Would You Buy a Car from Chrysler?

Huh??? The more absurd the UAW workers salary is then the more the purchaser pays for the end product. It does make a difference.

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Miles
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And by the same token, you think the local garage and dealership that you pay $80/hour for labor puts all that in the mechanic's pocket?

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News

Examples of where I created a troll thread? There are none.

Except I don't do any of that - if I did, you'd be supplying examples, and the fact is that without lieing, you can't provide examples.

So let's discuss the issues instead of using Nathan Thurm diversions.

Pick a recent subject and tell me where I'm wrong. Choose from the following:

(1) Did I lie when I said that union rules won't let GM implement cost savings with their suppliers if such cost savings would involve eliminating workers from GM or Delphi's assembly lines?

(2) Will cap and trade not drive much of remaining manufacturing jobs overseas and/or just eliminate those jobs?

(3) Is card check (someone standing over the worker while he fills out his card) not an abomination to freedom for workers freely and without coercion and without implied threats of retaliation making a decision on whether to unionize?

(4) Are union leaders (for steel workers in particular) not selling their workers down the river by their helping campaign for cap and trade (which will actually lose jobs for union and non-union alike) as payment to Obama for him pushing thru card check?

Or pick another valid topic. (Key word *valid*. For example, the topic of comparing what a dealer charges for putting a part on vs. what a union worker gets paid at the plant for the same procedure is not a valid topic - that's a slam dunk in that your an idiot for equating the two - and for doing so more than once.)

BTW - yes, peter pan/jiff - I know who the troll is here (nice try, calling *me* the troll, but that is one of the trolling tactics, is it not?), but I'll play along for a little bit.

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Bill Putney

When did you ever stop trolling?

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News

Since UAW ends up with 55% ownership of GM after the last deal, I'll call bullshit on anything you have to say from this point on regarding GM and it's Unions. At the current time, GM is essentially an ESOP and if it continues to lose money then UAW only has UAW to blame.

cap and trade won't work unless the entire world participates, everyone knows that. Because of this, it's nothing more than a political football.

Multiple studies have been done that prove pretty conclusively that the so-called "secret ballots" that are done to vote on unionization are secret in name only. Employees can alway use a variety of means to "de-unionize" if they want under the NLRB.

The fact of the matter is that unionization fights are dirty on both the side of the unionizers and the side of the employers opposing unionization. The current system for creating a union is very easy for management to undermine and the penalties for firing employees involved in unionization efforts are hand-slaps only. Card Check pushes more power back to the unionizers but keep in mind that the SINGLE MOST POWERFUL THING the employer can do to defeat unionization efforts is to simply raise salaries.

Furthermore the largest sector to be affected by unionization drives is RETAIL not manufacturing. Retail generates no products and is, in fact, more of a drain on the economy than you would think - a large part of the cost of a product you buy in retail has gone to pay the lease on the building (which is then used to pay a mortgage on the building by the building owner) and is effectively being sent to those very same banks which caused the recession to start with. The more wages are raised in retail the quicker people will turn to online buying and the quicker that the strip-malls and mega-malls will turn into dinosaurs and disappear. If anything, it would help the US economy greatly to have the retail sector shrink and the money and labor currently being dumped into retail, be dumped into manufacturing and creating actual products, not just moving them around.

The gap between the highest-compensated members of a company these days and the peons is the largest it's been in the last 50 years. That alone should tell you something.

cap and trade is like abortion with the Republican party, it is used to stir up the party faithful but nobody running things has any serious intent to do anything about it.

OK, I will. Please explain the cause of the 2008 depression and why it was a good thing that George Bush attempted to solve it with 2 separate stimulus measures, the first the "stimulus checks" mailed out to every taxpayer last year, the second the stimulus bill that he dragged congress back to sign right before the election last year - and why it's a bad thing that Obama is doing essentially the same thing this year.

Oh I forgot Putney's Rule: if a Republican does it, it's a GOOD thing, if a Democrat does the exact same thing, it's a BAD thing.

