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.

We Don't Need the Jobs

In the wake of the BP oil spill, the administration shut down much of the American-associated oil drilling in the Gulf, in the face of court disapproval.  The move also shut down thousands of jobs, both direct oil rig employment and ancilliary jobs.

Think it is all about environmental concerns?  Apparently not.

The US is subsidizing both Brazilian and Mexican drilling in the Gulf to the tune of BILLIONS of dollars.

Are we sacrificing US jobs so Brazil and Mexico can have them?  

OofDah!

Student Loans

Why is the government grabbing education loans, bypassing the banks and causing jobs to be lost? Didn't they say they wanted to create jobs?

If it is worth jeopardizing jobs, putting education loans in the hands of government must be really important. Why? What will be the results of this move?

First, of course, students will have one source and one source only for school funds. No second choice, no shopping around - one place only. A number of questions come to mind. Are your parents in good standing with the government? Are you in a proper demographic group? Will you be required to take certain political courses because you're using government loans? Does the government think the course you've plotted for your life is in their best interests? Will they care about your best interests? Do they deem you deserving of college or will you be routed to a different life plan, like it or not?

How about payback time? More questions. At payback time will your political stance be disregarded? Will some get a better deal than others depending upon party affiliation? Will they let you to pay it off and get out from under the weight of government or will they be a monkey on your back forever? Will they control your life since they invested in it, like they moved in to control wages and policies of businesses in which they invested?

Are they planning to take over individuals as well as banks and industry?

OofDah!