Oh and btw...no party for me this weekend workerbee. I had a guy quit on me last Friday with no notice so I get to work tomorrow (8 hours) and an all day 12 hour shift on Saturday. I just wanted to let you know I didn't forget about the invite I extended...just other stuff reared its ugly head. :(

Posted at July 3, 2008 11:15 PM in response to Nader for President!

It just gets my hackles up like little else. Seriously Wal-Mart has been allowed to crush their retail competition by selling cheaply made products made by foreign workers who get paid pennies in comparison to our workers, forcing us to only be able to buy the crap and we get to hear "well you buy the stuff, don't ya?". Again...BRILLIANT!!! All we get out of the deal, other than cheaply made crap, is a staggering trade deficit with China and lost good paying US jobs. But Wal-Mart's stock holders and the Chinese government are doing well. Then all the newly unemployed US workers, after being forced out of their decent paying jobs with benefits, get to work for minimum wage at Wal-Mart with no benefits...jobs as crappy as the products they sell. Great deal for America, huh? And all in the name "free trade". The markets will take care of all, right? When the rich make money and we all benefit, right? I guess we are being told "the benefit" for us is being able to buy cheaply made crap from overseas that breaks in a week and a half...if it doesn't injure or kill ya first. Again...BRILLIANT!!!

Gotta love the high IQ guys and their schemes.

Posted at July 3, 2008 10:18 PM in response to Class Warfare and the New Gilded Age

I agree Don. No turning back now. If he tries the issue will haunt him all the way to November. As it is I think it will haunt him all the way to November.

Posted at July 3, 2008 9:45 PM in response to Nader for President!

If they can be. I Agree with Don Key, I don't see how he can back away from the position he has now staked out on FISA.

Posted at July 3, 2008 9:43 PM in response to Nader for President!

Yeah I hear you Purple State. I kept hearing "he doesn't want to tip his hand (or a similar cliche) for the general election campaign" about his lack of specifics. Now I see the genius of it...he didn't want to tip his hand to Democratic primary voters. The perfect "stealth candidate".

Like I said on another thread...he might have second thoughts about opting out of public financing. If he thinks that his new found positions, where he abandons his core supporters who represented the lion's share of contributions, will be excused he is sorely mistaken.

And all if would have taken to have avoided this problem is something like this;

"I will not support the FISA compromise. While protecting America's security is of paramount importance it can and needs to be done within the law. When elected I will pass legislation that will ensure America's security is protected without violating American's 4th amendment rights."

But instead we got..."this compromise is the best that can be hoped for so I will support it."

Posted at July 3, 2008 9:41 PM in response to Nader for President!

It si that way because the rich have rigged the rules of the game by buying politicians who pass laws to help them loot more of the wealth from our economy. And I will say "yes it is the fault of the wealthy people". And you don't know shit about my business. Me and my competitors are in a price war trying to squeeze every last cent out of this miserable economy. Now if we were all large corporations all we would need to do is unfairly (and uncompetitively) crush the competition, limit marketplace options for the consumers, fix prices as high as we want and rake it in. If this economy worked on the same principles me and my competitors do health care and gas would be dirt cheap. Our markets are not free. Free market capitalism my ass...it is just an exercise in corrupt profiteering.

Again I can tell you have never worked a real job in your life. I imagine you get paid well to shill for the wealthy. Don'tcha?

Posted at July 3, 2008 3:05 PM in response to Class Warfare and the New Gilded Age

I really try not to...but I am given no choice. I have avoided Wal-Mart like the plague up to now. But since I had to drop my health insurance, due to the fact that my business is way off because my customers don't have the money they used to have to spend with me and my premiums went up 30%, I now get my prescription drugs for my type 2 diabetes through Wal-Mart and their new generic drug program. But again that is because I have been given no choice. But you fail to recognize this. You can't pick option 'B' when the only choice you're given is 'A'. We are given no choice but to buy overpriced cheap shit made abroad.

Your wealth based arrogance is breathtaking. Next please tell me to 'go eat cake'. Would ya? Please?

Posted at July 3, 2008 2:35 PM in response to Class Warfare and the New Gilded Age

Hmmmm...so there are no US corporations willing to invest in the US economy? Even with all the money being made by hedge fund managers and speculators? None of them are American I take it? Where is that money going then?

Hey buddy can you spare a dime?

Posted at July 3, 2008 1:50 PM in response to Paulson Begging in Moscow

And, yes of course...IQ should always be the determining factor about what somebody is paid.

If you are 'dumb' and have to do manual labor or have an unskilled job you deserve to live in poverty, have no health care and die at least 20 years before the average American. It makes so much sense now that I think about it that way, Mein Fuhrer. And if you are smart, paid well and lose your job because it sent overseas...that means you are in reality dumb and got what you deserved!!! BRILLIANT!!!!

Posted at July 3, 2008 1:40 PM in response to Class Warfare and the New Gilded Age

Hmmmm...let's see.

Warren Buffet: There is a problem with our economy with the rich winning the class war none of the rich ever want to acknowledge.

offensivetoyou: There is no such problem with the economy, it is working just fine.

Who's view do you think I am gonna put more stock in? I am waiting to hear how Buffet is just a commie loving, socialist anti-American jerk. I am expecting him to start getting the 'Soros Treatment" any time now. God knows if a person doesn't support the rights of the rich to not just get rich from American workers but to mercilessly exploit them right into poverty you are an anti-American commie.

Very nice post Mr. Greenhouse. Thank you for your fine summation of our economy reality.

Posted at July 3, 2008 1:19 PM in response to Class Warfare and the New Gilded Age