[TheRealThing]

A man drives from Jackson to Georgetown and works his body worn at Toyota. Receives very good pay and benefits. Another man from Jackson has this attitude that life shucked him a raw deal and government and society owe him. His kids are on free lunch and wear free braces and glasses. I say "his kids" but he is with another woman now. Obviously, the "it is the government's job to see that me and my kids eat" mindset will kill a nation's productivity. No question. It is also true that a society needs safety nets because people do get sick, get hurt, get old, get left behind by an ever-changing economy and world. I'm not saying the man driving from Jackson to work at Toyota until his body hurts all the time doesn't have a right to be angry. But multinationals who care nothing about anything but higher profits may scam the public into blaming unions and the EPA and blah, blah, blah, but providing jobs does not give them carte blanche to pollute water and air and treat human beings like yoked oxen.

LOL, you even spell carte blanche the way I do.

But by way of shaking my head like my dog does when he gets a bath, in this you have posed the quintessential, mutually exclusive, would be argument. There ain't no vast right wing conspiracy, Unions made their bed when they laid with politicians, and unfortunately, we get the multinational treatment when we run everybody else out of town. And now would be a good time to point out that the EPA, rains on everybody's parade, including people from Japan. :biggrin: