ckm8 wrote: It wasn't Uncle Fred's hog- this shows the feudalistic outlook of the right. Everyone at that table worked for that hog. To pretend that the vastness of middle America are all a bunch of freeloaders and that only the hedgefund managers at Goldman Sachs are working hard is a breathtaking piece of wealth worship. The top 1% doesn't create jobs. Most jobs in America are created by small businesses, and those small businesses almost without exception fall in the below $250,000 of take home pay group. You guys really need to stop bending over for the top 2%- they don't do anything but hog the majority of the resources. They don't create- if anything they destroy by offshoring.
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ckm8 wrote: It wasn't Uncle Fred's hog- this shows the feudalistic outlook of the right. Everyone at that table worked for that hog. To pretend that the vastness of middle America are all a bunch of freeloaders and that only the hedgefund managers at Goldman Sachs are working hard is a breathtaking piece of wealth worship. The top 1% doesn't create jobs. Most jobs in America are created by small businesses, and those small businesses almost without exception fall in the below $250,000 of take home pay group. You guys really need to stop bending over for the top 2%- they don't do anything but hog the majority of the resources. They don't create- if anything they destroy by offshoring.
If they don't create jobs, then when they offshore jobs it shouldn't have an impact worth mentioning now, should it. It shouldn't matter if a company that only uses resources without returning anything of value takes their consumption of resources elsewhere, should it? Why, that would be more beneficial than harmful since they don't create any jobs or any other benefits and simply consume resources that the rest of us could put to better use for ourselves.
You're right ckm8, we shouldn't allow Uncle Fred to be at our table at all. History has demonstrated to us that we are all much better off when all are equally poor. We should take everything that Uncle Fred has and distribute it equally amongst all of us. Marx was right.
They buy up the small manufacturing firms and send the jobs offshore PrintSmith. These companies use the resources of the US and move their revenues and the jobs offshore. They are leeches on our society. Small businesses always have been the backbone of our economy.
ckm8 wrote: They buy up the small manufacturing firms and send the jobs offshore PrintSmith. These companies use the resources of the US and move their revenues and the jobs offshore. They are leeches on our society. Small businesses always have been the backbone of our economy.
The question then becomes one of why did the owners of the small business sell their business? Was it because they could no longer compete in the marketplace? Was it because they were retiring and no family member wished to continue the business? Was it because they were offered too much money for their business to justify turning it down?
If the business was operating profitably, and the new owners closed it down to ship the jobs overseas, why wouldn't one of the former employees of the company open up a new company and continue serving the old customers of the business? Oh, that's right, it's a little thing called capital that is necessary to start a new business or purchase an existing business, isn't it. Which is why you want to allow people with capital to keep it for themselves, so that they can invest it, rather than shipping if off to the government to be spent on individual welfare mandates. Hmmmmm. Kind of makes sense now, doesn't it.
No. It shows that you can craft a story to justify the disassembling of our economy. We already know that you are a toady of the plutocrats Printsmith. I wonder that you can claim to love the Constitution but so happily justify it's destruction at the hands of these artificial persons.
It is the meaning twisted from the text of the preamble to Article I Section 8 of the Constitution that undermines the foundation of the nation ckm8, not corporations, large or small.
Everyone within 300 miles knows that you hate the idea of promoting the "General Welfare" and would prefer a more feral nation. Too bad you weren't around to recraft that. You could have told the founders a thing or two.
ckm8 wrote: Everyone within 300 miles knows that you hate the idea of promoting the "General Welfare" and would prefer a more feral nation. Too bad you weren't around to recraft that. You could have told the founders a thing or two.
"General Welfare" does not mean redistribute wealth. If you read about our founders you would learn a thing or two.
