Originally Posted by Bucking Bar

"Greedy union bosses" did not tank our economy. Managers who leveraged their companies 40 to 1 using crap for collateral crashed our economy after they had milked every fraction of a penny from production costs by outsourcing labor to desperate, poverty stricken, places that they'll never visit.

Unions and their members were the middle class. The middle class who's consumers drove our economy. The middle class who has been so stripped of their wealth that they are now incapable of driving an economic recovery in the way that it has been driven in the past.

The fall of unions has paralleled the fall of professions and the decline of the American economy. For the economy to recover, the middle class has to recover. For the middle class to recover the over centralization of wealth which is being hoarded needs to get into the economy where it can be employed and multiplied.