Tag: 99%

No “race to the bottom” with THESE Union Leaders!

September 26, 2018August 17, 2012

by Skip

I look at the rate of increase of compensation for these Union heads and immediately starting thinking:

Wow, there’s no “race to the bottom here” in these paychecks!

Gee, all of these amounts come from – union members!

Gee – have their respective unions grown in membership to warrant such remuneration?

(er, no – union membership in the private sector is at an all time low)

Have these same union members seen even a 25% increase in THEIR paychecks?

And does the regular Joe Union-Member aware that they’ve dinged his paycheck to fatten their’s up this much?
Read more

“The 99% and the 1%”: Well worth reading

September 26, 2018July 20, 2012

The Occupy Wall Street movement protesters—as well as Obama and the Democrats—are fixated on what they say are “the rich 1%,” as opposed to the noble and deserving “99%”.

Their aim is woefully off, as anyone with some knowledge of Austrian economic theory and historical analysis can explain. But they’ve never read an Austrian School economist, such as Ludwig Von Mises (pronounced MEE-zezz)—or reject that school of thought as extremely dangerous to their interests—with the Ruling Class attitude expressed above. LOL.

But don’t get me wrong! There is an “evil 1%”! And their rapaciousness and oppression must be confronted and dealt with. That much is true. But…