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The Nuclear Retaliation Association has been conceived to defend the sovereign right of every nation on the planet to engulf that planet in a hellish inferno. If you join today, we will waive the initiation fee and send you this bumper sticker: “Nuclear weapons don’t kill people. People kill people who don’t have nuclear weapons.” They’re going fast, people.
The word seems to get less loud because Lisa’s hearing is tuning out. The conservatives haven’t done a thing for jobs in 20 years. The just want the money.
Also, a comment about the description of Ms. Benson; ‘a snifter of Bill Mauldin/" Really now, having read Mauldin’s autobiography, seen his cartoons, the only connection between Mauldin and Benson is that they are both political cartoonists. Mauldin was what is today described as a (gasp!) liberal!
How about an original thought rather than a quick re-spin… Make peace, NOT war…..My “original” thought. Non-lethal defense. Build, do not destroy. It can be a wonderous future, if WE desire. Adrian
To TRY to tell the truth , I do not think that Liberals nor Conservatives know how to “create” jobs… Strangely enough, if they were to work together, maybe some jobs would result… That our jobs have gone overseas is obvious, but why have they ? Wages are a huge factor, and CEO compensation.. Reduce these, both of them, to where they should be…. We have tried to reduce one, but not the other. Why ? Is there anyone here who can discuss this ?
1) The reason jobs went and stay overseas is twofold. Cost of labor and repatriation taxes. Our cost of labor, especially with the idiotic idea of raising minimum wage to $9, is what is incentivizing the exportation of jobs and importation of raw materials or finished goods. Why pay an American (after all is said and done) 15 an hour (that’s minimum wage after taxes, etc) when you can pay an Indian worker 15 a day? Or a Chinese laborer 10 a day? It’s pure economics. That’s the reason our steel industry went belly-up: it was cheaper to ship the raw material to China, have it smelted there, and have the finished materials brought back by ship (including losses from containers falling overboard) than it was to pay $40 per hour for steel workers (40 is after taxes and other stuff).
The repatriation taxes is an issue because businesses have to pay taxes in overseas profits to their host countries, and then pay another 35% when they bring those leftover profits home. Why on earth would they do that when they can just build more productivity overseas? They have 2 trillion dollars overseas waiting to be used, and they aren’t bringing it back here because of the predatory taxation the federal government imposes.
As to the CEO compensation, I’m actually in pseudo-agreement with you there. Do I believe one man is worth 50 million a year? No. But I do not agree that the government should dictate how many any one person is paid; it should be based on the stockholders, the consumers, and the general public. Government has no place in defining what a business can pay its owner.
Not being a liberal and running a small biotech business, I have created jobs. I don’t live in my mom’s basement, I am responsible and I work hard, but I am supposed to help pay for the idiot son who decided to take “Ancient Lesbian Belgian Studies” in college and wonder why they aren’t getting 100K a year.
Mix a snifter of Bill Mauldin, a dash of Jeff McNelly and a very large dollop of common sense, and you begin to get an idea of Lisa Benson’s considerable talent.
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Comments (54) (Please sign in to comment)
wmconelly said, 3 months ago
The Nuclear Retaliation Association has been conceived to defend the sovereign right of every nation on the planet to engulf that planet in a hellish inferno. If you join today, we will waive the initiation fee and send you this bumper sticker: “Nuclear weapons don’t kill people. People kill people who don’t have nuclear weapons.” They’re going fast, people.
greyolddave said, 3 months ago
The word seems to get less loud because Lisa’s hearing is tuning out. The conservatives haven’t done a thing for jobs in 20 years. The just want the money.
narrowminded said, 3 months ago
^^Bigotry is alive and well in the Progressive left.
ghostkeeper said, 3 months ago
@narrowminded
Bigotry? Or an understandable reaction to the bigotry of the conservative right?
ghostkeeper said, 3 months ago
Also, a comment about the description of Ms. Benson; ‘a snifter of Bill Mauldin/" Really now, having read Mauldin’s autobiography, seen his cartoons, the only connection between Mauldin and Benson is that they are both political cartoonists. Mauldin was what is today described as a (gasp!) liberal!
Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago
Dems have no clue what a job is. Bill Clinton was confused about jobs interns should be doing.
Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago
He never actually said he was focusing on jobs for Americans, did he? He just said ‘jobs’.
Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago
The only job O has ever been interested in is being President. Everyone else can suck eggs.
Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago
Why isn’t O’s nose growing? It should be as long as the national debt by now.
zoidknight said, 3 months ago
@greyolddave
No we have, but the democrats and liberals have made it their job to destroy jobs.
Adrian Snare said, 3 months ago
@narrowminded
How about an original thought rather than a quick re-spin…
Make peace, NOT war…..My “original” thought.
Non-lethal defense.
Build, do not destroy.
It can be a wonderous future, if WE desire.
Adrian
Adrian Snare said, 3 months ago
To TRY to tell the truth , I do not think that Liberals nor Conservatives know how to “create” jobs…
Strangely enough, if they were to work together, maybe some jobs would result…
That our jobs have gone overseas is obvious, but why have they ?
Wages are a huge factor, and CEO compensation..
Reduce these, both of them, to where they should be….
We have tried to reduce one, but not the other.
Why ?
Is there anyone here who can discuss this ?
moderateisntleft said, 3 months ago
@ghostkeeper
I think she wrote that herself…
Wraithkin said, 3 months ago
@Adrian Snare
Actually, yes. I’ll address both for you.
1) The reason jobs went and stay overseas is twofold. Cost of labor and repatriation taxes. Our cost of labor, especially with the idiotic idea of raising minimum wage to $9, is what is incentivizing the exportation of jobs and importation of raw materials or finished goods. Why pay an American (after all is said and done) 15 an hour (that’s minimum wage after taxes, etc) when you can pay an Indian worker 15 a day? Or a Chinese laborer 10 a day? It’s pure economics. That’s the reason our steel industry went belly-up: it was cheaper to ship the raw material to China, have it smelted there, and have the finished materials brought back by ship (including losses from containers falling overboard) than it was to pay $40 per hour for steel workers (40 is after taxes and other stuff).
The repatriation taxes is an issue because businesses have to pay taxes in overseas profits to their host countries, and then pay another 35% when they bring those leftover profits home. Why on earth would they do that when they can just build more productivity overseas? They have 2 trillion dollars overseas waiting to be used, and they aren’t bringing it back here because of the predatory taxation the federal government imposes.
As to the CEO compensation, I’m actually in pseudo-agreement with you there. Do I believe one man is worth 50 million a year? No. But I do not agree that the government should dictate how many any one person is paid; it should be based on the stockholders, the consumers, and the general public. Government has no place in defining what a business can pay its owner.
Jeff Kiser
said, 3 months ago
Not being a liberal and running a small biotech business, I have created jobs. I don’t live in my mom’s basement, I am responsible and I work hard, but I am supposed to help pay for the idiot son who decided to take “Ancient Lesbian Belgian Studies” in college and wonder why they aren’t getting 100K a year.