1 00:00:06,799 --> 00:00:12,960 The Benjamin Dixon Show is only possible with listeners support. Go to www dot 2 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:18,839 The Benjamin Dixon Show dot com to register for our blog and join the progressive 3 00:00:18,879 --> 00:00:28,039 market. I respect workers right to use their options under the collector bargainer system, 4 00:00:28,079 --> 00:00:33,119 and I understand the worker's frustration over generations. Auto workers sacrifice so much 5 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:37,679 to keep the industry alive and strong, especially the economic crisis and the pandemic. 6 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:42,119 Workers deserve a fair share of the benefits they help create for an enterprise. 7 00:00:42,759 --> 00:00:46,719 I do appreciate that the parties have been working around the clock. When 8 00:00:46,759 --> 00:00:50,200 I first call them at the very first day of the negotiations, I said, 9 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:54,200 please stay at the table as long as you can to try to work 10 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:57,960 this out. And though they've been around the clock and the companies have made 11 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:02,359 some significant offers, but I believe this should go further to ensure record corporate 12 00:01:02,359 --> 00:01:07,120 profits made record contracts for the um I say it again, record corporate profits 13 00:01:07,159 --> 00:01:11,959 which they have should be shared by record contracts for the UAW. That was 14 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:17,599 the voice of President Joe Biden showing support for the United Auto Workers who have 15 00:01:18,159 --> 00:01:22,519 gone on strike. As of midnight last night, they were unable to come 16 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:26,280 into an agreement with the big three auto makers there in Detroit, and so 17 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:32,879 one hundred and fifty thousand auto workers have agreed to go on strike. Now, 18 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:37,840 as it stands today, only about thirteen thousand of those one hundred and 19 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:42,560 fifty thousand workers have already walked off their jobs as a part of the strategy 20 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:48,159 that was put forward by the President of the UAW, Sean Fayne, which 21 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:53,159 is keeping all of the executives guessing where is the strike actually happening, Where 22 00:01:53,319 --> 00:02:00,000 is the next stoppage of work going to occur? The executives don't know because 23 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:05,239 up this particular strategy being employed by the UAW. Here's more from President Joe 24 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:09,520 Biden. Auto companies have seen record profits, including the last few years, 25 00:02:09,599 --> 00:02:15,520 because of extraordinary skill and sacrifices the UAW workers, but those record profits have 26 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:21,560 not been shared fairly in my view, with those workers. Just as the 27 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:25,759 Treasury Department has released the report pointing out that the most conference report ever dealing 28 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:30,680 with how unions are good for both union workers and non union workers. To 29 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:36,759 the hand the overall economy, unions raise workers wages, they said, incomes, 30 00:02:37,319 --> 00:02:43,039 increase homeownership, increased retirement saies increase access to critical benefits like sickly and 31 00:02:43,159 --> 00:02:47,400 childcare, and reduced inequality, all of which strengthen our economy for all workers. 32 00:02:49,039 --> 00:02:53,680 That's because unions. Unions raise standards across the workplaces and entire industries, 33 00:02:54,199 --> 00:02:59,960 pushing up wages and strengthening benefits for everyone. That's why strong unions are critical 34 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:05,319 of the growing economy. That's why strong unions are critical for a growing economy. 35 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,599 I believe that might be one of the most salient remarks with regards to 36 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:15,719 union unions coming from the President. Yet unions are critical for a growing economy. 37 00:03:15,879 --> 00:03:20,039 Unions are critical for a middle class. I want to play a clip 38 00:03:20,199 --> 00:03:23,800 of UAW President Sean Fayne. He says that the cost of labor that goes 39 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:28,919 into a vehicle is only five percent of the vehicle. These companies could double 40 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:31,840 our wages and they could not raise the price of vehicles, and they would 41 00:03:31,879 --> 00:03:37,800 still make billions of dollars. That's what it means to have record profits and 42 00:03:37,879 --> 00:03:44,599 to be stealing wages from workers. You have plenty of headroom to make adjustments 43 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:46,840 and to make it right. You heard the CEO of Ford say that it 44 00:03:46,879 --> 00:03:51,360 would bankrupt them if they met your demands. What'd you think of that? 45 00:03:51,599 --> 00:03:53,120 I think it's a joke. You know what, they could double our pay 46 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:57,319 right now. Labor, the cost of labor, it goes into a vehicle, 47 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:00,400 there's five percent of the vehicle. They could double our wages and they 48 00:04:00,439 --> 00:04:03,639 could not raise the price of vehicles. They would still make billions of dollars. 