Tuesday, July 27, 2010

The Taft-Hartley Act Revisited or how the teeth were removed from the labor tiger

"All of which raises a question: If American voters were given the choice, how would they choose to be governed? Would they prefer that Big Business — with the blessings of a corporate-oriented government — dictated our domestic and foreign affairs? Or would they prefer giving working men and women an equal voice in determining policy?

We can argue all we like about the practicality of regular citizens making national policy, but one thing can't be disputed: If regular citizens had been running the show, they never would have abandoned our manufacturing base. They never would have agreed to enrich international oligarchies at the expense of the American economy..

Taking the greatest manufacturing power in the history of the world and dismantling it — relegating it to the role of industrial "spectator" — is something that working people would never allow to happen. Never. Only the U.S. Congress would see the wisdom in pissing away something that took 150 years to build."

rest at http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/07/the-taft-hartley-act-revisited/

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