Hello Dave,   
      
   >BK>You don't even have to pay dues, you have to pay representation   
   >BK>fees, since by federal laws they have to represent you even if   
   >BK>you don't join.   
      
   >JM>Shouldn't have too pay anything to any union for any reason. Especially   
   >JM>to be allowed to work.   
      
   DD>I see. You don't believe in paying for your supper, then?   
      
   I believe n playing for my supper.  And have often done so.   
   With great pleasure, and with rich rewards.   
      
   DD>The American middle class rose with the rise of unions ...   
   DD>and is shrinking as the unions have less and less influence.   
      
   Two percent of the people own sixty percent of the wealth.   
   In the near future, that same two percent of the people will   
   own eighty percent of the wealth.  What that means is that   
   Mr. Bojangles will have to dance to richer and richer people   
   in order to live a life.   
      
   DD>BTW - I do not think, nor claim, that unions are perfect - because it is   
   DD>patently obvious, even to a lock-stepping wing-nut reactionary - they are no   
   DD>But, they are better than going back to a master and serf   
   DD>economy ... by a long   
   DD>chalk.   
      
   Woody Guthrie wrote a lot of songs, but over eighty percent   
   of those songs have never been recorded or allowed to be recorded.   
   The man's ideas were just too dangerous for Americans...   
      
   --Lee   
      
      
    * SLMR 2.1a * Il est apres se foutre de toi.   
      
   --- Maximus 3.01   
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