What I like the most about Trump is that he doesn’t grovel before the “correct.”
That’s one reason why they hate him so much.
By Dmitry Chernikov, ago
AOC has announced a “plan” to “make sure all taxpayer-funded government contracts go to businesses that treat their workers well. It’s called the Uplift Our Workers Act.”
The other name of this bill is Make Our Government Even More Inefficient Act.
Obviously, the more a federal contractor spends on labor, the more he has to charge the government to make a profit. AOC’s bill will steer taxpayer money to the least efficient and most profligate businesses peddling more expensive but not necessarily better quality goods and services.
She of course understands this but considers this bill to be yet another stepping stone to her socialism.
New Yorkers alternate wildly between lawless permissiveness and totalitarian repression.
How can anyone live there? The squalor of that city depresses me.
“The sudden decision to cut the healthcare benefits for hundreds of part-time employees at Amazon-owned Whole Foods… came just a few weeks after Bezos signed on to a statement that committed to invest in workers.”
This decision is “hypocritical of Bezos,” says Bob Bryan.
Who cares?! These workers are just factors of production that are compensated according to what they are worth — ultimately, to me. From my point of view as a consumer, it is irrelevant what Amazon spends on labor and capital, as long as it delivers the goods.
The less Amazon spends on wages and rents and so on, the more it will be able to pass the savings onto me. So, cut, cut with my blessings.
“The move was roundly criticized online, with commentators pointing out that not only is Amazon one of the most valuable companies in the world, but that Bezos himself is the wealthiest man on Earth.”
And how is that relevant? Is Bezos supposed to donate his own money to workers as if to charity? Do that, and he won’t be the wealthiest man on Earth for long. In any case, his wealth is mostly invested precisely into Amazon and not in the form of a Scrooge McDuck-style money bin full of gold.
Even if there is a money bin, by hoarding cash, Bezos decreases the velocity of circulation of money (V in MV = PQ) that results in lower prices for me. What’s not to like?
Ah, a squabble within the ranks of the leftist fanatics who are accusing each other of “hate”!
Excellent.
The more infighting they engage in, the less damage they’ll be able to inflict on our world.
Until now I only heard this tune in “When Johnny Comes Marching Home,” a US Civil War song.
Lew Rockwell today links to the original: Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye, performed by the Irish Rovers.
To change an anti-war song into a pro-war song; I’m astonished by the audacious perversity of this insolence.
St. Thomas depreciated the active life in favor of the contemplative life because in his time, there existed neither the theory of action (economics) nor its practice (perpetual improvement within the free market).
The redemption of the human active life came to fruition only upon the emergence of capitalism.