Ted

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Ted Mittelstaedt

Are you still an alcoholic, and do you still beat your wife?

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Bill Putney

By the way Bill do some research on average wages of UAW versus Non UAW. It not the amount per hour its the other thingls like benefits and retirement that makes the difference.

As far as union and non union jobs around here the non union locations get paid more then the union locations and have the same benefits. Why to keep the union out. Big difference is the union locations have better safety records. I can't be forced to paint lines in the parking lot because the plant is not running for schedule maintenace.

One reason that OSHA is in business is because workers unionized and demanded safety.

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Licker

I understand the benefits and retirement part of it. I think some people feel that that's part of the problem. Do you have some links to union vs. non-union wages in apples-to-apples jobs. I would be interested in seeing that.

Different people would argue whether that's good or bad.

I didn't quite understand where you said "I can't be forced to paint lines in the parking lot because the plant is not running for schedule maintenance". Can you explain that? Are you union or non-union? But still, I didn't quite understand what you're saying there.

Thanks.

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Bill Putney

Bill wrote: "I understand the benefits and retirement part of it. I think some people feel that that's part of the problem. Do you have some links to union vs. non-union wages in apples-to-apples jobs. I would be interested in seeing that."

Here is one look

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"I didn't quite understand where you said "I can't be forced to paint lines in the parking lot because the plant is not running for schedule maintenance". Can you explain that? Are you union or non-union? But still, I didn't quite understand what you're saying there."

I am Union. I have a job description and if the company wants to change it, it has to be negotiated. Having just went through negotiations and as a member of the negotiating committee, all we heard was how poor the company was doing and they want us to give up 17 union jobs. Such jobs as painter, insulator, warehouse clerk, and fugitive emissions inspector.

Yet the very first company proposal on their list of demands was give up to

1.50 more per position if you know multiple jobs in an operating unit. This directly cost the company a couple of million dollars. The second proposal was to give recognition pay up to 8 percent of one's base pay, and the last thing was to eliminate 17 jobs.

All this after the gave us a hour long poor financial outlook for the company and plant.

Basically, the UAW benefited from years of a profitable auto industry. The UAW negotiated what they thought was their fare share of the profits. The workers only wanted their share of the pie just like the CEO. Since the auto industry woes have started the UAW has renegotiated their contracts giving up concessions so that the wages plus benefits would come closer to the non union plants.

By the way not all union members back the democratic party despite what upper union management pushes.

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Licker

Even buying online has one layer too many. E.g., if I buy something from amazon or buy.com, they take my money, pass on an order to Ingram Micro or some other distributor/wholesaler, who ships the item to me from their nearest warehouse with the amazon or buy.com name and address as the shipper. Amazon and buy.com never even see the item they are "selling" me. I have sometimes thought of buying things in bulk and reselling them at a profit on eBay, but then it occurs to me that this is fundamentally immoral. What service am I providing the end users that entitles me to financial compensation? I think I am beginning to understand why a few centuries ago "trade" -- as distinct from craftsmanship, as in producing something -- was something to be looked down on.

How did we arrive at these multilayer distribution chains: manufacturer

-> distributor -> wholesaler -> retailer -> end user? What service deserving compensation do most of these entities provide?

Perce

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Percival P. Cassidy

Nope, but if the shop has to pay lug nut turners $25/hr then I'd pay more than $80/hr shop labor.

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Miles

That happens at some companies and is why many employees vote against unions. Mostly in states where unions aren't strong such as Arizona.

But even in heavy union areas the lowest paid unskilled union worker makes FAR more on average than the same at a non-union shop. It's even worse when you add in all the perks and benefits.

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Miles

Which isn't always a good thing. Salary shouldn't be based on how much a company makes. You want that then buy some shares of the company. Salary should be based on what the work done is worth. Furthermore, I don't hear unions voluntarily taking massive pay cuts when a company loses money but they'll yell loud in an up year.

