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Since When...
did it become wrong to have your own opinion?
Since When...
did it become wrong to voice that opinion?
Since When...
did we lose the ability to think for ourselves?
Since When...
did the 'unions' of our lives begin to live for us?

It seems the topic of the day anymore is unions. The NFL Players Union, whoops I mean Players Association (we can't call them a 'union' anymore since they voted to de-certify, even though they continue to act as though they are a union) is the big news. No one knows when or if Football will be played again on a Professional level. And guess what their number one sticking point is?

Money.

A few years ago it seems that there was a few other business' that needed some help from the government because they couldn't keep themselves afloat, financially speaking. These business' rely heavily on it's workers who are unionized and cry for more and more of what the NFLPA is crying for.

Money.

They say that Rome wasn't built in a day, but we do know that it was destroyed from within, by the Romans themselves. A slow agonizing death. As mighty as that civilization was, the source of it's cancer can be traced back down to one evil. Greed. Ravaging inflation and overtaxing of it's people led to a government obese with bureaucracy and with that came the eventual decline and decay of the roman civilization. And what were they greedy for?

Money.

If you ask me, our once proud country is headed, nay, we are running full strength towards the same plight that the Romans had experienced. And in my opinion the unions of today (most notably the teacher's unions) will be the catalyst of the slow destruction of the United States of America. I know I'm probably the minority voice (save for a couple of outspoken governors) but the prophets usually were the lone voice in the desert.

This blog will eventually post on my Facebook account, and I'm sure to get a huge amount of push back from the uneducated union aficionados who continue to argue and claim that the stereotypes are not true (oh no, there's no one making $45/hr sleeping on a couch in a breakroom in Detroit - That's never happened). I'm sure I'll have my fair share of teacher friends, who are ardent union supporters and not necessarily education enthusiasts, yell and scream and claim that I have no legitimate standard by which to measure a teacher's failure/success rate.

I know there'll be certain individuals who will read this and think to themselves, "He's only saying those things because he doesn't know what the union is like." And that's where you'd be wrong my friend.

You see I am a member of the local union 324. I know exactly what I am talking about.