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The reason it's hard to think of Lincoln Chafee as a Democrat is that he hasn't held office as one yet. He was governor of Rhode Island as an independent until January this year.
Actually, kend, it's more like going to someone's house and telling them they can't abuse their children. You can't say that sort of policing is off limits under the idea that it's internal to the family. When a business keeps its workers at insufficient pay, so that the CEO can live in even greater luxury, it's morally criminal.
Aliceinwonderland ~ I'm with you concerning the Bland case. She is the first of two African American woman who were recently jailed by police and found dead shortly after. Obviously something happened that warrants an investigation. The idea that the police department is doing everything it can to sweep these deaths under the rug show that they too are complicit in the crime. The FBI needs to step in and conduct a thorough investigation. If misconduct is responsible, not only the officers involved; but, the Chief of Police and any of his officers involved must also be held accountable. No one is above the law; and, last I looked, aiding and abetting a homicide carries the same penalty as the murder itself. It's time we start making some big examples out of officers who commit police brutality - regardless of the reason.
Agelbert ~ I'm with you 100%. I intend to vote by record. Hillary's record - and that of her husband - has been dismal at best concerning foreign affairs, fossil fuels, Constitutional and human rights, and trade. She had a chance to come out and condemn the TPP. Instead she spouted some nonsense about wanting a "better deal." A better deal means she supports the TPP.
My apologies to Thom and any other progressives out there who feel that Hillary is an acceptable option in this race. I do not share those feelings. As far as I am concerned any SCOTUS judge she would appoint would be just as Wall Street and Corporate friendly as any nominee of a Republican would be. Perhaps not as bat crazy of a right wing nut job, but every bit as ineffective where it really counts. You are fooling yourselves if you believe for one second that Wall Street and Corporations donate millions of dollars without expecting to have the final say in exactly who gets nominated by their candidate of choice.
I do not donate one cent to the DNC. All my donations go directly to the Bernie Sanders campaign. I have also signed a pledge vowing to write in Bernie Sanders in the general election if he is not nominated. I wrote that on my donation request form I received from the DNC and sent it back in lieu of a donation. I sincerely hope they got the message loud and clear.
Back on Thom's old website, when windfall profits were the topic, I managed to come up with some sort of formula to tax corporations according to the pay ratio of executives and laborers. I got pretty complicated so I can't remember it, but it is possible to structure taxes to discourage such unbelievable ratios.
Kend ~ You of all people should know that it is our business what private companies can do. You should take a walk through an American company. Somewhere, in plain view, all companies in this country are mandated by law to display all their licenses, permits, and federal regulations that pertain to business operations and employees. Without public approval and regulation, no business is allowed to exist in this country. The idea that what a business does is none of our business is both naive and absurd.
What it comes down to is that human greed needs to be regulated. A little bit of greed is necessary, because that's what drives the economy and innovation; but unbridled, unrestrained, run-amok greed must never be allowed to happen, it is too destructive.
I work for a man who can be so greedy and stingy as to make old Ebenezer look like a spendthrift; he is very anti-government and just doesn't see how run-away greed hurts others. And he's a fundamentalist christian. Where do people like this come from?
Hillary's speech is actually one of the more compelling talks that she has given and I'm not one of her fans. Short term profit has been a significant problem that was steadily building through the seventies and went into overdrive in the Reagan era. The most glaring effect of this questionable policy was the reduction in product life cycles that were typically five years, back when our economy was in far better shape, and that time was rapidly reduced to twelve months or less, an insufficient amount of time for manufacturing processes to be fully implemented as well as distribution and marketing campaigns fully established. Often new products would hit the store shelves about the same time the product was discontinued in favor of a newer version. Likely the effect of the indoctrination fed to a new generation of PhD. managers graduating from new age business schools popping up on university campuses all over the country. A business philosophy that came straight out of Wall Street and the corporate board rooms that totally disregarded the realities of the operational side of the business.
Capitalism Morphs
. . . .
Capitalists are captains
whose ships are capsizing.
Their minions are chaplains
while their “religion” is demising.
Their doctors don’t provide an answer
to Capitalism’s morphing into cancer,
into a canker,
into a chancre.
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Ravings Not Supported by Facts
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Right-wingers CRAVE
that the WORST be the case, -
- so their rantings RAVE
without FACTUAL base.
