Why are Conservative Republicans so against labor unions?
969639
I don't know...why don't you ask all the union auto workers who lost their jobs because they made way too much money.
1085430
Because they feel that they are the only people who work for a living and have morals.  The reality is that many who preach Conservative values have had mommy and daddy pay for their education, apartments, cars, etc...  They are often raised in families with money and receive large inheritances to help start businesses (ex: Dubbuya) and forget that there are middle and working class folks who bust their backs everyday to pay bills.\nIt's easy for Conservatives to criticize people that are not born with silver spoons in their mouths!\nOn moral values- Rush Limbaugh and viagra, Tom Delay and his fine crew, and Rev Jimmy Swaggart and his sex scandal...  Need I say more!
939579
Conservative Republican.
646159
When employees vote in labor unions, they give the unions the right to speak for them. So when a union steals their money, gives union officials huge raises or contributes millions to political candidates with your union dues money, you have no rights to object.\n\nUnions also set up "union shops" whereby in order to work at a company you must join the union.  Very few entities in the US can have this kind of monopoly.\n\nLately the UAW has given away retiree benefits to protect current employees' benefits. So the retirees paid dues faithfully for 30-40 years only to be sold out by the hand they fed for years.\n\nIn the end labor unions probably provide less value for the money spent than anything on earth, They've ruined the US steel and airline industries and they're theatening to do the same thing to the domestic auto industry unless the workers take charge and throw them out.
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I think they're a necessary evil. NECESSARY, because many employers, if unchecked, would exploit their employees. This is what led to the formation of unions in the first place. Greedy individuals who will make a profit at any cost and not recognize the labor force. \n\nAn EVIL because they can interfere with the freedom of employer to do as they will with their business. And, after all, unions are also run by men who themselves can be greedy and make unreasonable demands on employers.\n\nIn an ideal world, employers would pay fair wages to their employees and there would be no need for union. An honest day's pay for an honest day's work.
782583
Most conservatives agree that smaller government is better.  This means pulling back on things like the government supplied safety nets that are in place, getting rid of redundant offices and staff, and reducing the role that the government plays in everyone's everyday life.  Unfortunately, the majority of Republicans that are in office righ now are NOT conservative.  Liberals support the idea that the government needs to take care of all of us, provide our every need, and control and redistribute wealth to the poorest among us.  Therefore, the government needs to be very large and very expensive.
303089
Conservative Republican with Libertarian tendencies.
1050608
Good question but I think you already know the answer to this... big business owns the Republican party (80s when this occurred and now) therefore their desire to exploit cheap labor outweighed doing the 'civil' thing.
899596
Because conservatives live and breathe and promote fear.  It helps them rattle vulnerable people into supporting their oppressive policies.  Don't forget the "terror alert" gauge that pretty much got retired after the 2004 elections, the boogeyman Osama that Bush seems to revive every so often, and the Patiot Act.  \n\n"BE VERY AFRAID AND VOTE FOR THE GOP!!"  \n\n(This was the gist of a political ad released just before the November elections....fat lot of good it did them, too....)
19877
because the republicans are in the pocket of big bussiness and business wants to re align the wealth of this country, they also want to roll back labor protection, overtime pay, and workplace saftey laws, the main goal is to re distribute the wealth to the wealthy and go back to how this country was  when there was hardly a middle class
952554
The ignorance in your question actually answers this question... because the lower income Republicans are weak-minded and fall for propaganda easily.\n\nGetting a low income Republican to vote is easy... all you have to do is convince him that the blacks and gays are wanting equal rights and want to live off his hard labor. \n\nThe low income ones are manipulated by prejudices.\n\nExamples, how many times to you hear Republicans on here do you hear comments about democrats living off welfare. Would it surprise you to learn that there are more Republicans on welfare than Democrats? It is because of the increase in job loss of the midwestern states that are all Republican.
