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I'm good with it. Let's bring em in. You'll not find me paying $10 to see a movie.
See, you actually understand it pretty well. Companies want to sell you their products. They want to make sure you're willing to pay. That's why they can't outsource their CEOs otherwise they would.
See, you actually understand it pretty well. Companies want to sell you their products. They want to make sure you're willing to pay. That's why they can't outsource their CEOs otherwise they would.
You miss my point. I wouldn't pay $10 NOW to see a movie; no matter who the star.
So - go ahead - outsource it. Make it cheaper. Maybe then I would go.
GE's gains are roughly 25% more than those of the S&P500 over the last 3 years.
Way to pick your numbers to make your point. I am a GE shareholder. Have been for more than 20 years. I'm a big dog...I own 1.33/100,000ths of 1% of the company. It has been the worst-performing asset in my portfolio hands-down for the last ten years. In fact, this month, it will finally surpass where it was ten years ago and again 5.5 years ago.
Only in the last three years as you chose to use has it made a better investment than some others, IF it had been bought three years ago. Still quite a bit worse than some of my others, which are also S&P 500 companies. In the attached graphic, which are most of my holdings, the light blue line is GE, the red line is the S&P 500, green and yellow are two other S&P stocks, dark blue and purple are two conservative mutual funds.
GE's not really a big winner, here. Certainly not worthy of any big praise.
At least until you add in that a lot of companies get government subsidies, special tax treatment and bailouts e.g. autos and banks just to name a few so at least as far as your tax dollars go you don't get to choose.
Oh and you folks hate the tea party who want taxes to go down. It is quite amazing watching you liberals dancing in your swill you have created. You want to tax folks out the butt then complain about where those tax dollars go. I have an idea...............leave us all alone. Go move to France.
Oh and you folks hate the tea party who want taxes to go down. It is quite amazing watching you liberals dancing in your swill you have created. You want to tax folks out the butt then complain about where those tax dollars go. I have an idea...............leave us all alone. Go move to France.
Of course we complain. Spending is too high for taxes to be optimal.
Oh and you folks hate the tea party who want taxes to go down. It is quite amazing watching you liberals dancing in your swill you have created. You want to tax folks out the butt then complain about where those tax dollars go. I have an idea...............leave us all alone. Go move to France.
It is amazing you make all those assumptions about me. The Tea Party is for limited government and I am pretty sure the Tea Party is against the government picking winners and losers in the market which I 100% agree with. So I have to ask why do you attack me for pointing out that people who pay federal taxes don't have the option to not support companies they think are poorly run. Do you support using tax dollars from the federal treasury to pick winners in private industry? That does not sound like capitalism, but you clearly are complacent about fact that it is occurring. Is it a topic that is difficult for you do discuss in an ideologically consistent way so thus the implications about me? If not why the hostile response to someone pointing out it happens and is a problem.
You want to tax folks out the butt then complain about where those tax dollars go. I have an idea...............leave us all alone. Go move to France.
Can you show me all the times in the last 100 years when taxes were much lower? I mean, if they are "out the butt" now, they must be at their highest levels in history.
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It has been the worst-performing asset in my portfolio hands-down for the last ten years. In fact, this month, it will finally surpass where it was ten years ago and again 5.5 years ago. 
