The War Against Business

Is class warfare on the rise in the US?  It would seem so.  Many people denigrate business owners.  Rarely a day goes by without someone disparaging business. It is the new fad. Somehow business people have become the scapegoats, the bogeymen.

Trouble is, the critics often are people who have been told to hate businesses and business owners.  Many know nothing about business, and instead of thinking about it and reasoning out a stance, they just hate businesses and business owners, because it is easier to do as told.

The truth is, just as in any sector, there are those business people who abuse their positions, but the majority are only concerned about making a living and gaining enough profits to retrieve their investment, hold onto and improve their businesses, and pay enough dividends to encourage investors to help with expansions, which create more jobs.  Yes, along the way, they provide jobs for people. JOBS. You know the activities that allow other people to feed their families, too.  Profit is a good thing, not a dirty word.

What's very interesting is that some of the people who are encouraging other people to hate the dreaded businesses are the Union Big Bosses.  You know, the people of the AFL-CIO, SEIU, and other alphabet labor organizations.  Maybe they do it to draw attention away from their bad behavior. 

These organizations produce nothing, but collect dues from workers, make huge amounts of money feeding off the worker, then use millions to line their own pockets and other millions to support candidates that the worker may not wish to support. Is your Union pension fully vested?  Or have the Union Bosses squandered it into deficit?  How many of the Union Bosses make more than the CEOs they denigrate?

True, unions do things for the worker, sometimes even good things, but is encouraging them to demand so much in pay and benefits that the paying entity goes broke and can no longer hire anyone doing the worker a favor?  Wouldn't it be better to work with the paying entity ensuring that the worker gets FAIR pay and benefits, while leaving enough so the business can continue to provide jobs?

But it seems what the HATERS want is to suck the businesses dry.  Then blame the business owners or managers for the failure and the loss of jobs.

OofDah!  Businesses can't win.  Hated if they make a profit, hated if they don't.