tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463475.post4419657816256990498..comments2024-02-23T14:59:44.189-05:00Comments on The Goat Rope: The end of the world as we know it (revisited)Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333099574473265593noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463475.post-59829620480305114482010-01-08T13:02:47.151-05:002010-01-08T13:02:47.151-05:00It sounds like he "voted for Eisenhower cause...It sounds like he "voted for Eisenhower cause Lincoln won the war."<br /><br />I think you're right that if unions were stronger and organizing was easier a lot of these things would take care of themselves.El Cabrerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07393623994934465867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463475.post-73900293698724360702010-01-08T12:20:27.686-05:002010-01-08T12:20:27.686-05:00My grandad was a hard core republican and was also...My grandad was a hard core republican and was also an organizer for the Textile Workers of America.<br /><br />He was one of those old time republicans that didn't believe in a lot of gov't programs, in saving money, but he was all for anything helping the working man.<br /><br />I think the difference today and then was back then if you had a good middle class job you didn't have to have gov't help like the earned income tax credit, or food stamps, or CHIPS, or the million other things the gov't has had to do to make up for breaking the unions.<br /><br />Back then if people didn't have enough money to provide the basics they went on strike and got them for themselves rather than relying on the gov't to do the redistribution.<br /><br />The sad thing now is while conservatives are still against giveaways for working people, they also really hate unions so it's sort of a catch 22.Hollowdwellernoreply@blogger.com