49 00:04:03,639 --> 00:04:06,039 It's a lie, like everything else that comes out of their mouths Now, 50 00:04:06,039 --> 00:04:11,479 I can't pretend like I knew that the cost of labor that goes into 51 00:04:11,479 --> 00:04:14,400 the price of a vehicle is only around four to five percent. But the 52 00:04:14,439 --> 00:04:20,399 absurdity of labor being disrespected that much when you consider the productivity of the average 53 00:04:20,439 --> 00:04:27,120 American has increased sixty percent since two thousand, and wages for the average American 54 00:04:27,199 --> 00:04:30,680 has only increased some four to three to four percent in the same time period. 55 00:04:31,439 --> 00:04:34,879 It's not a mistake. That's not a bug, that's a feature. 56 00:04:34,959 --> 00:04:41,439 The entire agenda is to minimize the cost of labor and maximize the profits. 57 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:46,360 Listen to this clip of General Motors CEO Mary Barra, who makes about twenty 58 00:04:46,439 --> 00:04:53,560 nine million dollars a year while refusing to do anything to increase the wages of 59 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,920 the people who help her make that money. You've seen a thirty four percent 60 00:04:56,959 --> 00:05:00,920 pay increase in your salary, you make almost thirty million dollars. Why should 61 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:05,079 your workers not get the same type of pay increases that you're getting leading the 62 00:05:05,079 --> 00:05:09,959 company? Well, if you look at compensation, my compensation, ninety two 63 00:05:09,959 --> 00:05:12,720 percent of it is based on performance of the company. I think one of 64 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:16,560 the strong aspects of the way our compensation for our represented employees is designed is 65 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:20,120 not only are we putting a twenty percent increase on the table, but if 66 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:26,199 you're getting a thirty four percent pay increase over four years and you're offering twenty 67 00:05:26,199 --> 00:05:30,000 percent to employees right now, do you think that's fair? Well? I 68 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:32,759 think when you look at the overall the overall structure, and the fact that 69 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:36,879 ninety two percent is based on performance, and you look at what we've been 70 00:05:36,879 --> 00:05:41,920 doing of sharing in the profitability when the company does well, I think we've 71 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:44,720 got a very compelling offer on the table. And that's the focus I have 72 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:47,800 right now. Right now was the portion that was clipped. Here's the interesting 73 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:53,959 thing about the benefits package and all of the generous, you know things that 74 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:58,000 she says is all for two workers, is that it's not all for to 75 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:02,319 all workers. There's a two tiered system that the UAW is trying to get 76 00:06:02,399 --> 00:06:06,759 rid of. They're trying to abolish the two tier system that gives you know, 77 00:06:08,439 --> 00:06:12,680 they categorize is top tier employees. I don't like that categorization, but 78 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:15,680 that's what it's called, their top tier employees versus their lower tier employees. 79 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:21,279 The lower tier employees don't receive those benefits, that those pensions, those those 80 00:06:21,319 --> 00:06:26,040 health benefits, and well they get health benefits, but they're far less generous, 81 00:06:26,519 --> 00:06:29,639 right and so one of the things that the UAW is trying to get 82 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:31,759 rid of is that two tiered system, because right now, that two tier 83 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:38,279 system is how this CEO gets to brag about how generous their benefits are, 84 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:42,480 but it's not applied to all of the workers. Just keep in mind, 85 00:06:42,519 --> 00:06:46,040 in terms of she's bragged she makes twenty nine million dollars a year, the 86 00:06:46,079 --> 00:06:50,079 average worker, according to CBS News with the UAW, is making about twenty 87 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:55,959 eight dollars an hour. Twenty eight dollars an hour, which in some places 88 00:06:56,079 --> 00:06:59,279 is a really decent living right. There are a lot of people who would 89 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:01,600 be happy to make that kind of money. But when you are working in 90 00:07:01,639 --> 00:07:08,839 an industry that is making record profits, You as a collective body of workers, 91 00:07:08,879 --> 00:07:13,240 have the right to demand better. You have the right to demand more, 92 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:19,040 especially when your productivity and your efficiency has skyrocketed over the last twenty years 93 00:07:19,199 --> 00:07:25,279 and the wealth has all gone to the CEOs. I want to play one 94 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:29,879 last clip. This is of former President Donald Trump when asked about the strike. 