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   scottfreitas said, about 1 month ago

   Unions need to follow the example of the Abolitionist Movement (the anti-slavery group started by Christians in the late 18th century) and declare victory, then disband. Their time is over. You read the entire platform of any labor union written prior to world War 2 and you’ll see EVERYTHING they wanted, they got decades and decades ago.

   Don’t you get it? They WON. They got everything they asked for, and tons more besides.

   Nowe they’re not helping workers; they’re only hurting them. They’ve bankrupted some of the greatest companies to ever exist (Pan Am, Greyhound, Trailways, numerous railroads and trucking companies, along with the entire air traffic controller’s industry), and they’re extremely destructive to our culture due to supporting only far-left candidates and causes.

   Why the Unions decided it was their job to push the homosexual agenda, abortion, feminism, and a ton of other leftist garbage onto their dues-paying members is beyond me. But they chose to do so, they continue to do so, and I would cheer if the RICO laws were applied to them, as they should be.

   Public employee’s unions are the major force behind the corruption and bankruptcy of both the federal and state governments, too. And worst of all, they have absolutely DESTROYED public education. Turned public schools into a mass of Godless, Marxist cesspools which only indoctinate, never educate…

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   ANandy said, about 1 month ago

   Labor Unions deny the reality that time (worth), when spent in the production of a product or service, is a marketable commodity, the value of which to be determined by each individual who voluntarily enters into an employer-employee agreement. Reward (wages) must be based on value (compensation) rather that the dedication of time spent during the production of a product or service.

   A labor contract is a pseudo-slave status, perpetuated for the benefit of union executives, who are pandered to by political operatives.

   Consumers and the body politic are the losers because of unions.

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   avarner said, about 1 month ago

   We got 4 new tires on Monday. They went up about $30 each from prices quoted a couple of weeks ago.

   The only person being punished here is the hapless consumer.

   Like ALL taxes/tariffs/penalties/fines/etc on business - they are just passed on to the customer. Along with a slight “handling charge.”

   They are paid by the guy that “wasn’t going have ANY of his taxes raised.”

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   parkersinthehouse said, about 1 month ago

   y’all all sound like the same same person person

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   Ian Valenzuela said, about 1 month ago

   Yes, that would be the patriotic thing to do. Also, the most sensible thing, to keep your dollars in America, and spend your money wisely so that it circulates within our country, which ultimately benefits you.

   Chuck Asay and the neocons: advocating policies that destroy America in order to hurt President Obama.

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   wbr said, about 1 month ago

   i am siding with wtfall china should be held to its agreements

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   ezdeb said, about 1 month ago

   Rightwingers are all for free markets until they aren’t!! Ahem corporate farm subsidies cough.

   I agree with Ian partly because I agree with him/her, but also because I like to say “valenzuela”. Great name.

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   senorbullwinkle said, about 1 month ago

   I say Rubber is the root of all Evil ! If God wanted us to have rubber why did he put the trees in South America ? God gave us Republicans for a reason.
   I suggest we use our own resources. We have more than enough Republicans, many who are out of work, and dont have health care, therefor have nothing to live for except pain and misery. Besides they’re so stupid they wont mind, If we put them to work as tires. We might not get as many miles out of them, but their heads are as hard as rocks, and would hold up well on our worsening roads. We can also use them to patch pot holes as well.

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   senorbullwinkle said, about 1 month ago

   I say wages is slavery. Any one making a wage is just a slave, and Unions are just to see that the Slaves are being treated and PAID right. It’s not the price of the wage that’s the problem, It’s the Greed of the Profit ! The Rich will put their money where they can get the most Profit. If they can get 20% on a tire business, that’s where they put their money, If they can get 20 1/2 % on golf balls, good-bye tires. although the labor cost are 20% higher. later on they’ll squeeze the Union so they can get More Profit.
   So all you people who hate the American Worker, Dont buy stuff. Be self sufficient. Live on a farm. Grow your own food, make your own clothes, and have a nice life.
   Why should us Slaves live in poverty so you can live like a fat pig, with more money than you could possibly spend in 10 lifetimes ? Leaving no possibility for a little guy to have his own business. The Rich stomp out the competition.

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    scottfreitas said, about 1 month ago

    Here’s a surprise for you lefties: I hate corporations. They are a bad idea–a failed concept.

    The reason they fail is because human nature is fallen, sinful, flawed. Corporations sound good in THEORY just as Marxism sounds good in theory. But corporations are doomed to failure for all the same reasons Marxism is doomed to failure.

    Hence, corporations always have been–and always will be–destructive to humanity.

    Notice that corporations function even in communist china? It’s because they are focused only on one thing: generating wealth, mostly for a small amount of people (CEOs, management, a few select wealthy shareholders). But just like government, they only generate wealth by taking wealth from others.

