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   DD>>The American middle class rose with the rise of unions ...   
   DD>>and is shrinking as the unions have less and less influence.   
      
    LL> Two percent of the people own sixty percent of the wealth.   
    LL> In the near future, that same two percent of the people will   
    LL> own eighty percent of the wealth.  What that means is that   
    LL> Mr. Bojangles will have to dance to richer and richer people   
    LL> in order to live a life.   
      
    And with strong unions the workers would own more of the wealth   
    they produce.   
      
   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.   
      
    LL> Woody Guthrie wrote a lot of songs, but over eighty percent   
    LL> of those songs have never been recorded or allowed to be   
    LL> recorded. The man's ideas were just too dangerous for   
    LL> Americans...   
      
    You know, it's actually possible those songs just weren't very   
    good.   
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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