During that time, the mines and railroads, demanded workers make less, to get their hours.
Even during the Great Depression, Business fought unions to keep wages down. The unions kept the wage up.
There is something wrong when workers are asked to work for less, and the profits of the companies are becoming more.
There is no good that comes from profit. Profit is not investment. Profit is surplus.
Investment comes before profit. If one invests in something, as a corporate enterprise, you write that investment down as a cost of doing business. Which means the the obscenely high profits are coming after investment has already been made. There will be no more investment out of even higher profits. Instead that extra cash will be used to buy out a competitor, consolidate, and put more workers out of work.
Then they turn to their employees and say, sorry for the lower wages but look at all these people who want your job, even at the reduced rate.
There are two ways society can fight it.
One, stop working and see who starves first.
The second, is to nationalize all businesses, pulling making profit out of the picture.
The third, is to raise taxes.
Of these three options, the better is the third…
Option one, they can hold out and last longer than we can.
Option two, companies tend to lose assets when nations take over, and the nation itself loses.
Option three, allows the making of money and keeps everything functioning as normal.
The reason unemployment is so high, is because profits are huge. Taxes on investment income are now more needed than ever. We need to make it cheaper to hire more people and put more money into ones company, and to grow ones business, than it is to record higher profits.
When the marketplace makes hiring people profitable, unemployment will go down.
You can’t get there by cutting taxes. That is gasoline on the fire. Water, or increased taxes is how we pull ourselves out and give the America the boost it needs.
Republicans caused the unemployment, Vote Democratic to fix it….
I can’t wait to hear Republicans try to defend the dissolution of the United States of America as being patriotic…..
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September 9, 2012 at 12:07 pm
anonymous
Comment – Part 1 of 3
If you live in the country, you might have been woken up this morning by the sound of a pesticide plane, buzzing the crop fields to rid them of their endlessly feasting, insatiable, bloated, ravaging pests.
Somewhere in the back of your mind, you’re probably thinking, The Tea Party attacks this; the Tea Party over powers that; the Tea Party is holding Congress hostage; Willard is representing the Tea Party; Ryan represents the Tea Party; the republican convention was, The Tea Party Convention, and realize – the Country is infested with – the Tea Party plague.
However, the Tea Party calls itself republican, yet it is an organism of another origin, another species – 1% human.
Yes, the Tea Party is having their party, in your Republican field as you sleep.
Isn’t it time to stop calling the Tea Party, the republican party – and time to call the invading, overpowering species – a parasite?
The farmer is a fine example of how one can rid his field of a parasitic plague.
Delaware is a fine example of how Republicans can rid themselves of an invasive, destructive, parasitic growth.
Yes, the Republican Party lost a strong, longtime Republican leader, but course… the Tea Party caused that. The Republican Party had allowed the Tea Party to take hold within their party. What a ‘revolting development’ that was.
But shortly thereafter, the Republicans were rid of a major NJ Tea Party plague that had come to feast in Delaware’s careless fields.
That infestation was ended in Delaware. The Tea Party bug lost and real Republicans finally looked back and realized, what damage the Tea Party has done to their theretofore united Delaware Republican Party.
This morning, the farmer however, checks off his list and knowing, his fields got cured of it’s greedy, all consuming invaders.
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When something attacks a host field and destroys it’s product, it is usually called a parasite, a fungus, an invasive species, contributing nothing to the survival and diminishing the yields for others on once flourishing fields. Thus the Tea Party prefers to pass under the known label – Republican, instead of a generic no brand of 1% human.
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September 9, 2012 at 12:10 pm
anonymous
Comment – Part 2 of 3
Greedy Tea Party critters prefer to call themselves Republicans; as the Republicans had a long history of being a recognizable, honored party, until 3.5 years ago when their now shunned leaders had gone off the oily, deep tea end of shamefully driven, aggressively damaging greed. The bad apples had spoiled more than a bushel – and the Tea Party invaders rode in on the spoiled fruit. The once productive fields. now have spoiled yields for the poor and middle classes, as the 1% human had run through their fabulous surplus, turning their stockpiles into a bottomless deficient, destroying hopes of a thriving economy. Stock markets crashed, banks closed, real estate tumbled, farms and homes were lost, jobs were sent overseas, middle class savings disappeared. Democrats stopped the losses and a nation slowly recovered for 3.5 years, mainly because the recovery was hampered, by 1% human Tea Party invaders, who blame everything on – the Democrats.
The honor of the Republican host party, is now so reduced, so diminished, so much a weaken condition of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Delay, Powell, Rice et al., that Tea Party had crawled like an invading army of insects, across weakened fields, flourishing with all consuming greed; so much so that Republicans can no longer look upon republicans and recognize them – as their own species. Instead they now clearly see, the invasion of The Tea Party – the 1% humans.
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September 9, 2012 at 12:14 pm
anonymous
Comment – Part 3 of 3
The question is: How can Republicans regain control of their own Party?
The same way Delaware voters got rid of a NJ plague. The same way the farmers protected their fields this morning.
By coming to the voting booth and dispelling each munching, chomping, crawling, fattening, ravenous all invasive 1% human, that has devastating the Grand Old Party, from the inside out.
Vote Democratic.
Use the Democratic Party to eradicate your 1% problem. Sure, Democrat is not your party either, but the Grand Old Party no longer has a party. A republican vote, is no longer a Republican vote – it is a Tea Party vote, for the 1%.
In Delaware, Republicans can use the Democratic Party to get their own party back – from the voracious invading Tea Party.
After all, come on, was she really “you,” Republicans. Really?
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That morning, someone got dressed for a republican funeral.
It was true then, but the Tea Party now clearly, clearly represents the richest, most selfish, most aggressive, most invasive, most damaging species, the 1% human.
A vote is the most powerful deterrent.
Use it. Vote Democratic and end the 1% wealthiest, multi millionaire, multi billionaire, Tea Party plague.
Listen, you can hear the 1% human munching across America’s dying fields.
Republicans need to take their Party back.
Vote Democratic.
December 18, 2012 at 1:54 am
Lauren Thornsberry
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