    There is no way, realistically, to get rid of corporations, granted. Because all of them are hopelessly entangled with government, and use their wealth to purchase political favors which both benefit themselves and ensure their continued survival.

    In democracies, people are simply going to have to wake up to the fact that corporations are their enemies. Corporations are focused only on sucking as much wealth out of people as they possibly can, and then concentrating the bulk of that wealth in the hands of a small, select group of people. The millions of chump-change shareholders who either earn or lose a few thousand bucks a year on shares of stock don’t matter. That’s not what corporations are about, nor what they are focused on.

    I’ll finish with this: voters must start doing everything in their power to elect people who are neither slaves to Big Government NOR corporations. Meaning the Ron Paul types… of whom there are very few currently holding public office.

    Plenty of Ron Paul types run in the primaries, and lose to the career politicians who have their Party’s money behind them. Higher voter turnout in primaries is a must. Until voters start rejecting the career politicians and electing the “amateurs”, nothing will ever change, and the corporate-government partnership which is literally enslaving our entire world will continue unabated…

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    iamthelorax said, about 1 month ago

    So people hate workers, corporations and free-trade?

    I’d love to see an example where a badly organized business with no employees that can’t sell or buy to/from anyone outside of a government enforced border became a shining success.

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    scottfreitas said, about 1 month ago

    I’m all for free enterprise and actual BUSINESS.

    It is corporations i despise. Again, as i posted above, they are a failed concept–one which always corrupts and distorts the political process to where governments end up serving only them, rather than serving actual flesh-and-blood human beings.

    A person or persons can own and operate any sized business without making it into a corporation, you know.

    Want me to show you into which orifice(s) you can insert all that fraudulent “stock” corporations issue? What happened to all the General Motors stock when the company became Government Motors and went into bankruptcy? It became WORTHLESS.

    Yet 70 years worth of previous GM management got filthy rich owning and trading that same stock. Only ma and pa shareholder ended up holding the worthless paper..

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    NoFearPup said, about 1 month ago

    Greed. It’s like the Libs say, it’s greed. But where do you stop it? To compete with foreign car companies Gm has to make cars affordable and compatible with the rest of the world. Otherwise their financial options will dry up. With government regulations little companies can’t cater to the “Big Car” market either. We either lose the government restrictions or ask for more to compete with our global competitors. If I had the money to do either(like Penske); I wouldn’t spend it either.

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    Corosive Frog said, about 1 month ago

    I must have smoked too much weed because I read a comment from scotty that remotely makes sense!

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    omQ R said, about 1 month ago

    D arn pesky, free markets, making hypocrits of us all, tch, tch.
    We wanted their markets, didn’t we? Over a billion consume…er, people. Bloody consume…people, quickly learnt to turn tables on us. The sheer impertinence. Or our arrogance, eh? ;-)

    Don’t worry, soon the world will be flater and a little fairer and we won’t have to whine so much about how unjust it all is (not that in the past we had listened to the rest of the world who pleaded with us not to destroy their markets).

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    NoFearPup said, about 1 month ago

    Yeah as soon as they move out of their chicken shacks…

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    M Kitt said, about 1 month ago

    Shakey too, Corrosive. Said the “greed” word in a negative context, amazing :-)

    And I’m not smoking, either.

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    ahab said, about 1 month ago

    I almost wet my pants. Finally a cooperative skit fit for Saturday Night Live. Priceless. Can we archive this? Thanks Senior B, crunk, Frog, Kitt. Shaky, Are you mellowing on us man? Yes, I think we can all agree omQ, we lived by Gordon Gecko’s creed,” Greed is good!” Now an unregulated free market has consumed us.

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    NoFearPup said, about 1 month ago

    It still works better than the alternative! I just don’t think they need corporate welfare. Better to give the money back to the people than to funnel it into a system that foments corruption and waste. At least , that’s what I’m wondering…The people in charge should have to make their case anyway; whether Democrat or Republican.

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    ezdeb said, about 1 month ago

    It is corporations i despise. Again, as i posted above, they are a failed concept.

    I don’t think Scottf knows that mom/pop businesses are usually incorporated, or incorporated as a LLP. If you mean only huge huge GE corporations, where do you draw the line about it? What corporate structure are you referring to Scott?

    Oh never mind. I can answer for you. Me and my kind are what’s wrong all over the world, amen, the end.

    Thanks.

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    senorbullwinkle said, about 1 month ago

    So you say you want to know what’s wrong. I’ll tell you what’s wrong,..YOU CAN’T HANDLE WHAT’S WRONG ! Were you up on the wall that night ? NO, you were happy with your little lives, with your 401 K’s, and your no money down hovel’s, While REPUBLICAN CORPORATION’S and LOBBYIST sold your miserable lives to the PRIVATEERS !
    The Bible thumper’s were right about one thing, THE END IS NIGH ! At least financially, but too bad, you’ll have to live through it, BEFORE you go to hell !

