[quote=sdduuuude][quote=CA renter][quote=sdduuuude][quote=CA renter]Again, your argument assumes that costs would go down if govt employees weren’t unionized. I doubt that would happen…at least, not for very long. Someone else would come in to stake their claim to that money.[/quote]
Not a very compelling argument. Could equally say that we may as well let Haliburton get all that contract money because if we didn’t then someone else would just come and grab it.[/quote]
Just stating what I believe to be likely outcomes.
We can choose to spend money back into the economy, and into the hands of the productive workers who form the foundation of the economic pyramid, or we can choose to allow a handful of people to hoard and control access to the world’s assets and resources — making the structure of the pyramid top-heavy and unstable.
The world is full of sociopathic megalomaniacs who seek out and take advantages of weaknesses in the system so that they can gain control of others. As you know, the consequences of this are rarely positive.
The ONLY way to prevent these people from getting into power is to keep the majority of power in the hands of the greatest possible number of people. Since money represents power, we must ensure that money is “spread out” (yep, I said it) and that the people always have the ability to rise up against the handful of people who are always looking for ways to “take over the world.”
Institutions (and individuals with massive amounts of wealth) will always have more power than ordinary workers, which is why workers need to work in unison to keep them in check.[/quote]
So, people have to union together to ensure that they take more taxpayer money than corporations do. Got it.[/quote]
Money is fungible. I don’t discriminate between public or private entities, because the two are closely entertwined. I’m far more offended if my money is going to a private entity (or public entity) where the earnings are concentrated into too few hands than I am by my money going to “government” (or a private entity) where the money is distributed more equitably among the people who actually work. It doesn’t matter to me if they operate under a “public” or “private” banner. Money works the same in either case.
IMHO, the benefits received from the government (clean air, water, safe food supply, medical R&D/technology, physical infrastructure, military protection, social/safety services, etc., etc.) are FAR, FAR greater per dollar spent than what we get from most private sector companies.
There is always a certain amount of money flowing through the economy at any given point in time. I would like to see more of that money going to the productive workers, rather than the “capitalists,” because the workers are the ones who enable that money to exist in the first place.
