tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534598933965521300.post4307703716250201846..comments2023-04-26T02:28:13.648-07:00Comments on Madame L Has an Opinion: More on UnionsMadame Ellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265879154586439823noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534598933965521300.post-42291996773576399332014-05-08T08:37:16.644-07:002014-05-08T08:37:16.644-07:00Modern history has many warning messages when the ...Modern history has many warning messages when the wealthy take over the politics so as to benefit themselves. The wealth gap increases. We had a thriving middle class in the United States in the 1950's - 1980's, where progressive taxation impinged more on the uber wealthy than the unionized wage-earner trying to raise a family on one salary. Now the American middle class lags behind Europe's. Behind EUROPE!<br /><br />For modern historical warnings, I would draw your attention to modern Venezuela, modern Thailand, and Modern Iran. It's also exploding in China and Russia right now. An Oligarchy is the Big Red Flag. In Iran the Oligarchy tries to camouflage itself in religion, but it's a powerful and very toxic crony arrangement.<br /><br />Like Peronista Argentina and modern Venezuela, the wealth gap can get just so far before a real explosion takes place. <br /><br />If steps are not taken in our own country - like a minimum wage that gives a human being a living wage - then it's like cancer: fix the problem early and everything will be fine. Delay the fix and the repairs when they come will be uglier and uglier. <br /><br />A disease can only progress so far before uncontrolled consequences follow.<br />AskTheGeologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06354833219992420022noreply@blogger.com