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Build America on our founding principles

Posted 3/16/11

To the Editor: Unions aren’t perfect, there are problems created by unions. On the other hand, the worker protection and benefits far outweigh these. Do you not know about the working conditions …

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Build America on our founding principles

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To the Editor:

Unions aren’t perfect, there are problems created by unions. On the other hand, the worker protection and benefits far outweigh these.

Do you not know about the working conditions prior to the mid 1900’s? I encourage you take a look. History does repeat itself, and will. Working conditions and pay prior to the mid 1900’s is something I do not wish to see repeated.

Okay, let’s take a look at how successful deregulation has been. When Bush deregulated the banking institutions of America, what was their response? The mortgage scam that eventually resulted in the stage one collapse of the American economy. Greed.

Consider that it’s not unions who have destroyed our economy, they’ve only tried to maintain decent wages and working conditions for us. They’re not responsible for outsourcing. The fact that there are no jobs in America is because the owners outsourced them, and continue to do so. The owners discovered they could pay low wages, have children work in factories, have ten hour work days, six days a week in third world countries. 

Go ahead, get rid of unions, and they’ll offer you this same deal.   Do not doubt this for a second, it’s human nature, it’s greed, it’s history.

It looks like the powers that control will ride this outsourcing right over the cliff, until all that’s left for American’s to do is serve each other at McDonald’s, while those employees are trying to pay off their college loans on minimum wages. Good idea, eh?

Lastly, this debate is not about Democrats versus Republicans. Frankly, I’m pretty weary of all that. What I’d like to see is our leaders acting like grown up professional men and women, using the same manners I teach kids every day, working together to solve the problems.

What I see is a lot of stone throwing. We need to build a future America that is based on the principals this country was founded on. We are so far from that. You know what? Throwing stones has never built anything. Building occurs when the stones are carefully laid in place through cooperation.

George Ross, Potsdam