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Old 10-28-2010, 11:43 AM
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Talk about growing the economy by hamstringing business?

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Old 10-28-2010, 11:56 AM
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that if the Republicans gain a majority in either house, the employers will suddenly let go of all of that cash they have been hoarding, and the GOP will take credit for the increase in employment. Never mind that the stimulus program put much of that money in the companies' pockets.

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My company seems to have missed out on the stimulus money gravy train you mention, as have most. Regardless, if business activity picks up, it will have less to do with which political party is in charge and everything to do with whether or not there is clarity on tax policy and pending regulation.
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Old 10-28-2010, 11:58 AM
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Well the teabaggers say they want to take us back, back to when? To the 50s, 60s and 70s when we still had a middle class? Or to the 80s, 90s and 00s when Saint Ronnie started the war on unions and the middle class? If you don't like class warfare just remember that the Republicans started it.
Someone bump the turntable. The record is skipping again!
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Old 10-28-2010, 12:20 PM
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Business' allegiance is to the bottom line. If they think investing/hiring will improve their bottom line, they'll do it. If not, they won't. The question is whether they think a change in the House will materially impact their bottom line. Some might, others won't.

I'd be thrilled if the economy miraculously goes gangbusters after the election. You can't change the fact that both parties will claim credit or assign blame. But if people get back to work, we'll be better off for it.
Finn I am beginning to think the bailout was wrong, a damn good depression and the collapse of the big banks might just be what the country needs, might knock some sense into people.
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Someone bump the turntable. The record is skipping again!
It's the nagging truth, not a skipping turntable.

When you cut the greediest people on the planet loose to do as they damn well please, what do you think is going to happen? Think their going to start showering the rest of us with gobs of cash? Please. This makes no sense.

I tend to think they're going to screw us out of every last penny they can get their hands on, and then beg, borrow or steal to get even more. All the while trying to make us feel guilty for getting in their way. This is why they want the regulators and unions out of the way, and why "the love of money" is evil (As your Bible tells you.).----Because greed is never satisfied, it keeps going until only the most ruthless among us have everything and we end up fighting over their table scraps.

I don't understand how you can see it any other way.

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Old 10-28-2010, 01:07 PM
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It's the nagging truth, not a skipping turntable.

When you cut the greediest people on the planet loose to do as they damn well please, what do you think is going to happen? Think their going to start showering the rest of us with gobs of cash? Please. This makes no sense.

I tend to think they're going to screw us out of every last penny they can get their hands on, and then beg, borrow or steal to get even more. All the while trying to make us feel guilty for getting in their way. This is why they want the regulators and unions out of the way, and why "the love of money" is evil (As your Bible tells you.).----Because greed is never satisfied, it keeps going until only the most ruthless among us have everything and we end up fighting over their table scraps.

I don't understand how you can see it any other way.

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Really? It is quite obvious to me, he has had a big gulp of the kool aid.
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Old 10-28-2010, 02:31 PM
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that if the Republicans gain a majority in either house, the employers will suddenly let go of all of that cash they have been hoarding, and the GOP will take credit for the increase in employment. Never mind that the stimulus program put much of that money in the companies' pockets.

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don't you know they are scared to put their money back into the casino until they are sure the fix is in again?
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When you cut the greediest people on the planet loose to do as they damn well please, what do you think is going to happen?
They get elected as US Senator or Representative and empower themselves to take money away from the folks who earned it.

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I tend to think they're going to screw us out of every last penny they can get their hands on, and then beg, borrow or steal to get even more.
When you look up taxes in the dictionary, I think that's pretty much the definition.

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All the while trying to make us feel guilty for getting in their way.
Yup, this explains the treatment of conservatives and the Tea Party activist by the ruling class.

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Because greed is never satisfied, it keeps going until only the most ruthless among us have everything and we end up fighting over their table scraps.
Pretty much sums up the sentiments of those who tore down the Berlin Wall.
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Really? It is quite obvious to me, he has had a big gulp of the kool aid.
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Old 10-28-2010, 07:53 PM
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They get elected as US Senator or Representative and empower themselves to take money away from the folks who earned it.



When you look up taxes in the dictionary, I think that's pretty much the definition.



Yup, this explains the treatment of conservatives and the Tea Party activist by the ruling class.



Pretty much sums up the sentiments of those who tore down the Berlin Wall.
Do you really believe that people will be treated better with unrestrained capitalism than with laws providing a minimum wage, protecting the rights of workers to organize, preventing discrimination, establishing safety standards, and requiring employers to make contributions toward retirement income, to name just a few? This doesn't even take into account the precedence the bottom line takes over anything else - the environment, the survival of the areas where plants are located, the sustainability of a public education system, the health of its workers or neighbors, the truth of its marketing claims.

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Yup, this explains the treatment of conservatives and the Tea Party activist by the ruling class.
Oh, you mean the media conglomerate and oil giants who helped whip them up into a frenzy to do the fact cats' bidding.

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When you look up taxes in the dictionary, I think that's pretty much the definition.
"To tax (from the Latin '; "I estimate", which in turn is from '; "I touch") is to impose a financial charge or other levy upon a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a state or the functional equivalent of a state such that failure to pay is punishable by law.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxes

# : The mass noun for money paid to the government for public purposes"




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