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We have witnessed the failure of organized labor in the 60s and of management in the 70s and 80s and financiers in the 90s. To hell with the lot of them. They all suck. If you want to root for someone root for the small independently owned businesses.

I have been watching the Discovery channel's Choppers series and love it. Those small producers, small mom and pop, pop and son shops--those should be the target of the Republican party for the new century.

Why back the interests of corporations that move work overseas and of unions that make such decisions easier and of financiers who ruined national economies?

Blue collar conservatives and more of them!

Blue collar conservatives and more of them!

I'm with you. Laws that focus on corporations alone can choke out the small entreprenuer, but laws that protect the small guy almost always create an atmosphere in which big guys can also thrive, and the little guys have a shot at being big guys too.

The small guys, the blue-collar capitalists, are the builders and doers of this country, and they are the ones we want to win over. They are the ones that make this country work.

"The only boss here now is the customer," said Plácido Peñarieta, one of nine employees at the Chilavert Artes Gráficas cooperative, which prints art books and posters, calendars and concert programs. "We've learned to depend on ourselves and nobody else."

There's more than one nugget in this quote.

A good example of the workers managing the work as well as themselves. A SHINING example of the "need" for middle and upper managment. More power to `em.

Reminds me of where I work, 150 techs that are the only source of income. And a "managment" staff of about 35 that constantly get in the way, slow everything down, constantly waste tech's time getting them "briefed" on the latest fixes-hardware-procedures-viruses-etc so they can write "reports" on staffing procedures rules policies disipline that usually wind up getting the really good techs fired or so fed up they quit. Of course, whenever this occures, there are no exit interviews, no follow up by upper managment to contact the freshly fired employee as to what really went wrong. Why did they walk away from a fair paying job with great medical, dential, optical and hospitalisation benifits, 3 weeks paid time off in the second year, matching 401k, and a chance to ride out the tech resession by working for a MAJOR US manufacturer with name recognision that goes back to the 1930`s A job that would be most techies dream internship, working on all aspects of all name brand computers, hardware, Operating Systems and software.
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