95 00:07:29,959 --> 00:07:32,639 Whose side is he owned? He was asked this by Kristen Welker, 96 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:39,160 and this was his response, And I want you to really listen to how 97 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:43,279 he prevaricates and does his best to avoid the question, but at the end 98 00:07:43,319 --> 00:07:46,560 he reveals what side he's really owned. My question for you, mister President, 99 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:50,160 whose side are you on in this? I'm on the side of making 100 00:07:50,399 --> 00:07:56,560 our country grade. The auto workers are not going to have any jobs when 101 00:07:56,639 --> 00:07:59,800 you come right down to it, because if you take a look at what 102 00:08:00,199 --> 00:08:03,439 doing with electric cars, electric cars are going to be made in China, 103 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:07,120 the autoworkers are not going to have any I'll tell you what. The autoworkers 104 00:08:07,199 --> 00:08:11,439 are being sold down the river by their leadership, and their leadership should enduse 105 00:08:11,519 --> 00:08:16,120 Trump. The reason is you're gonna have choice, like in school. I 106 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:18,959 want school choice I also want choice for cars. If somebody wants gasoline, 107 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:22,560 if somebody wants all electric, they can do whatever they want. But they're 108 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:28,519 destroying the consumer, and they're destroying the auto workers. The autoworkers will not 109 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:31,519 have any jobs, Kristen, because all of these cars are going to be 110 00:08:31,519 --> 00:08:35,799 made in China. The electric cars automatically are going to be made in China. 111 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:39,480 No doubt that these companies are going to seek out the cheapest labor they 112 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:45,279 can possibly find. That's why it is incombat upon us as a matter of 113 00:08:45,399 --> 00:08:50,279 policy to not allow them to push us into a race to the bottom to 114 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:54,159 see which state or in this case, which nation, is going to give 115 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:58,519 them the cheapest labor. We'll be back with more the Benjamin Dixon Show right 116 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:18,159 after this break. Yeah, what y look, I'm in line with the 117 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:22,000 stars. I'm gonna sink with the earth tintoes deep flower Child from the turf. 118 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:24,879 I never switch sides, Like even when I die, I'm gonna ride 119 00:09:24,879 --> 00:09:28,960 for the squad letter ties in the hearst. I've been on a five kind 120 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:31,679 of hard to describe. I remember between I'm good and it's fine, but 121 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:35,000 I'm tired of the grind. Then I come alive in the night to realize 122 00:09:35,039 --> 00:09:37,879 I'm in the middle of the time of my life. I never saw back, 123 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:39,919 Chris stacking the light on the back. Better back from the way that 124 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,480 I write it, Queen the Tyson, that's the five when they meet it 125 00:09:43,519 --> 00:09:54,120 out. Welcome back to The Benjamin Dixon Show. Visit us online at the 126 00:09:54,200 --> 00:10:09,279 Benjamin Dixon Show dot com. What Back. Welcome back. So, if 127 00:10:09,279 --> 00:10:15,720 you want to know how political propaganda works. Right now, today right wing 128 00:10:15,759 --> 00:10:24,559 conservatives are esthetic because three men who were accused of providing support to a plot 129 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:31,799 to kidnap Michigan's Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer, they were acquitted by jurors earlier today, 130 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:35,879 and the narrative that is, well, first, let's let me slow 131 00:10:35,919 --> 00:10:41,399 down. I don't know if you remember earlier during the pandemic, when Michigan 132 00:10:41,519 --> 00:10:48,039 became ground zero for the war against vaccines and the war against mask mandates, 133 00:10:48,399 --> 00:10:56,399 and there literally was a plot to kidnap and potentially harm Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer. 134 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:05,720 That plot was for and several people were arrested charged. And today if 135 00:11:05,159 --> 00:11:09,960 the only thing you knew about this story came as a result of you watching 136 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:16,200 the news today, you would believe that everyone involved was acquitted. That's not 137 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:24,200 what happened, but that is how propaganda works. Let's go to the receipts. 