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    M Kitt said, about 1 month ago

    Senior, calm, relax, deep breaths.

    Just kidding, Jack Nicholson, Jessep, right? A few good men?

    There IS a valid thread related to GOP behavior.

    GOP is consistent, what they screw up is for “our own good” and we’re all just too stupid to know the difference, right? This is one of many right wing tactics we should all be aware of.

    Huge spending deficits tied to Iraq, taxbreaks for the richest in a bankrupt economy, bailouts for the least deserving on wallstreet, deregulation of federal lending practices leading to a housing market crash.

    Removal of constitutional protections under “Homeland Security” and “Patriot Act” provisions, removal of Geneva Conventions protections to allow for prisoner “Rendition” tactics, all for our own good, right?

    Interesting that many of these actions were accomplished using the “War on Terror” as cover, others were pushed thru during the “Financial Meltdown” we’re still trying to prevent.

    The similarity is that times of “Crisis” represent opportunity to the Corporate mindset, even the Katrina gulf states disaster was taken advantage of as a “No-Bid” Haliburton/KBR profiteering venture by Cheney and his corporate friends.

    Taken one step further (IE Cheney regarding Iraq) another worn-out statement is the one where ”National Security” depends on them doing whatever they’d like (invade Iraq), but they can’t explain the reasons for their actions because of, what a surprise, ”National Security”. In this case No-Bid WAR PROFITEERING contracts ensued, W Incorporated operating true to form. Our tax dollars going to the Corporate associates of the GOP under cover of war. Just another variation of the “for your’ own good” tactic.

    Cheney insisted during the 08 elections that only the GOP could protect the U.S. and that we’d all be sorry otherwise, this would only possibly be true if he were to keep information of impending attacks from the Dems (for our own good?)

    He also insisted that he had information about WMDs in Iraq unavailable to the public, data connecting 911 to Saddam, and now he’s on Fox disinformation network saying that extreme rendition is a good thing (for OUR own good, not theirs).

    When later events proved those statements to be false Cheney’s response was “Well, Democratic Senate/Congress went along with it.”
    Yes, because they really DID believe misleading information from that Republican administration (unfortunately) , about it being “For our own good.”

    Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine” has some interesting things to say about what she refers to as “Disaster Capitalism”, that definition applies to most of the above circumstances.

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    senorbullwinkle said, about 1 month ago

    OK KITT, I’m voting for you. I just hope you dont get to Washington and turn into one of those R.A.T.S. or DATS.

    ( republicans @ssholes talking sh!t )

    actually I’ve never watched the movie, just a couple of clips a few times. You know ” you cant handle the Truth ” of which I believe most people cant, or they realize that America has peaked. Bush put us over the edge. Our chance of returning to the top is nil. We’ll remain at the top with others for a while, but just like all the other Great societies, we’re on the down slide. It’s over. Republicans can blame Democrats, and they will, But everyone knows it’s Republican Greed and hubris that brought America down. Until we start working for America, and NOT our own personal Greed, this country is going down. And Republicans are helping it FAIL. JUST SAY NO NO NO.
    Republicans have to get over the fact, that the’re not the party of GOD. They, ..”ARE” the party of Greed !

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    M Kitt said, about 1 month ago

    Not bad, Senior. You could get a few votes too :-)

    That book, “The Shock Doctrine”, is a good read, ties those events together along with GOP strategy that takes advantage of people under panic/crisis conditions.

    If you can’t get it any other way the public library likely carries copies.

    You ever fix the Windows quicktime issue, Senior?

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    senorbullwinkle said, about 1 month ago

    Started to, but cant uninstall 2 of them. But I got other problems that might be causing problems.
    I bought like 3 DVDs (imaginova, “STARRY NIGHT” galaxy explorer) and didn’t know it was Quick time, although it wouldn’t have mattered, and found out it wont run cause Quick time is jacked up. But after taking your advice, and trying to remove QT, now when my screen go off (power saver ) it starts playing this kind of weird space music for like 20 minutes. As soon as I touch a key the music quits as the screen lights up. Just for a fraction of a second I see a screen of something I cant make out, other wise it’s back to SOS. I’m sure it’s something e-z, I’ll have to figure it out.
    I inherited this computer, and there is a disk around here with stuff I need to get rid of another program, but haven’t found it so far. Really haven’t tried hard enough to find it. Like Bush “not under here ” But things are getting to the point where I have to find it. I’ll let you know how it goes.

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    M Kitt said, about 1 month ago

    OK, check out ASSY 9/26 for some more suggestions, hope that solves it.