Video was published on March 3, 2021. 

The topic today is "What does Joe Biden get wrong about unions?"  

Joe Biden came out late last week with a short video supporting unions.  It appears it was related to a vote at an Amazon warehouse distribution center where they're in the process, over the next few days, of voting on whether they should have a union.  Biden came out, he didn't mention Amazon specifically but it appeared that he had that in mind, and he talked about how positive unions were.  And here was the shocker: he said that "Unions built the middle class."  That's nonsense. Here is what really happens unions as they are structured in the United States are backed up by the United States government if the United States government did not back them up with regulations and rules and and then naturally that means the police force is behind the union's enforcement of a labor contract, you wouldn't have the type of unions you have now it would be questionable whether you would have any unions but at this point if the workers at a company or location decide to unionize if 50% of the workers vote in favor of a union then the business is forced to negotiate and collect the bargaining with the Union even if there are some employees that would rather work without the Union now this is what Joe Biden claims cause the middle class to grow, this confrontation type of work between businesses, business negotiations, and labor unions.

WHAT REALLY BUILT THE COUNTRY?  

This is what really built the country.  The country was really built by entrepreneurs who put together land, which includes raw materials, labor, labor is important, unions are not important, but labor is important, and capital.  You put land, labor, and capital together, you can produce products, you can produce services, and that's what makes the country grow.

Now, in a free market where you wouldn't have union interference, the market would set the wages based on supply and demand.  But when a union gets in the picture and they're really backed up by the government telling the business that you have to negotiate, you have to collect a bargain with the Union, things are different because unions can cause trouble.  They can call a strike in some cases.  Depending upon exactly the reason for the strike it might prevent the business from hiring replacement workers.  But they'll set up picket lines.  They will cause people, other workers from other unions, not to cross the picket line.  So there's all kinds of trouble with the Union for a business.  So they will negotiate with the Union just to get them off their back, and this will mean higher wages.  But if it's a wage above a free market wage what's going to happen is the business May over time lay off people not higher as many people maybe close a division do all sorts of things that are not obvious and not clear so with the business is doing this that's shrinking productivity it's producing and causing fewer Goods to be produced fewer services to be provided that's what happens it's just not known very well it's not obvious to see but I'll give you a good example here in the United States in San Francisco, California or I'm coming to you from I'm friends with the general manager at a major Hotel here and he was telling me at one time that he had very very good relationships with his Union and he seemed to be proud of that then at another time before covid covid change the picture a little bit before covid he told me that they were closing down and no longer providing room service to guests in this major luxury hotel

GABY CAPLAN1: 30% of all of California's firefighters are incarcerated. The prisoners are typically felons. Prisoners make $2 per day and $2 an hour when they’re on a fire line

California says they don’t have enough firefighters to fight the Los Angeles wildfires, here’s some facts about California firefighters

California has spent more than $30 billion on fire services since 2017, yet still

- 30% of all of California's firefighters are incarcerated
-… pic.twitter.com/TsApEv0Be4

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) January 9, 2025

California says they don’t have enough firefighters to fight the Los Angeles wildfires, here’s some facts about California firefighters California has spent more than $30 billion on fire services since 2017, yet still - 30% of all of California's firefighters are incarcerated - The prisoners are typically felons - Prisoners make $2 per day and $2 an hour when they’re on a fire line - They're not eligible for worker protections - They are not eligible for worker compensation if they are injured while fighting these fires Another fun fact “As California reforms its prison system and more low-level offenders are sent home sooner, the state may have to entertain the idea of including more violent offenders in the firefighting ranks.”

WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO?? 

FREE PRESS: Over the next few weeks, you're going to see people behind podiums Downtown being like "These are our city's heroes," and I just want you to know the moment they step away from that podium, they're okay with their heroes being treated like dogs

We’re in Late Stage Empire.

Hallmark of which is a refusing to invest tax revenue at home leading to crumbling infrastructure as we wallow in corruption & bankrupt the treasury by funding endless war & military expansion.

