Tempted, yes. In Somalia it's for real.There are always other means to the same ends.
“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
H.L. Mencken
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So when women entered the workforce, companies cashed in because 2 income households don't need full time wages for both. Eventually it just becomes the norm.
FedEx contractors can get drivers for $12/hr. How messed up is that?! Around here Caterpillar workers went on strike 20 years ago at $19/hr.
Non sequitur
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Many times we think change is progress, when it really just creates new problems.
DriveInDriveOut
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Not to mention they pay women less.
And in corporate America, problems are taught to be "opportunities".
MrFedEx
Engorged Member
Reaganomics Version 2.
newfie
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that's fine something has to change. we have to be able to compete on an even playing field.
wkmac
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Don't live in Somalia so I'll take your word as you may have firsthand experience there that I'm unaware of.
newfie
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what do you mean that's all Obama, Clinton , saunders and others do is blame wall street and American businesses?
Oh, they blame them and then give them 90% of everything they ask for. Yes, Obamacare included.
newfie
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when did they give wall street Obamacare?
Non sequitur
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Ideas are powerful. When freedom and responsible are taught from the cradle, economies and societal problems will sort themselves out. Lets kill "mother" government" mentality. Help or charity belong to the elderly, handicap, sick, or other tragic situations.
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
When they passed it. If your 401k isn't investing in the medical sector you need to find someone new to manage it.
wkmac
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Some argue Wall Street wrote ObamaCare.
Johney
Pineapple King
Really? Russia also?
The funny thing is that Republicans talk about "market based" solutions which when they start trying to replace Obamacare, they will find out that Obamacare is...(wait for it)...market based solutions.
Sloppy and imperfect but definitely not a "government takeover of the health care industry".
wkmac
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I didn't look at every stock listed in this healthcare sector listing but the one's I did look at seem to take off upward after Obamacare was passed.
Healthcare Industry Stocks
Republicans do talk a lot about market based solutions but those solutions are often targeted to favor certain businesses and disadvantage the rest. Example is Obamacare itself which favored certain insurance companies (the one's that wrote the legislation) while disadvantaging many other insurance companies to the point of chasing them out of the marketplace. Thus one of the purposes of the legislation to begin with.
That is market privilege or what others rightly call monopoly crony capitalism. ObamaCare just proves the Neo-liberal democrats can play the same game equally well as republicans. Of recent, Wall Street seems to suggest the democrats are even better since so much Wall Street money goes to the democrats. So much for the theory that capitalism dislikes State Socialism. Quite to the contrary.
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newfie
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that type of analysis is for the pundits and academia's. All I know is its imploding
MrFedEx
Engorged Member
Except for them. They can celebrate their operative in the White House.
