On 17 Jun 2013
in
Superman Joins a Union,
marcus said:
Quigley says
From the perspective of investors like Mish, middle class workers are workers that haven't been fully exploited yet. Labor unions get in the way of that, so they are universally reviled by all right-thinking finance pirates.
Very well put. The thinking goes something like this:
If corporations (and the government) can get or may be able to get more from the workers in exchange for less, then something is broken.
IT's obviously kind of flawed thinking, and destroys us as a country in the long run, but not from the viewpoint of these right wing geniuses.
On 17 Jun 2013
in
Superman Joins a Union,
marcus said:
CaptainShuddup says
You know, if you guys worried half as much about the hopelessness of someone who is dissatisfied working for the man....................sentence continues in multiple sentences and paragraphs.
These are two totally different things.
There are plenty of examples of unions doing stupid things, even actions that are against their own long term interest. But unions do a lot of good too. Truth is they often don't do all that much, other than provide some very limited rights and equality for large groups of workers.
In the case of public unions, they are subject to change when they get too powerful. The examples that the dimbulbs like to point out are exceptions. And they should be and can be addressed.
This is no different than corportations that on occasion make all kinds of far more agregious blunders, harming society as a whole. Nobody, myself included thinks that we therefore should not have corporations.
That's the diffference. If I were to share a cartoon that mocked corporate greed, or bankers, I don't think anyone would think that I thought all corporations were evil and that we should do away with them.
If I did think that, then I would be as much of a fringe extremist idiot as Mish is.
The sad things is, that somewhere around 30 to 40% of AMericans are morons that eat this stuff up, because the propaganda has swung us so far to the right, that Dwight Eisenhower would be considered a communist (truly !!!).
Mish, you must be so proud.
On 17 Jun 2013
in
Superman Joins a Union,
marcus said:
Maybe I can find some cartoon that parodies ignorant and arrogant bloggers.
Do you even have a real job ?
I shouldn't let it get to me, that some ignorant hater who doesn't even have a real job, has such contempt for middle class workers with very real and difficult jobs who are just trying to make a half way decent living.
I guess it's that combination of stupidity and hate, combined with the need to flaunt it, that really gets under my skin.
