Originally Posted By: Pariah
It's not semantics. Politicians are not inherently corrupt. It's the philosophy applied by the politician that makes him or her corrupt. As such, his or her applied philosophy is what corrupts the politics involved.

It's okay to speak generally about most politicians and the laws that they've influenced, but it's inappropriate to compare them and the construct they belong to-to unions and the union mentality.


Your intelligence in inherently flawed. You really have no idea what you're actually talking about, do you? Unions, like corporations or political parties, aren't evil or greedy by design. It's how they're used that makes them evil or good. The big auto workers' union is corrupt and greedy now, yes. But that doesn't mean all unions are. My brother is in a union. They don't strike every couple of months for raises. But they do keep his boss from telling him to work a twelve hour shift on his day off with no overtime or lose his job. My cousin's husband is a firefighter in a union. Why? Because if a little kid runs out in front of his fire truck he's driving before he can stop it, the city is going to throw him under the bus instead of prolonging a PR nightmare. The union provides him with lawyers to defend him and show that he wasn't at fault and undeserving of termination.


Seriously, Pariah, I can't wait for the day that you'll actually have to start living in the real world.


whomod said: I generally don't like it when people decide to play by the rules against people who don't play by the rules.
It tends to put you immediately at a disadvantage and IMO is a sign of true weakness.
This is true both in politics and on the internet."

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