During my years of union membership, I frequently heard personal attacks like the one that Steve leveled at Mark Mix. As I sat in union meetings, I was routinely treated to sermons condemning anyone who disagreed with the union’s position. Class envy was served up in heaping portions regularly. While people like Steve may have been impressed, I found that personal attacks and envy were a poor substitute for reasoned argument. When I voiced my disagreement with some of the union’s actions, I was treated to the same kind of personal attacks as other dissenters. I eventually concluded that vindictiveness was the weapon of choice for union supporters because it was the only effective weapon available. The union’s arguments were morally and intellectually bankrupt. I eventually found the union’s policies and actions repugnant and severed my ties to the union and became a supporter of the Right-to-Work movement.

Steve may be correct when he says that there are hundreds of thousands of common everyday working Americans who are happy and proud to be union members; I used to be one of them. However, there are also millions of common everyday working Americans who have no desire to be associated with unions -- we have rights too.

Bismarck