Retrobites: Jimmy Hoffa (1960)

Infamous labour leader Jimmy Hoffa talks about power and his childhood.

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[reducrider]

We sure need men like Hoffa today.....

[Parent33w]

That might be one of the dumbest fucking things you ever post. Unions are about collective bargaining; securing a living wage for their members. I guess you think it is all right for big corps to pay shit wages and no benefits to workers one victim at a time. When is the last time you saw workers geting seven to nine figure bonuses for anything, even collectively? NEVER; go fuck yourself . Unions = socioeconomic slavery abolition. Go pimp some other country you do-nothing white collar fuck.

[UberVersatile]

Infamous if you were a fat cat.

[abnrgr1989]

@Parent33w right..and we need mobsters running the unions stealing the laborers money and retirement funds...murdering people..blowing up cars...great job...who's the moron?

[isaysee]

@jceepf -[cont ]- The poor record Governments compile at running things is SOMETIMES offset by the poor record they've compiled at regulating things.This is one of those things that - for better or worse - should be a function of CentralizedGovernment. BTW= the argument that ProfitMotive creates advanced treatment proficientcy is valid- BUT not decisive because no "1" is so essential to the greater good that miracle cures must be aquired at any cost. Equal access is better 4 a "NATION"

[isaysee]

@jceepf - Health Insurance can not be reformed any more then leprocy can be reformed. By it's very nature, in one form or another,- it is essentually an interlopeing profiteer that will eventually & envariable seek to play against both sides to make a middle for itself. The ones that are best at bleeding both sides will prosper & subsequently aquire more&more ability to callude their way around the competitive enviorment that regulatory efforts try to the create&maintain - [see continuation]

[FrankeeFraud]

@laurensadriaanse Every American should have health insurance, as long as they PAY for it. Nobody owes you anything. I despise all freeloaders.

[jceepf]

@GreekAndreas Except that Canada is perhaps the country of the G8 with least problems. None of the Canadian Banks required help thanks to severe regulation and high capitalization. Furthermore, in the 1990s, Canadians had the balls to cut their deficits by "across the board" cuts while in the USA there are always sacred cows on both the GOP and Dems that prevents any real cuts.

Health care cannot be reformed in the USA because sacred cows of the left and the right cannot be slaughtered.

[GreekAndreas]

@laurensadriaanse And you would be as far gone as Greece is today! Even after Wall Street raped America you still might recover, but with the trillions and trillions of Dollars for health care ontop of that you guys would be paying almost 50% of your income like Canadians do currently. Talk is cheap! And when you though people in the mix, great theories don't work!

[bestwrmd]

the real enemy is the central bank.

[blackandgold978]

@laurensadriaanse -

So I owe it to all you strangers to pay your medical bills? FUCK YOU.....

[blader45bc]

We need unions but we sure don't need Jimmy Hoffa. Most union leaders are half-corrupt when they start and fully corrupt when they die.. . And if they're not corrupt their associates kill them