Thanks to Trump, corporations are getting massively richer while you're getting poorer

 Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

Fox never met a Corporation whose ass it couldn't kiss

No mention of profits, weird https://t.co/AwJJTiYwYd

— Susan J. Demas 🏔 (@sjdemas) May 24, 2024

Republicans = Nazis

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emaycee

 

Greedy gougers

JUST THE FACTS: Kroger's profit was up 35.6% from '22 to '23, and Publix was up 49% from '22 to '23…

That's why Food prices are so high!

Corporate Greed run amok!

— Jeras Ikehorn (@JerasIkehorn) April 7, 2024

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

Even more journalistic malpractice

Memo to the media: Please don't say inflation is at a 40-year high without also mentioning that corporate profits are at a 70-year high. Give the people the full picture.

— Robert Reich (@RBReich) November 3, 2022

Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

 

Steal a lot and they make you a king

19 companies on the Fortune 100 list paid little to no federal income taxes last year.

In the case of AT&T and three other companies, some even paid less than zero in federal income tax.

Meanwhile, corporate profits hit a 70-year high in 2021.

Corporations are looting America.

— Robert Reich (@RBReich) April 26, 2022

Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

 

Graph violence

 

Republican = Traitor

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emaycee

Don't think it's "maybe"

ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, and BP earned more than $75 billion in profit last year. Those record profits have continued this year. Maybe this has something to do with gas prices. 🤔

— Rep. Val Demings (@RepValDemings) April 13, 2022

Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

 

Greed is not good

Meat prices increased by double digits.

Tyson’s CEO says they’re asking customers to “pay for inflation.”

Meanwhile, Tyson’s posted $1 billion in profits last quarter — a 48% increase from the first quarter of 2021.

Don't be fooled. This is about corporate greed. It always is.

— Robert Reich (@RBReich) April 12, 2022

Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

 

What's wrong with this picture?

While 64% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. https://t.co/UADmRvIqul

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) March 31, 2022

Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

 

Their greed is obscene

Corporate greed is Amazon increasing its profits by 75% last year to a record $35 billion, denying workers a $3 raise, illegally underpaying drivers and blaming a $20 price hike in a Prime membership on "inflation" while Jeff Bezos became $81 billion richer during the pandemic.

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) March 20, 2022

Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

 

 

Who's fooling who?

"Biden is causing rising gas prices!"

Exxon raked in $23,000,000,000 in profit last year.

Shell raked in $19,000,000,000 in profit last year.

Chevron raked in $15,600,000,000 in profit last year.

BP raked in $12,800,000,000 in profit last year.

— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) March 10, 2022

Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

 

I second that emotion

Instead of energy bills going up, may I propose energy profits going down?

— Jon Trickett MP (@jon_trickett) March 11, 2022

Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

 

Here in the real world

Jim Cramer predicted this week that corporate profits would be so huge that companies would be embarrassed not to give raises this year--hell, you won't even have to ask for one, they're going to be giving raises to everybody.

Ha, ha, ha, hee, hee--that Cramer, what a hoot.

Here's how it really works anymore:  once a year, it's raise time.  If the company feels like giving you one, you get one.  If the company doesn't, you don't (this would be most years).  It has absolutely nothing to do with corporate profits, your unit's profits, your job performance, your evaluation scores, or what the company can afford.

And you do not ask for a raise--that would be far too gauche for most executives to have to deal with.

This is not new--I'd venture to guess it's been like this for the last thirty years, excepting that up until about a dozen or so years ago, yearly raises were more likely.

Not particularly surprising that Cramer is completely clueless, though--he does, after all, work for a TV network that specializes in business news but somehow managed to be caught completely unaware when the economy collapsed in September of 2008.

Peace,
emaycee

Corporate fail, ad infinitum

Like many states, the state of Michigan has turned its prison food distribution over to a private company, in our case, Aramark Corrections.  In what I'm sure comes as a great shock, Aramark has poved grossly inept in its handling of the food distribution for Michigan's prison population.

One thing it illustrates for certain, though, is that if you want to guarantee that American taxpayers pay more for worse service, you'll turn public run systems over to the private sector.

There's absolutely nothing these folks can't fuck up ten times better than our average citizens.

Peace,
emaycee

Feeding the rich while we bury the poor

There were two reports in the past couple of weeks that have really stood out for me:

• In a big surprise, corporate profits rose to an all-time high of almost $1.7 trillion (that number looks like this:  $1,700,000,000,000) in 2013.  In another big surprise, despite a 25% increase in productivity, wages are growing at the slowest pace since the 1960s.
• Over 50 million Americans, or 18.9% of us, were food insecure last year.

The incongruity between the two reports is striking, don't you think?

It also reminded me of this from a recent article from Thomas Frank, of What's the Matter with Kansas? fame:

“Inequality” is the most basic issue of them all, the very reason for liberalism’s existence. It is about who we are and how we live. Virtually every other liberal cause pales by comparison. This is the World War II of political subjects, and if we are going to win it must be a people’s war...."

Who we are and how we live...from his pen to the Liberal Gods' ears.

Peace,
emaycee