re: #295 Dark_Falcon

Can we at least agree that the unions were being, not corrupt or evil, but short-sighted?

No. There was no reason to believe, other than GOP greed, that there was anything “unsustainable” about the negotiation demands of the unions. And the makers & governments agreed. Only when the greedy got tired of paying their fair share did this fantasy of “unsustainable” shows up. It’s as fake as the austerity that has failed every time it’s used.

When historians look back to the destruction of America they will point to the inability to collect taxes from those who can pay them and how the nation attempted to collect that needed revenue from those who couldn’t pay it.

And they’ll point out that it was just like how Rome died.