703130
It's a paradigm issue. Democrats tend to believe in the social contract, that we are stronger as a nation when we empower each other and conduct our government for broad social benefit rather than for individual benefit. Republicans, on the other hand, operate from a lower level of human development where individual empowerment means "survival of the fittest", "a sucka's born every minute", "dominion over the planet means plunder rather than guardianship", "them first so that their "superior" genes survive", genecide, rigging elections, lying and torture are ok if it means their survival" sort of reasoning and so-called "values". They have never believed in the American Dream. Since the beginning of this democracy, the dream to be free and have a fair chance has been under attack by the Conservative's belief system. Republicans and Conservatives do not believe in the U.S. Constitution, unless it serves their self-interests. They have never been real Americans. Real Americans believe in free speech. Conservatives do not. Real Americans look out for each other's rights in our pluralistic society. Conservatives do not. Conservatives do not care for anyone but themselves and their own viewpoints, their own religions, their own bank accounts. That is their platform. They would have the rest of us put down like animals or enslaved if they could get away with it. They are not believers in the common good. They plunder, even from the weak. They do not care about their own neighbors or their own communities or people who are different than they are. They prefer to live in gated communities and build massive fences and walls. They relentlessly strive to disenfranchise as many people from the American Dream as possible. They fought against Americans who wanted slavery abolished. They fought against black Americans who wanted to vote. They fought against female Americans who wanted to vote. They fought against Americans who wanted to keep church and state separate. They fought against older and disabled Americans who wanted American public restrooms and sidewalks to accomodate wheelchairs. They fought against American workers who wanted a decent minimum wage and a forty-hour work week. They fight to this day against poor people by refusing to raise the minimum wage yet voting themselves raises in legislative bodies. They fought against American children and forced them to work like slaves in factories and mines. They fought against American children and spent our money making arms dealers rich while taking money away from the public school system. They fought against working American mothers who needed equal pay and decent childcare. They fought against hungry American babies and slashed preschool nutrional programs for the poor. They fought against pregnant poor Americans and slashed prenatal care programs. They fought against American healthcare professionals who were struggling to stop the spread of AIDS and they blocked the distribution of condoms that would have saved millions of American lives. They fought against American homosexuals who wanted to be able to rent a house or an apartment and live together in peace. They fought against American police organizations that pleaded for a ban on the guns that slaughter police officers and over 40,000 Americans every year. They fought against Americans who tried to protect the environment and people from pollution and poisons that are being put in the air and water, by conservatives, mostly. They fought against every American in court who has struggled to protect our freedom of speech. They fight against Americans who want the Internet to remain free. They fight against Americans who want peace and they fight to protect their right to profit from war. They fought against a common ground like this Yahoo site, a common ground where people from all tribes and nations of the world could gather and share ideas and
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You obviously have no concept of conservatism.  Not only do conservatives not steal from the poor, they donate billions of dollars a year to charities to help the poor.\n\nConservatives don't like the social security system because it is broken.  Whereas a person can earn 4% interest in a savings account, social security is earnining less than 1% interest.  See the problem?  The people, especially the poor, are getting screwed in this deal.\n\nConservatism is a set of beliefs, a primary one of which is that you need to set up systems to allow people to help themselves.  If you just keep handing out money to the poor, they will always be poor.  You're not giving them the tools to get out of poverty.  So just keep handing out money and assuring generational poverty.  Liberalism is actually much, much crueler to the poor than is conservatism.\n\nI know hundreds of Republicans and conservatives (not always the same thing).  None of them are wealthy, many aren't religious, and not a single one of them is stealing from the poor or trying to harm the poor.\n\nAnd by way, insulting conservatives with all your little talking points and phrases doesn't help the poor climb out of poverty.  It just exposes your ignorance and irrational hatred.
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I'm conservative on a number of issues. I'm opposed to abortion on demand and I'm opposed to gay marriage, as two examples of that.\n\nBut I generally support the ACLU.\n\nA lot of conservatives want to overcome 'political correctness' in society, as do I. But political correctness slices both ways. There's liberal PC and there's conservative PC. Neither can be allowed to influence the laws of the land.\n\nThe ACLU is as likely to fight for someone's right to protest at an abortion clinic or a gay parade as they are to fight for someone's right to protest at a Republican rally or a church.\n\nThe ACLU is a nonpartisan organization that stands in defense of civil liberties. Not just yours or mine, but everyones.\n\nSometimes they defend people I find vile and potentially dangerous, but they do it to protect the principle of civil freedom...for all people, including you. They are not advocating for pornography or homosexuality... they are advocating for individual freedom and free expression. If those things can be taken away from gays or pornographers, they can be taken away from you too. You can't have it both ways.
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What several have listed are actually conservative ideals.  The republican party is closer to conservatism than the present democrat party, but still not conservative.   Oddly, the democrats in the day of JFK were more conservative than the republican party is today.\n\nUnfortunately the democrat party has gone off the left end of the spectrum and the republicans are heading there too.   We probably need a strong conservative third party if we want to save this country.
1149594
Conservatives will always lean on non political issues(like gay marriage) whenever their feet are to the fire.  Bush is a lame duck.  His own party is turning against him, and he is pulling out all the stops to keep their loyalty.
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I think there are plenty of legit conservative republicans out there, but I think many people get so worked up about issues like gay marriage and abortion they ignore everything else and vote republican cause they dont like boys kissing.\nElection time they roll out what works for them, hot button social issues that only get attention every 2 years to get their base riled up and out to vote.\n\nOh yeah, this is from rnc.com, their 2004 platform.  I guess they havent rolled out 2006 officially, but I expect it to be almost exactly the same.\nhttp://www.gop.com/media/2004platform.pdf