If people think the Big Three went under because of their unions rather than the fact that they were making cars that people didn't want to buy, they are fooling themselves.
I think people unfairly blame unions for problems businesses have. There are all kinds of things that go into a workplace environment besides what you get paid. And employers are just as likely to abuse their power as unions, and have more power to do so.
It makes no sense to me how you will hear people talk about the importance of production jobs in America and how blue collar workers are the heart of America, and then they turn around and badmouth unions in the next sentence. People have been conditioned to think that unions do more harm than they actually do. People have also been conditioned to think that employers abuse their power less often than they actually do.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
