Comments on: Americans Go Into Spending Rehab

By: peter j

peter j — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:24:24 +0000

Has it dawned on anyone that…We should be glad that failure is an option. That’s what happens in a free society. it’s ok. it’s part of learning. Without failure…we would have no freedom. Duh.
Oh, you want responsibility?? Try ..if you pay taxes…you get to vote. if not your of course free to live here…just not to dictate to taxpayers how to spend the money. That ihncludes fat cats who avoid taxes ..no vote. As well as the paper boy who does..he gets to vote. If you support society you get a voice in the fiduciary responsibilities. What a concept!

By: Cybergeezer

Cybergeezer — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:24:15 +0000

The use of sarcasm, directed at liberals and Democrats makes them think you’re one of them.

By: Cybergeezer

Cybergeezer — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:19:57 +0000

Sorry Kurt; My bad. Speed reading, not speed comprehension.

By: myth buster

myth buster — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:16:23 +0000

Unions are parasites. All they are good for is intimidating workers into handing over a cut of their wages and intimidating employers until they can’t afford to stay in business. Why do you think membership is down to 12%? It’s because my generation understands that unions are not looking out for anyone but the union bosses. They will take your money and use it against you.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:16:40 +0000

“Put your life in the hands of the Messiah and all will be well. Hallelujah!!

See, I knew you couldn’t resist — despite the very clear anti-Obama statement in my last paragraph.

Bush had 8 years to fix all those things. Why didn’t he?

Re: unions, they currently represent a whopping 12% of American workers. So let’s say we de-unionize completely, and those 12% consequently receive a pay cut and reduced benefits. This will help the economy how?

By: Cybergeezer

Cybergeezer — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:19:44 +0000

14. Kurt:
It takes people like you to elect an Obamanation;
And some one like you couldn’t start a business without a huge Small Business Loan, and continued assistance.
You’re inexperience shows, but you shall suffer the consequences with the rest of us.
Never knew small business and enterpreneurs were your friend, did you?

By: Cybergeezer

Cybergeezer — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:12:13 +0000

I can’t wait ’til “We The People” see the article; CONGRESS GOES INTO SPENDING REHAB. (I can daydream if I want to.)

By: john from cinncinatti

john from cinncinatti — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:38:36 +0000

when i die i’m taking all my stuff with me! 2 or 3 thousand years from now when they dig up my grave they are gonna say this must have been royalty, cuz they buried him with a whole lot of shit. 3 or 4 giant U-haul trucks behind the hearse, i’m good to go. or sell it all at the swapmeet and bury me with a check.

By: Bill N

Bill N — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:55:14 +0000

Kurt:

I couldn’t agree with you more:

The liberals’ environmental policies (e.g., no nuclear power) had no effect on our dependence on terrorist-owned foreign oil.

Their policy of setting wages based on union extortion rather than increased productivity had no effect on exporting jobs to China.

Their policy of redistributing the working people’s money to the layabouts had no effect on the willingness of the workers to keep on working, to say nothing of exerting themselves further. Neither did it cause any sort of banking crisis when they demanded that the banks participate in massive wealth redistribution on pain of being called racist if they insisted on fiscal responsibility.

Their policy of open boarders did not cause millions of illegal immigrants to flood the country, drinking our water, overwhelming our medical system, demanding free services from our educational, police and fire services. This massive influx of slave labor did not take away any jobs from Americans because Americans would rather take welfare handouts than work for low wages.

Oh, no, it was not the Democrats’ fault. Not at all. It was Bush’s fault. Down with capitalism! Socialism is the way to go! The government knows best. Put your life in the hands of the Messiah and all will be well. Hallelujah!!

By: kastaco

kastaco — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:26:25 +0000

# 1 Valerie

Your talking about the “Wal Mart” effect. Wal Mart squeeses their suppliers to the bone. In fact, Wal Mart demands their suppliers sell to them at a loss in some cases (i.e Rubbermaid). Wal Mart then pursues effiency in the supply chain with religous fervor, and is able to keep consumer prices cheap and sell huge volumes with low marginal profit. Since Wal Mart sells such a huge volume, many companies have been grown to supply that volume so the chioice is to meet the price demands or shut down. To do this many companies will make identical products that have been significantly cheapened (Remington Fire Arms) or will move to China for cheap labor or both. Alas many other retailers have began to buy an Wal Mart prices and sell and up scale prices. Also, I agree that NAFTA and other free trade agreementsw are flawed Wal Mart and other retailers are also responsible for the loss of manufacturing jobs