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Post by maddogblues on Jul 13, 2009 22:19:34 GMT -5
There's some links here. This is about how the American worker has had to evolve. From the Jungle as it were. Don't miss the photo album in the link below. Don't miss any of that website. I would suggest if you have children 10 or older to sit down and go through this with them because they are going to have to confront this same entity someday. They need to be prepared. You need to tell them this is the nature of being an employee. www.du.edu/ludlow/cfintro.htmlSee how respected members of American society treated American workers. This is about the Rockefeller family. J.D Rockefeller lived in a house not to far from where I was born. It has a historical marker next to it showing that the American government regarded him as memorable. Read the link and see what his family is responsible for. Ask yourself why they did it. www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/sfeature/sf_8.htmlTo put this in its proper perspective this is a military action taken at the request of people who own the means of making a living against their employees. That is one way to describe it. Now think of how it might be described in the MSM today. Is this distinctly American or un-American? Does it have a precedent in history? Where would it be if you could point to one? What would be the common factors in this equation?
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Post by farmboxer on Jul 13, 2009 23:33:12 GMT -5
I know how labor was mistreated, it was so sad.
I watched a very moving documentary on Free Speech TV, FSTV not long ago. The rich are so greedy and evil.
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Post by maddogblues on Jul 14, 2009 9:48:25 GMT -5
I know how labor was mistreated, it was so sad. I watched a very moving documentary on Free Speech TV, FSTV not long ago. The rich are so greedy and evil. A friend in Birimgham Alabama sent me this reply after looking at the site: "No surprise here. My great uncle was a Molly Maguire. He was part of the UMWA in the south, and when they struck, his house was bombed -- crap like that. Papa was a coal miner, and due to unsafe conditions, he was crushed from the waist down in a cave-in. They said he would never walk again, but he had a family to support. So he kicked the morphine the doctors had addictedhim to for the pain and literally taught himself to walk again. He had a hole above his knee he used to stick his whole fist into. He studied how to be a machinist at home and after that, worked as one in a factory." In a second email she continues: "The crap with the mines still goes on today. Everytime I see a massive cave-in and men trapped and killed I get furious. They don't adhere to safety requirements and then cover their asses when something goes wrong. It's a helluva way to earn a living. They die from inhaling the crap for years on end. And there's no way out for many of them -- it's the mines or starvation. I will always have a soft spot in my heart for miners. If you saw Coal Miner's Daughter -- that Loretta Lynn biography -- that movie was very much the way things are. They keep them poor, but pay them just enough to make it impossible for them to leave."
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