Deitroit, the Union Standard:
Posted on 04/05/2011 1:17:40 PM PDT by DarkSavant
Are you an American employee? If so, today’s column will likely offend you. If you’d rather not be offended, read no further. If you continue and then complain, I’m sorry, but that simply proves you’re, well, stupid. But then again, stupidity plays a large role in today’s topic.
Still reading? OK. You’ve had fair warning.
So you’re an American employee. Maybe you make car parts. Maybe you’re an engineer or designer. Maybe you’re an accountant, store clerk or tradesman. Whatever you do, you’re probably stupid or lazy. Yes, I wrote it, and I mean it. You are either stupid or lazy. Maybe both.
Now, I’m not referring to your work ethic or job performance. No, most of you are competent and devoted to your profession or vocation. I’m addressing the way you view economics and employment. I’m challenging your gumption to advocate for yourself and your fellow Americans. Here’s what I mean.
Remember the Reagan standard? Are you better off today than you were a decade ago? Two decades? Three? Unless you make more than $380,000 a year, the answer is no. In fact, your standard of living over the last quarter century has actually decreased while millionaires have added 30 percent to their net wealth. Why? Two reasons.
First, hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs went overseas while the politicians you elected did nothing to stop them. Yet you continue to elect leaders who offer nothing but tax cuts, as if that would stem the flow of disappearing jobs.
Did you demand your leaders address America’s trade imbalance or continuous outsourcing of jobs? Did you demand your leaders require foreign countries to buy a dollar’s worth of American goods for every dollar of goods they sell here?
No and no. You didn’t bother. You simply crossed your fingers and prayed, “I hope my job’s not next.” You made concessions to your employer and hoped that would stem the exodus of jobs, or at least yours. How’d that work for you?
Second, you bought into the myth that unions are the cause of America’s demise. You didn’t bother to learn America became a world power when union membership was at its peak. You didn’t bother to learn America became the envy of the world while 1 of every 3 Americans was a union member.
So, how are things going for you? How do your benefits compare to a quarter century ago? Are you paying a higher or lower percentage of your income for health insurance? Does your company offer a pension plan, or do you now fund your own 401(k)?
Maybe you’re thinking, “I’m not a union worker, so this doesn’t affect me.”
Stop being stupid. Union benefits provide a standard other companies have to match, or at least come close to. When those benefits are cut, yours are, too. Or do you think you operate in your own little employment vacuum?
To make matters worse, you’re again being played for a chump. The same puppets who did nothing while your standard of living decreased are now using the oldest gimmick in the book — jealousy — to continue their assault on American workers. Rather than protect Americans’ jobs, they deflect your attention through jealousy.
“Cut the pay of government workers,” they cry. “Increase their health premiums. Decrease their pensions. Break their unions. After all, you’ve suffered so they should suffer too.” And in your misery, you buy their argument while more jobs head oversees. Pretty stupid, eh?
If their antics weren’t so pathetic, if the consequences weren’t so dire, if they didn’t prey on your stupidity, and if you didn’t buy into their convoluted reasoning, this whole situation would be laughable. But of course it’s not.
I warned you I’d likely offend you, and I suspect I did. But once you overcome your anger, consider my analysis. Then, either wise up and do something about it, or resign yourself to a lower standard of living for the next decade.
Nope. And I never demanded the that somebody do something about that gravity thing that's always keeping me down. If somebody would just outlaw it I could fly like a birdy.
And if they would just outlaw various laws of economics, other people would have to live their lives in service of my interests instead of their own. They could only buy and sell goods and labor on terms that benefited me. If I had only insisted through some vague and undefined process that immutable principles be bent for my benefit then, according to this guy, I wouldn't so stupid.
Deitroit, the Union Standard:
As a whole, the American manufacturer is very efficient. Thus, its demise. The more efficient, the less you need of them.
Oh my bad, I’m so accustomed to the Europeans slamming us at every opportunity that I didn’t stop to think it might be a local.
I would say that America arrived on the world stage BEFORE unionism took hold (1870 to 1910). America then reached even greater heights when Europe blew the sh*t out of their own economies in 2 world wars plus numerous colonial misadventures. The US was left at the end of WW2 with something like 75% of the world's manufacturing capacity (with nowhere to go but down as the rest of the world 'recovered' and rebuilt).
That unions were a major feature in the US during this time period is largely a coincidence.
“Well, the Dutch don’t seem to have the same Amish problems we have. So, they do not have the same problems in their society that we have.”
They DO hide under their beds when the A-rabs look at them all hard and tough and yell a lot...which is, well, always.
...or that his children attend private school?
(http://hollandchristian.org/home/home — 6th photo in slideshow at the top)
Typical Alinsky-esque tactic.
Oh yeah, the tax cuts that result in one of the highest rates on business in the world. An uninformed fool!
There. Fixed it..
Not to mention, would this buttwipe actually LIKE to live in the 50s? In a 1000sf house with 4 people living in it? A small B&W TV, maybe a record player, grocery stores with 10% of what they stock now, no internet, no cell phones, and union dad worked while mom did stay home and bake cookies.
BUMP!!!
Hey Union dudes. If you’re so dayum smart and know how business should run why don’t you start the same type of business that just went overseas? If you think they should stay here why don’t you set up the business and keep the jobs here? Why complain about the businesses moving overseas and start your own dayum businesses and compete with them. Huh? Why not?
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