[Publius6961]

“We have high-paid jobs thanks to the negotiations of the union,” he said. “Reese (nonunion) workers are getting union-scaled wages to keep the union out.”

I have not finished the article, but I am not holding my breath to find the other side of the coin,

“We are about to lose our high-paid jobs thanks to the negotiations of the union,” he said. “Reese (nonunion) workers are getting union-scaled wages [and are also about to lose their jobs for the same reason.]”

Isn't it amazing what selective amnesia can do to the outraged unemployed?

Of course, under the "me first" union philosophy, they have also lost sight of the reality that they are losing their jobs in part because...

"...Taylor points a finger at the “bizarre and antiquated” U.S. sugar subsidy, which inflates the price of sugar to “two or three times the price on the world market.”

... of subsidies to another segment of the presumable free [and probably unionized] market...

[Non-Sequitur]

... of subsidies to another segment of the presumable free [and probably unionized] market...

Suger growers? Unionized? Anything to support that?

[Richard Kimball]

Everything I've read says that Archer Daniels Midland keeps the money flowing to Congress to keep sugar high priced. ADM processes corn syrup. The only reason Coca Cola and most other soft drinks went to corn syrup is because there is a very stiff tariff on using cane sugar.

There is still one Dr. Pepper plant that uses sugar in Dublin, Texas, and I think there's a kosher Coke or something that uses it, but otherwise, it's corn syrup in soft drinks. Cokes haven't tasted the same for quite a few years.

I think they also did a lot of lobbying to get ethanol production mandated by the feds.