Countdown: Thom Hartmann on the GOP Busting Unions

David Shuster talks to Thom Hartmann about the GOP's decision to tell the industrial midwest to go to hell. Hartmann breaks down the reasons the GOP to wants to bust unions and explains how this movement started under Ronald Reagan. He also has some suggestions for Barack Obama to get the economy back on track, and one is to read Alexander Hamilton's Report on Manufacturers from 1791.

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[chiefrc77]

The workers would make better wages with better benefits? Right, just like they do in China. You trickle-down retards just have no clue what it would be like without restrictions on corporations. Everytime your intelligently and morally bankrupt economic policies fail you say "well if only the market were more free". All trickle-down economics does is transfer wealth from the middle class to the top 1%. Maybe when you're homeless along with a good majority of society someday you'll understand.

[whiteypowers]

@biggerturd No we DO need government. The type envisioned by the founders. One which works for all its citizens, and not the corporations and other big money interests

[MagicKirin]

@BloatedSensations

did you see their actions in WI. We should just call all the goverment pensions on non essentials which would include the teachers. Then privitize and thenn prosecute allunion leader under RICO.

Walker is a labor hero.

[BloatedSensations]

@MagicKirin "Actually the union are the facists." - Really? I've never seen a union characterized by ardent nationalism, militarism, obsessions with national security and criminal punishment, the advocation of protections for corporate power and the marriage of religion to government, nor one which held a disdain for intellectualism and the arts, etc. These are, of course, the defining characteristics of fascism. Where are these "fascists" unions you speak of?

[MagicKirin]

@BloatedSensations

Actually the union are the facists.

Organized crime is more honest than the labor union and steal less money from the public.

[BloatedSensations]

@leftwingersunited That might be because, for the most part, THEY ARE radical right-wing fascists. Just because they might not be quite as radical as some other ridiculously radical right-wing fascists that have popped up once or twice throughout history, doesn't mean they aren't radical right-wing fascists as well.

[leftwingersunited]

THE G.O.P. ARE ACTING LIKE RADICAL RIGHT-WING FASCISTS!

[crabtrap]

@xaviqaz nonsense



[xaviqaz]

@crabtrap The US industrial base is pretty much the same for the last 50 years: 16-18% of real GDP (inflation adjusted). There are less jobs because of productivity growth and increasing competition.

[xaviqaz]

@killerbandit Latest news: Embraer opens a facility in Florida, Rolls Royce in Virginia, GE has its largest gas turbine manufacturing site in South Carolina... With the 2nd Boeing facility in SC, the South becomes headquarters of US aerospace industry (Spirit, Cessna, Hawker, Beechcraft, LearJet, Gulfstream, Bell). Foreign automakers produce 95% of their stuff in right to work states. Etc, etc. While the industrial midwest is outsourcing jobs. Repeat after me: forced unionism is good.