on the Current Events page, linked here.

The labor movement came about at a time of gross maltreatment of employees and did a lot of good. My father was a president of the carpendar's local union for many years and later served as the local's business agent. His job was to get jobs for the local members and he was very good at it. He died of a heart attack while on union business (no one in the room knew CPR). I have no problem with organized labor but have never considered belonging to a union. First, the military frowns on that sort of thing, and later, it just never proved necessary.

Look to countries like Germany to see how a good idea can be taken to absurd lengths. There's a reason why BMW builds cars in the Carolinas and Mercedes has a factory in Alabama - the restrictive labor laws in Germany are so extreme that the companies have had to take their business elsewhere to survive. That's why Germany's unemployment rate is over 10% and climbing. Read the entire article - please.

Those who can't see the destructive effects of failed policies are indeed incapable of intelligent thought regardless of whether they lean to the Left or the Right. Those who believe that socialism can work "if the right people (meaning themselves) are in charge" are just plain ignorant of history and human nature.