Now I do agree with companies that have a profit sharing program that gives out bonuses etc. Especially if its tied to a workers contributions and not across the board.

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Miles

You'd be providing the service of sparing the purchaser the need of buying 10,000 widgets to only get one.

Each layer provides the layer below with the opportunity to purchase smaller quantities than the layer above, and the layer above with the opportunity to deal with fewer customers than the layer below. The retailer may also provide the end user with extra information regarding manufacturers (and you'll notice there is a correlation between not offering this extra information and offering a lower price).

The wholesaler doesn't want to deal with my purchase of a single welding hood. I don't want to buy a gross of them and be stuck with 143 that I don't want.

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Joe Pfeiffer

But in the case of my order to buy.com for one "Super Whiz-Bang Gizmo," Ingram Micro (or whoever) ships just one of them to me. Buy.com gets a special price not because of the quantity they are buying but because they are buy.com and I am just me.

Or suppose I go to Barnes & Noble (the "bricks and mortar" store) looking for a book. They buy pallet-loads of some titles, but I have peculiar reading tastes and they don't have in stock what I want, so they special-order it for me -- and still get their discount of 40% or so. In addition, they get paid up front and they don't have to provide shelf space while they wait for customers to buy out the pallet-load of some other title.

Perce

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Percival P. Cassidy

So you ARE arguing with a straight face that a unionization drive will get 50% signatures on cards when the employees and the employer don't want a union.

You really have a problem with your paranoia. Get help! :-)

Consider that the employees who publically state they don't want a union are going to get 100% support from their management and the ones saying they want a union will be blacklisted, it IS preposterous to make the claim that an employee who really doesen't want a union is going to remain silent. He has NOTHING to gain by remaining silent, and an ENORMOUS amount to gain by speaking out against the union.

The reality is that in a secret ballot system the results always have MORE people voting in support of the union than were willing to publically sign cards saying they were in support of one.

Yes they do, read the rules, Bill. A number of companies have been sued in the past by failing to carry out the election even after being ordered to do so by the NLRB. Foot dragging on holding the election is one of the primary tools to fight unionization drives.

Do you know how much money the CEO of Walmart makes? How much the Walton family makes? It is nothing but a pack of lies to claim that the company would lose money if it was unionized. They would still make money, just slightly less of it. And in exchange wages would rise for their employees which have a beneficial effect on the community the businesses are in.

Don't you understand why it is that so many people are pissed at Walmart for coming into communities and destroying all the ma-and-pa stores? Why so many communities have fought to keep them out? It is because they come in, undercut the small stores, the small stores go out of business, and all their employees come to work for Walmart at minimum wage. Then tax revenue goes down in the community and the community goes to hell.

Then people cannot understand why it is that 10 years later nobody in the country can afford to buy cars or homes anymore and the car makers are failing and there's tons of foreclosed homes all over the place.

When manufacturing leaves the United States because of cheap Asian imports, retail is about all a lot of these communities have left to provide jobs. And if the retail is paying minimum wage, the communities get bled dry. That's why cities like Buffalo NY, and Flint MI are such hell-holes today and many have entire communities of homes that have sat abandonded for two decades. Essentially the entire community ends up full of poor bluehairs surviving off their social security checks, and Medicade-funded hospitals with a small crust of rich doctors in the community.

If the CEO and owners of the businesses are working alongside the employees and making a REASONABLE amount of money - I'll be generous and say, 20 times what the average peon makes - then I have no problem with that. And you know something Bill? If you read the case studies of companies where the workers succesfully de-unionized, that's exactly what you find.

Card check legislation isn't going to affect these companies.

The companies it's going to affect are the ones where the CEO's and owners are making 250 times the amount a line worker makes, and have golden parachutes that guarentee them tens to hundreds of millions of dollars EVEN IF the company loses money.

