Dear Group,

I have been tickled by the naivety of those participating in
the recent thread discussing labor unions.

To all of you, I say . . .

What a crock of hock! What a pile of crap! What a heap of
dung! What a sordid example of the blind leading the blind!

As is the case, more often than not on this pathetic ship of fools
called alt.sailing.asa, there is not one soul in the sorry lot of you
blighters who has even a basic grasp of the issue. Here, to help
set things aright, is a treatise which shall guide you along the
straight and narrow path to understanding.


LABOR UNION, EXTINCT THYSELF!


Over the millennia, many species have arisen. Some thrived; some
became extinct.

Among the reasons a species thrives is it adapts to fill a niche in
the environment. Among the reasons a species becomes extinct is it
fails to adapt to a niche in the environment. Labor unions can be
compared to an extinct species is that labor unions not only failed
to adapt but they actually destroyed the very niche they once filled.

There was a time, many years ago, when unions had a purpose,
which purpose was that union workers could speak with one strong
and organized voice instead of many weak and disparate voices.
Once upon a time, when workers were treated like slaves, there was
a niche for labor unions. Labor unions thrived because they filled
the niche. They wrestled with slave masters and turned slavery into
fair wage and benefits. Theirs was a noble undertaking.

As the years rolled by, labor unions deviated from their goal
of obtaining for workers fair wages and benefits to demanding
untenable wages and benefits. Untenable for companies who employ
union workers, that is. Labor unions became greedy and corrupt. A
self-serving bureaucracy grew like a large, festering carbuncle on
the backs of dues-paying union workers. Companies that produced
goods and services were overly burdened by having to carry union
workers as well as the carbuncle of a corrupt union bureaucracy.

The niche, once successfully filled by labor unions, was driven
out of existence by labor unions themselves. Selfish workers with
their liberal entitlement mentality did not know when to say "Enough
is enough!" They killed the goose that laid the golden egg.

Even unsuccessful animal species do not destroy their own niche.
Generally speaking, when a species becomes extinct it is because
the environment changes until its niche is unsuitable and it cannot
evolve fast enough to adapt to the changed conditions. Or, the
species might be driven out by another more adept at filling the
niche.

Union workers changed their environment and destroyed it by
causing profit-killing overhead for the companies forced to hire
the same. These companies, in order to make a profit, had to
increase the price of their goods and services. These companies
could no longer compete with companies at home and abroad that
are not encumbered by pernicious union overhead. Unions, by
their very nature, transform free enterprise into socialism and
history proves that socialism is a failed economic experiment.

In other words, union workers of today are more stupid than
the lowliest pond scum in that they have destroyed their own niche
via greed and corruption while pond scum continues to thrive, living
harmoniously in the niche it evolved to fill.

Labor unions drive jobs offshore, drive factories offshore, drive
products offshore and drive incentive offshore. They do this by
increasing the cost of production until it rises well above that of the
less greedy, non-union economies which are more adept at filling the
niche.

Hey, all you ignorant union workers who complain about outsourcing
- you made your bed, so lie in it. Down with labor unions and liberalism
of all kinds! I have spoken.

Respectfully,
Capt. Neal
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