At one time, people rarely moved, education was limited, and whole generations would live and die within a few miles of each other. But the our has world changed, with better education, cheaper travel, and with expanding employment choices - the very forces that created the need for unions have almost disappeared in the country.

I'm not opposed to unions, and I think in a lot of places where there isn't a lot of wealth, mobility, and education (even in this country) they can certainly help empower workers to get better wages and conditions.

But the concept of the worker - overworked, no benefits, tossed out on whims by evil tycoons is no longer representational of America's work environment today.

Today, most unions threaten the workers more than they help.

Take the NHL players strike, or the current Writers strike. Members who make on average more than $100,000 per year are hardly the candidates for poor, oppressed, or without options. True there are people that make more than them, but there is also a lot of people that make less than them.

For every hockey team, there is a small legion of arena employees, trainers, and trickle down positions that are affected. The same with the writers strike, for every wannabe millionaire writer, there is at least a twenty to one ration of people who are affected - all the way down to the people who drive the trucks to the latest shoot. All currently unemployed, that aren't striking, that want to work.

Unions never used to be about the middle, never mind the upper class. They used to be about the poor, the disadvantaged, and people who couldn't fight back.

So Tina Fey, Jay Leno and all those writer/stars that support the plight of the oppressed writers, isn't it about time you stopped bringing donuts to the strikers, and started bring some food stamps to the other 95% that you also kicked out of work?

In his state of the union address to the Canadian nation, Harper established his imperialistic imperatives: "I have said that Canada does not stop at its border, that wherever there is a Canadian, there is Canada. And, for this reason, the government action on behalf of our countrymen is guided by principles, for the defense and protection of their rights."

Sounds hilarious right... Canada.

If Bush said it... he would be a fascist, if its a Canadian we are still laughing...

Oh yeah it was Calderon, and it was Mexican, Mexico, Mexican, and Mexico... are we laughing? are we saying fascist? If we did either we would be accused of being racist... best to do the right thing... just ignore it... and pretend it didn't happen.