If the socialists win in 2020 is it time to unload your big tech?

[pittsflyer]

Originally Posted by bmw335xi

Sad, but true. They want you to be dependent on their programs. It guarantees your vote.


And regarding large companies, they are the ones that provide health insurance programs, retirement plans, misc benefits. It's absurd to hate companies like Google and Amazon. How many husband and wife owners give their 10 employees 401ks, etc?

Until you get laid off. These companies are not families.

[pittsflyer]

Originally Posted by bmw335xi

Yes, regulation is one thing, breaking them up is another. It used to be Democrats hated Walmart because they pay their employees too low and with little benefits. The Socialist Democrats now hate companies like Amazon who pay their employees well and offer huge benefits. It just boggles my mind how they want to control everything... you have to pay more than XXXXX but cannot pay more than XXXXXX.

They are 2 separate issues. Monopoly power is a bad thing, today Amazon and Google do good and pay well but they operate outside of the democratic system as they are private companies. What happens when a new CEO or board takes over and they wield all that economic power, they could do an enormous amount of damage to the nation.

No single company should have that much power, regardless if they are leveraging that power today or not.

Wal Mart is just a sleazy company that should be forcibly shut down.

[pittsflyer]

Originally Posted by Tall Traveler

They want you broke and suckling from the government teat so they can offer you crumbs for votes.

You mean like 50-60% of the jobs out there. I see no difference between govt and business.

[BeerGeek40]

Originally Posted by pittsflyer

They are 2 separate issues. Monopoly power is a bad thing, today Amazon and Google do good and pay well but they operate outside of the democratic system as they are private companies. What happens when a new CEO or board takes over and they wield all that economic power, they could do an enormous amount of damage to the nation.

No single company should have that much power, regardless if they are leveraging that power today or not.

Wal Mart is just a sleazy company that should be forcibly shut down.

Nice call. Shut down one of America's great business success stories, and throw more than 2 million people out of work. What other ideas do you have?

[bale002]

Originally Posted by aridon

If only people understood what the words they used meant.

Words are tools in the mouth or hand of a speaker or writer.

Neither you nor any dictionary writer has a monopoly on the meanings of words.

Yes, there are conventional guidelines, but they are constantly in motion, warped and bent.


Having said that, I do find it amusing that people become hysterical when talking heads like Ms. Warren and Mr. Sanders talk about raising marginal tax rates on the highest income earners or paying for health care premiums as a matter of taxation in a single-payer system or curbing the power of some monopolistic companies so that small/medium-sized companies can compete.

But those same talking heads are also full of contradictions that negate almost all of the few meritorious policies ideas that they talk about.

So it makes little sense and we have the hodgepodge, of words and policies, that we deserve.

It's okay, I can navigate the hodgepodge, as long as no single faction with some cockamamie ideology gains a monopoly of power.