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And were unions truly bad or rendered obsolete due to capitalism run amok?

Good question. There were definitely union corruption stories. But unions also hindered competition in a global economy. I think it was more of the latter than the former in hindsight. Unions had brought significant benefits to workers over the years.

Pensions went away and federal government came up with IRA and 401K accounts as the answer. It now turns out that this was a colossal failure for workers. Many will never retire or will retire in poverty. 
So how do protect worker's rights in a global economy? Blue collar has changed from using your hands to pick vegetables or man a cash register to basically collecting data if you are trained to do so. And yet conservatives push back on minimum wage reform, public and further education. Let's take some of the $ out of the military industrial complex (not all just some) and figure out how to train in STEM sciences?

Another good question that someone needs to address. I think, again, that Reagan's idea of trickle down has been clearly debunked, yet you have people who still want to go there (cut taxes to get growth). But it didn't work. Workers need protections or we will not have a stable, functional government. It's that simple. We need reliable health care and a system that supports education and old age. People say it's too expensive, but not having these things could cost way more if society becomes so unstable as to produce constant conflict. That is starting.
How do we fund it?[/quote]

Yeah, nobody wants to pay for this.  The above poster said to take some money out of the military industrial complex.  We could also raise the capital gains tax.  Whatever we do, we cannot have a country that is starting to look third world (lack of educational opportunity, limited health care, and more poverty) and expect to survive as a leader in the world.  We cannot continue to have wars while we have third rate educational and health systems. [/quote]

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