The right has mastered the echo chamber and bombs public forums with sock puppets. These are the results. Enjoy the new fascism
buzz words and sock puppets? is this really the best you can do? did you even bother to get the message that this is a matter of union in-fighting and not union-breaking? the one and two line responses from the left fringe of the forum are wearing thin. no substance, no weight, nothing but idle insult and talking points from a tattered playbook. for decades the unions have run amok, often demanding more than their members are due and filling the pockets of corrupt officials. bloated pensions, those funds regularly raided to push agendas through left leaning bureaucracies. constantly demanding more, even in the face of financial disasters and economic collapse. threatening slowdowns, walkouts and strikes over a percentage point here or there, the refusal of a seat on the board or any number of entitlements they see as their due. and all that the mouthpieces and acolytes of modern liberalism can say is that evil management is to blame.
on the other side we have corporate bigwigs in bed with bureaucrats, large and small. paying out vast sums for a congressman's ear, promising cushy positions once these political animals can no longer suckle at the taxpayer's teat and swallowing up the proceeds of ill-conceived political ploys. allowed tax breaks for shipping jobs overseas, company after company flees the antagonistic climate of a revenue hungry federal establishment. caught between over-regulation, increasingly steep labor costs and the constant threat of a new tax every other week, one begins to wonder why any but the most favored industries bother to build anything in this country at all. the pressures of the cost of living and a population that has been led to believe in the entitlement mantra of the new left have made only our infrastructure a selling point for industry and that too is crumbling around our ears.
the common thread in all this is that ever growing bureaucracy. playing both ends against the middle, they have nothing to fear but a public made aware of their deceptions. we are, all of us, in the middle. every citizen is a consumer and each item we consume has, tacked onto its real price, the cost of the games our unresponsive representatives play. each new tax on the goods we produce is passed down to the end user, the consumer. the cost of each new regulation multiplies the expense of production and raises the price to the end user, the consumer. each subsidization and labor entitlement made manifest by mandate of the state is a further burden borne by the end user, the consumer. the notion that it is only these political animals that keep the wolves of corporate america at bay is one of the great lies of the century. washington insiders are firmly in bed with the most corrupt of these predators and depend on the havoc they create to frighten the sheep into convenient, government sponsored folds.
and here we have the statist dupes crying for more of it all. convinced of the altruistic nature of their leaders, they demand the state's heavy hand be placed squarely on the shoulder of american industry. they scream for more entitlements, more regulation, more bureaucracy. never once do they stop to consider that the cost of all this micromanagement is surely driving away the very means by which the good life they demand is acquired. never once do they wonder what will happen when, with all the powers of the omnipotent state, the agenda of their leaders turns against them.
