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"DGDevin" wrote:

"Kurt Ullman" wrote in message
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Just like the Dems in their attempts to institutionalize
intimidation by the unions and the trial lawyers. Just a difference is
who is getting the benefits of the stacking of the deck.

I was hoping somebody would play the union menace card. Unions once
represented a third of the American workforce--today it's 8% (if memory
serves) and falling. So continuing to drag out that dead horse and flog it
one more time is a singularly unconvincing exercise, and yet the right is
always happy to give it another try. I suppose it's related to their other
standard scare tactics: Gay Marriage! Welfare Queens! Illegal Aliens!
Anything to distract the voters from thinking about who is really screwing
them blind.
Not at all. Especially in this context. If anything you note the
reasons for the concern. Unions can't make it any more on their own. So,
they told their Dem lackeys that they must outlaw secret ballots using
the card system so that they know EXACTLY who voted against them. Under
the terms of what was proposed, the organizers could actually go to a
person's home and coerece... er.. convince the worker in person to sign
the card.
After the almost inevitable win, then, again under the terms
proposed in the Dem platform, the union and the company would have a
certain period of time to get an agreement or there would be arbitration
with a third party TELLING the employer what the job was worth.


As for trial lawyers, they're the worst rat-*******s on the planet, until
you need one. Corporate America claims to hate them, but companies like
Monsanto are expert at using them to bully farmers into playing ball with
the company or else. Funny how it works out that way, isn't it? It's
almost as if what corporate America *really* hates are trial lawyers who
don't work for them.
Those aren't trial lawyers, those are patent attorneys. What's
really hilarious is that you say the two are the same.
I am talking about the guys who, allegedly on my behalf, filed class
action suits where they get millions and I get nothin'. My favorite is
a class action against Verizon over some line in the contracts. The
attorney's got $3.4 million, Verizon promised to go forth and sin no
more, and I got a free ear bud if I extended to my contract (albeit with
these new, hard won, "protections") for two years .
Most recent was a stock thing. I got a 75 cents a share while the
attorneys in the suit got to split over $5 million.

--
"Even I realized that money was to politicians what the ecalyptus tree is to koala bears: food, water, shelter and something to crap on."
---PJ O'Rourke