I wonder if today’s unions and socialists (admitted or otherwise) realize to what extent they are destroying jobs and the area’s future, accelerating inflation and increasing dependency on the government, if they just don’t care or if those are their goals.

People tend to think that unions are for people, when actually unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations. As opposed to unions, corporations that do well create more jobs. You’d think that somewhere in K-12 education, students could get a few hours of economics and American history.

Are people really so naïve as to think higher wages don’t lead to higher prices? If they don’t realize it now, they will when they’re retired (if they ever can) as I am and don’t get automatic pay increases every year.

When I graduated from engineering school in Iowa and moved to Seattle to work for Boeing many years ago, my wife and I found a nice one-bedroom apartment in a brand new building renting for $85/month. After our first child was born, we moved to a two-bedroom one in a different location, but the rent was over a hundred dollars a month.

Of course my salary was less than one-third of the current minimum wage, but way more than the 25 cents an hour I earned working part-time in a drug store when I was 12.

I suppose those folks losing jobs can move to a “right-to-work” state where more jobs are being created, the cost of living is far less and likely be better off.

Gary T. McGavran, Bellevue