Until someone embraces the tax rates from the postwar decades I don’t want to hear anything from them about the loss of manufacturing. Until someone commits to enforcing the rule of law I don’t want to hear anything about anything from them about anything. I hate having to be this angry. I used to own a factory that employed American workers. I understand this situation more than most, obviously. And I don’t want to hear anything from anyone who supports a single one of the Republican Party’s policies on anything at all.
About 45 or 50 years ago ( yes, I'm that old!) Time magazine had an article on the computer and computer programming boom. They wrote about productivity would go way up , and employees might work only 20 hours for the same pay. And, with all that leisure time, travel and entertainment industries would boom. However, as everyone knows, that never happened. orporations pocketed the extra billiions, instead of sharing with workers. The rest is history.
Another great column, Paul. Listening to Musk & the other Trump kapos rail against "surplus labor" and "parasites", I'm wondering how long before they're denouncing large swaths of citizens as "vermin" who must be exterminated. Really, we're already there.
Until someone embraces the tax rates from the postwar decades I don’t want to hear anything from them about the loss of manufacturing. Until someone commits to enforcing the rule of law I don’t want to hear anything about anything from them about anything. I hate having to be this angry. I used to own a factory that employed American workers. I understand this situation more than most, obviously. And I don’t want to hear anything from anyone who supports a single one of the Republican Party’s policies on anything at all.
About 45 or 50 years ago ( yes, I'm that old!) Time magazine had an article on the computer and computer programming boom. They wrote about productivity would go way up , and employees might work only 20 hours for the same pay. And, with all that leisure time, travel and entertainment industries would boom. However, as everyone knows, that never happened. orporations pocketed the extra billiions, instead of sharing with workers. The rest is history.
Another great column, Paul. Listening to Musk & the other Trump kapos rail against "surplus labor" and "parasites", I'm wondering how long before they're denouncing large swaths of citizens as "vermin" who must be exterminated. Really, we're already there.
Spot in Paul and spot on Neil Stiffelman.
And the rest is...THEFT.
Great stuff Paul! Thank you for reminding us always of the evil extent to which these monsters are motivated!! We can smell it even here in Canada!!
Brilliant! Please keep hammering on these points and try to get on the Meidas podcast by any means necessary!
Antonia Scatton just provided the messaging bumper sticker: Make Every Job a Good Job
https://open.substack.com/pub/reframingamerica/p/good-job?r=4w4vn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
I was frankly disgusted by that photo op Trump made with the coal miners. Yeah, like coal mining is a great career!
Ordinary working people need to not begrudge other ordinary working people of a living wage.