Posted by Tina
Head on over to FOX Nation to see video featuring speakers at the Workers World Party convention. One woman called for the takeover of private business, another said capitalism is “wage slavery”.
Interesting! When faced with job losses their first thought is to punish and destroy the one entity that offered them work and an opportunity to earn a living in the first place. It didn’t occur to them to start their own business or look for another job or profession. Instead their only thought is to hit back with childish fervor and call for a worldwide socialist state. These people are immature and just downright stupid!
I also noticed while watching these vids that the spokespersons were lost at times while reading from their “script”. There is no passion in their belief for socialism but instead indoctrination into an ideology with passions based in hatred, bigotry and class envy.
Two more years of leftist power at the top will bring greater demonstrations of power from nuts like these. As Jonah Goldberg noted in “Liberal Facism”, page 186:
One of the most illuminating symptoms of left-wing revolutionary movements is their tendency to blur the difference between common crime and political rebellion. The Brownshirts beat up storekeepers, shook down businessmen, and vandalized property, rationalizing all of it in the name of the “movement.” Left-wing activists still refer to the L.A. riots as an “uprising” or “rebellion.” – Jonah Goldberg
Many people, when faced with job loss, will try to start their own business.
Many are stymied by a raft of regulations, which have as their genesis, corporate domination of the marketplace (and will be judged as lazy by ignorant, poor-mannered people who live thousands of miles away and know nothing at all about them). These regulations do not come out of left field but are calculated to keep competition down. Politicans have neither the brains nor the initiative to actually know what needs to be regulated–they do what they’re told by their corporate lobbyists. And yes, Unions are corporations, too!
Jeez, Tina.
Would it kill you to educate yourelf?
Q: “Many people, when faced with job loss, will try to start their own business. * Many are stymied by a raft of regulations…”
My husband and I found ourselves in this position. Regulations didn’t stymie us, although we did have a lot to learn. Regulations become onerous later on when you’ve already made the big commitment and taken the big risk. The worst thing is that they change all the time and quite often punish when it isn’t necessary.
“…which have as their genesis, corporate domination of the marketplace.”
This assertion actually intrigues me. I’d like examples if you have them. I realize that big corporations have made deals with politicians but the only reason they would have to get involved with that bunch of snakes would be to protect from ONEROUS regulation. As we saw in the housing bubble government mandates regarding loans to unqualified buyers created a disasterous outcome that all of us will be paying for for years to come. This was not driven by corporations but by the ideology of Democrat politicians driven by the desire for power!
I don’t think anyone in business should take advantage of workers, fail to offer safe working conditions, or create a hostile or unpleasant work environment but let’s face it, we are talking about people. People, no matter what their station, can be real jerks. Not every boss is a saint and not every worker an angel. The government has no business getting in the middle of every decision between workers and management.
“…and will be judged as lazy by ignorant, poor-mannered people who live thousands of miles away and know nothing at all about them.”
Who is doing the judging? The person who imagines others to be lazy, ignorant, and poor-mannered by YOU or the person who believes they have a lot more going for them than they think. You see I think that if people stopped pandering to the image of weakness and victimhood they would find a way out of that slave mentality. Turning themselves into whiners and bullies certainly doesn’t make them attractive, not as people, not as employees, and not as citizens.
“These regulations do not come out of left field but are calculated to keep competition down.”
Examples would be helpful. Do you mean, for instance, the regulation that disallows the purchase of health insurance across state borders? I’d be interested to know how that regulation came about and who wrote it.
“Politicans have neither the brains nor the initiative to actually know what needs to be regulated–they do what they’re told by their corporate lobbyists.”
Well Q, if you didn’t have such a large…attitude…about corporations. union included, you would realize that that’s what “servants of the people” do…they respond to the people. The problem is that we the people have allowed them…no, demanded of them, that they FIX things for us. “There oughta be a law!”
“Jeez, Tina. Would it kill you to educate yourelf?”
Jeez, Quentin…would it kill you to stop being such a jerk? I’ve given you a lot of opportunity to educate all of us and still you prefer the snide, condescending remarks.
Now that we’ve dispensed with the deflective folderol what do you think about the fascist/commie call for the take over of companies? Apparently just going on strike and protesting is no longer enough for them. Will these people follow through on their threats? Will it be bloody? Do you think they have a good plan? Are you rooting for them because you think they have been oppresed? Are you a fellow traveler? WHAT?
The eaiest that rolls off the top of my head is the story of the 5MPH bumper.
In the eary 70s people were paying “too much money for piddling little bumper repairs,”
“You barely hit these things, they fold like paper, they cost a fortune to fix” Remeber the hype?
Coicidentally, in the early 70s Honda aintroduced two-cylinder car that got approximately 60 MPG–or roughly four times the mileage of the big three atoumaker’s fleets.The Honda 600 weighed 600 pounds and was an immediate hit with budget concious buyers–the First Arab Oil Shock was squeezing many Amrican’s wallets already
This gift of thr “free traders” was truly, a gift. It cost approxomately 1200 dollars and and flew off dealer’s floors. Well this won’t do for the “free traders” in the big three. The heavy 5MPH bumpers that they had been fighting for decades were now mision number 1!
The Big Three “bribed” their frinds in Congres and lo and behold, WEEKS later we had strong new bumbers able to take a 5MPH imnpact without significant damage
The ONLY problem was that the Japanese competitors cars were not trong enough to hold thr new “regulated” bumper. And so the honda 600 went the same path as the Datsun 1200. Bigger imports were ablr to beef up thir frames but ony after a bout a year of redesign and retooling.
Regulations do NOT come from government–they come from the competition.
Thanks for the example Quentin. I appreciate it. Your version only tells part of the story, however.
Q: “The Big Three “bribed” their frinds in Congres and lo and behold, WEEKS later we had strong new bumbers able to take a 5MPH imnpact without significant damage”
That’s called influence. In a free country it’s allowed. Sometimes that stinks. The alternative is tyranny.
The big three could have been told to go pound sand! And that my friend is up to you and me…the voice of the people has been too silent for too long on the subject of BIG government.
The bottom line is this: Congress writes and then votes to pass or reject legislation!
But lets stick with influence for a minute. I remember another seeker of influence from the seventies, a lawyer who made millions as a so-called advocate of the people. Ralph Nader and his raders had a lot to do with the regulations on automobiles written in 1966, long before the Japanese hit our markets. It was the pressure he placed on Congress to regulate the auto industry that put car manufacturers into the lobby gameto protect their interests. Reasonable mandates for safety are acceptable (although likely unnecessary because dangerous cars don’t sell) but safety mandates that are impossible to meet without compromising mandated mileage standards are stupid. Mandates that cant be met without a price tag that puts the average consumer out of the game is equally stupid. Car manufacturers are as likely to lobby to avoid being pressed to make impossibly stupid changes as they are to protect the bottom line. Actually both go hand in hand.
It’s easier to whine about businessmen doing what businessmen do…protect the viability of the company; it’s easier to blame businessmen for doing what they can to protect their bottom line; it’s easier to whine and complain and bitch and point the finger than it is to demand better from our government representatives.
Of course before the people will have the gumption or the will to demand better they first have to understand that competition will bring better products at better prices when the government stays out of the game.
“Regulations do NOT come from government–they come from the competition.”
Nonesense!!! Manufacturers use the power of government to give themselves an advantage in the marketplace…but government had to get in the game for them to accomplish this. Go to the source…our representatives in Congress have that power! They are the deal makers. The lobbyists are petitioners and nothing more.
AND WE THE PEOPLE PUT THOSE RASCALS IN CONGRESS.