Mr. Thiele has vastly overestimated the worth of his opinion, as it is clearly supported only by his obviously limited ability to understand historical and factual information. While he is feeling surprised that the "anti-union" MDJ actually did publish his letter, I would like to try and help him get his head out of the sand and his other end out of the air.
First, the industrial revolution gave our ancestors jobs but it also gave them "robber barons." Those "barons" then became vastly wealthy at the expense of the workers. Second, the abused workers then formed unions, for their own protection. The unions then did their jobs well, as they helped get 12 year old boys out of textile mills and mines, and bettered the working conditions all round. And then; they became just as greedy as the robber barons had been. Gutless management teams in corporation after corporation just rolled over, time after time, to union demands for ever higher wages and increased benefits, and then they just passed the increased expense right on down to us, their customers.
I know this will be hard Mr. Thiele; but try, please; does any of the above sound, even vaguely, a little bit familiar to some recent events, say; over the last 20 to 30 years? Our industries have not left because of Republicans or Democrats; they have left simply because it was more profitable to do so. There are still people, and Mr. Thiele is one of them, who want to ignore the facts and find someone to blame.
And as for the military and the draftees and mercenaries and war in general; he is clearly, but not surprisingly, even more obscenely ignorant there. Mercenaries have always been available. As for the draft, please spare us pontifications about honoring draftees. Mr. Thiele's former "President Peanut" negated it entirely, and spat on every draftee who ever served honorably, when he allowed the Vietnam draft dodgers a free pass to come back home from Canada. In his honor I have reserved one very fine, and very well filtered, "draft beer." I sincerely hope one day I will get the chance to present it to him.
Kenneth D. Parrott
Acworth
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condscending as you I expected a less childish comment.
I am soooo sorry if your precious little feelings are hurt. As far as snide name calling, got a mirror handy? And as for condescending, sorry about that; it's just extremely hard not to look down, in order to see you under that fake cowboy hat.