Abstract

After the corporate-state debacle leading to the Depression, the New Deal encouraged unionization of workers and made big labor a counterpoise to big business, but all within the system: most emphatically, the typical America non-worker was not a Marxist revolutionary dedicated to overthrowing the estab-lishment.3 Although this seemed sensible in so far as the National Labor Relations Act (1935) safe-guarded the workers' right to collective bargaining, the labor movement proceeded to go to excess with absurdly high demands of more pay for less work.4 This became a classic case of a positive feedback system with increasingly inordinate union exactions rewarded,5 although they fueled national inflation.6 This then reduced business and eventually led first to unemployment,7 then, in some cases, to the wholesale hiring of illegal aliens and eventually the inevitable loss of jobs with savvy businesses moving abroad in the guise of Free Trade.