By now, everyone has heard about what is happening seemingly all at once in
Wisconsin,
Michigan and Ohio. Republican governors are trying to ram "emergency" legislation through their senates and houses that would strip the most robust union demographic, public employees, of their collective bargaining rights
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Still, one need not make things to join a union. I'm in one (Amalgamated Transit Union Local 587). Dad was once chief negotiator for his, a group of public school teachers. You could be in one. There are union shop hospitals. Heck, thanks to their laws in Germany, workers at Wal-Mart have union membership available to them.
The public unions like mine and Dad's are the target of these current Republican laws in Michigan and Wisconsin. Something about unions has always and will continue to piss off a certain subset of people, like the Koch brothers.
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This essay - very well done - only contributes to my increasing pessimism. The concentration of wealth and the takeover of edumacation seems to confer an overwhelming advantage to the Forces of Evil.
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I would wholeheartedly recommend the two books I cited, The Big Con and Economics for the Rest of Us to reinforce your increasing pessimism.
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(I should point out, though, that the Atkins diet does have a valid basis; and the notion that fatty food makes you fat, does not. There are of course a lot of problems with the Atkins, as with any diet other than that recommended by Milo Bloom; but you can indeed lose weight while on a high-fat diet.)
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But hey, you know me, all fast and loose with those darned definitions.
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