Posted by
Toddy Littman on Thursday, December 11, 2008 12:00:00 AM
Between
the 700...oops I mean the 850 billion dollar Tarp bill (150 billion in
"Christmas trees") and the amount the "big 3 auto makers" are looking
for -- 15 to 75 billion -- as well as the states and their billions
they need -- California looking for 15 billion -- it occurred to me: Haven't we already spread the wealth around?
Someone pinch me! How is it that there is any wealth left with a 1 trillion dollar deficit?
Consider also that the labor unions have to give concessions to save the big 3 auto makers.
Yep you read that right, the
labor unions....oops again the one union for 3 businesses, United Auto
Workers, whose whole purpose is to provide a voice for the auto worker,
not dominate these companies and determine their survival, is the key to
whether the big 3 get bailout money. Apparently the unions have
possession of the wealth that GM, Ford, and Chrysler were built upon,
and, hold the future of the employee and employer in their hands. the UAW the balancing fulcrum of social order.
Do
any of you remember voting for the government and business to be
subservient to the unions as the leaders and sole arbiter of our
nation's economic future, and thus our nation? I sure don't. Last I
knew we are a capitalist nation, built on our own work and not as
laborers forever but to eventually be owners ourselves, employing
others. We owned our farms, owned our livestock, our land, we had real
property in the idea of reality. Renting was looked down on as a waste
of money because of the lack of equity as renting is not an investment
where we build equity that we can use to pursue and fulfill our dreams.
Those
days have fallen to the wayside with the consumer economy, driven by
the internet to an endless payment plan for access, and not even
guaranteed access. We sign a one sided "End User License Agreement"
where we have no rights at all but are to be subjected to making
payment, irrespective of performance by those providing service.
Everywhere
you look there is a redistribution of wealth from those who have any to
those who are too incompetent to have any and generally because of
government support and pursuit of "jobs." and this is irrespective of
there being to many jobs where people do almost nothing but get a
paycheck. Humorously if it wasn't so sad, these people lose their job
and it's everyone's fault but their own. We like to think of ourselves
ad productive, we build this wonderful story of ourselves that we tell
to others but, in the end, we are producing little and paid far more
than what we are worth because, in all honesty we do just enough not to
get fired and just below as much as we could so we don't "show up" our
fellow employees.
A little honesty about the "job" environment
is a good thing. This reveals just how far we've come along to be less
than our forefathers when it comes to wealth, real wealth. See when you
realize this you know wealth has already been redistributed, and now
the 700 billions and the 150 billion in "Christmas trees" added to
that, along with the auto bailout and the "stimulus packages" too, you
can see wealth redistribution has also already failed.
Make sure
to act accordingly over these next 4 years when you hear the
President-Elect and Congress wanting to enact legislation to "tax the
upper 5 percent" to give money to those with less, for, you'll see the
tax is being applied to the very people we've been giving money to, the
banks and GM, to save their businesses, their industries, and of course
the all important "jobs." It's rather obvious these "wealthy" people
who are proving far less wealthy than the American people as a whole.
To
me, the cars should be free if we own "the big 3" auto makers, and, we
should be paying no interest on loans and have no deductible on
insurance since we own the big players on Wall Street and AIG the big
insurer as well. I mean, what owner pays for the use of their company
products with cash out of their own pocket?
Thank you for reading.