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ZRT2209

(1,357 posts) Thu Aug 8, 2013, 11:40 AM Aug 2013

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"Unions are the bulwark against economic and political totalitarianism."

- J. Paul Getty, "How to be Rich"

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"Unions are the bulwark against economic and political totalitarianism." (Original Post) ZRT2209 Aug 2013 OP

Yes. They. Are. Bake Aug 2013 #1

How true, How true Populist_Prole Aug 2013 #2

Yep leftstreet Aug 2013 #3

Bake

(21,977 posts)

1. Yes. They. Are.

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Thu Aug 8, 2013, 11:44 AM

Aug 2013

Bake

Populist_Prole

(5,364 posts)

2. How true, How true

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Thu Aug 8, 2013, 12:59 PM

Aug 2013

Which is why they've been a target of the plutocracy in a ferocious push to marginalize them for the last 30 years.

leftstreet

(36,107 posts)

3. Yep

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Thu Aug 8, 2013, 01:00 PM

Aug 2013

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