Short Takes — 06

Screw Biden, and F’ the F’ing Democrats.

Rail Corporations retain $41 out of every $100 earned. They did this by shrinking the workforce roughly 40% and massively cutting benefits.

The Rail workers should just quit. They aren’t slaves.

So, I’m watching the smarmy toady Buttigieg speaking out of both sides of his mouth trying to say “we support workers” while rationalizing forcing railway workers to continue to work.

WITH NO PAID SICK LEAVE.

This weasel is explaining that they cannot force the CORPORATIONS to cut profits slightly and increase worker benefits. They don’t have any legal power to force the Corporations to do anything.

Corporations which in the last decade have slashed the workforce by roughly 40% while increasing profits for executives and shareholders 85%.

Executive “compensation” these days is mostly stock and stock options. This minimizes their yearly tax bill while allowing their net worth to climb into the billions. One way they can cash in is through “Share Repurchases” by the company (the company buying back the stock it just gave them at an inflated price) and large “dividend” payouts to Stockholders. This graph shows how the EXECUTIVE Class of the WHITE Elites is looting the countries industries.

However, they can, “for the good of the nation” force the railway workers to “suck it up” and keep working. They have the power to do that because railway workers are “essential”. During the early days of the Pandemic Trump even called them heroes.