Labor: Tax the rich, don't touch safety nets

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4. Labor Unions are the people, whether they know it or not.

In the south, most believe that Unions are rip-offs and you pay the more money than you earn. That shows the low information citizens here. I am a retired Union carpenter and I am considered "well off" in average circles. I have dental care and a small check with my disability....actually I am around the poverty line.
I often speak to young and older (my age) people about the benefits of Unionizing. They think it is a "rip-off and think that Union wages played a role in our economic trouble...really.
I worked (carpenter) for 13 years non-union (including owning my own business). Only after moving north and joining the Union was I able to earn a living wage and have health insurance (at one time we even had legal insurance) for my family.
It takes collective bargaining and hard work for an average person to earn a decent living. These people do not think about the huge greed that the contractors have that makes them wealthy and the people who do the work, poor.
People in the south do not have a clue. They believe the guys living in the mansions telling them, the people who actually work, if they went Union they would go out of business. Actually, they may not live in mansions while their workers depend on food stamps and have no health care. It sickens me.