So about a week ago I blogged about Unions, Democrats and NAFTA. Here's the latest from the AFL-CIO:

The AFL-CIO unveiled its $53 million anti-McCain campaign yesterday. "The campaign will encompass 23 states, but the union, which has not endorsed a candidate in the Democratic primaries and caucuses, listed Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, all key battleground states, as its top priorities."

Union members should be up in arms over the amount of your hard earned union dues going to support this campaign. Both Hillary and Obama have talked tough about the so call "free" trade policies like NAFTA and how damaging they are to everyday working Americans. But their actions say otherwise. Let's not forget who signed NAFTA with a big smile on his face (Bill Clinton) and both Hillary and Obama have back room deals working with our trade partners saying "don't worry what we say, we won't actually do anything about NAFTA".

Now I don't believe for a minute that McCain's policies will be any better but at least he's honest about it. We need a third party candidate that will represent the working class instead of the Elites. We need to take this country back from the people that are only looking out for themselves and look at hard working every day American's as business resources. It's time to restore a sense pride, duty and respect to America in the business community. Afterall, isn't America what gave them the opportunity to make their millions? I think it's time to give back.

If you think this is anti free market then you need to read Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" and "The Theory of Moral Sentiments". Who is Adam Smith? Only the founder of the free market system. He laid out the idea of a non governed free market system way back in the 1700's that our Country's system is based on. He believed the economy would be self governing and provide upward mobility to all classes in the system. One of the overriding theories was what he called the "hand of God". Morality would govern the business owner to treat his employees with dignity and pay a decent wage for a decent job. After all who wanted the stigma from his neighbors saying "he makes 10,000 times as much as his workers every year and his workers can't even afford to buy his product. That's disgraceful".

Unfortunately we have become a godless society and that stigma no longer exists. Furthermore the so called "free" market has been tipped to the elites benefit. "free" trade as it has been rolled out creates an unfair and unnatural to our market competition between a mature economy like ours where workers had made gains for hundreds of years. Having to compete with countries like China and Mexico where workers make pennies on the dollar compared to American workers. When the government works with big business to artificially lower wages of American workers, it is no longer a free market system.

Take H1B visas in the technical industry. Tech worker compensation was rising fast and it was expensive for business to train American workers so they opened the spigot and in came 195,000 low price Foreign workers between 2001 and 2003 driving wages down to the point that many left the tech industry. This has been capped at 65,000 now but big business has been pushing for raises to the cap and government has been listening. After all why hire high priced American workers when you can hire a cheap Foreign worker for a fraction of the price and not have to train them.

The funny thing about this is that the reason put forward to push H1B through was that there just weren't enough tech workers in this country so we need to get more from elsewhere. Now that H1B has so damaged the reputation of the tech industry to the point that no one wants to work in it with falling wages and high layoff rates, there aren't enough tech workers. Colleges report drastic drops in enrollment to the technical courses and jobs sit unfilled. If they just would have invested in American workers instead of looking for the cheap quick fixes to the problem. They wouldn't have exasperated their own problem and now they are looking for government to step in again and raise the caps so they can get more cheap labor. How is it a free market system when Government steps in and artificially lowers wages by introducing artificial competition in select industries every time the business elite cries that they need cheaper labor?

I think it's time we throw both Republican and Democrat elites out of office and take this country back for ourselves AND Big Labor better wake up to the fact that the Dem's don't have their best interest at heart either. We need a third party or independent candidate that understands the plight of the American worker to step up to the plate now and we have to get behind them as a country and send a message to the elites that we are not going to sit by and watch them take this country down the drain while they make their millions.