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• Reader Comments (4)

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  I want to thank david for an insightful and well researched article.

  Thank you David Moberg .This is the kind of thing we don’t read

  anywhere else but IN THESE Times. This is the kind of imformation

  we all need to be well informed not opinionated.

  Posted by headed on Apr 9, 2008 at 9:37 PM

  Vote No for whatever crazy notion your healthcare union has negotiated...what a bunch of tools they’ve turned out to be.

  Unions need to insist on immigration entitlements in an economy where factory work is diverted to the cheapest labour pools ( remember your father’s last shanty town, Americans?)

  And a service economy? I can do my own laundry, thank you.

  We are so fucked, and so few know it.

  I will encourage all the credit slaves and indentured servants of the educated class ( how’s paying off that student loan going these days anyway?) in North America to take whatever tax rebate your government is affording this year and turning it into gold rather than than a down payment on a new jet ski. I would encourage you to invest in dairy products, barley, whore houses, honey bees, and the precious gas created by the laughter of babies..because these are all things worth working and fighting for

  Ha!

  Posted by minerva_jones on Apr 10, 2008 at 4:44 AM

  PS....

  I would continue to ask your doctor if Viagara is right for you up until the bitter end, wankers

  Posted by minerva_jones on Apr 10, 2008 at 4:50 AM

  unions haven’t represented their members’ interests since oh the 70s....  my local is only just now trying to be more democratic and see what exactly we want out of upcoming contract negotiations.  more money, and keeping our healthcare. but i am not part of the seiu, but ufcw.  we have our own corruption problems ( no union outside of mexifornia matters, representing illegals’ interests over their members’) which is probably why our local president is trying to dissociate from the national, cuz no one gives money for the pac funds.

  Posted by SekhmetSatRa on Apr 13, 2008 at 10:48 AM

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