On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 07:14:34 -0700 (PDT), MIG
wrote:

No; bankers just take bets on other people's work. RMT members do
actually do a job (even if you don't like the way they do it) and
create the wealth that the bankers take bets on.


What rubbish.

Banks provide finance for businesses that employ people. providing
them with jobs and prosperity. Without banks, the economy would grind
to a halt.

The economy has certainly slowed considerably over the last few months
as the banking problems took hold. Imagine how much worse it would
have been if the banks had been allowed to fail. We would have mass
unemployment.

As for trade unions such as RMT, they are parasites who extract more
money for less work by their members, and along with other trade
unions, maintain restrictive practices that act as a stranglehold on
British commerce.

In the short term, unions appear to be serving their members, but in
the long term, the economy would be far more successful without them.
There are more than enough labour laws in place to protect the basic
rights of workers - that was what unions were established to do, but
their job was done long ago.

If the trade unions closed down tomorrow, no-one would notice much
difference, except for the out of work fat cat union leaders such as
Bob Crow. If the banks closed down tomorrow, the economy would
collapse, with mass unemployment and severe deprivation for the whole
country.