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Yes...exactly in that sense.
Posted at July 6, 2008 1:42 AM in response to Taking the High Road: Not Everyone Feels a Need to Squeeze
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I was bored...in his/her defense the tone of our specific discussion was much better than it usually is.
Posted at July 5, 2008 11:20 PM in response to Taking the High Road: Not Everyone Feels a Need to Squeeze
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LOL...for some reason when I think of Justice Marshall the "I know obscenity when I see it" line jumps to mind.
Thurgood Marshall was a legal giant, trailblazer and inspiration for many. It has been 15 years since his passing (Where does the time go? I remember that day, sadly, like it was yesterday) but his legacy will live on for as long as America does.
Posted at July 4, 2008 10:45 PM in response to Happy 100th Birthday, Thurgood Marshall
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No I am not blinded by 'a ridiculous ideology' but I am surely not gonna accept your pro-business framing of the issues.
Nice talking though...
Posted at July 4, 2008 9:12 PM in response to Taking the High Road: Not Everyone Feels a Need to Squeeze
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No I generally don't get my info there. But in that specific case art really does imitate life.
Posted at July 4, 2008 8:46 PM in response to Taking the High Road: Not Everyone Feels a Need to Squeeze
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I am not anti-capitalist offensive. But our system isn't a capitalist one. It is now corporatism. I am anti-corporatism though.
Again you put far too much 'faith' in the players to 'do the right thing'. It is not a self adjusting system in terms of equity as much as anyone would like to believe it is. It is not me, but you, who is the 'Utopian' if you believe the players in the markets will do anything but act in a totally self serving way.
BTW...I think China, and others, are operating within the 'free trade' system with nationalized industries. So I don't know how much leverage 'Chinese entrepreneurs' will ever have in that case.
Posted at July 4, 2008 8:44 PM in response to Taking the High Road: Not Everyone Feels a Need to Squeeze
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It had been a nice discussion, surprisingly, up to this point offensive. Now you seem to be reverting to your usual 'ad hominem' mode. Which usually seems to happen when the discussion doesn't go your way.
Ever see the movie Other People's Money? Very rarely do shareholders or corporate leaders suffer even when their company does bad. Righteous indignation? Self pity? I don't think so. Just the reality of how our economy operates.
Posted at July 4, 2008 8:21 PM in response to Taking the High Road: Not Everyone Feels a Need to Squeeze
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I guess on this point we'll have to agree to disagree. I don't see it as an equitable trade-off.
I still see it as one group of workers being hurt more severely than the other group of workers are benefiting. And the difference is being pocketed...by someone.
You speak of 'middle-men'. This is just another example of what is wrong 'free trade' in its present form. When different economies are each allowed to play by a different set of rules the system becomes fatally flawed.
Posted at July 4, 2008 8:15 PM in response to Taking the High Road: Not Everyone Feels a Need to Squeeze
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They struggle too
LMAO!!! Excuse me while I wipe the tears from my eyes from laughing so hard. The poor downtrodden multinationals? ROLF!!!!
And of course workers would want to make as much as they could...nothing anymore corrupt than corporations wanting to make as much as they can. Yet the multinationals rights are protected but not the workers. In fact the workers of different countries are played off of one another to keep wages lower than they should. 'Take what we are willing to give you or your job will be sent to______' (fill in the country of choice's name).Posted at July 4, 2008 7:56 PM in response to Taking the High Road: Not Everyone Feels a Need to Squeeze
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It is very simple offensive. The decrease in wages being paid to US workers vis-a-vis 'offshoring of jobs' is not being fully offset by increases in wages paid to Chinese and Asian workers. Hence more profits being made while being shared less equally.
No 'conspiracy' theory. Just simple math.
Posted at July 4, 2008 7:40 PM in response to Taking the High Road: Not Everyone Feels a Need to Squeeze
