Thank you KCFlyer.What have those incentives provided? Offshored jobs. Job reductions. Mergers (with elimination of "redundant" positions) Wage cuts of the line workers to cover the costs of the merger. Meanwhile, the top folks in the corner offices make 400 times what the average line worker makes.
We've given corporations damn near every break in the books...even going so far as turning a blind ey to them and letting them claim a post office box in Bermuda as their "headquarters", thus paying NO taxes...and they seem to be signing paychecks made out to Jose, Raji, and Xianag.
They've tried. But the republicans have done a fantastic job of making the blue collar line worker feel like an imminent terrorist attack or someone possibly taking their guns away is far more important that decent wages and jobs.
Again...the pervading republican mindset...unions are "socialist" after all....If a company makes a million dollars in profits, unions would like to see those profits distributed evenly across the board to the people who made it possible. How utterly socialist. And as we've heard from Sarah and John...socialism is a bad thing. It is far better for the top 4 people to each get $250,000 each and tell the lower level folks that "times are hard and you're lucky to have a job". A job action by a union whose employees have taken pay and benefit cuts against a company whose CEO is making an 8 figure salary will be viewed by many a good republican as an action of the "greedy unions"
True enough...but which is better...a guy fixing a plane making $35 an hour and paying higher taxes, or a guy fixing a plane in another country making $5 an hour while an American bags groceries for $5.50, but pays lower taxes? I honestly cannot understand how American union members could ever support any republican for president.
Many of us understand this, and are tired of it.
That is why we will have a positive change come next week. Whether it works out for us, time will tell.