Okay, for the sake of argument, let's say the unions are the oligarchy on the left.
You won't deny that we have an oligarchy on the right, would you?
So do you want a balance of power, or are you one who opposes the democratic idea of a balance of power?
Why is it that the capitalists are all for competition, but against it when the unions compete with the corporations for the rights of the workers?
Capitalist treats labor as if labor were a commodity, not a human being. Capitalism by its very nature dehumanizes labor...we have seen that in our history, the dehumanization of labor for profit...in slavery, in child labor, in reduced wages for women, in poor working conditions, in unsafe working conditions, etc.
So we can safely assume that if the industrialists, the corporations can get away with treating labor as poorly as possible and still show a profit...they are going to do so.
Now, during the period where America was strongest, was when we had a balance of power...and now we lost that balance of power when the government...who is supposed to represent the People, not the corporations deregulated so much.
What do the facts show? Increasing profit for corporations, decreasing wages and benefits of workers.
We need to return to nationalism of our labor...not the multiculturalism of US corporations pimping out labor to other countries...so they can increase their bottom line, pay less taxes, etc.
Jefferson warned us, and Ike warned us:
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson
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Ike warned us of the need for balance:
Crises there will continue to be. In meeting them, whether foreign or domestic, great or small, there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties.
But each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs, balance between the private and the public economy, balance between the cost and hoped for advantages, balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable, balance between our essential requirements as a nation and the duties imposed by the nation upon the individual, balance between actions of the moment and the national welfare of the future. Good judgment seeks balance and progress. Lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration. The record of many decades stands as proof that our people and their Government have, in the main, understood these truths and have responded to them well, in the face of threat and stress.
You won't deny that we have an oligarchy on the right, would you?
So do you want a balance of power, or are you one who opposes the democratic idea of a balance of power?
Why is it that the capitalists are all for competition, but against it when the unions compete with the corporations for the rights of the workers?
Capitalist treats labor as if labor were a commodity, not a human being. Capitalism by its very nature dehumanizes labor...we have seen that in our history, the dehumanization of labor for profit...in slavery, in child labor, in reduced wages for women, in poor working conditions, in unsafe working conditions, etc.
So we can safely assume that if the industrialists, the corporations can get away with treating labor as poorly as possible and still show a profit...they are going to do so.
Now, during the period where America was strongest, was when we had a balance of power...and now we lost that balance of power when the government...who is supposed to represent the People, not the corporations deregulated so much.
What do the facts show? Increasing profit for corporations, decreasing wages and benefits of workers.
We need to return to nationalism of our labor...not the multiculturalism of US corporations pimping out labor to other countries...so they can increase their bottom line, pay less taxes, etc.
Jefferson warned us, and Ike warned us:
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson
Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasjeff135362.html#ixzz1EpYUSl9X
Ike warned us of the need for balance:
Crises there will continue to be. In meeting them, whether foreign or domestic, great or small, there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties.
But each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs, balance between the private and the public economy, balance between the cost and hoped for advantages, balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable, balance between our essential requirements as a nation and the duties imposed by the nation upon the individual, balance between actions of the moment and the national welfare of the future. Good judgment seeks balance and progress. Lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration. The record of many decades stands as proof that our people and their Government have, in the main, understood these truths and have responded to them well, in the face of threat and stress.