GM and the Big 3 and the UAW are a special case, and do not represent most unions and union employees in the country. And at any rate, GM is UAW's problem now. Frankly, it's been many years since the last of the founding owners of GM died, and GM as a corporation has made the argument "what's good for GM is good for America" so many times in the past, while sticking it's snout into the public trough, that the company should have been handed over to the UAW

20 years ago. Let the UAW fight amongst themselves to figure out how to sell cars profitably and make wages they are happy with. I won't shed any tears for them. In any case, card check isn't going to do squat for UAW anyway since they are fully unionized. Card check will help the rest of the unions who don't have penetration in their industries.

If a candidate for the incumbent was allowed to closet up all the voters for 6 hours before the election lecturing them about the advantage of voting to keep things the way they are.

There you go, forgetting about Bush's 2 stimulus handouts. So, your grandchildren are gonna only be paying for Obama's handouts? Did the magic money fairy pay for Bush's handouts? Drop those Republican talking points for a moment and use your mind.

Since McCain voted for the Bush stimulus I highly doubt that he would NOT have done another stimulus after he was elected. Conservatives just need to face the facts that we tried 28 years of trickle-down starting with RayGun and the economists have universally concluded that it is an utter failure. Trickle-down is voodo economics, even Bush Sr. knew that.

I'm not saying the stimulus is perfect. But this idea that we are going to just toss all regulations on every business is utterly foolish and is the real problem.

No not at all. What I want is for if the majority of workers in an industry want to be unionized that they get to be.

The only reason that Walmart could get away with shedding all the meatpackers in the Texas example is that Walmart successfully intimidated the rest of the employees and the entire store and chain didn't unionize. If it had, Walmart would have been forced to work things out. And if the rest of the retail sector had unionized at the same time then customers would not be able to go run down the street to some undercutting competitor and put Walmart out of business.

I don't mind it if employees get paid minimum wage IF the prices of stuff in the economy that they need to buy are low. If bread cost 25 cents a loaf and milk 50 cents a bottle, and everything else was similarly priced, then I'd agree that the unions don't have any place anymore.

But instead what I'm seeing is entire communities where the majority of jobs in the community ONLY PAY min. wage, or a few cents above it, and everyone in those communities is living in hell-holes. Not every commuity is like that, of course, but way more than should be. And in the meantime the owners of these companies are literally rolling in money.

If you read the wikipedia entry for card check you have read all the pro and con arguments so there's no point in rehashing them here. I will merely point out that when a professor points out that rising wages are a good thing for the economy, HE is tenured and HE has nothing to gain or lose either way. By contrast when the head of Walmart makes claims that unions are bad, he's motivated by his own personal self interest. So I don't really put any stock in that.

You wanna argue economic theory, go ahead. I'll argue with you. But you better use logic to support your points, not quotes from some chamber of commerce.

That's not how modern business works and you know it, Bill. If all or even most consumers out there were educated consumers and spent wisely, then companies would be forced to compete with each other on the basis of how good their products were, not on how well they are marketed. But instead the business world is saturated with examples of inferior products putting companies that make superior products out of business due to the snowball effect of marketing dollars. That drags down the quality of life for everyone, even for the minority of educated consumers.

The people on top of things are largely there from luck. You cannot seriously argue that people like Nardelli know how to run Chrysler, hell -I- could do a better job than he did, hell YOU could do a better job than he did. Geze, Home Depot fired his ass as far as they could when he screwed them over, the guys flat out incompetent. He was probably screwing the sister of one of the Cerebus board members to be put on Chrysler.

No I mean the Republicans like Phill Gramm who inserted a 250 page rider into the 11,000 page "Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000" two days after Bush was elected, on the very day Congress was recessing for the holidays. That rider was later dubbed the "Enron Loophole" and it allowed the unregulated trading of subprime mortage packages, which fired off the economic collapse we have now.

You see, Bill, Freddie and Fannie WERE regulated until Republicans convinced Bush for the first time in history to use the federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to pre-empt all of the state lending laws that had outlawed predatory lending by these banks. All 50 state banking superintendents fought these rules but Bush prevailed.

No, that is not the truth. It is a Republican talking point that is a big lie.

