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re: Baltimore Orioles Executive VP Speaks Truth: US Elite Class Has No Loyalty
Posted on 4/29/15 at 8:50 pm to hipgnosis
Posted on 4/29/15 at 8:50 pm to hipgnosis
The problem is Democracy.
A strong centralized dictator-style govt, you wouldn't have corporate money buying elections and lobbying for favorable laws, etc.
Democracy needs to end so our business leaders are forced to be loyal.
A strong centralized dictator-style govt, you wouldn't have corporate money buying elections and lobbying for favorable laws, etc.
Democracy needs to end so our business leaders are forced to be loyal.
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Posted on 4/29/15 at 8:53 pm to deltaland
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They have a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to maximize profit.
Which is a problem.
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Maybe if our corporate tax rate wasn't the highest in the world,
This is a red flag for ignorance. As stated by others in the thread.
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taxes them out of the arse
Some of the biggest pay zero income tax. And are catered to by the government in which they control.
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. A scale back of regulations and entry barriers would lead to more local, small businesses that are more loyal to their local economy.
You're actually making my point but you're not smart enough to realize it.
Large corporations want entry barriers to be tough, and they want regulations that only they can comply with to keep new comers out of their market space.
Posted on 4/29/15 at 8:56 pm to Stir of Echoes
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It's easy to blame things like Unions when you only eat what your spoon feeds you.
95% of you get your opinions on the world by talking to like minded people and listening to the pundits that fit your opinions on how the world should work.
The ability to think independently is almost 0% around here.
It's shocking really.
Stirs wit Dickoes gon skool us 'bout independent tinking!
Posted on 4/29/15 at 9:21 pm to scrooster
You're the ringleader of "everything I say is gospel because I read it on some hack job facist website" around here, so I'm not shocked that I struck a nerve with you.
Posted on 4/29/15 at 9:45 pm to Stir of Echoes
Not to mention that the NAFTA agreement under the Clinton administration was pro-business and a giant dick up the arse for everyone not in an elite status.
Posted on 4/29/15 at 10:08 pm to hipgnosis
Competition is a bitch ain't it? Guess companies should operate at a loss for the good of the slobs in Baltimore?
Posted on 4/29/15 at 10:19 pm to Aubie Spr96
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Competition is a bitch ain't it? Guess companies should operate at a loss for the good of the slobs in Baltimore?
If you're serious, you're not worth the response.
Exploitation is not competition.
Posted on 4/29/15 at 10:23 pm to scrooster
Mizzou confuses me. We get 808, semi, and kills. Love them. Then we get hipmotiger, miz_cou, and this crap lord.
Posted on 4/29/15 at 10:24 pm to 3nOut
What do you disagree with from the VP's comments?
Posted on 4/29/15 at 10:33 pm to dead money
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NAFTA
It's a protectionist agreement.
It has virtually nothing to do with free trade.
This is very well understood.
It allows a company like GM to be treated like a Mexican citizen/business in Mexico, while not allowing the same the other way.
It allows a corporation to sue the state if the state takes measures that interfere with profits -- so if Mexico wants to change their environmental laws, US corporations can sue them for disrupting future profits.
The entire notion of it being a 'free trade agreement' is totally false.
It takes the intellectual class to bring this stuff to light -- the shitty thing is the true intellectual class is totally omitted from mainstream culture.
This post was edited on 4/29/15 at 10:47 pm
Posted on 4/29/15 at 10:42 pm to hipgnosis
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That said, my greater source of personal concern, outrage and sympathy beyond this particular case is focused neither upon one night’s property damage nor upon the acts, but is focused rather upon the past four-decade period during which an American political elite have shipped middle class and working class jobs away from Baltimore and cities and towns around the U.S. to third-world dictatorships like China and others, plunged tens of millions of good hard-working Americans into economic devastation, and then followed that action around the nation by diminishing every American’s civil rights protections in order to control an unfairly impoverished population living under an ever-declining standard of living and suffering at the butt end of an ever-more militarized and aggressive surveillance state.
Why did these jobs all of the sudden go overseas?
Did corporate America just one day decide to screw the American worker for no reason whatsoever or was there a catalyst? There has to be some reason that it was magically cheaper to send labor overseas than continue with the American working class.
Do the Orioles have any non-Americans playing on their team? They would be robbing a hard working American from their job.
Is the unfairly impoverished state that way because their employer doesn't pay them enough? I'd hate to see how impoverished they'd be if there wasn't somebody to sign their checks.
I can deconstruct every sentence, but you wouldn't understand.
Posted on 4/29/15 at 10:44 pm to 3nOut
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Did corporate America just one day decide to screw the American worker for no reason whatsoever or was there a catalyst? There has to be some reason that it was magically cheaper to send labor overseas than continue with the American working class.
You're not worth the response.
And I don't feel bad about saying that.
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Do the Orioles have any non-Americans playing on their team?
You're a legit idiot. Truly.
Posted on 4/29/15 at 10:51 pm to hipgnosis
Yet, people laugh at you and say,"Hipgnosis. Didn't read"
I've never been banned.
I've never had to make a another account.
I don't think the government made the Twin Towers implode.
I don't condescend to every post that doesn't line up with my worldview and accrue massive downvotes.
I think I'm good here
I've never been banned.
I've never had to make a another account.
I don't think the government made the Twin Towers implode.
I don't condescend to every post that doesn't line up with my worldview and accrue massive downvotes.
I think I'm good here
This post was edited on 4/29/15 at 10:52 pm
Posted on 4/29/15 at 11:00 pm to 3nOut
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Yet, people laugh at you and say,"Hipgnosis. Didn't read"
Never seen that, but I'm sure that could've happened.
Odd comment to make when that's clearly not something that happens often, or in any of the threads I have going right now.
Almost as odd as asking if the Orioles have any non-Americans on their team. I mean, honestly, only a severely simple minded person would think that has any relevance.
This post was edited on 4/29/15 at 11:05 pm
Posted on 4/29/15 at 11:29 pm to deltaland
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our regulations weren't so excessive
Like child labor laws, weekends, and minimum wage?
Posted on 4/29/15 at 11:37 pm to 3nOut
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Did corporate America just one day decide to screw the American worker for no reason whatsoever or was there a catalyst?
You can get Bangladeshi 8 year olds to make Old Navy polos for practically nothing. Like legit slave labor.
Can't really do that in the U.S. anymore. Damn regulations!
Posted on 4/30/15 at 12:12 am to Stonehog
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Can't really do that in the U.S. anymore. Damn regulations!
Goddamn Unions! If only we didn't have them so we could let our kids work 16 hour days for 50 cents a day.
This post was edited on 4/30/15 at 12:13 am
Posted on 4/30/15 at 12:17 am to Stonehog
Who the frick shops at old navy? You're a poor ill-dressing motherfricker if you're shopping there.
Posted on 4/30/15 at 12:40 am to Rebelgator
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poor
I see what you did there
Posted on 4/30/15 at 5:12 am to hipgnosis
That's BS, most not all but most are doing it to survive. In the 90s the government failed to protect the American manufacturing.
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