Beware the headhunters
Dear Editor,
We create value when we put in eight or 10 or 12 hour days at work. The business owner helps to create value when he brings equipment and/or raw materials. Even the salesman helps to create value when he finds someone willing to exchange money for our product.
If any single part of this chain fails the whole thing fails. It is when the owner hides profits offshore somewhere, pays no taxes and calls it sacred capitalism that the troubles begin.
After that grand larceny of profits there is not much left. So, the worker has to go home nearly empty-handed and endure the scorn of those to whom it hasn’t happened — yet.
Maybe, just maybe, there wouldn’t be such a big commotion if those capitalists would spend a little of that off-shore money on health care or education for all of us.
There are a couple of other places where the capitalists take (money) advantage of the poor working stiffs. Do they really want to start a class war, or are they just so royally self-centered that they can not even notice the growing grumbling emanating from the hoi polloi.
That is not an uncommon result. The “royals” in France, Russia, England and elsewhere made that mistake and were beheaded, hanged, or otherwise terminated.
Do we have to go through that whole mess again with our “royals,” who are mostly located in Washington?
—Jerry Baird