Nobody likes a monopoly! I have never liked the phone company, the electric company, the gas company, the cable company or Microsoft.

The only unions industries that seem to be doing well are in entertainment (Screen Actors Guild, Writers Guild, etc) and sports (Players Unions). Unions have ruined the auto, steel, transportation, textile and other industries and then complained that jobs are being shipped over seas. The tech industry has lost jobs to India, Russia and China, but it still stays competitive, because it hasn't unionized, it's competitive. Competition makes the world go around. In the days when American companies built machines, made steel and had not only a technology advantage, but a capitol investment advantage, unions were tolerable, but they have more smoke stacks in China now and they have a capital equipment and a labor force advantage. Free enterprise will prevail, but we have to earn our advantages and maintain a lead in new areas that unions haven't thought about and won't even be thinking about when they emerge.

Big Brother, the media has shown what it is capable of. Step 1) present a biased view of the current Pres by implying crazy things, like he was responsible for the internet bubble bursting, he knew about 9/11 before it happened and even natural disasters like Katrina. Then he gets the blame for believing Saddam had WMD technology, when everybody on the planet thought he did including Congress (or at least the voted as if they did). The media also has a sly side. I can't count the TV shows that had direct and indirect criticism of the President, mentioning exaggerated or fictitious information. Step 2) Biased representation of the favored challenger. the media was so blatant in their love for the Democrats. They are unionized and always lean left, but they went overboard this election. CNN had a story about how daytime TV shows like Oprah, The View and Ellen had fun dancing and complimenting Obama, but they turned ugly, grilling McCain on issues he was in agreement with Obama on. I can't think of a positive representation in the media of any Republican in the last year. The media was well paid for their efforts, with record media spending. Are they in control? I'd bet 50% of Americans think Bush is responsible for something, anything he didn't have any control over, because the media said so, over and over and over again. Great programming? What will they do next?