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Originally Posted by Superman
Ron mentioned Wal-Mart's fear of the Employee Free Choice Act, which got me thinking. We've discussed a number of challenges facing America these days. Mounting federal debt is a serious concern. Lots of other things are too. But there is one that I find more frightening than the others.
You see, real wages have been falling while corporate profits skyrocket. That was the plan, nicely executed. The current "administration" launched an all-out war against workers and unions beginning immediately after taking oath, and those efforts have been ongoing ever since. Again, this was the plan. The net effect has been higher profits and reductions in real wages. With inflation certain to get substantially worse in the coming months, this strategy will continue to bear fruit. In the form of reduced real wages, reduced buying power, reduced standard of living, reduced security, reduced commerce and reduced tax revenues. Worker productivity, BTW, has continued to rise throughout this period.
Increased federal debt is a problem. Solving it with rising wages would be painful. Solving it with falling wages will not be painful because it will not be feasible. Economic recovery with falling wages and rising inflation will be impossible.
Many of you guys bemoan the forced redistribution of wealth. Okay. Currently, there is a deliberate redistribution of wealth going on which I guess is okay with you guys (increasing profits and decreasing real wages). I think it is our biggest problem. Respectfully.
I look forward to a liberal administration, not because of higher taxes or increase welfare programs. I look forward to it for the reversal in labor policy. I look forward to the end of a long and effective war on workers and their wages. Because I think we are doomed otherwise. Not necessarily in four years, but certainly, inexorably, doomed unless workers' wages stop falling. Hard to imagine that this would be the deliberate policy of a patriot.....this business of reducing the earnings of Joe Lunchpail.
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We should tax all corporations 100 on every penny of profit, and set the minimum wage at $200 an hour.
No one would have a job, but we'd be worth a lot.
Unions are bad for our country. They make us weak. They make excuses for incompetence, they squash all motivation for excellence, they reward laziness. They force companies to treat all employees exactly the same and pay them the same wages and it makes it extremely difficult to terminate or discipline a union employee, even if many of them do little or no work at all.
Most people I know who are strongly pro-union are the ones who couldn't make it on their own merit so they have to have a union reward their ineptitude and cover for their shortcomings.
Most people I know who are strongly anti-union are hard working talented people who know a union would just hold them back and prevent their exceptional work from being recognized or rewarded.
Unions use extortion and coercion to get their way. Is it any wonder that unions and organized crime have always been so intertwined? they are basically the same thing.
If it was up to me unions and their actions would be illegal.