138 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:28,000 Adam Fox was accused of charge of kidnapping, conspiracy, and conspiracy to 139 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:31,360 use a weapon of mass destruction. He was found guilty and sentenced to sixteen 140 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:37,919 years. Joseph Morrison materially a charge with materially aiding a terrorist and membership in 141 00:11:37,919 --> 00:11:41,679 a gang, found guilty, sentenced to ten to twenty years. Tye Garbin. 142 00:11:41,799 --> 00:11:45,759 All of this is easily readily accessible, but you actually do have to 143 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:50,519 just do the search. You have to look and not depend on what you 144 00:11:50,639 --> 00:11:54,480 see and hear from social media. Who's trying Currently right wing media is trying 145 00:11:54,480 --> 00:12:01,759 to convince us that everything related to this conspiracy to kidnapped Governor Gretchen Whitmer was 146 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:05,320 a false flag. But if it was a false flag, then you have 147 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:11,200 ty Garman who pleaded guilty. He pleaded guilty and got six years. Barry 148 00:12:11,279 --> 00:12:16,279 Croft found guilty nineteen years, seven months, Caleb Franks pleaded guilty four years. 149 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:22,360 Then you have Pete Masuko found guilty twelve to twenty years. You have 150 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:28,000 Paul Beller found guilty of materially aiding a terrorist and gang membership seven to twenty 151 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:31,200 years. So there are plenty of people who have been involved in this plot 152 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:39,879 and this conspiracy to kidnap and harm Michigan Governor Democrat Gretchen Whitmer. But if 153 00:12:39,879 --> 00:12:45,080 you look at the timeline today, the conservative movement is celebrating as if these 154 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:48,440 two men who were are three men who were found not guilty. Who were 155 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:50,840 they were found not guilty? If we dig into their charges, you could 156 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:56,320 see they were being charged with aiding and abetting this plot of supplying guns. 157 00:12:56,639 --> 00:13:00,600 But ultimately, because it seems as though they did not know a purpose for 158 00:13:00,639 --> 00:13:05,279 which they were supplying guns, that's probably how they got off. But that's 159 00:13:05,399 --> 00:13:11,080 three out of the entire group, many of whom have already been found guilty 160 00:13:11,159 --> 00:13:16,840 or played guilty. But as you look at how the propaganda is fomenting on 161 00:13:16,879 --> 00:13:22,320 social media, you would think that this is a validation of every single conservative 162 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:26,960 idea in the history of conservative ideas. And I know that's being hyperbolic, 163 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,159 but this is a level of celebrating. I mean, you would you would 164 00:13:28,159 --> 00:13:33,919 honestly think that this was like their OJ moment. You know, they really 165 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:39,279 are excited about these three individuals getting off, but completely erased the existence of 166 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:45,360 every other individual who has already been found guilty or played guilty. But again, 167 00:13:45,919 --> 00:13:48,759 that's how propaganda works. 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Earlier this week, the CDC voted by a vote 181 00:15:24,039 --> 00:15:28,919 of thirteen to one in favor of recommending a new COVID nineteen vaccine for basically 182 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:35,279 everyone from ages six to sixty five and older. The purpose of this vaccine, 183 00:15:35,399 --> 00:15:39,000 of this booster shot, obviously, is to deal with the ever mutating 184 00:15:39,039 --> 00:15:46,399 coronavirus which continues to mutate because well, we as an American society, we 185 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:50,639 have opted to just you know, say effort and just go with the pandemic 186 00:15:50,639 --> 00:15:56,360 and not do what's necessary like wearing masks, sheltering in place, mask band 187 00:15:56,360 --> 00:16:00,159 aids, mandates, vaccine mandates. You know, we're living in the anti 188 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:06,879 science stage of American decline. In fact, that decline is so acute. 