Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Labor Unions: Do They Improve The Positions of Workers?

The ratio of yes to no of whether there is improvement is 2:7 no, so overall, labor unions do not improve the positions of workers.

The three sources that proved this most were Source C, Source D, and Source F. In Source C, there is a political cartoon that shows a labor worker having killed a goose and a communist man standing next to him. In the background, what looks like the labor worker's wife and child are staring angrily at the communist. I think this proves that labor unions don't work because it says that communist leaders were gaining control over the labor workers by persuasion and the labor workers had no say in anything. In Source D this is proved because it was describing how to make it possible for 100 men to do the work of 300 or 400 men, which causes the work to be more grueling and demanding for those 100 men, and it is taking jobs away from those other 200 or 300 men that were taken out of the equation. Lastly, according to Source F, the labor union did not improve the position of workers because with all different types of unions out there, there would be no way for all of them to coexist in the woroled of labor interest. This is shown in another political cartoon that has men holding spoons from the Knights of Labor, Socialists, Anarchists and the Labor Union fighting over a pot labeled Labor Interest. At the bottom, there is a caption that says "Too Many Cooks Spoils the Broth" talking about how these unions could not work in harmony. All in all, labor unions were unable to improve the positions of workers.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Egypt: Issues

I think that we should leave Egypt alone for the time being mostly because there are multiple dangerous events taking place that we should not put ourselves in the middle of. If Israel is so afraid while being so close to Egypt we should not danger ourselves by going over there and pushing our luck with the help. As it is evident in this article, Israel is always on the edge with what is happening in Egypt.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12338222

Although, on the other hand, because we have been so helpful in the past, it would be against our morals in America to take that away from Egypt during their time in need. I still do not think that we should involve ourselves by taking unnecessary risk.