surplus profit and yearns for the return to the days of slave labor.

[Coexist]

3. and America needs to wake up - and agree to pay for goods at a fair price

not a Wal-Mart .10-per-hour slave-labor price.

So you have fewer clothes to choose from - we can all get by with less "stuff" to give Americans jobs back - that include benefits, can't we??

http://www.kuratrading.com/PDF/Walmart1.pdf
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Says Steve Dobbins, president of thread maker Carolina Mills: "We want clean air, clear water, good living conditions, the best health care in the world--yet we aren't willing to pay for anything manufactured under those restrictions."

[mdmc]

4. kick

r:dem:

[mdmc]

5. a union kick

and a great link to Bernie!http://www.canofun.com/cof/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=17297