Government _is_ the solution.

Or it ought to be--and not small government, either, because the challenges are large (in two ways).

Continuing about anti-union sentiments and activities (and remembering that it was Ronald Reagan, mentioned in the previous message, who crushed the air-traffic controllers' union), here is more about union troubles in "recent" American history:

<https://thinkprogress.org/the-true-story-of-how-one-man-shut-down-american-commerce-to-avoid-paying-his-workers-a-fair-wage-fe8ff26e236b#.ikovxh9lh>

The events are less recent, but in the sense that the struggles mentioned are perfectly familiar to people who are finding their labor under-valued, they are "modern" events.  The article is from 2014.

It is beyond me how workers who should value union protections could have come to despise them.

Are we _all_ Ayn Rand Objectivists now--even those who absolutely cannot afford to be?  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_(Ayn_Rand)>

Appalling.

Mark_
19 November 2016