professional unions

The American Bar Association protects the turf of the lawyers; they went after some poor schmuck who helped a client fill out a will program using quicken. What about the American Medical Association? Soon, the Herbs that actually work will be illegal to sell without a script. Meanwhile, the unions protecting the working class are slowly dieing, while the lower middle class won't even organize because they still believe in the fantasy of upward mobility. PhD scientists are making less money a year than bus drivers in the state of Wisconsin, a PhD Chemist starts at about 55,000 a year at one of the worlds largest chemical supply companies located in Milwaukee and the Milwaukee bus drivers make over six figures with overtime.

Why is education important? Why is competing in a global economy important? Sure NAFTA hurts the working class by moving jobs over the border but the economic "net gain" is greater than the net loss. Really? The top 1% do gain from NAFTA, and the top 1% also get all of the tax breaks, and the difference is made up by taxing the working class more with all kinds of creative regressive taxes like lotteries and now a tax on pornography.

So, why haven't we fought back? Well, how can you fight a system set up against you on a fundamental level? None of our current candidates have the american people's interests in mind - they will support the people who put them in office. Obama owes the insurance companies. The Medical Care crisis will continue under his watch. Gas prices will continue to skyrocket and we will be told the inflation rate is between two and three percent.. and we will take our cost of living raises (if we were lucky enough to get one) and be greatfull we have a job, while the one percenters hord the wealth of the world and allow people to starve and die of diseases that could be treated for pennies.

I was a sophomore in high school when I was taught the Social Darwinism no longer existed - it was in the context of the American industrial revolution. I remember being told unions were a way to fight this inequality. I also remember names like Vanderbilt and Carnegie.. Funny, I don't hear much about the super rich families anymore, all I hear about is Tom Cruise, Bradd Pitt and Angelina Jolee.

How close are we to repeating Ludlow? Or have the ultra rich duped the American people with a pathetic shell game of Hollywood, videogames, a synthetic war on terror and high oil prices?

we need more than another puppet election, we need a revolution, or at the very least a sit in with Angelina and a Xbox.


Ahh, revolution sounds way too involved. I'd rather move to Denmark or New Zealand, and join an union.