Beck claims Stern, SEIU trying to "drive down our standard of living"

Beck claims Stern, SEIU trying to "drive down our standard of living"

Becky I think you really want it like it was during "The Guilded Age" or age of the robber barons from 1870's to 1932. Also unfortunately from 1980 - today. Yeah it is good to deny the right of common people to have a bargaining chip (UNIONS) to break down the coporate robbers. *FACEPALM*

Those greedy union leaders! Thank god we have talk radio, Fox News, and multinational corporations to protect us.

That's what conservatives are trying do. Stern is trying to bring more people into the middle class.

Yes, those unions who have hurt the American worker for so long.

Does Becky want us to return to the era where employers can do whatever they want, because that's true freedom.

I guess if Beck had it's way we would return to the 1850s.

Average American worked 3150 - 3650 hours a year, including children.
OSHA? If a worker gets maimed, well he wasn't very good at his job was he?

The SEIU and all unions are trying to keep the jobs here in America...

In the IT industry (where I work), it's estimated that we are losing 200,000 jobs a year to global outsourcing. We don't have a union protecting the IT worker where they estimate 3.3 million jobs by 2015.

So Beck... shut the hell up. The next time you and your neocon breatheren scream "Where are the Jobs"... I know many of my friends working in the IT industry can answer you... India!

I wonder how all the Union members working in Beck's studio feel about his line of BS.

That is pretty much what 'spreading the wealth means". It doesn't raise anybody's standard of living. It has never worked in the history of mankind...it will not work now. The only thing it speads evenly....is misery.

Those who choose to ignore history.....

I wouldn't mind driving Beck's standard of living down to the level of the unemployed.

I thought unions were attempting to get higher wages and better benefits.

My mistake.

Andy Stern is something of a sellout, but SEIU has clearly raised wages for service employees. Perhaps Beck's own standard of living is lowered by having to pay decent wages? Why am I constantly getting the feeling that Beck is incapable of distinguishing between the public interest and his own personal interests?

Most obviously, he doesn't know what the purpose of a union is; to drive UP wages for people who work in these industries. Yet another assertion by an uneducated person who needs to have the mike taken away from them. This single point destroys his whole argument.