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Labor blame misplaced

Antone Ornellas (Letters, Aug. 26) should quit blaming labor and unions for the “inefficiencies” of the marketplace. Instead, the blame should go to the theory of supply-side economics that when employed during the 1980s caused the destabilization and bailout of the savings and loan industry. And when employed by the last administration caused a financial meltdown that led also to the bailout of the auto industry and the repercussions of unemployment which continue two years into the Obama administration.

What Republican “supply-siders” forget is that the labor they hate must ultimately become the consumers all other members of the marketplace depend on to achieve a profit. But I’ll give Ornellas one point, that the “inefficient” should indeed die a natural death. As long as it starts with inefficient businesses that look to government for help whenever they screw up. The decision to behave “inefficiently” does not begin with labor, but rather the employer.

Joan E. Harman

Dalton Gardens

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