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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Biden administration is supporting a free market negotiation between management and labor.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/port-strike-2024-east-coast-workers/[/quote]

Why would anyone expect Biden to sell out the Union position before the deadline? Negotiations 101, folks.[/quote]

The Union workers want 70% pay raises. This means more inflation people.[/quote]

how dare those workers want raise?   we need to import millions more low wage workers for the Urban Elites.

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One of the main things that I hear from my fellow tradesmen is how the elite and white-collar professional class don't care about or respect the blue collar working class. This disrespect comes out in many ways, big and small. But you can hear it a lot in the political rhetoric coming out of the progressive side these days. It was there in the COVID conversation, how work-from-home white collar folks pushed for endless lockdowns and vaccine mandates, to be imposed on the working class whose labor they relied on to stay home. It's there in the way they talk about a universal basic income instead of high-paying trade jobs, and in the way they push for low-wage green jobs instead of union energy jobs.

But you can really see it in how they talk about college. Take the latest issue that progressives are pushing the Biden administration on—student loan cancelation. They want us taxpayers to pay off the student loans of the college educated, who on average make more money than those without a degree, and for whom the economy recovered almost immediately post-COVID. Then they have the audacity to tell us that it will help blue collar workers. They want us to enthusiastically agree to pay off their student loan debt, and then have the nerve to tell us it's in our interest as Americans.

That's what I mean about disrespect. And it pervades the entire conversation about college in America today.

https://www.newsweek.com/divide-isnt-right-v-left-its-us-blue-collar-workers-fighting-elite-contempt-opinion-1706053[/quote]

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