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MSNBC Krystal Ball’s Timely Rant On Union Membership – Americans, Wake the “F” up!

January 24, 2013 By Egberto Willies

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Krystal Ball gave an impassionate and prescient rant on unions on MSNBC’s, The Cycle. In her rant she urged citizens not to bask in the aspiration of President Obama’s speech. While the speech was a very progressive speech, she states that there is one issue that went unmentioned, the decline of the American union membership.

Union membership rates are at a 97 year low. She correctly implies that unions are to Democrats what big business and the wealthy are to Republicans. She correctly states that as labor unions go, so goes the middle class. One of her best statements was:

The America we know and love is the America we know and love because of unions. They fought for better wages, equal pay, equal rights, worker safety, and even the weekend. They continue to fight today for the vision of America articulated so eloquently by the President.

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Corporate America through groups like ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) are commanding Republicans to continue the systematic destruction of unions. This is done even though for all practical purposes businesses have their own unions (Chamber of Commerce and myriads of other trade groups) that lobby to force their will.

Many Americans because of subliminal programming tend to not support unions because union workers make more and they wrongfully believe union workers take more than their fair share out of the wage pool. Ironically what they should be doing is joining unions to form a united front to increase their wages and benefits. After all, individual workers do not stand a chance at negotiating against corporations or for that matter any business.

Every American worker should be in a union. Corporations have high paid lobbyists, the Chamber of Commerce, and other trade groups. They use those resources to maximize passage of laws beneficial to the companies. Who represent thee workers? Unions do. As unions decline, so does the middle class.


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Filed Under: General Tagged With: chamber of commerce, corporations, Krystal Ball, middle class, msnbc, Obama, unions, working class

About Egberto Willies

Egberto Willies is a political activist, author, political blogger, radio show host, business owner, software developer, web designer, and mechanical engineer in Kingwood, TX. He is an ardent Liberal that believes tolerance is essential. His favorite phrase is “political involvement should be a requirement for citizenship”. Willies is currently a contributing editor to DailyKos, OpEdNews, and several other Progressive sites. He was a frequent contributor to HuffPost Live. He won the 2nd CNN iReport Spirit Award and was the Pundit of the Week.

Comments

  1. L.J. Bothell says

    January 25, 2013 at 4:45 PM

    You know, Krystal Ball is a WOMAN!

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  2. Sam Clearo says

    January 26, 2013 at 9:11 AM

    The anti-union movement gained momentum with Reagan and has grown ever since. People now consider him a great president I on the other hand see him as the great deciever who made the American blue collar workers second class citizens. Now the very skillsets he claimed were overpaid and unneeded are in demand and the only place to find them is in China.

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