The Business of America

Ever hear the phrase: "It makes perfect sense..."? All things being equal, shouldn't things also make imperfect sense? Maybe even stupid sense? You know, sense that sounds good if you don't really listen or think too much about it. Stupid sense!

Leading up to the 2012 elections, Mitt Romney told a story about visiting a factory in China that- according to him- had a fence with guards around it to keep people from breaking IN to work the desirable 98 cents per hour jobs. Mitt wondered aloud how America could compete with that, in the global economy.


Mitt is an asshole but, he's not an idiot. I really doubt he thought the jobs were so great that the fence and guards were there to keep out job seekers whom he said would sneak in to work for free in hopes of earning a position. Mitt just thought that you were an idiot and/or he hoped that you would also be asshole enough to accept the practical logic of Americans (but not you) working for less for the betterment of all. People had been hearing for years that "unions (had gotten) too big for their britches" and that meant they were the culprits behind high prices. So, disband the unions and lower wages and the result will be a a stronger and more competitive America in the world markets. Right? It just makes sense.

Well, it makes stupid sense to stupid people. I swear- I don't think anyone hates Americans more than Americans themselves.

Do the math. How does tens of millions of Americans making next to nothing, make your life better? Isn't that what the other countries are for? There are people in the GOP advocating for the elimination of the minimum wage. Yep, while most are fighting for or against raising the minimum wage, some are advocating there be no minimum at all.

$7.25 is "too much"....but you can do BETTER if there is no minimum....

Huh? That doesn't even make stupid sense. How can they want you to make more when they think you are already making too much? Who falls for that?

I think that mostly the idiots who regurgitate that  economic vomit fall for that. They are also ignorant and egotistical enough to believe that such an economic scheme wouldn't happen to them, just the lesser Americans. It's odd but, where rich people are concerned, they ask how you can say an income is "too much". Yet with unions, teachers, the working poor- everyone but the rich- they readily deem whether those folks make "too much". It's like the axiom about alcoholics and drinks: "One is too many and a thousand is not enough." So, excess is success and the poor should just never get started. Now, that is some stupid sense.

There is no reason that the United States of America shouldn't be the third world labor source for the world. In fact, for *our* corporate leaders, it makes perfect sense. All we have to do is work cheaper than competing nations. How will Australia, for example, with their $16 an hour minimum compete against our NO minimum?

Don't give me American patriotism as a reason that this could never happen here. Profits trump patriotism every day. They always will. We will be in FEMA work camps and believe with all our hearts that " 'Merican work camps are THE GREATEST IN THE WORLD!!!!"

Tell me why else the greatest country in the world would kill unions and wages, neuter the EPA and conspire to sell off federal land if not for profit? It's nothing personal, America. It's just business. It's what we do, just usually to others. Now it's our turn-again- to be exploited.