WebsterMark wrote on 04/15/13 at 09:05:55:Unions had their time and played their role in moving the USA forward. They were a force for good at one time. However, they've become the monster they ate; perhaps worse than the monster they fought ever was.
OK sadly while this is true, however unions have reversed themselves - the nadir of unions was the early 90's ... when it was run by the mob. They have gotten weaker and weaker and actually cleaner and cleaner.
One important aspect you are forgetting - all industrially advanced nations and some not so advanced have subsidized their manufacturing far more heavily not to mention more unionised. They also dont have to worry about retiree health care or even employee health care. You should stop comparing some theoretical utopia where Ron paul is president, Illegal aliens are in jail, and anchor babies are anchoring their parents in the 3rd world and smell the diesel fumes from trucks flying through from mexico ... Without unions, factories will be filled with Illegals, and the american workers will die of starvation.
That is of course until the Illegals get citizenship for doing jobs american workers wont do, and since now they are american ... guess what they wont do it either. We then need new illegals to do the jobs americans wont do.
Rush "sadly I may have run out of middle names for this guy but in this context it is not needed" Limbaugh sometime back n 2007-08 (Y'know where we may have had some hope of redemption) was going on and on for 1 hour about how arab terrorists will find "Illegal alien invaders" and pay them 100K+ etc to bomb small towns and what not ... after listening to it for nearly 1 hr waiting @ a muffler shop I think - he was about to close when some Illegal called in ... and said "he said he was not going to commit a crime cos he's made his home here for 35 years" blah blah ... and rush said ... OK you've lived here for 35 years ... so you've been a criminal for 35 years and you're telling me you wont commit a crime ... you already have and you should spend atleast 35 years in jail my friend.
Finally I found something to agree with Rush Limbaugh on.
Cool.
Srinath.