"Scout" wrote in message
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Donal,
No wonder my Irish ancestors left you behind.
When they arrived in America, America took a big **** on them. They worked
the coal mines for less than their daily bread. When they'd had enough,
they stood up for themselves, fought for fair wages, and made such a stink
that even the president of the US took note and began to make changes in
the
law to protect the working man. A lot of blood got spilled but they
figured
if they were gonna die, it would be at the end of a gun and not by
starvation.
Now you and others here are trying to say that people are all nicey nice,
and the laws wouldn't allow that to happen today. RIGHT!

Yes, I would say that it cannot happen today.

When the unions came into existence, workers had no rights at all. 11 year
old boys were being sent up chimneys. Adults worked long hours in dangerous
factories for a pittance. By the 1960's most of the reasons for the unions'
existence were gone. However, the unions carried on fighting and destroyed
themselves in the process. During the 60's and 70's the unions wrecked
Britian's manufacturing industries, which were also seeing costs rise as a
result of the demise of the Empire. This destruction of manufacturing also
meant that union membership collapsed.

As all this was happening, the unions carried on fighting. Why??
Simple - the leadership had to keep the members feeling that they were
being abused, otherwise the membership would dwindle. "On the backs of the
discontented shall ye climb into power."

Then Maggie came to power, and she took the unions head on. She fought them
for 10 years, and eventually won. However, she carried on fighting and
destroyed her party in the process.



That's why business
is moving over seas, so they can treat those people like ****, the way big
business treated Americans 100 years ago, and less.

Businesses move overseas so that they can survive. They look for ways of
reducing their costs when competition gets tough.

If you want to stop this happening, then you should only buy US made
products even it that means that you will pay more.

This mentality of screw
the little guy will bite them in the ass when the little guys get together
and start cutting frigging heads off.

And by the way, the mentality of "the worker gets **** while the
sales-businessman gets all the profit" is what got the Jews hated in
Germany. I have a copy of an 1895 encyclopedia I'd love to share with you
in
which it discusses the "growing" problem between German craftsman and
Jewish
business owners. It's really quite interesting, considering when it was
written.

It isn't just Jews that tend to own businesses. Immigrants of any type are
more likely to set up in business. The reason is very simple. Immigrants
don't feel as secure as the rest of the population. They have to take
control of their own lives, because they don't have family or friends to
help. So they will tend to save for a rainy day.



Regards


Donal
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