Reflections From a Murky Pond

Since America is now in yet another election year, one can expect various cries for campaign finance reform to resound across our divided land. Most of the screaming will come from Liberals and Progressives who will chant, “Koch Brothers! Koch Brothers! Koch Brothers!” while wondering where they left their torches and pitchforks.

The unruly and largely ineffective mobs of Leftists truly hate the Koch Brothers and stridently declaim about how they’ve bought and paid for so many politicians.

Yet, as corporations go, the Koch Brothers’ campaign contributions pale in comparison to others’.

Over the 23 year span between 1989 and 2012 Koch Industries donated just under $10,000,000 to political campaigns. That’s a fairly significant amount. Yet it is only a fraction of what the larger labor unions contributed to political campaigns during the same time period.

• The American Federation of Teachers  paid 3.19 times as much;
• The Laborers Union paid 3.22 times as much;
• The Int. Brotherhood of Electrical Workers paid 3.44 times as much;
• The National Education Association paid 3.70 times as much;
• The SEIU paid 3.78 times as much and;
• The AFSCME paid 4.66 times as much.

Indeed, the largest class of expenditures by labor unions is political spending, both direct campaign contributions and other forms of a political backing such as television commercials. Yet, of course, Americans will never hear the Liberals and Progressives bemoan that. Quite the contrary, those are corporations that they laud for “purchasing” politicians.

What even more sad than the by now utterly expected hypocrisy of the Left is the fact that Americans allow them to get away with it. Instead of allow them to shape the conversation as they please, Americans should be in their faces hammering them mercilessly with the truth about campaign contributions.

Tags: 2014 Elections | America | Campaign Finances | Corporations | Koch Brothers | Labor Unions | Leftists | Liberals | Politics | Progressives

This entry was posted on Friday, January 3rd, 2014 at 11:24 am and is filed under 2014 Election, Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

So it’s 2014 and, like the 1st day of every year, people get busy dreaming of- making predictions about what the new year we’ll hold for them and for the societies that they live within.

I’m not really any different; I too place an arbitrary importance upon the new year even though I know that such temporal compartmentalization is illusion.

My prediction – safe, stolid, and lame as it is – is that 2014 will be the beginning of people finally noticing that we have been and are continuing, in an accelerating manner, to move rapidly into an automaton’s Utopia. At least that’s how I see it going in America.

An Automaton’s Utopia – 100% “Employment”

The constant drumbeats from the Left of raising wages and demanding greater and more comprehensive benefits for any and all employees combined with the needs to compete with foreign companies which do not suffer from these problems will continue to drive companies into greater and greater levels of automation.

Andy Puzder, the CEO of CKE Restaurants, the parent company of the fast-food chains, Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr., makes this point very clear.

When they talk about raising the minimum wage or providing health care for employees over 30 hours, you’re really encouraging automation.

— Andy Puzder,
CEO, CKE Restaurants

Of course, what is a Utopia for our friendly automata is likely to be cruel and harsh Dystopia for those people living within America’s borders who will find themselves replaced by more efficient and less humanesque “workers” and practices.

Tags: 2014 | America | Andy Puzder | Corporations | Dystopia | Economics | Employment | Globalism | Healthcare | Leftists | Liberals | Minimum Wage | Politics | Progressives | Robots | Society | Technology | Unemployment | Utopia

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 1st, 2014 at 9:35 am and is filed under Politics, Society, Technology. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Al Sharpton, one of the foremost silverbacks of the ever-angry and bitter ghetto activists is hooting, hollering, and jabbering again in yet another auto-erotic orgasmic release of race-baiting, grievance-mongering, and profiteering off of the exilic and hate-filled nature of the “Black Community” living within America’s borders.

In this particular episode of Sharpton’s inane jabbering he’s complaining and screaming about Apple not having any Blacks on their Board of Directors, though he brings up the larger picture of Blacks sitting on Fortune 500 corporations Boards of Directors.

The most laughable part of this dumb ape’s latest rant is that it proves beyond a shadow of doubt that he’s too stupid and unteachable to have even mastered basic arithmetic, which the Whites he hates and envies so much master, by and large, as young children.

There are no blacks on 30% of Fortune 500 Board of Directors. Apple, where we spend a lot of money on Apple, they have a new I-phone coming out today. No blacks in Board of Apple. We buying up all this Apple stuff and can’t get a bite.

— Al Sharpton

Obviously ghetto math doesn’t reach the level of simple percentages or comparing figures, which would go a long way towards explaining Blacks’ difficulties in becoming employed.

Blacks make up approximately 13% of the populace within America but are on 70% of the Fortune 500’s Boards of Directors. That’s a level of over-representation that should have blacktivists like Sharpton either celebrating or being very quiet about it because it could only come about through race-based hiring criteria aka affirmative action.

If it wasn’t for the sad fact that Sharpton has a large audience – an audience containing many who are willing to engage in violence – we could all just sit back and laugh at this display of ignorance and stupidity. It is, after all, an exemplar of exactly why the “Black Community” is a failure and why creatures like Sharpton have audiences in the first place.

Maybe if Sharpton and the other ghetto vermin spent more time on getting past ghetto math and less time on breeding bastards, committing violent crimes, and trying to extort money from Whites, they’d eventually amount to something worth the 600,000 White lives that were spent in the war that gave them, their first hand-out, their freedom.

Tags: America | Apple | Blacks | Corporations | Education | Fortune 500 | Ghetto Thugs | Mathamatics | Race Baiting | Racial Activism | Sharpton | Vermin

This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 11th, 2013 at 10:36 pm and is filed under Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Currently there’s a lot of speculation about Labor Union survival in modern age because of Michigan becoming on the 24th Right-To-Work state in the United States of America on December 11, 2012 by Gov. Snyder’s signing both House Bill 4003 and Senate Bill 116 into law, thereby prohibiting both private and public sector workers from being forced to join unions and pay dues to the same as a condition of their employment.

This is seen by both sides of this particular war as a serious blow to organized labor in Michigan and in America at large. One wonders, however, why they each feel this way.

• Is union survival based upon force and coercion of workers to such an extent that the union will collapse if and when employees’ membership becomes voluntary?
• Is the labor unions’ political power so focused on “purchasing” politicians that any drop in their dues will weaken them, possibly to the point of irrelevance and resultant failure and dissolution?

These are real questions of great and lasting importance that need to be answered by both sides of the Business v. Organized Labor conflict. Otherwise, there will be conflict for no sake or purpose other than the conflict itself…except to line politicians’ pockets and give the MSM something to sensationalize.

Tags: America | Corporations | Economy | Employment | Jobs | Labor Unions | Law | Michigan | Politics | Rick Snyder | Syndicalism

This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 12th, 2012 at 10:17 am and is filed under Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Some call Red Bull. Obamanomics is in a flat spin and falling groundward at 177 feet / second. Someone needs to give it wings or something before it splatters all over the nation.

Obamanomics – No Gentle Landing Foreseen

Red Bull and Felix Baumgartner seem a better choice than the Federal Government and Obama, though Felix is certainly not as articulate as Obama. He seems to favor results over rhetoric.

Of course this is a perennial problem with amateurs. No matter how often their told that 90% of chute failures are due to poor body positioning, they’re still likely to get it wrong the first few times.

Head Up Your Ass – The Keynesian Position

Yeah, someone call Red Bull and Baumgartner or – and here’s a thought – let’s throw the worthless little failure out of the White House and replace him with someone who understands business economics and whose desires are more likely to encourage the private sector to grow again.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, October 25th, 2012 at 5:00 pm and is filed under 2012 Election, Humor, Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.