No, the public doesn't get it.
It doesn't get it about the Patriot Act and the NSA.
It doesn't get it about the IRS and their political targeting.
It doesn't get it about Benghazi and the blatant lying of Barack Obama and those around him.
It doesn't get it about the VA bureaucracy which awarded itself bonuses on top of extravagant pay over the bodies of dead veterans.
They just don't get it as 1984 and Big Brother comes rushing in because they don't get it.
“Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him had better take a closer look at the American Indian.”. Henry Ford
Obama is steering us away from Capitalism and into Socialism. His ideology is based on collectivism not individualism. That's a flawed thinking that has been tried many times in the past, and has failed every time. But no one ever said Obama was smart.
Thanks. But if unions are so bad why does every other nation have them? It is also curious why America had its best years when unions were strong and taxes were high.
"In 2010, Germany produced more than 5.5 million automobiles; the U.S produced 2.7 million. At the same time, the average auto worker in Germany made $67.14 per hour in salary in benefits; the average one in the U.S. made $33.77 per hour. Yet Germany’s big three car companies—BMW, Daimler (Mercedes-Benz ), and Volkswagen—are very profitable.
How can that be? The question is explored in a new article from Remapping Debate, a public policy e-journal. Its author, Kevin C. Brown, writes that "the salient difference is that, in Germany, the automakers operate within an environment that precludes a race to the bottom; in the U.S., they operate within an environment that encourages such a race.""
http://www.forbes.com/sites/frederic...twice-as-much/
And this is interesting too.
'Capitalism Eating Its Children'
""Just as any revolution eats its children," he says, "unchecked market fundamentalism can devour the social capital essential for the long-term dynamism of capitalism itself."
All ideologies, he continues, are prone to extremes. Belief in the power of the market entered "the realm of faith" before the 2008 meltdown. Market economies became market societies. They were characterized by "light-touch regulation" and "the belief that bubbles cannot be identified."
Carney pulls no punches. Big banks were too big to fail, operating in a "heads-I-win-tails-you-lose bubble." Benchmarks were rigged for personal gain. Equity markets blatantly favored "the technologically empowered over the retail investor." Mistrust grew — and persists."
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/op...-children.html
Wanna make America great, buy American owned, made in the USA, we do. AF Veteran, INFJ-A, I am not PC.
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." Voltaire
Why do liberals think that these things exist in vacuums? Oh, this one thing I want to promote was happening then, but ignore everything else going on at the time.
The American people simply don't want or need representatives (union middlemen) in today's workplace. Although labor unions hold a place in America's history, they are not necessary for the future success of our country. The economic forces of the market place should be free to determine the proper pay for work to be done. Unions cap wages, they do not recognize the achievements of individuals, they ignore skill level, reduce capital for businesses, and raise prices for consumers. These union externalities counteract with the values embedded in the American Dream. The people of our country are hard-working, free-spirited, and ingenuous and should be praised for their efforts, not withheld from their full potential by a union contract.
http://cwhitaker.hubpages.com/hub/Ho...rt-the-Economy
Who cares that those foreign nations have a union led economy? Doesn't America with its free market capitalism rank as the #1 economy in the world?