The Community Reinvestment Act didn't cause the housing meltdown, what caused it was the large number of ARMS issued that adjusted upwards after the housing market start to go south.

You understand the concept of a snowball dolling downhill, or the concept of a vicious circle, don't you?

What we had is a classic bubble of people in the early 2000's who were jumping into home-flipping in a huge way. The typical scenario was buy a decent family home for $200K and add a bunch of fripperies then resell it for $400K to some empty-nester who was selling their $200K home. The flipper used zero-percent loans to hold on to the home and that worked as long as the housing market was hot.

Then prices went up too far, and the supply of ignorant/lazy/uneducated empty nesters with money burning holes in their pocket got used up, and the prices started to fall. The second they did, the flippers caught out on the floor when this musical chairs game stopped were all underwater and they all walked away from their so-called "investments" so the banks took them back and wrote them off and themselves collapsed. And since these ARMS were all bundled up in securites, the investors that financed this nonsense saw their portfolios heading for the toilet and they paniced and pulled what money they had into commodities speculation. That drove gas prices to 4 a gallon as well as food prices and killed consumer spending, and another related whammy was all these idiots buying these overpriced homes were using home equity loans to finance cars, furniture and other nonsense and when the value of their home dropped, the equity lines all were shut down by the banks, and consumer spending ended up starved.

Do you actually know what the 2007 default rate of loans made in, let's see, massasschuetts banks that were under the CRA was? I'l tell you. ONE POINT EIGHT PERCENT. compared to FIVE percent for all other types of loans.

The scapgoating of the CRA was a desperate attempt by supply-siders to cover the real reason for the crash - the lack of regulation of financial institutions. Thank God that we didn't elect McCain, we now have a chance to put some regulation on the banks.

The idea that the Democrats were somehow anti-regulation of banks is a myth.

no

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define "socialism" other than the definition your using here which is "everything I don't like and don't understand"

The Social Security Administration is a socialist government bureau. Wanna get rid of it? I'm young, Bill, I'm still working and I got another 30 years at least of paying into the damn thing. I'll be more than happy to stop doing that now and send the money into a

401K

baloney.

Then why did Bush styme all the states from regulating their banks?

The states know better than some dumb bureaucrat in Foggy Bottom what scams the banks are engaged in, they should regulate them.

I've seen the youtube vid your referring to and it's lifted out of context. Unless your willing to spell out all of the connections like I did here, all your doing is throwing biased talking points around.

I'll give you that one. But, I didn't see conservatives voting against Bush or other Republicans in large numbers for the 200 or 2004 elections. They chose to stand with the RINO's and that's what matters.

Now that they are out of power the "real" conservatives that you seem to think aren't Republicans can have a chance to clean up the Republican party. Go to it! You can start with Rush aka Addict Limbaugh.

the evangelicals that want to violate the constitutional separation of church and state are just one of the many stinky fish in the Republican party. I personally feel that they are the worst, however, far in excess of the compromised RINOs.

I'm sure you are. I think that Obama is well aware of that danger, though. I certainly will freely admit that not all of his people are. We will have to see what happens here.

Yup, anti-regulation. as in no regulations on the banks. Good, good.

They would pay either way. If no stimulus was done the depression would be far worse. Did you know that for a while there they were talking about letting money markets collapse but at the last minute the government stepped in and stopped that? That would have been rich. money markets are the only accounts in most 401K's that specifically have NO risk. I guess someone realized at the last minute that if we allow all the 401K's to be completely defaulted then we might as well put everyone on the dole.

Read up on the Great Depression. It wasn't until the government pumped a lot of stimulus money into the economy that the economy started to recover. WWII completed the recovery, but today, we don't have the luxury of starting another war.

Equating torture of a single guy over a period of a few days, who has a small amount of easily verifyable information to the systematic torturing that was going on for months and years at Girab and Gitmo and other CIA secret prisons we don't know about is rediculous. Espically when so many of them were never charged and let go after they figured out that they didn't know anything.

