I understand what the article is saying also. But I suppose I have a different perspective. I feel like I've already learned lessons everyone is trying to teach through socialist Greece. More government and higher taxes isn't the answer.

Coming from an area in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains where coal mining helped give rise to the unions in the history of America, we quit believing in the tooth fairy many, many years ago. Unions spread to the hospitals, a casket factory, a division of Carter childrens clothing manufacturing and countless other industries in the town where I was raised. It was once called little Pittsburg.

For many decades the unions became strong in all areas of the region from the coal mines. Then in the 1970s, the unions stroked people to strike and picket. I remember very well seeing the word scab on picket signs and my Mom trying to explain what it meant. The workers kept striking over senseless things the union officials deemed unjust. The businesses closed. Virginia became a right to work state.

I chuckle when I read articles about high unemployment in the US. We've had it for decades. The environmentalist tree huggers who don't live in the mountains come in to protect the people who work and hold their lives in place between the mountains and the streams and they don't want their help.

I'm from the land of John L. Lewis, Mother Jones, Baldwin-Felts, the Matewan Massacre, the shoot out with the Floyd Allen family, the Pittston Coal Strike, the Hatfields and McCoys and the Eleanor Roosevelt's failed Arthurdale socialist project . I understand all too well what happens when you let others control your life. It's a lesson we learned when we survived after the unions went to Washington with our union dues.

We survived and were made stronger by the lessons we learned in believing in the unions and tooth fairies.

You can laugh and use the stereotypically way we are depicted by the media, but we learned if you didn't take care of your teeth, you lost them. There wasn't any imaginary person who was going to come into your dreams at night and you'd magically awake with money. You had to earn it.
After breaking their backs and risking their lives helping grow the unions for the good things they were established to do, where I'm from people learned many years ago that the unions turned from the tooth fairy into the monster under your bed.