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   Chillbilly said, 3 months ago

   Of course, his employers had NOTHING to do with maybe WANTING his pay to be cut in half. And I’m just reeling with grief for the giant pay cuts the executives in his company must’ve taken immediately after laying him off.
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   DrCanuck said, 3 months ago

   Washington is the only reason you even HAVE an economy.
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   onguard said, 3 months ago

   Government does not create Wealth, it Taxes Wealth.
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   Radish said, 3 months ago

   What’s he complaining about? Wall Street was at 14,000.
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   dtroutma said, 3 months ago

   So, onguard, what you’re admitting is that government had no part in his job being shipped overseas, or a foreign worker being allowed to take his job here, so the corporation could increase profits, and of course, CEO bonuses.
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   onguard said, 3 months ago

   @dtroutma

   No, I mean what I said.
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   Bruce4671 said, 3 months ago

   @DrCanuck

   ANOTHER wild and crazy statement. Doc you are a million chuckles.
   
   Let’s see what does the US export. Just as an idea of how much the government is the reason that there is an economy. Well the top 10 exports are:
   
   The top ten categories of exports from USA to other countries in dollar value were:
   
   1. Civilian aircraft … $74 billion, up 1.3% from 2007 (5.7% of total US exports)
   
   2. Semiconductors … $50.6 billion, up 0.3% (3.9%)
   
   3. Passenger cars … $49.6 billion, up 13.3% (3.9%)
   
   4. Medicinal, dental and pharmaceutical preparations … $40.4 billion, up 15% (3.1%)
   
   5. Other vehicle parts and accessories … $39.9 billion, down 10.1% (3.1%)
   
   6. Other industrial machinery … $38.1 billion, down 0.6% (3%)
   
   7. Fuel oil … $34.9 billion, up 124.1% (2.7%)
   
   8. Organic chemicals … $33.4 billion, up 5.5% (2.6%)
   
   9. Telecommunications equipment … $32.9 billion, up 4.6% (2.6%)
   
   10. Plastic materials … $31.6 billion, up 8.7% (2.5%).
   
   So, how many of these industries are run by the US Government?
   
   Answer “zero”. Now I’ll take a random semiconductor company of which there are many in the US. “Amkor” based in AZ.
   
   The company was founded in 1969 and has 21,600 employees worldwide (2009) and reported $2.8 billion in sales in 2011.
   
   Wrong again Doc, but I know you were just trying to tick people off with that sarcastic remark.
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   dtroutma said, 3 months ago

   Bruce; what percentage of those civilian aircraft components are actually manufactured in other countries: How many “plastics” are imported, assembled, then exported (like composite materials from carbon fiber. What percentage of “American” cars are actually manufactured in Mexico or Canada? Most of our pharmaceuticals are actually manufactured in Britain, india, or elsewhere, from US patents, and yes, by US owned companies.

   
   The real facts are that few products you list as our “exports” are really, totally made here, and it’s been talked about by Tom Friedman and others in that “flat world” of modern “business”.
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   David said, 3 months ago

   @onguard

   Wrong. Govt’s tax “income” not “wealth” The wealthy accumulate wealth while people on salary carry the load.
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    onguard said, 3 months ago

    Government Taxes Wealth one time when it is earned, sometimes there can be a delay. Dem Libs are working on a process whereby Wealth will tax annually over and over. It is done now in some European countries…………. Government does not create Wealth, it Taxes Wealth.
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    David said, 3 months ago

    @onguard

    Keep clicking those heels together. Maybe if you repeat it enough times reality will change to meet that fantasy.
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    DrCanuck said, 3 months ago

    @Bruce4671

    The larger argument is, of course, that they didn’t build that. (A quote I use in the orginal sense of its meaning before the Faux echo chamber warped its meaning.)
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    coraryan said, 3 months ago

    @DrCanuck

    EXCUSE me? Where did you take Econ. 101? Perhaps at Moscow U?
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    coraryan said, 3 months ago

    @onguard

    AMEN!
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    David said, 3 months ago

    @coraryan

    Ahh, when nothing of intelligence is available to rebut, fall back to ad hominem. Boringly predictable.
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