I'm watching your show on Free Speech TV and you ended your conversation on unions saying there is a war on labor. There is an old saying "the first casualty of war is the truth".
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I am the liberal who doesn't like unions. I agree with your guest-if one is forced to join the union or lose one's job, is that really a choice? When jobs are nonexistent in your country, is it really a choice to quit. I view unions as oligarchies, with the executive making the big bucks and having all the power. If I have been working at a site for my whole life, and suddenly some of my fellow employees decide they would like to financially support the president of the union by joining and giving up part of their pay to walk in lock step with their union brothers, and I don't wish to, should I have to quit? Here in Canada we are heavily unionized, and victims of frequent teacher strikes and the like. Unions support polluting because their jobs with the tarsands and pipelines are more important than the future of the planet. I know that Thom was brainwashed as a child by his father's delight with his union job, but there is a dark side to unions which the progressive radio hosts, though I love em, refuse to see.
If you are saying, a union can be corrupted, and represents no choice because it might do 'bad things' for its survival, or by hook or by crook, what you are really saying is why have rules if they can be manipulated and broken by those with the responsibility we placed in them.
This would lead you to the fact that it's humans we need to wartch out for, individuals like Bush, and that with balance we can prevent them from using a corrupted form of the power we gave them.
Then, you'll want to go to Wisconsin and sit down and go on a hunger strike, and if Bush ever shows his smug, insane face again you'll call the Hague and force the Oil Companies that ripped us all to shreds to pay us back with $0.12 a gallon gas, and electricity as cheap as sand.
Then, my friend, we'll see true innovation, and real lasting change.
So let the scales fall from your eyes, and see the only alternative to truth is another lie, and that this is what we are all so sick of, not whose lie it is, or who said it today.