Did Reagan kill small business?
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green
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I agree with what you said 100%. Shut them down and they are all screwed. BUT, I care about their economy as much as they care about ours. We need to take care of America first. Then we can worry about other countries.
We are headed down a path that will end with a few corps owning everything (which will be in essence, socialism) and revolution being the only way out. I don't think this will happen anytime soon, but we are at a crossroads, where we can take a step back on both sides and fix this. BUT, both sides have to give.
We need more regulation. Also, we need unions to fix themselves. Both sides need to actually start working for the little people instead of pharm companies, wall street, or oil tycoons.
Unless both sides shape up, we are screwed.
green
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♪alt13
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When will we the people realize we are being played. While the politicians have the people squabbling over gay marriage and abortion they are subsidizing the transnational corporations systematic destruction of American industrial capacity. The GOP doesn't give a **** about free market principles and the DNC doesn't care if you die poor.
green
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BINGO.
Best post yet. Why doesn't anyone wonder why big companies/wall street/oil donate to both the left and right? Because they are all pushing the same policies.
green
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BINGO.
Best post yet. Why doesn't anyone wonder why big companies/wall street/oil donate to both the left and right? Because they are all pushing the same policies.
♪alt13
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I'll just say that Bush signed a similar deal with china in 2000(pretty sure it was 2000)
green
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LOL. Like when Bush started the bailouts and Obama just continued them. Or how Romney backed the healthcare plan that would eventually shape Obamacare.
They are fighting against each other. They get us squabbling about stupid, irrelevant topics then pass the same legislation.
It's what I call the teeter-totter to hell. We think things are swinging back and fourth but it's all part of the same ride.
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@Green -
You ask some good question in here. They are questions that need to be raised, and re-raised. I wish I had more time to give a detailed post, but I only have time to address one thing that hasn't been brought up.
ONE reason there isn't a push to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US (of the textile, Nike, Apple variety) is that Americans are, in large part, unwilling to do this kind of work. Then, of course, there is the increased wages, but I won't get into that.
The literature that really dives into the willingness to work comes out of Italy. Check out the operismo stuff. We fought for and sorta won our liberation from the doldrums of factory work... for better or worse.
If you look at the history of capitalism in the longview, you see that one reason the frontline of production shifts (from England to the US to China) is that the labor force is, in some sense, exhausted. Capitalism promises increasing returns. There's always the dream of an automated, work-free existence. Infinite toiling is not acceptable.
You ask some good question in here. They are questions that need to be raised, and re-raised. I wish I had more time to give a detailed post, but I only have time to address one thing that hasn't been brought up.
ONE reason there isn't a push to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US (of the textile, Nike, Apple variety) is that Americans are, in large part, unwilling to do this kind of work. Then, of course, there is the increased wages, but I won't get into that.
The literature that really dives into the willingness to work comes out of Italy. Check out the operismo stuff. We fought for and sorta won our liberation from the doldrums of factory work... for better or worse.
If you look at the history of capitalism in the longview, you see that one reason the frontline of production shifts (from England to the US to China) is that the labor force is, in some sense, exhausted. Capitalism promises increasing returns. There's always the dream of an automated, work-free existence. Infinite toiling is not acceptable.
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...was really glad to see heyhey take the necessary shot at Clinton.... who just finished the job that Reagan started.