Don't kid yourselves. If McCain hadn't selected a bimbo for a running mate he would have won. He nearly did. You don't realize how many people are out there who voted against Obama simply because he is black.

If it had been an old white guy up against McCain, then McCain could have promised everyone free ice cream and he still would have lost.

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Ah, OK that one I see. Basically what we have here is wanting to create an excuse we can use to apply tariffs to cheap Chinese steel. They don't give a rip about the environment, they just want a way to block free trade.

Ted

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Ted Mittelstaedt

So just buy it from Ingram Micro for the buy.com price. Oh, ingram micro would rather have a relationship with buy.com and ship to whoever buy.com says than set up an order page on their web site and deal with the individual orders? That's the service buy.com is providing.

So buy straight from the publisher. Oh, the publisher would rather send an occasional onesy-twosy order to a store that buys by the pallet-load than deal with the end customer on all their sales? See above.

I'd be very surprised if B&N makes any money on the special orders. That's a service they provide to keep your business; they make their money on the pallet-loads of books.

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Joe Pfeiffer

Sure am. It's not freely voting when someone is standing over you watching how you vote. I said that and you are ignoring it. I'm finding your arguments to be quite dishonest.

Do you not understand the concept and the value of "secret ballot"? I don't think you're that stupid.

Then you know nothing of union retaliation and thuggery. Like I said - you're not that stupid. There is a reason we have secret ballots. Don't pretend you don't understand that.

That's funny. And that's why all the unions and the politicians who are owned by unions are pushing so hard for "card check" - to put the unions at a disadvantage?

Then that should be addressed as a separate issue. Like I said - two wrongs don't make a right. When violations occur, then prosecute. But don't fix it by taking away the right to a secret ballot.

I believe in the free market. You don't. How much money the Walton family makes has nothing to do with the principles involved.

Do you know how much money George Soros makes? Do you know how much money Barbra Streisand makes? Do you know how much money Teresa Heins-Kerry makes? Do you know how much money professional athletes make? Do you know how much money famous actors make? What are you proposing? To create a special tax and confiscate their personal property because they make more money than you think they should?

I do not believe in redistribution of wealth. You do. When you do it beyond a certain point, those who have the ideas and are willing to take the risk to lose everything with the hope of profiting, when faced with the fact that if they *do* succeed, that what they get from their success will be confiscated (it will be called taxes, but it will nonetheless be confiscation and theft), then they will quit taking the risks, and all progress will start. That experiment has been done many times and fails ever time.

So you want to outlaw WalMarts? Is that it?

I don't think WalMart caused all that.

You just described a socialistic society in which the liberals drove all business offshore and then have to force more socialism to "fix" the problem. IOW - we need more of what caused the original problem to fix the problem.

We're about to go the next step with that with cap and trade - and all based on false science. The march to European socialism continues.

Then great - they should voluntarily do that. But to legislate it is not people operating in a free market.

I object to card check on principle. I know that principle means little to people these days. All people these days care about is mandating and legislating to get a desired result - free will and fundamental principles be damned.

I'll believe you are sincere when I hear you pusing to have George Soros's and professional athletess money confiscated and redistributed by legislation. Again, it would be a violation of principle.

And you just contradicted yourself. At the beginning of this post you said "The reality is that in a secret ballot system the results always have MORE people voting in support of the union than were willing to publically sign cards saying they were in support of one."

So which is it. Or do you argue out of both sides of your mouth depending on what the specific point you're trying to make at the moment is?

Then fix that part of the problem. Don't fix what you consider a violation of one right by violating a different right. That's just stupid.

You're so FOS. You are putting words in my nouth. I was including the TARP money too. Your dishonesty never stops.

And about your "Republican talking points" b.s. - that's just a diversion to keep from staying on the topic. If every Republican says that stop signs are reds and shaped octagonally, that does not meant that stop signs are not red and not shaped octagonally.

That's just a liberal talking point. (see what I mean?)

Fact is that cutting taxes increases what gets collected in taxes. Overall wealth increases.

