Senator Bernie Sanders (Communist-VT), commended autoworkers on Sunday who are on strike against their corporate employers, saying the workers are victims of “corporate greed.”
I would argue it is government greed because most corporations pay a livable wage. The problem is after local, state, and federal governments forcefully take money out of what the corporation paid you, it’s no longer a livable wage. But old goats like Bernie want you to blame your employer instead because he doesn’t want to accept responsibility for taking your money and wasting it on things that will help him get reelected.
Sanders made the remarks during an appearance on CNN‘s “State of the Union” with anchor Very Jake Tapper on Sunday morning. I watched it so you don’t have to. On Sunday, the United Auto Workers (UAW) strike against the “Big 3” automakers: Ford, GM, and Stellantis – entered into its third day.
“Senator Sanders, Vice President Pence was on the show earlier. He said, when I asked him about the fact that the CEOs make multiples more than their average workers, 362 times more in the case of Ford, I said, do you think that’s fair? He said CEO pay is up to free enterprise. It’s up to shareholders, not the government,” Tapper remarked. “What’s your response?”
“I strongly disagree,” Sanders said at the outset. That’s because he’s a communist who believes government should run everything. Bernie can’t even run to the bathroom and he wants to run all of American industry from his senate office.
“The American people are sick and tired, in my view, Jake, and I have been all over this country… they are sick and tired of corporate greed, in which the very richest people are becoming richer. The head of General Motors now makes $29 million a year, and yet, if you go – if you’re a new worker in the Big Three, you make less than $17 an hour.” Maybe they are only worth $17 an hour when they start. You’re not going to pay a new worker the top salary until they prove they are worth it. It’s called having a job, something Bernie didn’t know about until he turned 40.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL“So what you’re seeing in the automobile industry, in my view, is what we’re seeing all over this economy, greed on the top, suffering on the part of the working class. And people are tired of it,” he added.
CUT TAXES!
Sanders went on to back the UAW’s quest for a four-day workweek, stating that the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) will soon enhance individual worker productivity.
AI will soon replace all those $17 an hour auto workers completely. Remember in Boston when the McDonald’s workers started listening to the likes of Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) that they deserved $15 an hour, and they returned the argument by creating what was termed Robo-Burger, a robot screen that took your order. The difference between AI and human workers is that it doesn’t complain, doesn’t get sick, doesn’t go on vacations, it doesn’t need maternity leave, doesn’t do drugs, and is willing to work overtime for no extra pay.
“I happen to believe that, as a nation, we should begin a serious discussion, and the UAW is doing that, – about substantially lowering the workweek. People in America are stressed out for a dozen different reasons,” Sanders said. “And that’s one of the reasons why life expectancy in our country is actually in decline. People are overwhelmed. They got to take care of their kids. They got to worry about health care. They got to worry about housing. They’re worried.”
Bernie is a communist who thinks he is helping workers by calling for higher pay and less time to work. So if a person is given a $5 per hour raise, but he only works four days a week, he has lost at least eight hours of pay for the week, and that’s not including overtime or double time.
“It seems to me that, if new technology is going to make us a more productive society, the benefits should go to the workers,” he remarked.
Only a person who is not in control of his own faculties would make a statement like that. Let’s change it around. Instead of saying technology, let’s call it Mary. So, if Mary is going to make us a more productive society, then the benefits should go to other workers. That’s what Bernie is saying. If technology is making the workplace more productive, the workers are not contributing to that better work. Therefore, they are not entitled to the benefits of the new technology.
On Friday, Sanders joined UAW members on the picket line in Detroit. Aside from reduced workweeks, the union wants higher earnings and better retirement benefits.
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