Title: Mcgowanjm Wire 2012 Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Feb 26, 2012 Author:Various Post Date:2012-02-26 09:15:13 by A K A Stone Keywords:None Views:1372269 Comments:2390
The question is who can best deliver on the promise of continued living-beyond-means: unions or neo-liberals? Fifty years ago labor unions gave working families the chance at consumption lifestyles. Today, the problems lie with lifestyles themselves, union representation is irrelevant. Unions cannot deliver jobs that are exported overseas by business owners. The point has shifted from who can deliver wages and social justice to who can deliver $2 gasoline.
Unionists and progressives have little idea of the kind of contest that has been forced upon them. The US and the rest of the world have reached the end of a seventy-year run of a waste-based economy that cannot afford itself. Progressives demand a chance to make a difference when ‘different’ means more of the same, more consumption. This can be had from the business establishment which offers better empty promises.