Our Governments refusal to invest in Public works… https://t.co/9l6gfrJwNl

— Jimmy Dore (@jimmy_dore) January 19, 2025

WOAH Pacific Palisades fires update The Free Press just completed an investigation into Los Angeles Fire Department. He went to over 20 fire departments, they’re all falling apart, and “If LAFD finds out you've made any of your own repairs, you're punished” “Fire stations are falling apart and there are some that are even dangerous. Over the past few days, I've probably been to 20 firehouses and what I've seen has been absolutely infuriating.” “Most of the firemen I've talked to this week do the repairs at the stations themselves — If LAFD finds out you've made any of your own repairs, you're punished” It’s so bad “The mold infestation at Los Angeles Fire Station 112 was so bad it sent its fire chief to the hospital. He was on life support for three weeks. His leg turned black and they had to amputate his thumb.”

Look at this footage, WHAT IS GOING ON?? 

ERIC HUNLEY: It was called "Operation Midnight Climax" - and it's one of the darkest chapters in CIA history.

The prostitutes were told to:
• Slip LSD into clients' drinks
• Engage them in specific conversations
• Report their behavior
• Test how easily they could be manipulated

All while CIA agents watched from behind the mirrors. pic.twitter.com/h6TA9jggUy

— Eric Hunley (@hunleyeric) January 19, 2025

from Eric Hunley,

The operation ran until 1966. 

But the most disturbing part? 

White had no regrets. Before his death, he wrote:

"It was fun, fun, fun. Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, deceive, rape and pillage with official blessing?" 

Social Justice: What Is It?

from Tom Woods' Episode 2595, "The Myth of Social Justice," January 18, 2025.

Find Wanjiru Njoya's Twitter. Her books. Her latest,  Economic Freedom and Social Justice: The Classical Ideal of Equality in Contexts of Racial Diversity, Wanjiru Njoya, 2021.

Most people think of distributive justice when they hear social justice.  

14:48. I want to get back on the Justice thing.  I've diverted us a little bit.  A false assumption about this is that in a purely private society that we would have to pay exactly the same amount for poor relief that we're paying now, but the bureaucracy, I know for years that the statistic was at 70% of your dollar going through the federal government relief system was getting eaten up before it gets to anybody.  So only 30% is getting there anyway.   So right off the bat, it's just 30%.  Secondly, I do think it's the case that when some anonymous distant institution sends you a check with your name on it, you know, there's no shame associated with that.  I don't think you feel overwhelmingly compelled to get your act together and get off of that.  But when there's people in your neighborhood, and you know they're not doing that great either but they're pitching in for you, well, unless you're a complete and utter deadbeat, you would feel a compulsion to pull your weight, and figure something out come what may. It's interesting.  It's not to deny that people have hard times at times, but you know, as having grown up in a neighborhood where I saw one of the stuff going on, people would be out of work and then suddenly it would turn out that they weren't really out of work.  They were just being paid under the table.  And then when the unemployment benefits ran out suddenly they were employed legitimately.  My point is that the amount that you would actually have to raise to make life livable for these people is much much lower than what we're spending now.

16:40. One more point that has to do with reparations because I think it's linked to what you're saying, the way the whole reparations debate has proceeded people are assuming it'll be personally in that way.  That if you're a black person, you will somehow see that your white neighbor who is struggling more than you is paying you reparations.  That's what people imagine because they say, you know, why should a white person, who is struggling, have to pay to a black person?  But, of course, that's not what's going to happen because I used to ask the same question.  I used to say,  "Wouldn't black people feel ashamed of having reparations when they can see their white neighbors struggling?  So they're getting money.  So let's take the example of people who are getting $220,000 to buy a house.  How would you feel knowing that your neighbor has to struggle to get their house when you just got free money off them to buy yours?  But, of course, that's not how it's going to work.  As you said, they're just going to get a check from the government, so it's coming out of taxes, reparations are coming out of taxes.  It's not coming out of communities helping each other.  So it's such a good example of what you're describing