Working Life

They can’t help themselves. The CEOs who run big corporations are like heroin addicts — once they get a taste of a scheme to rob more money from taxpayers, they just want more, more and more. And here they go again.

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Ron Paul is mostly a whacky person, with some bizarre theories and beliefs. But, under the rubric of a broken clock is right twice a day, he hooked up with Barney Frank to produce a program to cut fairly significantly into the defense budget and he also had a obsession — a good one that sometimes veered a bit into paranoia — about the secrecy of the Federal Reserve Board. Now, comes his son, Rand, a Tea Party loony generally speaking, and tries to get the country to focus, rightly, on the secrecy around the Administration’s secret drone programs.

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I’ve always avoided those self-checkout machines because those machines basically cost people their jobs — and it always distresses me that those people who still have jobs in those retail stores encourage people to use the self-checkout lines without perhaps realizing what might happen to their job as a result. And now comes the other job killer: phone apps.

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Maybe this falls under the rubric of “don’t blame children for the sins of their parents” and maybe I’m just a wee bit cynical BUT…the president couldn’t find another qualified woman to runs his numbers as his budget chief besides someone who headed up the Wal-Mart Foundation?

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Detroit is about to be savaged — not by the industrial woes that have plagued the city for too many years. Nope, now riding into the city with an axe is an “emergency manager.” And let’s be clear: workers are the target.

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Oh, pity those poor bankers in Europe. Capping their bonuses? What’s next? Having to be honest?

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One of the enduring feats that always amazes me is the way in which liars, fools and manipulators, who are proven to be such, still manage to occupy some space in the public debate and rise from the dead. You remember Arthur Laffer, the man who peddled the phony and discredited “Laffer curve” arguing for lower taxes? Well, he’s baaccck…with another pile of manure to sell.

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Yet another truly foolish installment in the games played by political leaders is playing out with the sequester dance. Please, c’mon, to quote John McEnroe “You can’t be serious.” But, apparently they are.

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Banks and elites will wring their hands. How can those Italians just stick a thumb in our eyes, they’ll say. Well, because real people don’t like austerity — especially when it’s imposed by the very people who made a mess of the economy.

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Just a quick reminder that while it is true that union organizers in many countries are fighting anti-labor laws, not everyone ends up in jail just for being a union organizer. Like Said Elhairech who has now been tossed into jail by the pathetic Moroccan legal system.

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