189 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:11,360 This next clip I'm getting ready to play for you is of the Florida Surgeon 190 00:16:11,519 --> 00:16:15,600 General and I laugh. I kid you not. This next clip has to 191 00:16:15,639 --> 00:16:21,480 be one of the dumbest things I have ever heard a medical professional say on 192 00:16:21,639 --> 00:16:25,039 national TV. No Less, he was on Fox News with Sean Hannity. 193 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:30,279 Here is Rhonda Santis's pick for Surgeon General, Joseph Ladappo, as he claims 194 00:16:30,399 --> 00:16:37,240 that he knows better than the CDC. One Surgeon General says that the vaccine 195 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:41,799 is not safe to take, and he said that to all of Fox News 196 00:16:41,879 --> 00:16:45,679 viewers last night. Take a listener. I think most people in the United 197 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:52,240 States recognize that the safety of these vaccines is unlike, certainly unlike flu, 198 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:55,639 which they always try and pair it with and compare it to. But this 199 00:16:55,720 --> 00:17:00,519 is a very different type of medication, and it's an unsafe medication. I 200 00:17:00,519 --> 00:17:06,960 mean, it's really unfortunate that this is what so many Americans have been persuaded 201 00:17:07,039 --> 00:17:11,680 to take. How could we ever trust people but that, like Joe Biden, 202 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:15,720 if you get the vaccine, you're never gonna get COVID if you get 203 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:18,240 the question cuts off. But I wanted you to hear Sean Hannity and his 204 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:26,079 propaganda technique allowing that floor to Surgeon General to say something without not only without 205 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:30,640 following up on the erroneous nature of what he said the lie. He didn't 206 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:36,880 follow up on the lie. He just pivoted to something that's easily arguable and 207 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:41,559 debatable. Right, should we trust Joe Biden when they told us you wouldn't 208 00:17:41,559 --> 00:17:45,319 catch COVID nineteen? No, who told us that we would never catch COVID 209 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:49,839 nineteen if we had the vaccine. I don't remember one person, one entity, 210 00:17:51,599 --> 00:17:55,880 one organization saying that you would not catch COVID nineteen. But what I 211 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:59,200 did see, without a shadow of a doubt, is that those people who 212 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:03,799 were vaccinated than they did contract COVID nineteen, they did not suffer or die 213 00:18:04,559 --> 00:18:10,839 at the rates that everyone else did. Now, someone on Twitter said this 214 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:15,440 earlier, and I absolutely thought it was brilliant. He said. Every reporter 215 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:21,680 going forward must ask rhn De Santists if this Florida Surgeon General that he picked 216 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:26,200 would be a pick for the United States Surgeon General, because that in and 217 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:33,799 of itself would be disqualifying for Rhonda Santists. Rhonda Santists has picked an opportunistic 218 00:18:33,079 --> 00:18:40,720 quack of a doctor right who's who has clearly been assigned to do one thing, 219 00:18:40,759 --> 00:18:44,920 and that has undermined the state of Florida's ability to recover from COVID nineteen 220 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:49,759 by spreading misinformation from the highest office in the state with regard to this pandemic. 221 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:55,559 He has been accused. The Florida Surgeon General has been accused of personally 222 00:18:56,799 --> 00:19:03,200 changing data with regard to COVID nineteen personally doing that, and now he is 223 00:19:03,279 --> 00:19:08,720 out here on a campaign against the booster shot because well, this week the 224 00:19:08,839 --> 00:19:14,200 CDC announced the approval of a new not only the CDC announced it, but 225 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:18,119 also the FDA approved it. Now, I don't have full blind trust in 226 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:22,720 any of these institutions, but because I'm not a scientist, nor do I 227 00:19:22,759 --> 00:19:26,799 have the bandwidth or the time to go and do these studies myself, I 228 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:33,839 have to offer these institutions a measure of my trust. Now, if you 229 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:40,359 ask me a competition between trusting the CDC and the FDA over trusting someone like 230 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:48,279 Rhonda Santis and his Florida Surgeon General when they have clearly decided to side on 231 00:19:48,319 --> 00:19:56,079 the side of anti science, on the side of anti public health. They 232 00:19:56,119 --> 00:20:00,480 have opted on the side of doing everything they possibly can to under mine our 233 00:20:00,559 --> 00:20:04,200 collective ability to defeat this