This is an excellent column by Robert Reich on the coming (actually, ongoing) war against public-employee unions and their members. I agree with everything it says, but I also have to marvel at the ability of middle-class Americans in both sectors of our economy to tear themselves to pieces, while the folks at the top just laugh and count the money they're stealing from the rest of us.
This game will only stop when there are no more overseas pools of underpaid workers to exploit. This is why I think the future of the union movement lies in its becoming a truly international movement. Or, as an underappreciated German economist named Marx once said ... .
And no, I don't mean Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo OR Gummo!
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