On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:10:18 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

On the website that he always includes with his signature he also
sells a lot of tee shirts and hats with pro union statements printed
on them.

Gee, I wonder if they are 100% Made in the USA by Union Labor, and
all the slogans were written by Union writers and typeset by Union
Printers. Made using Union Made Soy Inks and Union Farmed Organic
Cotton that were all farmed and processed and woven locally, in a
fully sustainable manner, and all waste generated was laboratory
proven biodegradable and certified 100% recycled...

No, they couldn't be - if you could find all the materials to fit
that rigid specification you'd have to charge over $100 each for a
simple screen printed tee shirt, and nobody in their right mind would
pay it.

Unions are a nice concept and 100 years ago they were truly
necessary if workers were to ever get ahead. But they've managed to
make themselves irrelevant. Go organize a buggy whip factory...

-- Bruce --