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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 974252" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>You are a little off.&nbsp; It was America&#039;s manufacturing might that helped win WWII.&nbsp; It was after the war when other countries were rebuilding that our manufacturing base made us the world&#039;s dominant economy.&nbsp; And hard earned gains by unions forced companies to offer good benefits to keep unions out as well as compete for workers.&nbsp; Now the pendulum has swung back the other way.&nbsp; Unions have greatly contributed to their own demise, and companies are taking advantage of union weakness to divest themselves of employees benefits.&nbsp; Wealth is being concentrated into fewer and fewer hands which eventually(possibly already started) will lead to the kind of social unrest and radicalism that produced alot of misery in the last century.&nbsp; The idea that some are entitled to live extraordinarily well while the masses struggle has never produced pleasant results.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 974252, member: 24302"] You are a little off. It was America's manufacturing might that helped win WWII. It was after the war when other countries were rebuilding that our manufacturing base made us the world's dominant economy. And hard earned gains by unions forced companies to offer good benefits to keep unions out as well as compete for workers. Now the pendulum has swung back the other way. Unions have greatly contributed to their own demise, and companies are taking advantage of union weakness to divest themselves of employees benefits. Wealth is being concentrated into fewer and fewer hands which eventually(possibly already started) will lead to the kind of social unrest and radicalism that produced alot of misery in the last century. The idea that some are entitled to live extraordinarily well while the masses struggle has never produced pleasant results. [/QUOTE]

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