RE: Super Bowl Sunday!
February 5, 2018 at 12:54 pm
(This post was last modified: February 5, 2018 at 1:21 pm by Brian37.)
(February 5, 2018 at 12:25 pm)mh.brewer Wrote:(February 5, 2018 at 7:58 am)Brian37 Wrote: Yea because only Billionaires have the right to bargain even though they don't do the sweat.
Our middle class came about because of UNION labor, our decline and exploding pay gap came as a result of Reagan's union busting and deregulation.
No sorry, the players have every damned right in the world to collectively bargain. I think all industry labor should get back to telling the rich to value them instead of acting like labor are mere tools for the rich.
I know that you're a tool.
Why am I a "tool", because I don't think one class should get to dictate the laws everyone lives under?
If that makes me a "tool" fine with me. I don't think workers are poker chips or property of one class.
(February 5, 2018 at 12:29 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(February 4, 2018 at 7:46 pm)chimp3 Wrote: I do not watch sports. But I just watched the opening ceremony! Why the military associations? Marine Corps flag waver dudes? Introducing WW2 vets. America, America ? Then Pink singing our militaristic national anthem? What is the connection between militarism and millionaires bashing each other around for a couple of hours?
The Department of Defense pays big money to the NFL for such things. Gotta keep the proles whipped up and supporting the oligarchy's military adventures, amirite?
I do think it is a bad thing to mix those things. It isn't that you should not support a military, we do need one, if we didn't have one, our enemies would run us over.
But this really is about money and business, for the NFL it is about marketing themes of patriotism to sell shirts and hats, for the military industrial complex, it is about making and selling more weapons.
