anhailla

WHEW...

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Kanadesaga

You know I don't get the Harvard MBA mumbo jumbo. Let's see how higher taxes accomplishes things like universal health care. See: Europe. Let's see how spending 7% of what we currently spend on "defense" would accomplish. Let's see how we could become stronger if we had the appropriate priorities.


Yes we are paying more, getting less and this is a good thing? Because this is the system you advocate right now. corps pay a fraction of they taxes they should. Yea 35% I know.

And when people have minimum wage jobs they can't buy extras, like gas and food in the same month! Much less disposable income to invest in the market and get rich like everybody else.



Let's talk how American workers have been fucked by all that legalese Harvard MBA mumbo jumbo! all in the name of the holy stockholder.
And what are consumers left with?

They get to buy cheap Chinese made shit from WalMart!



dude I am a socialist, protectionist, America first type guy. and if we had our shit together, we could be that "shining example on the hill" to the rest of the world. and accomplish more to spread freedom than a thousand Iraqi invasions, no matter how good for business they are.

But you wouldn't serve your master; PROFIT.

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Jonesy

Americans reward failure, yet expect success. If the party benefits from terrorism, voting for them means more terrorism.

Comicsartist

I wasn't trying to pigeon-hole VK, for your info. I was simply trying to get some back up info out of him. See if he had any evidence to back his claim. He apparently does not, and just felt like saying Obama will be seen as a humanitarian for Africa simply based on his color.

Sorry to disappoint you but he's pigeon-holed himself with his statement.

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DanS.

Europes transformation has come on the heels of very serious market reforms...most notably the easing of trade restrictions, labor laws, taxes and govt. programs. I'm not a harvard MBA by any means....and yes I do agree that we need to drastically cut spending especially on defense....but what you're advocating is "punishment for the sake of it....saying that there needs to be a high tax rate on corporations, not because the money would be needed after the defense spending is cut, not becuse it's the best thing for the economy, but out of hatred


A fraction of what they should? Is that based on a gut feeling? I just typed an entire post about what happens with reasons to back it up

Granted.........and...........




but still...you're still saying you would throw everything out the window to exact you vengence on corporations...screw everything else.....

I'm an America first kinda guy too in the sense that I want greater prosperity on a whole for America...we just have different ways of accomplishing the same goal......

Mine just happen to be based in reality

VKMHVM2

Obama has family in Africa. Is that about race? Is everything about race with you people?

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xav8terx

Only when it can be used against you. It's ok when they make blank statements..weird, i know. Must be the

cheapseats

A society will get more of whatever turns a profit. That includes private security, foreclosures, disease, divorce, war, death and unhappiness...note the booming "self-help" industry.

The American GOVERNMENT rewards failure. Americans reward crime and celebrity...note Wesley Snipes' new booze endorsement.

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ibex

This isn't about hindsight or the popularity of lawn darts during our Wonderbread years. I've always found the paradoxical admiration that many American supply siders hold for China, a Communist police state which regulates speech and thought but allows certain sectors of its command economy to run amok, the ultimate proof of their myopia and short term thinking. The few Chinese elites who've actually embraced raw capitalism are simply acting out the way manufacturers did in the 19th and early 20th century, also known as the good ole days to so many free marketeers and right wing religious kooks. It should come as no surprise that a country with no concept of human rights would have no consumer protection. China only stops selling their shitty products to the West when it gets caught and called on it. All the lead painted toys and anti-freeze laced toothpaste remains for sale in their domestic market. Add to that an American trend in Federal government where people who were once at odds with the Consumer Products Safety Commission while in the private sector are now running the agencies themselves with rules designed to curtail any protective influence, all in the name of almighty profit. It's not the consumer who counts today, it's the shareholder. Unbridled capitalism leads ultimately to the few getting rich at the expense and misery of the many, no matter how cool you think Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand fucking are!

Kanadesaga

No, I think corporations should pay for exporting jobs out of the country. I think they should treat other countries as our own and use the safest and cleanest technologies when they do employee in other nations. I think they should pay their fair share of taxes, not hide them in off shore company accounts and that bullshit. I think their employees should get health care before their CEO gets that next million dollar raise. Call me silly.




You typed economic Theory.


Nevermind Profit is god. Nothing and no one else matters, just the holy stockholder.




The consumer has been screwed fopr a long time, so has the American taxpayer. But fuck them, right? Profit is god, all hail the holy stockholder.





So how's your reality? Mine and millions more sucks. $4/gal gas, $3 gal milk. Mortgage foreclosures, etc etc etc

In my reality, corporations, like UBS and their gov't criminal accomplices, like Phil Gramm, are responsible for most of the bad shit happenning right now. Oh that's right, Profit is god, all hail the holy stockholder.

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