pandemic. If you ask me who I'm going to 234 00:20:04,319 --> 00:20:07,000 choose, I'm still going to choose the CDC. They did not do. 235 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:11,119 The CDC did not do a good job with this pandemic. And I could 236 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:15,599 tell you exactly when they'd stopped doing a good jobs, when they gave in 237 00:20:17,079 --> 00:20:18,759 and said, hey, hell, we're just gonna go with what the masses 238 00:20:18,839 --> 00:20:22,680 say, right, some of the recommendations. And actually, let me take 239 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:26,599 a step back. Here's another thing the CDC did. They went along with 240 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:30,839 a lot of corporations like Delta Airlines. When Delta Airlines wanted to get rid 241 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:34,240 of the mask mandate, the CDC, it's just spaceis Sam Man. So 242 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:40,519 this is not a statement of trust for the CDC. But if you ask 243 00:20:40,599 --> 00:20:45,640 me, if I trust that doctor Moore, that doctor Lodopa, whatever his 244 00:20:45,759 --> 00:20:48,559 name is, Rhonda Santiss, pick the guy we've just listened to, who 245 00:20:48,559 --> 00:20:56,480 do I trust more that that man or the scientists behind the vaccine? Yeah? 246 00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:59,480 So anyway, when are you getting your booster shot? I'm I am 247 00:20:59,519 --> 00:21:03,240 going to get next week because apparently I've got to do some traveling. I'll 248 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:06,079 tell you more about that later. I got to hit the road and get 249 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:07,279 on a couple of planes. And if you know me, you know I 250 00:21:07,279 --> 00:21:11,160 don't like flying anyway, but you certainly know I don't like flying in a 251 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:15,799 pandemic. I think I'll be on the plane not only boosted, but also 252 00:21:17,319 --> 00:21:21,279 with a full mask because people just don't care. And when I say a 253 00:21:21,319 --> 00:21:23,200 full mask, I mean like a gas mask with my own oxygen supply, 254 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:29,559 because these people really do not care if they get on planes, go into 255 00:21:29,599 --> 00:21:36,359 classrooms, go back to work sick. And that makes sense when you consider 256 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:42,920 we have people like Rhonda Santis and Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladopa Ladoppo out here 257 00:21:44,000 --> 00:22:10,160 spreading misinformation and encouraging the most exposure possible. Speaking of labor, I am 258 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,480 a little late with this clip. I'm sure you've seen it and heard it 259 00:22:12,559 --> 00:22:18,599 already. It is a clip of Tim Gerner, who is the CEO of 260 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:27,640 the Gerner Group. Okay, and this is perhaps the most clear example that 261 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:36,319 we're going to find of what CEOs really think about their employees. More precisely, 262 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:41,920 I think this is the clearest example of what capital honestly believes about labor. 263 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:45,079 I think the problem that we've had is that we've, yeah, we 264 00:22:45,519 --> 00:22:51,039 have people decided they didn't really want to work so much anymore through COVID, 265 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:53,440 and that has had a massive issue on productivity. You know, tradees have 266 00:22:53,559 --> 00:22:57,960 definitely pulled back on productivity. You know, they have been paid a lot 267 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:02,400 to do not too much in the last few years, and we need to 268 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:04,920 see that change. We need to see unemployment rise unemployment has to jump forty 269 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:07,880 fifty percent. In my view, we need to see paint in the economy. 270 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:11,319 We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the 271 00:23:11,319 --> 00:23:15,599 other way around. Me. There is a there's been a systematic change where 272 00:23:17,039 --> 00:23:22,160 employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them as opposed to the other 273 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:25,440 way around. So it's a dynamic that has to change. We've got to 274 00:23:25,519 --> 00:23:29,200 kill that attitude and that has to come through hurting the economy, which is 275 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:33,200 what the whole global you know, the world is trying to do. The 276 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:37,279 governments around the world are trying to increase unemployment to get that to some sort 277 00:23:37,319 --> 00:23:41,519 of normality, and we're seeing it. I think every employer now is seeing 278 00:23:41,559 --> 00:23:44,519 it. I mean, there is definitely massive layoffs going off. People might 279 00:23:44,519 --> 00:23:47,440 