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I have been accused of many things over my tenure here but condescending only in repay of kind. Might want to check your tone out if my gibes cause you to cringe.

Fact is I've been listening to economic gibberish around here for so long that most of it I just ignore. I only speak up when things get so comically out of kilter than a normal response has to include some level of attention getting... call it condescending if you will but blaming unions for the decimation of American industry is putting the cart before the horse.

I asked you about currency manipulation which is used to permanently underprice another country's labor costs... you ignored me.

I asked you about the textbook mercantilism which China, Japan, and many other countries have employed to strip productive capacity from the US... you ignored me.

I asked you to comment on the use of the dollar as reserve currency and its contribution to the loss of industry (because it facilitates the first two)... and was again ignored.

These aren't rhetorical questions. They are the means and ways with which one country can target and take down the productive industry of another country. These are the primary foundations upon which a chronic and non-selfcorrecting trade deficit is laid. These are enablers of the dollar recycling trade which has mutated our economy from a muscle bound industrial giant into a bubble generating, debt fueled zombie that staggers from one emergency to another.

I don't pay much attention to the gibes directed to me on matters economics. I remember well several years ago when I warned of an economic collapse and was ridiculed. I remember a damned large portion of the people supporting you on this thread agreeing that the onset of the crisis was a 'Democratic conspiracy to talk down the economy'. I remember people here applauding the imbecile Phil Gramm when he spoke of a 'mental recession'.

I'm not trying to pick on you, honestly I'm not.

But to understand ~why~ and ~how~ the economy has been strip mined necessitates going beyond coin operated economists and know it all pundits. You are going to have to understand that there are now two economies the produce/consume traditional one and the finance based one that has become parasitic in nature and is encouraging the very policies that are causing the middle class to wither.

Blaming unions is worse than being merely wrong it misdirects the honest blame from those who have helped to devalue goods producing activities. It distracts from the fact that the most massive fraud in the history of mankind has only recently concluded and the statutes of limitations is running out without the prosecution of one single Wall St welfare queen.

So forgive me if I seem trite... tbh I've just heard the usual ideological bullshit machine running one too many times.

Will

I know, Im not a drunk cokehead with a grade 10 education and 2 ex-wives.


The oil patch aint for everyone...rig pig.

Does your union tell you how often you're allowed to wipe your azz every day too?

Its useless trying to have a conversation with a republican. They are as senseless as seagulls...as soon as one squawks they all join in for a squabble.

What a train wreck of a thread....

What a train wreck of a thread....

Hey Jughead, are you too stupid to realize there's more to the oilpatch than rigs? Get out of the office sometime. There's lots oilpatch in Canada too lazyazz, you should know better. You clowns don't know what hard work is.

I knew this thread would bring out all of the Obama luvers out of the closet

So just because I'm a union member I'm scum?

Let me tell something to all the jerk-offs here that think they know everything. I work for one of the top 5 concrete companies in the nation, not because we're union, because we regularly kick the competitions @ss in quality and efficiency.

By the way, the Jackwagon that doesn't think workers should get to sit down for break, or have water supplied on site has never poured concrete in 100 degree heat.

I've worked for both union and nonunion companies and I'm not saying that unions are perfect, but they sure as hell ain't the antichrist either.