Tuesday 6 September 2011

corps are peeps, so happy Oligarch Day

This used to be Labour Day. With labour desimated, it's now
Oligarch Day

But now that corporations are people, they've become a part of the family. They're just like that drunkard uncle that steals the cultery.

Unemployment is really high in most western countries. But that's okay because corporations will protect us and feed us, and give us an old factory to live in.

checkitout:

September 5, 2011
Faked Stats, No Jobs
Happy Corporation Day!
by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
It is Labor Day, 2011, but labor has nothing to celebrate. The jobs that once gave American workers a stake in capitalism have left and gone away. Corporations in pursuit of near-term profits have moved labor’s jobs to China, India, Indonesia, Taiwan, South Korea and Eastern Europe.
Labor arbitrage, that is, the substitution of foreign labor that is paid less than its productivity for American labor, has enriched Wall Street, shareholders and corporate CEOs, but it has devastated American employment, household incomes, tax base, and the outlook for the US economy.
This Labor Day week-end’s job report, announced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on Friday, September 2, says zero net new jobs were created in August, a number 250,000 less than the amount of monthly job creation necessary to make progress in reducing America’s high rate of unemployment.
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Since the deregulation of the financial system under the Bush/Cheney regime and the “war on terror,” the entire economy of the US has been sacrificed for the benefit of the financial sector and the military/security complex.
Labor Day is an anachronism. It should be renamed Corporation Day or War Day to celebrate the success of Bush/Obama in eliminating labor unions as a countervailing power to corporate power and the elevation of War as the highest goal of the American state.