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You can thank Clinton for signing NAFTA into law. Yeah Bush1 may have had a hand in putting it together, but in the end it was Clinton who moved it forward. Same with The Patriot ACT. Bush2 put it together, and enacted it, and Obama continued it, as well as expanded it. Further proof that both parties are full of s***, and no longer represent the will of the people!
And let's not forget Carter and his CRA, which led to the housing crisis which began late in 2008 (It wasn't Bush's fault ... he just happened to be Pres. when the walls came tumbling down, but the Republicans had repeatedly warned, but the warnings landed on deaf Democrat ears; because the CRA was their 'baby,' and they were going to defend it at all cost).
"We" didn't "switch" to a service based economy. The liberal ideals forced businesses to move their businesses elsewhere, and now they are forcing even the service based economy to go away.
I know, those annoying liberal ideals of clean air & water, safe workplaces, fair wages …
Oh, please! What absolute horse manure! Why is it that you people always think "corporate greed" is responsible for all your troubles?
Get up off your butt and do something for yourself. You are what is holding you back. No corporation, no one else but YOU!
You're right. I should move to China to get one of those jobs that you righties wanted to move there so you could increase your profits.
BTW, I'm really tired of being accused of being lazy or unemployed because I advocate certain policies. Do you people really have no conception of anything outside your own little bubble, or of people who actually do?
Absolutely. Anyone who works full time should not be poor.
It's absurd that we live in a country where people working 40 hours a week are poor, and on public assistance. It's just another way we're subsidizing corporations.
What a bunch of Liberal "Progressive" horse manure! Working 40 hours doesn't guarantee anybody anything, nor should it. One only deserves what one is willing to work for, and work by itself doesn't give you any right to things beyond what your paycheck is able to supply you with. If it isn't enough, you need to do something to increase your wages.
You're right. I should move to China to get one of those jobs that you righties wanted to move there so you could increase your profits.
BTW, I'm really tired of being accused of being lazy or unemployed because I advocate certain policies. Do you people really have no conception of anything outside your own little bubble, or of people who actually do?
Then stop using the Internet, cell phone, phone, car, wearing cloth, eating food, living in a house/apartment etc. etc. etc.
All those things you do just feed into the greed of the big corporations and increase their profits.
You're right. I should move to China to get one of those jobs that you righties wanted to move there so you could increase your profits.
BTW, I'm really tired of being accused of being lazy or unemployed because I advocate certain policies. Do you people really have no conception of anything outside your own little bubble, or of people who actually do?
If it weren't for government interference, high taxes, and too much regulation, corporations wouldn't find it necessary to move some operations to China. They have to have profit. But I guess they could have instead just closed their doors and laid off all their workforce. Yeah, that sounds like a great solution to government over regulation, doesn't it? Actually, that may be where we are headed. We have seen a lot of factories close their doors because of over regulation, the most recent example is our last primary lead smelter. It finally succumbed to over regulation at the end of last year.
If it weren't for government interference, high taxes, and too much regulation, corporations wouldn't find it necessary to move some operations to China. They have to have profit. But I guess they could have instead just closed their doors and laid off all their workforce. Yeah, that sounds like a great solution to government over regulation, doesn't it? Actually, that may be where we are headed. We have seen a lot of factories close their doors because of over regulation, the most recent example is our last primary lead smelter. It finally succumbed to over regulation at the end of last year.
No, that's because of the greed of those large corporations. If not for the greed, those companies could have remained open here in USA hiring workers and providing good benefits with "fill in the blank" out of the thin air.
You're right. I should move to China to get one of those jobs that you righties wanted to move there so you could increase your profits.
BTW, I'm really tired of being accused of being lazy or unemployed because I advocate certain policies. Do you people really have no conception of anything outside your own little bubble, or of people who actually do?
What..you think China is like the US in welcoming illegals ?
Sadly you're stuck here.
No, that's because of the greed of those large corporations. If not for the greed, those companies could have remained open here in USA hiring workers and providing good benefits with "fill in the blank" out of the thin air.
The big multinationals like Coke are making their profits from the new middle class in emerging nations.
How do you plan to stop that "greed" ?
No one forces you to buy their stuff.
Forget those companies. Those jobs are not coming back.
You're going to have to rely on your nanny government to support you now.
This offshoring started over 50 years ago.
People didn't seem to care because it was always someone else's job that got off shored.
Then stop using the Internet, cell phone, phone, car, wearing cloth, eating food, living in a house/apartment etc. etc. etc.
All those things you do just feed into the greed of the big corporations and increase their profits.
Such a silly strawman.
Inviting them to balloon their profits from merely gigantic to positively obscene by killing unions, weakening environmental laws and inviting them to move their jobs and profits offshore does that. And I'm sure you, like all other righties, approve heartily of all of that.
So don't blame me. I'm not a corporate worshipper. I'm just someone who remembers a time when companies made excellent profits AND supported a healthy middle class, and therefore knows it's completely possible. Just not while you slavish corporate worshippers are running the country.
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