>Here's some pictures of the happiness that free enterprise can share with us all. As you say Marcia the universe has no sense of obligation but we can put that in place
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>So what is your point? I am not saying that there was never a place for unions. Almost 100 years ago, they were a good thing. Now, we have child labor laws and, as a matter of fact, all kinds of laws regarding the conditions in which people may work. Nowadays, the unions are parasitic and no longer serve any useful purpose.
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>Socialism does not work. Everywhere it has been tried, it has failed.

You must let the Germans know. their economic model would be socialism by your measure and it seems to work quite nicely. (for them anyway). And they seem to have quite a lot of unions.