not be talking about it, but people are definitely laying people off. And 280 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:49,519 we're starting to see less arrogance in the employment market, and that has to 281 00:23:49,559 --> 00:23:53,599 continue because that will cascade across. Sweet Jesus, you know, sometimes I 282 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:57,720 should listen to the four clips before I actually play them in this show, 283 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:03,279 because if they have known that he went this far, I probably would have 284 00:24:03,319 --> 00:24:06,559 saved it for the patrons only because there's some things I need to say about 285 00:24:06,559 --> 00:24:10,079 this guy. But I'll I'll let me see if I could do it without, 286 00:24:10,799 --> 00:24:15,039 like literally with zero profanity. This is how evil these people really are. 287 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,880 Yeah, I can you know how I can discuss this without any profanity. 288 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:22,000 I have to talk about this from like a religious spiritual perspective. This 289 00:24:22,079 --> 00:24:30,079 is downright evil, right. These are people who if they could get slave 290 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:33,039 labor, they would do it and say that it's the right thing to do 291 00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:37,440 because it's in the best interests of their shareholders. They have the maxim they 292 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:44,759 have a mandate to maximize profits. They would absolutely accept slave labor. CEOs 293 00:24:44,759 --> 00:24:51,279 are currently accepting sweatshop labor all across the globe. There is a disposition. 294 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,519 Before I even get to the disposition, let's talk about the inherent conflict, 295 00:24:55,839 --> 00:25:00,200 right, There's an inherent conflict between the profit motive and the best interests the 296 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:04,400 majority of human beings on this planet, the workers. As long as CEO's 297 00:25:04,759 --> 00:25:10,880 and corporations and their shareholders are allowed to seek profit without end, we will 298 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:15,720 always see this paradigm where the majority of the people on this planet who are 299 00:25:15,799 --> 00:25:21,599 workers are going to be told that they have to suffer they have to suffer, 300 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:26,599 and they have to have the right disposition towards the CEOs and the companies. 301 00:25:27,559 --> 00:25:33,079 Do you see the entitledment to our labor that these monsters have. Do 302 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:37,880 you see the entitlement to our lives? Not just our lives, but our 303 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:41,519 entire life force, like our energy. They expect to be able to drain 304 00:25:41,759 --> 00:25:45,319 us and leave us with nothing, not even not even sensible wages, Not 305 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:51,880 even reasonable wages. We just got through talking about the uaw that labor. 306 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:56,839 That the price of your forty thousand dollar car, which is like a pretty 307 00:25:56,839 --> 00:26:03,119 inexpensive car these days, only four percent of that is labor. That the 308 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:11,000 general disregard for the value of what we bring to the table has always been 309 00:26:11,039 --> 00:26:17,039 dismissed, deep valued, and sabotaged by the likes of this Garner guy. 310 00:26:18,039 --> 00:26:21,880 He's not He's not saying anything that we didn't already know. He's just dumb 311 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:23,839 enough to say it publicly. He's since come out and apologize for it. 312 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:27,640 No, don't apologize for your deeply held belief No, no, no, 313 00:26:27,799 --> 00:26:34,839 no, don't apologize unless you are turning away from repenting from those deeply held, 314 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:41,039 deeply sadistic beliefs. I just you know, let me play it again 315 00:26:41,079 --> 00:26:44,079 so I can give you real time commentary. I think the problem that we've 316 00:26:44,079 --> 00:26:48,720 had is that we've, yeah, we have people decided that they didn't really 317 00:26:48,759 --> 00:26:51,799 want to work so much anymore through COVID, and that has had a massive 318 00:26:51,839 --> 00:26:56,359 issue on productivity. Okay, never mind the fact that worker productivity slash efficiency 319 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,839 is up sixty percent since two thousand. Like we stated earlier in the show, 320 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:04,799 several companies have reported that their workers were more efficient during the pandemic when 321 00:27:04,839 --> 00:27:10,039 they work from home. Let's continue. You know, they have been paid 322 00:27:10,079 --> 00:27:14,240 a lot to do not too much in the last few years. Literally provides 323 00:27:14,319 --> 00:27:18,519 no source for that claim except for his feelings. He's got a gut feeling 324 