I also find it Antifederalist’s comments interesting because in them I find an answer as to how people involved in fascist governments justify to themselves the extreme measures taken to destroy unions. Here I am thinking of the great mass murders an tortures in Indonesia and many Latin American countries in which being a member of a union or wanting to start a union could mean at the very least facing torture and at worst having you and your family be murdered.

I note the language Antifederalist uses. You see, unions are perpetrating economic ‘violence’ and this violence should be met with machine gunning them all down. People stocking shelves at the local supermarket who want health insurance are a hair’s breath away from being Stalin. I guess if one can convince oneself of these things then it is possible to justify almost anything.

I wish people would get a clue about Bashas, too. So what if they don’t have unions. They support EVERYTHING else about the socialist agenda except that which effects their own bottom line. Don’t shop at Bashas!!! or worse, Bashas’ dirty Food City stores!!!

I have YET in my life to work without working from paycheck-to-paycheck. I look forward to the days when I might earn enough to not only reduce my debt, but put a little aside for retirement. I STILL hate unions. They won’t be the ones to ensure that I earn enough to be comfortable. That’s entirely up to me.

Unlike you, I UNDERSTAND what at-will employment means. And I embrace it. I knew I could be fired at any time (just like I could give my employer the finger at any time), and I worked hard to make sure I was never let go. That is the way things SHOULD be. No one has a RIGHT to a job, especially one they intentionally perform poorly at. In fact, having a right to a job is counterproductive. An employee’s SALARY or WAGES cuts off any rights to a job that an employee might have. The property rights lie with the owners, NOT the workers. What you support is Soviet Union-style thinking…and I remind you that it was the unions (called soviets) that overthrew Czarist Russia. That you even associate with entities akin to those that instituted a murderous regime is sick.

I will ALWAYS cross picket lines. In fact, I’ll seek them out to cross them on purpose. Death to the unions. I applaud WalMart for educating their potential employees about the danger of unions. If I ever run a business, I’d do the EXACT same thing and I’d fire anyone who ever joined a union, the feds be damned.

Bashas gets my business

Ok, now take away their free healthcare and the buffet of social services our AMERICAN CITIZENS finance to ILLEGAL ALIENS and tell me if this is a true market or not. It is you ELITIST TRAITORS who sell out your own countrymen in order to maintain your income levels and social position. There is NO JUSTIFICATION for allowing ILLEGAL ALIENS in our country, even in times of 20% unemployment you still manage to justify it. IT IS AN ABSOLUTE ABOMINATION.

Come on, Thane, why take anyone who would call a fellow human being a “scab” seriously? Two sentences is too much–it’d be like Nozick writing Anarchy, State, and Utopia to respond to the neighborhood bigot. “Scab” is the province of probably-mentally-ill “flashers” these days. I wouldn’t bother.

“Calling strikebreakers scabs is a immoral tactic blah blah blah…”

Wait, I think I included the response in the quote.

AF,

A compliment is a compliment, thank you, glad you enjoyed it.

Back to Thane…

“…Phelps Dodge gunned down striking workers!”

I’m going to stick my “scabs” commentary, thankyouverymuch.

Now, we should all know by now from reading Antifederalist comments that I hate unions. We it not for lame federal laws like the Wagner Act and a few others keeping those antediluvian organizations alive, unions would be long dead. Those acts should be repealed and the free market should be allowed to take its course. How I long for the days when Reagan fired the striking air traffic controllers wholesale and Phelps Dodge gunned down striking workers!

Unions are DIRECTLY responsible for doing economic violence to consumers (making them pay more for goods and services) and companies sending their plants overseas for cheaper labor. No unions = lower prices for consumers + more jobs. It’s NOT stimulus that creates jobs, but deregulation.

If there is a job to be done and someone is willing to do it then by what right does someone deny work to two willing parties?

Calling strikebreakers scabs is a immoral tactic to keep businesses from hiring willing workers over those who are unwilling and prevent workers from obtaining a job at a wage they are happy with.