A few quick points: (1) The idea that Trump just blustered without delivering on his policies is absurd. His policy successes, despite the bluster and character flaws, are why he retains a strong following.
(2) Where is this pro-corporate Right she speaks of? Almost all the big corporations have gone woke-left.
(3) It seems to me that…
A few quick points: (1) The idea that Trump just blustered without delivering on his policies is absurd. His policy successes, despite the bluster and character flaws, are why he retains a strong following.
(2) Where is this pro-corporate Right she speaks of? Almost all the big corporations have gone woke-left.
(3) It seems to me that this author is late to the party. The rift between private union workers and their Democrat-donating bosses started years ago. Has this phenomenon dawned on her only recently?
(4) The legislation Rubio is sponsoring will appeal to myriad blue-collar workers who aren’t in unions. Private union membership has dwindled to less than 10 percent in the trades, partly due to dissatisfaction with their bosses’ left-wing politics.
(5) As most people know, the real union muscle now resides in public sector unions, most prominently the SEIU and NEA. Those public-trough unions will fight this legislation tooth and nail.
Yes, looking objectively President Trump was a good to very good President.
His foreign policy was very good, clearly opposing the 3 major countries that were (and are) the main opponents of human rights and freedom, Russia, Iran and Communist China. He was the first President who supports LGBTQ rights, and did so for a long time before becoming President. He is the first President to have a Jewish family, and he moved our embassy to Jerusalem, under the law passed and signed by Clinton, but repeatedly delayed until Trump. Israel is the only country in the Middle East where all people are free (although Bahrain is improving women's rights) He led the negotiations that led to five majority-Muslim countries recognizing Israel.
He was a strong supporter of women's rights, ending the Obama deal with Iran that released at least $$50 billion to the Iranian regime, almost all of which was used to suppress women's rights. Probably the worst attack on women's rights by the US in the last 50 years, maybe ever.
He improved the conditions of the lower and middle class, especially blacks, who reached the lowest unemployment on record in 2019. He signed the tax reform law of 2017, which primarily helped the middle class (indeed the wealthy actually pay a higher rate due to the limit on the SALT deduction), and he brought a lot of money back to the US as the tax law brought our corporate tax rate down to a level similar to that in other countries.
He was a real friend of normal people, regularly talking with them before and after events.
True. Any "need" for a union now is distinctly different than what was necessary during the time of Sinclair's "The Jungle". There are no worker's rights that need to be protected, OSHA over-reaches with that now (as evidenced by their vaccine mandate). Conventional unions are in place at places like Boeing, that recently gave us the 737 MAX debacle. Adversarial unions like those at the automakers ran those businesses out of the country. Trade Unions still provide the largest source of training for skilled labor. And unions in the sense of a "commonwealth" where employers and employees can work towards shared goals represent a good change in the us vs them mentality.
I have observed unions doing more harm than good to local workers, due to the fact that union elites get paid well, regardless of what they do.
During the Recession, a new union agreement with a large local plant was being negotiated. The negotiators (outsider union elites) decided to play games with the company: they repeatedly showed up at meetings unprepared and their demands for the new agreement were sufficiently unrealistic (especially considering the Recession) that they tried hard to keep the press from reporting on what the demands were.
The company ended up imposing a Lockout, based on the bad behavior of the negotiators. But the negotiators didn't change their approach. After all, they were getting paid handsome salaries, while the local workers were getting a pittance from the union to man the picket lines.
After nearly a year of this, just as the statutory deadline was approaching that would enable the plant to shut down for a day and reopen as a non-union shop, the negotiators finally got their act together. But there are a lot of people in our town who have never fully recovered from the lost wages of that year.
A few quick points: (1) The idea that Trump just blustered without delivering on his policies is absurd. His policy successes, despite the bluster and character flaws, are why he retains a strong following.
(2) Where is this pro-corporate Right she speaks of? Almost all the big corporations have gone woke-left.
(3) It seems to me that this author is late to the party. The rift between private union workers and their Democrat-donating bosses started years ago. Has this phenomenon dawned on her only recently?
(4) The legislation Rubio is sponsoring will appeal to myriad blue-collar workers who aren’t in unions. Private union membership has dwindled to less than 10 percent in the trades, partly due to dissatisfaction with their bosses’ left-wing politics.
(5) As most people know, the real union muscle now resides in public sector unions, most prominently the SEIU and NEA. Those public-trough unions will fight this legislation tooth and nail.
Yes, looking objectively President Trump was a good to very good President.
His foreign policy was very good, clearly opposing the 3 major countries that were (and are) the main opponents of human rights and freedom, Russia, Iran and Communist China. He was the first President who supports LGBTQ rights, and did so for a long time before becoming President. He is the first President to have a Jewish family, and he moved our embassy to Jerusalem, under the law passed and signed by Clinton, but repeatedly delayed until Trump. Israel is the only country in the Middle East where all people are free (although Bahrain is improving women's rights) He led the negotiations that led to five majority-Muslim countries recognizing Israel.
He was a strong supporter of women's rights, ending the Obama deal with Iran that released at least $$50 billion to the Iranian regime, almost all of which was used to suppress women's rights. Probably the worst attack on women's rights by the US in the last 50 years, maybe ever.
He improved the conditions of the lower and middle class, especially blacks, who reached the lowest unemployment on record in 2019. He signed the tax reform law of 2017, which primarily helped the middle class (indeed the wealthy actually pay a higher rate due to the limit on the SALT deduction), and he brought a lot of money back to the US as the tax law brought our corporate tax rate down to a level similar to that in other countries.
He was a real friend of normal people, regularly talking with them before and after events.
Many more examples.
True. Any "need" for a union now is distinctly different than what was necessary during the time of Sinclair's "The Jungle". There are no worker's rights that need to be protected, OSHA over-reaches with that now (as evidenced by their vaccine mandate). Conventional unions are in place at places like Boeing, that recently gave us the 737 MAX debacle. Adversarial unions like those at the automakers ran those businesses out of the country. Trade Unions still provide the largest source of training for skilled labor. And unions in the sense of a "commonwealth" where employers and employees can work towards shared goals represent a good change in the us vs them mentality.
I have observed unions doing more harm than good to local workers, due to the fact that union elites get paid well, regardless of what they do.
During the Recession, a new union agreement with a large local plant was being negotiated. The negotiators (outsider union elites) decided to play games with the company: they repeatedly showed up at meetings unprepared and their demands for the new agreement were sufficiently unrealistic (especially considering the Recession) that they tried hard to keep the press from reporting on what the demands were.
The company ended up imposing a Lockout, based on the bad behavior of the negotiators. But the negotiators didn't change their approach. After all, they were getting paid handsome salaries, while the local workers were getting a pittance from the union to man the picket lines.
After nearly a year of this, just as the statutory deadline was approaching that would enable the plant to shut down for a day and reopen as a non-union shop, the negotiators finally got their act together. But there are a lot of people in our town who have never fully recovered from the lost wages of that year.