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<blockquote data-quote="Whither" data-source="post: 5101461" data-attributes="member: 76643">That is how capitalism works (now tell me again how great our economic system is lol, or how if we criticize it that means we&#039;re stalinists). Both parties have been in power over the last several decades as unionized jobs were lost to automation or outsourcing. If you do some reading you&#039;ll find out that machinery has probably been more responsible for manufacturing job losses in the US than moving factories elsewhere. The parties take turns blaming each other for the plight of the working class, ahem &quot;middle class&quot; (working class is too spicy a term for most politicians to even say): you get sick of hearing it, neither party gives a two ****s about us.I have long said: workers have no party. In the long run the union is wasting money with DRIVE and political contributions; that money would be better spent on organizing, educating members, etc etc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whither, post: 5101461, member: 76643"] [I]That is how capitalism works[/I] (now tell me again how great our economic system is lol, or how if we criticize it that means we're stalinists). Both parties have been in power over the last several decades as unionized jobs were lost to automation or outsourcing. If you do some reading you'll find out that machinery has probably been more responsible for manufacturing job losses in the US than moving factories elsewhere. The parties take turns blaming each other for the plight of the working class, ahem "middle class" (working class is too spicy a term for most politicians to even say): you get sick of hearing it, neither party gives a two ****s about us. I have long said: workers have no party. In the long run the union is wasting money with DRIVE and political contributions; that money would be better spent on organizing, educating members, etc etc. [/QUOTE]

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