"Scout" wrote in message

Very good. And because they had that day, hired goons no longer show up
and split your head open with a baseball bat for wanting a fair share of
the profits of a company's efforts. Had you seen that, you might be glad
to have a brother close by. These heavy handed "negotiations" made bar
room fights look like a day at the beach.

Not really a viable example Scout... since there are many things in society
that are no longer condoned and that had nothing to do with union activity.


It's all very well and good to espouse a philosophy that worked in the day
of the agrarian citizen, but the sheer number of people in the modern
workforce demands different rules. Hobbes would have agreed with me.
People are inherently greedy; generally speaking they are pricks. ASA
provides all the evidence one needs to believe that is true. Government
and big business are one and the same, and together they are still the
Leviathan. Mutually beneficial contracts are needed today more than ever.
God bless a nation where a guy like Scotty can make the offer of "take it
or shove it." He can do so only because others have paid the cost, and
continue to pay the price, for that privilege.

Our ancestors have collectively paid the price to have us achieve our
current freedoms and society... this in no way suggests that methods
acceptable even 50 years ago are legitimate today. Your statement on the
general tendencies of people seem to illustrate a rather negative view of
society in general. I do not find the people posting to ASA as pricks at
all.... [Except for Gaynzy who is an annoying little homo].... their
posturing and statements are a fine tool with which to hone my abilities to
defend a position. Considering the anonymity provided by this medium...
it's a wonder the verbal engagements are not far worse. In effect we self
police.

In regards to Scotty's ability to establish his rate of pay... this has been
available for as long as we have existed and is not the result of union
activity. If you provide a service or commodity that is superior to others
in the same field.... you have the right to charge what the consumer will
bear.

CM