Union's are a big contributor to our present day problems, pricing our labor out of the market, making our gov costs sky high etc.
If anyone will save our economy it'll be the independents.
Unions are down to 11% membership of the workplace and they're to blame for pricing labor out of the market?
Albert Lea says they have 200 unfulfilled jobs. Guess what the pay rates are? Compared to neighboring cities, there are better paying jobs in Rochester, Austin, Owatonna and Mankato. Then you read about the number of people living in Albert Lea that travel to other cities to work. Yet no one makes the coorelation.
Albert Lea, instead, through they new much-hyped Experience Albert Lea, thinks the way to promote and market the city is to have a great send-off for snowbirds leaving Albert Lea for the winter, who will tell everyone in their new location how great it is to live in Albert Lea and should relocate for the "warm" months.
I suppose it's easy to blame Obama. But the alternative was McCain and then Romney. The people rejected the Republican alternative, so the new blame had to be those who receive Democratic aid (which doesn't really explain why Alabama, Mississippi, etc. didn't vote Democratic). And now it's still Obama's fault with a Republican Senate and House, who cannot even nominate a new leader.
Most retirement-age Boomers I know are still working. Not many people can afford to retire at 65, because the economy is crap.
Don't you just enjoy how much smarter and more educated others are than you?
-------------- Actually my wife is especially happy when my google check arrives each month. Thanks to douchbags like you, I get paid just for getting you worked up. -Liberal
If anyone will save our economy it'll be the independents.
Right, and that independent will be Bernie Sanders!
Bullsh!t Bernie the socialist
Socialist as opposed to what, Corporate Socialism that exists in this country today?
It’s Socialism for Corporate America and Capitalism for the Working Class! When our tax dollars subsidize employees of extremely profitable corporations you can’t call it Capitalism! Your Republican Party has put US into to this mess with their anti-labor policy!
-------------- History is no more than the lies agreed upon by the victors.
Corporate Socialism. Hmmph. You need look no further than the new Vikings stadium for an example of that. The drones are being conditioned to believe this is okay now. Like when we bailed out the big banks. If their risky ventures pay off, the profits are theirs, no doubt ratholed away to some Cayman Islands account. But if their risky ventures should fail, now suddenly the rest of us are on the hook?
If you're going to use bullsh!t and socialism in the same breath, maybe you should know what you're talking about. The kind of Socialism Sanders is talking about is the kind that was practiced by Eisenhower, back when we built roads and bridges and schools and things. Nobody's looking back on those days as some dark chapter in our drive towards Capitalism.
-------------- Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
Sure, let's go socialist Eisenhower had a gigantic advantage globally when WW2 ended, we were still at high tax rates, our manufacturing infrastructure was untouched and huge with the rest of the world in ruins. Pretty well stacked deck to go after more infrastructure.
We were the only game in town and a republican was smart enough to take advantage of that. Throw in the fact that we were springboarding out of a depression, it was a time in America that we'll probably never see again.
Now we're in a more level playing field and we're not used to it, we have to compete. The union dinosaurs that ruled the 50' and the 60's are no longer viable nor nessessary with labor laws and the presence of OSHA.
WE've become a dumping ground for all the other countries of the world's excess labor force, "no work here? Go park your ass in the US, they'll house and feed you till we need you". Truly a screwed up system.
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