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Old 08-14-2007, 11:30 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Archaea View Post
You're not a blue collar unionist?

Unlike your patrician blood, most of my kindred were coalminers, farmers, laborers and ordinary folk. So I feel a kindred spirit to the old labor lines.
I am not patrician but my ancestors were business owners. But that's not why I said that. Unions are generally fraught with narrow self-interest, besides being bad for business. They are also anti-globalization in general. Who cares what unions think. They are a step toward socialism and I say that not in a pajorative way but as an objective and historical fact.
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