No - proper regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddi Mac would have been a good thing. Again, you're putting words in my mouth.

But not by secret ballot. And I don't buy your claim that secret ballot results in more people voting for unionization and having a union thug stand over you while you vote causes more people to vote against unionization.

Having trouble following that, but freedom is always the answer.

So we go to socialism and redistribution of wealth and the government micromanaging businesses and the economy. Sorry - disagree on principle.

Oh really? Well, the answer is not the government micromanaging everything - that is what got us where we are. With what the socialists have in mind, it will be what you described to an extreme. Been proven many times.

So it's not good enough that card check is wrong on principle. Because the Chamber of Commerce says the stop sign is red and octagonal, the stop sign couldn't possibly be red and octagonal. I get the picture.

You ain't seen nothin' yet. Let's see what Obama's Chrysler comes up with in the way of viable products that the consumer is just clamoring to buy. The thing that drags down the quality of life for everyone is the government micromanaging every aspect of our lives. Wait until we have cap and trade.

So who would you have make those decisions of who "lives" and who "dies"? Who decides how much money Soros or Streisand or you or me keeps? And based on what - political ideology?

The more free the market is allowed to be, the less gaming of the artificial restraints there can be.

Research how Raines made 90 million in 6 years by gaming the Fannie Mae system based not on free market rules but by artificial crap created by government. Then come back and tell me what's wrong with the system.

Then we disagree on that.

Research the bundling of toxic debt. CRA was a huge factor.

People who had no business getting loans for houses they couldn't afford got loans for houses they couldn't afford - period.

I don't know - but I highly suspect that you're cherry picking your information.

You mean like that the Democrats wouldn't allow proper regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddi Mac?

B.S.

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Nice try. You and I both know what socialism is.

And your point is...?

That's a liberal talking point.

Non-sequitur

Instead the bureaucrat forced them to make loans that regular good business practices would have said not to do.

B.S.

You do yourself a dis-service with that kind of statement.

To you the whole Constitution is a Republican talking point.

The Constitution does not say what liberals like to imply what it says about church and state by the use of the loaded phrase "separation of church and state".

I dare you to quote what the Constitution says on the subject and then show how it says anything like what you and the liberals claim it says.

Basically you and they are FOS on the subject of what the Constitution says on that.

We've covered that already. You're dishonest.

Are you talking about the billions that mysteriously poured out of money markets within a couple of hours in September that the press doesn't talk about? Who was behind that? Soros?

That would have been rich. money markets are the

The stimulus money prolonged it. WWII ended it. I know - Republican talking point. Thought I'd say it before you did.

You are ignorant on the subject. A bombing in CA was stopped because they waterboarded the guy. They only had hours to prevent it. So now, if a similar situation would happen again, hundreds or thousands would die. Thank you President Obama.

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And of course *NO-ONE* voted *for* Obama because he was black, did they. Orders of magnitudes more than voted against him for that reason.

Again - you do yourself a dis-service by such comments against Sara Palin. Why is it liberals always do that when they disagree with someone? Seems like they can't let their arguments stand on their own.

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Bill Putney

He's a troll. Why validate his posting?

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News

Funny thing though peter pan/jiff - Ted's statement is a lie. He always says things like that and never acknowledges when I continually prove otherwise.

Also - I'll put my history on this ng up against yours any day. I am generally engaging in technical car discussions. The only time I go political is when trolls such as yourself, who do nothing but talk politics, say stupid things (frequently) that need to be challenged.

I also notice that when it comes down to actually discussing the issues, you get into name calling and insults - never willing to actually discuss the issue. Funny thing about that - that's what trolls do.

Has Obama negotiated the Taliban out of Pakistan yet? They declared Sharia law in the region they took over this week. Nice, eh? And did you hear that, with a straight face, he is asking Israel to give up its nuclear weapons. You can't make this stuff up.

Anyway, you have a wonderful day, peter pan/jiff.

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Bill Putney

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