The Koch brothers, Charles and David (and isn't there a third brother, Beelzebub, or something?) are really happy.
They might even donate another ten bazillion to right-wing political causes.
This means, according to voices from the right, that great days are ahead for American businesses. Jobs will be created left and right. Crappy paying jobs, with no benefits, true. Still, as Gertrude Stein once said, a job is a job is a job.
Isn't that right?
It's gospel, if you listen to Tea Party voices, that Big Government and Big Unions are crippling the economy. (Not to mention terrible public schools, producing uneducated workers, and terrible unionized teachers). So, what must we do? We must free Business Heroes from all regulation. We must defeat the machinations of labor unions, which are nothing more than collections of greedy bastards.
We must hand over control of public schools to corporations.
That's the Tea Party mantra. Business Heroes are always good. Not half the time. Not ninety percent. Always.
ALWAYS? WELL, YOU MIGHT THINK TWICE if you're planning a trip to Europe and might want to do any eating. You may not know this, but it has long been legal to ship broken-down American horses to slaughterhouses in Canada or Mexico. Then the slaughterhouses sell the meat for consumption on the other side of the Atlantic. In Paris, for example, horse meat is considered a delicacy. Lately, though, there have been concerns about what's in the food chain. It seems at race tracks across America sleazy owners and trainers (no, wait, we mean Business Heroes) have been shooting mounts full of steroids and anti-inflammatory drugs and pain killers. This allows badly injured horses to keep running, even if they do tend to break down at times in the middle of the races they're running.
See! We're already talking about job creation! After all, someone has to inject all those drugs into the animals.
Someone has to shoot all those horses.
What's the problem in America again? Oh yeah, unions. And too much government regulation. Yeah. Canadian authorities just had to start meddling when they found phenylbutazone and clenbuterol, which mimic anabolic steroids, in slaughtered horse meat. Come on, you damn Canadians, stick to your hockey and leave our Business Heroes alone!
If restaurants in Paris want to serve horse meat let them.
Trust the Koch brothers and America's Business Heroes. These people aren't greedy bastards, doing everything they can to drive down wages for working Americans. They're just bazillionaires who happen to have bazillions of dollars.
UNIONS! NOW THOSE ARE SOME GREEDY BASTARDS, driving jobs away from places like Michigan. Then Business Heroes have no choice but to send those jobs to places like...Bangladesh. No greedy unions there. No stupid safety regulations, either.
Great place to do business and pile up more and more stacks of money. No, no. These business folks aren't greedy.
What? You say a factory in Bangladesh, where clothing was being produced for Wal-Mart, went up in flames a few days after Thanksgiving? A hundred and twelve workers died as a result? Hell, in a way, that's job creation. Kill off one set of underpaid, non-union workers, with no health benefits (who don't need them any more, anyway) and replace them with another set of desperate human beings.
What won't Business Heroes do next to create jobs? (Not necessarily IN America, of course.) Down with unions! Up with right-to-work freedoms! Let's have some horse meat for supper and go Christmas shopping at Wal-Mart because their checkout people and greeters and truck drivers aren't unionized. By god, this is America, friends. And Merry Christmas to bazillionaires everywhere and good night.
If you think unions are the problem in America today, you've been listening to way too much goofy right-wing horseshit.
ADDENDUM: For the poor fools who think unions are ruining America (see comments at end of this post) here are a few facts:
The average worker in a UNION makes $361 more weekly than a non-union worker in construction. (This is partly true because many non-union construction jobs go to illegal immigrants; unions used to be able to protect such jobs.)
Factory workers make $56 more per week. That might not sound like much; but it comes to $2,912 more per year.
Transportation and warehousing: union guys make 30% more than non-union workers.
Even a business newsletter, citing advantages of non-union workers, admits that union workers make $200 more per week ($917 vs. $717). So: you're either for the average working guy and gal getting higher pay. Or you're NOT. Unions fight for the average American who wants to have a place in the middle class.
The billionaires and millionaires are doing just fine. Think Wal-Mart couldn't pay workers more? Think the Koch brothers are hurting?
Go to the Forbes 400 list for 2012:
Unless you're blind you will notice some eye-popping figures.
4. Charles Koch is worth, in billions: $31
5. David Koch: $31
6. Christy Walton $27.9
7. Jim Walton $26.8
8. Alice Walton $26.3
9. S. Robson Walton $26.1
No wonder these people fear unions and their ridiculous wage and benefit demands, like for a Wal-Mart clerk to make $13.50 an hour and not $12.
Other famous right-wingers to make the cut: Sheldon Adelson, who gave more than $100 million to GOP candidates in 2012. He's not greedy at all. He's way down in 12th place, just getting by on $20.5 billion.
Ron Perelman? He might not support the GOP; that I don't know. But he did make his money in leveraged buyouts, which is the very essence of killing American companies. He's in 26th with $11 billion.
Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News, which fills the empty heads of viewers every chance it can with hatred for greedy unions? Poor Rupert Murdoch. How does he get up every morning, realizing he's stuck in 36th with only $9.4 billion.
It's also interesting to note that Ann Walton Kroenke shows up at #79 on the list, with a crappy $4.5 billion.
I guess every family has a loser.
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