Labor Day
By Mitch Berg
Hope you’re enjoying your long weekend dedicated to a movement that mistook “two decades of inflated wages when the US was the world’s only functional economy, while Japan and Germany and South Korea were bombed flat and India and China were busy with socialist noodling and starving themselves back to the 1800s and unable to manufacture anything more complicated than motor scooters” for an eternal entitlement.
And they still do:
Senator (gag) Smith: go ahead. Put a bunch of workers – with or without union cards – in an open field. See if a factory or a workshop or, since you’re a DFLer and it’s your only perspective of the private sector, a coffee shop springs up around them.
We’ll wait.
Well, tomorrow I’ll wait. I’ve got labor day plans.
September 4th, 2023 at 11:27 am
So when I see pablum like that– my hands come up to make duck quaking motions and I read it as “blah de blah de blah blah blah.’ It is so utterly meaningless.
Yeah,my plans—– gonna grill some chili cheese brats and serve with homemade potato salad. Potato salad has to have real mayo NOT miracle whip.
September 4th, 2023 at 12:24 pm
Construction spending on manufacturing plants is up by 148% over the 24 months from July 2021 through July 2023. Construction spending all-over is at record levels. You don’t make America great by being a loud-mouth and just saying it’s great, you actually build stuff. 53 miles of wall is nothing. And, you don’t make it “great again”, you just make it better than it was. Fools go backwards.
September 4th, 2023 at 12:43 pm
See if a factory or a workshop or, since you’re a DFLer and it’s your only perspective of the private sector, a coffee shop springs up around them.
Well said, Mitch. Check out H’s new series – Foods and Brands that built America. Fascinating! It blows libturd brainwashing out of the water and no matter how they try, even H cannot whitewash the individual spirit that built America. Alas, America of yore, not the banana republic it turned into.
September 4th, 2023 at 1:09 pm
So says Abortion Barbie, a woman who made her millions chopping up babies and selling their parts and if that were not enough, because it is never enough, she made more millions cutting the genitals off of children.
You have to wonder how many “working” people share her views.
September 4th, 2023 at 1:11 pm
comfortably smug(=emery-incognito)
none of the wonderful construction spending you describe could have happened without CAPITAL and MANAGEMENT without those two things “the workers” would have laid around waiting for a government handout
and emery, you’re still a depraved pedophile
September 4th, 2023 at 2:23 pm
I recently had to explain the concept of the blue-collar Democrat to someone. I mentioned how the Democrat party has almost completely abandoned blue-collar workers for the college educated while at the same time continuing to say all the right words to caress the egos of those working guys. This post is an really nice confirmation of my explanation.
September 4th, 2023 at 2:27 pm
Actually, the unions had absolutely nothing to do with the implementation of a 40 hour work week. A “big corporation”, headed by Henry Ford, shook up the entire corporate world in 1926. He increased the pay of his workers to an unheard of $5.00 per day and shortened their work week to 40 hours. He was a huge catalyst for creating the middle class. It was pure genius on his part. Productivity and employee morale at his plants skyrocketed. They were more than happy to put the pedal to the metal Monday through Friday, producing more cars than the previous 48-60 hour weeks. Those same workers, were proud to tell others that they worked for Ford and wear their Ford logo shirts and caps during their time off, giving Ford millions in free advertising and positive publicity. Further, his employees could now reasonably afford one of the cars they built to drive around in. They also had more time to shop and buy products that they otherwise might not have been able to afford. Although many business owners criticized Ford for giving the rank and file more time to drink, which was a big problem at the time, seeing the benefits led almost every other company to follow suit.
I love pointing this out to die hard unionist goons, just to watch the stunned looks on their faces.
Oh, and Bot Boy III; even in times of economic downturns, there is always money for construction, especially for commercial buildings.
September 4th, 2023 at 2:35 pm
148% increase over the time of Covid lockdowns should surprise no one.
Also thank you to Donald Trump.
Now obviously Trump was not president from 21-22, but the Biden administration, much to its credit, after years of caterwauling about the destructiveness of Trump’s foreign and trade policies, embraced them wholeheartedly.
Much of that rise in manufacturing construction can be attributed to the re-shoring of manufacturing capacity shipped to China during the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations.
September 4th, 2023 at 3:14 pm
Also, The boom in manufacturing construction spending [primarily computer, electronic, and electrical manufacturing plants] started in early 2021, likely in response to the pandemic era supply-chain chaos and transportation nightmares that wreaked havoc on globalized supply strategies and led to previously unimaginable shortages.
