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• Friday, June 15, 2007 08:58 PM

  Big Labor deserves respect?

  As a Democrat, and especially as a classical liberal in the mold of Thomas Jefferson and F.A. Hayek; big labor has imprisoned the Democratic Party much as the fundamentalist Christians have the Republican Party.

  Yeah, labor unions were great and all back in the 1950s, but times have changed. Both labor and big business have acted as thugs in relation to negotiations with each other over various issues such as pay, healthcare, retirement, the issue of closed/open shops etc. The United States has and is continuing to transform into a service industry based economy. There is NO way that American citizens will pay money for products made within the USA because unions demand exorbitant salaries for the most menial of work. As well, economic nationalists who fear freedom and desire the economic imprisonment of their fellow human beings living in pre-industrial nations do not understand that due to the outsourcing of jobs across seas we allow economic development to those who cannot attain through any other way in their country as well cultivate higher education and ultimately higher wages within this nation because those are essential to keep a service-based economy afloat.

  I think we all as Democrats should hope for the day that bullying Big Labor disperses and finally frees us of their chains.

  —cato Read cato's other letters
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