Video of Union President Jim Hoffa: American Businesses Are "UNPATRIOTIC"

The thought comes a bit before the 3:00 mark (and then outright admits it at the 3:47 mark), and is typical of statist thinking in this day and age:

Where did this notion ever come from that not spending (!) is unpatriotic? Remember that satire The Onion ran about the money hole being patriotic? This, sadly, is no longer parody, but union reality: