Benj, back a few days i answered you on the ”heart” issue –but it didn’t post –shame, i got nearly as purple as you on it and now it’s gone.

Quickie recap, let’s look at ‘rust belt’ union workers. You mock me for mentioning that people have freedom to go to where the work is, but you leave it as a mock, so i have to fill in for you that yes, folks understandably are reluctant to leave where the extended family has lived for several generations. Ok, one for you on ‘heart’.

So, what, should Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama, bring the UAW down and organize the new open-shop auto industry? What if the workers would rather have a business model that doesn’t shrink the plant to where their kids can’t in the future work there too? That’s what UAW has done, you know, year by year, by adding costs that leave the company less able to compete, it has steadily shrunk the numbers of jobs, and made all positions less and less secure, and now the sons and daughters of several generations of auto workers have no jobs.

So, ‘heart’ is for those who already have a job, and for those that could have a job in a rationalized labor market, but don’t in the actual distorted market, well, not so much ‘heart’ for them.

Look at the states, benj –look at the labor migration map. Who has ‘heart’ really?

And I’m not blabbing theory –I’ve worked with my hands all my life –oilpatch, livestock, right down there in the mud & manure. No, no assembly-line experience –ya got me there.

Re McCain’s rich Mrs. –her dad was a B-17 pilot (just as was mine) who came out of the war into the postwar boom and made good –not as a rent-seeking Blue State lawyer or financier with webs of connections, but by hustling beer in the booming southwest, and being good enough to make a fortune at it. Now his dauhghter is to be mocked? Why?