Labor Strikes Are Proof Europe Doesn't Always Have It Right

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Unions? We still have unions? The only ones left with any power at all are the auto workers and they're declining fast. Unions died when U.S.manufacturing was off-shored. We have a "service" economy now and I certainly can't think of any union capable of having a "crippling" effect on the U.S. Teabaggers like to rail against teacher's unions, but they seldom strike (I can't ever remember one in Texas). Other than air traffic controllers, which union was ever capable of mounting a crippling strike (before or after Reagan). What are you talking about?

JaJa of TX 4:09PM December 21, 2009

I did not say the USA was broke, I said the USA is (has) a broke government. This did not happen overnight or since the last election. It happened by stupid tax policy that allows the main wealth in the United States to percolate up to the hands of a very small percentage of the people---while the government goes further and further in debt. Ronald Reagan did much to start America down this slippery slope----and neither that fact, nor this article has anything to do with Obama

Muser of NM 2:19PM December 19, 2009

Thanks to your friend Obama, SPEND AND TAX, lie and cover up, As transparent as his skin color. Thanks to your friend Obama the failure and out of touch liar! We are a country led by a fool!

Go Green Up ur azz 12:50PM December 19, 2009

then don't celebrate the third-worst thing Reagan ever did. (The second-worst was making ads against the passage of Medicare which passed despite his lies and the first-worst was destroying the progressive taxation of income---the reason the USA is now a broke government soon to lose its AAA credit ratings.)
And comparing your life as a columnist and commentator (jetting off to Europe for "culture") to that of the "average worker"? Hard to imagine anyone being so personally clueless to what's going in this country.

Muser of NM 3:11PM December 18, 2009