Seattle City Councilmember-elect shares radical idea with Boeing workers

[BrotherIvan]

19. I never ever could wrap my head around why corps weren't the first ones

to push for single payer. If they could get that cost off their books, it would be a huge boon for them. Why would they give a damn if the insurance companies make money? It's just mind-boggling.

I do understand that keeping workers in chains because they are tied to their health insurance is part of the game, but it is so expensive, surely there are other ways to keep wages incredibly low, *heh*.

And for the hope of the US exerting more control over corporations, with the TPP, we're ceding control of our country to them.

Taking over a factory is not communism or socialism, it's capitalism plain and simple. The workers are creating competition; they are leveraging their skills to create the product and bring it to market. Perhaps in the case of aviation or automobiles, which requires very expensive specialized machinery, that is more difficult, but in the case of day-to-day consumer goods that is entirely possible. By cutting out huge CEO salaries and overpaid bloated management, the workers could create a superior product that is price competitive--perhaps not slave labor cheap, but a good value. As consumers, we MUST support this model, we must shun foreign goods to satisfy our own selfish impulses. It is literally killing this country and our economy.