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:22,000 that workers are getting paid to do not much. We need to say that 325 00:27:22,079 --> 00:27:25,559 change. We need to see unemployment rise. Unemployment has to jump forty fifty 326 00:27:25,599 --> 00:27:27,480 percent in my view. We need to see painting the economy. We need 327 00:27:27,519 --> 00:27:32,400 to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around, 328 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:37,119 because they sincerely need a type of system where you are grateful to take 329 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:42,319 whatever wages they give you, and that you are so stressed that you would 330 00:27:42,319 --> 00:27:48,319 not even consider leaving that job. This is one of the reasons that healthcare 331 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:52,079 is tied to your employment, so that if you're in a desperate situation, 332 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:56,160 you would never leave your job because you've got to keep those benefits coming. 333 00:27:56,359 --> 00:28:00,160 You've got to keep that healthcare insurance going. There's been assist matic change where 334 00:28:00,599 --> 00:28:06,720 employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them as opposed to the other 335 00:28:06,759 --> 00:28:08,960 way around. So it's a dynamic that has to change. We've got to 336 00:28:10,079 --> 00:28:12,680 kill that attitude, and that has to come through hurting the economy, which 337 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:17,599 is what the whole global you know, the world he's trying to do. 338 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:21,119 The governments around the world are trying to increase unemployment. So to be sure, 339 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:26,640 he's saying that the governments should and are willing to harm their economies to 340 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:33,480 keep the proper attitude instilled in the workers. They're willing to hurt the economy 341 00:28:33,559 --> 00:28:37,759 to make sure that you, the worker, don't get besides yourself and get 342 00:28:37,759 --> 00:28:41,359 too bougie and start asking for you know, benefits, you know better and 343 00:28:41,519 --> 00:28:45,839 dental insurance. You know, maybe i'd get two dollars more an hour so 344 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,839 I could buy me a sandwich after work, you know, to know, 345 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:53,640 they're willing to harm the economy to keep you in check with saying it. 346 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,079 I think every employee now is saying it. I mean, there is definitely 347 00:28:56,119 --> 00:29:00,319 massive layoffs going off of people might not be talking about it, but people 348 00:29:00,319 --> 00:29:03,759 are definitely ling people off. And we're starting to say less arrogance in the 349 00:29:03,759 --> 00:29:07,319 employment market, and that has to continue because that will cast guide across the 350 00:29:07,359 --> 00:29:12,319 cost bound. So they're willing to lay people off collectively. This require this 351 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:18,440 should there should be a reco case involved in this. But that's the Department 352 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:26,680 of Labor's responsibility here right to see these unfair labor practices in action and see 353 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:33,119 that companies are collectively deciding to harm the economy so that they can get rid 354 00:29:33,119 --> 00:29:37,079 of the arrogant disposition and workers. I promise you if there's if I've ever 355 00:29:37,279 --> 00:29:44,799 seen a piece of propaganda that's specifically designed to turn people into communists, the 356 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:49,240 greatest piece of propaganda I have ever seed, I feel like doctor doctor Carl 357 00:29:49,319 --> 00:29:55,880 Mack ever seen in my life to push someone to be in a full communist 358 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:57,640 or at a minimum, come on over here to be as a socialist. 359 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:03,720 It's this clip from this CEO who manages I looked up his little girdie firm, 360 00:30:03,759 --> 00:30:07,079 and I guess it's not so little. They manage of like nine point 361 00:30:07,079 --> 00:30:12,119 five billion dollars of investments, so extremely wealthy, extremely rich. But you 362 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,720 know what matters to him the most, what keeps him up at night. 363 00:30:15,039 --> 00:30:21,200 How much money you make as a worker, how arrogant you are. Do 364 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:25,319 you have respect for your employer? Do you understand that you work for the 365 00:30:25,319 --> 00:30:30,720 employer and the employer doesn't work for you. Patrons, stay tuned, we'll 366 00:30:30,759 --> 00:30:34,720 have more of a conversation after this. Everyone else patreon dot com or Slash 367 00:30:34,759 --> 00:30:40,119 the BPD Show. If not, I will see you next week. The 368 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:47,240 Benjamin Dixon Show is only possible with listener support. 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