While the boom in manufacturing construction started over a year before the CHIPS Act was passed in August 2022, it is likely that the CHIPS Act has since then further accelerated the construction of manufacturing plants for tech products.
September 4th, 2023 at 5:14 pm
Completely off-topic but enquiring minds need to know. MP, why would hackers target telescopes?
Two of the world’s most advanced astronomical telescopes, the Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii and the Gemini South Telescope in Chile, have been temporarily shut down due to a cyberattack.
September 4th, 2023 at 8:15 pm
The “Comfortably Smug” commenter is the old Emery account.
Such a stupid git.
September 4th, 2023 at 8:35 pm
Looks like an attack on European Space Agency (ESA) observatories. I would guess the Russkis are behind it, but who knows?
There is some sensitive software and hardware used by large telescopes, mostly laser control, IR detector info, and clever data reduction routines, but it is all fog and mirrors at this point. The US and the EU have strong controls about exporting tech to Russia and China, but some of their best grad students and post docs have associations with Russia and China.
September 4th, 2023 at 10:38 pm
Thank you, MP!
Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
September 5th, 2023 at 8:19 am
I hope this socialist-wench reads the TWATTER comments. 9:1 against this ugly hopeless leftist.
September 5th, 2023 at 8:33 am
I hope this socialist-wench reads the TWITTER comments. 9:1 against this ugly hopeless leftist.
September 5th, 2023 at 8:53 am
back on topic. Great economy, build on steady diet of libturd lies that the dimwitted, brainwashed and braindead accolytes are ready to swallow hook line and stinker. Like the good lap dogs they are.
On Friday just before the holiday weekend, Labor released its estimates for job growth in August – which it said worked out to 187,000, beating economists’ forecasts. But at the same time, the government cut the job growth numbers for the previous two months by a total of 110,000. As a matter of fact, Labor has quietly cut its initial job growth estimates for every month this year.
September 5th, 2023 at 8:54 am
ugh… got stymied by the d0g.
back on topic. Great economy, build on steady diet of libturd lies that the dimwitted, brainwashed and braindead accolytes are ready to swallow hook line and stinker. Like the good lap d0gs they are.
On Friday just before the holiday weekend, Labor released its estimates for job growth in August – which it said worked out to 187,000, beating economists’ forecasts. But at the same time, the government cut the job growth numbers for the previous two months by a total of 110,000. As a matter of fact, Labor has quietly cut its initial job growth estimates for every month this year.
September 5th, 2023 at 9:20 am
Also on topic! How are them Unions working out for US citizens? Huh?
AFL-CIO Leader Backs Biden’s Wage-Cutting Migration Drive
September 5th, 2023 at 10:55 am
We haven’t had a free labor movement in this country for at least a half century. If you cannot control who you allow into your union, you aren’t a union, you are given a protected job in return for carrying out the government’s social policies.
September 5th, 2023 at 11:03 am
MP;
I have some friends that retired from HVAC and plumbing jobs. Both have told me that unions are so desperate for members to keep their Ponzi schemes going that they are recruiting illegal aliens that can’t speak, read and/or barely understand English. It’s causing huge issues.
September 5th, 2023 at 12:49 pm
It’s worse than that, boss. Even if they can speak, read and wrote English, there’s the IQ issue of doing the job. You ever see pictures of plumbing/electrical work from places south of the border?
September 5th, 2023 at 2:40 pm
Funny how narrative of lying liars and their lap dog braindead pablum consumers gets blown out by… you know… facts…
Orders for goods made in U.S. factories sank a sharp 2.1 percent in July, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.
September 5th, 2023 at 2:41 pm
darn d0g again!
Funny how narrative of lying liars and their lap d0g braindead pablum consumers gets blown out by… you know… facts…
Orders for goods made in U.S. factories sank a sharp 2.1 percent in July, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.
September 5th, 2023 at 3:57 pm
Another off-topic – climate zealots hardest hit. Although I am sure, as I write this they are hard at work developing theories and inventing data to support them, that this is all due to Big’s charcoal grill.
The Moon is slowly drifting away from Earth and it’s beginning to impact us
September 5th, 2023 at 5:57 pm
Aaaand back on topic. This headline is from ABC(!!!!!!!!) How the worm turns…
Four-day workweek, 46% raise: UAW makes ‘audacious’ demands ahead of possible strike against Big 3 automakers.
September 6th, 2023 at 6:28 am
Thanks, jpa, Now I will have to start stocking up on green cheese in addition to incandescent light bulbs and charcoal brackets period