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I miss you guys. You remind me how lucky I am. The fact that you even suggest that you should be entitled to make decisions for a private company reminds me how lucky I am to be a conservative. It is none of anyone's business what a private company does. That's like me coming to your house and telling you that you smoke too much weed.
This is why we need socialism once and for all........"an economic system characterised by social ownership of the means of production....a cooperative management of the economy....a system organized to directly satisfy economic demands and human needs....instead of for private profit which is driven by the accumulation of capital."
Unrelated: I'm more than willing to bet that the cop who pulled Sandra Bland over is an obsessive Fox News watching right wing SOB!.....just like the recent movie theater killer, but that won't be mentioned by the corpse media.
agelbert, I appreciate you pointing that out.
Mathboy, I know it's off-topic but thank you for bringing that up. Sandra Bland has been very much on my mind, and I sure would appreciate watching another video of that incident.
Thom said, "This isn’t democracy; it’s feudalism,"
Of course. And that modern version of feudalism extends to the voting machines...
Tell us what we can do about those voting machines and their software. Please WRITE articles on that that, Thom. That is a BIG issue. That is a PIVOTAL issue. If it is not addressed so the powers that be don't set up a contrived horse race complete with contrived polls and contrived "voting" results, NOTHING is going to change, Thom!
Right now Hillary is promising the MOON in Renewable energy when we know it's 100% bolld faced campaign promise mendacity. We KNOW her track record. We KNOW she backs dirty energy and corporate oligarchy all the way!
We KNOW Senator Sanders is the one who actually wants Renewable Energy because he is the one who actually has proposed, more than once, to eliminate the fossil fuel (and nuclear power) subsidy theft that keeps Renewable Energy from competing on a level energy playing field.
PLEASE, Thom, take Hillary's slick video on Renewable Energy apart piece by piece. SHOW AMERICANS the nuts and bolts of the mens rea modus operandi of Hillary. POINT OUT that Hillary says many truths about Renewable Energy in her video in order to undermine Senator Sanders, NOT because she has any intention of increasing Renewable Energy market share.
EXPOSE Hillary for the lackey of the fossil fuel corporations that she has ALWAYS been.
It's a great video. Too bad she does not believe a word of what she is saying, and never will. She is bought and paid for. Senator Sanders is our only choice.
What would we do without corporations bilking WE The Taxpayer? I say 1)We make corporations pay their equal percentage share of their profits in taxes and 2) stop giving them tax write-offs and unnecessary "subsidies". The rich corporateers do NOT need welfare or taxb breaks.
What would we do without corporations bilking WE The Taxpayer? I say 1)We make corporations pay their equal percentage share of their profits in taxes and 2) stop giving them tax write-offs and unnecessary "subsidies". The rich corporateers do NOT need welfare or taxb breaks.
You mean we could be pulled up by CEO bootstraps? The higher their pay, the more they have to pay their workers? Fantastic idea.
We need to know what happened to Sandra Bland's cell phone, but we also need to see the dash cam footage from the second police car. At one point Bland was saying, "Thank you for recording." Who was she talking to? Was it the black female cop? Has any journalist interviewed her?
I wish Thom understood how options work. If he did, his head would explode even more. I barely understand how it works, but enough to know that something is even more rotten than Thom thinks it is. The CEOs are paid in options. When companies buy back their stock, the stock may go up 10, 20, 30% or a little more. However, the options may go up 200, 300% or more. I witnessed this on SanDisk (SNDK) when I was selling some options on stock that I owned. I yelled at my broker that San Disk should invest in more research. He said they had control of the market and didn't have to. Since then the stock has dropped 40%. Of course, the CEOs have made there millions off off their options and care not that the stock dropped. They may actually like the stock dropping because they can play the game again.
Medicare is just as IMPORTANT as the Affordable Care Act, now that many Americans can get healthcare coverage! Let them TRY to mess with their Medicare, which they've had FOREVER! Not only the GOP loose their votes, they WILL BOYCOTT their Offices!
You bring up some prime examples of "OPPOSAMES". Both GOP and DEMS do the same things. Take money - finance next re-election, take money, let lobbist and staff write laws, take money- finance next re-election. So follow the money...period. If we keep elections and politics to three weeks a year and cap the money, give free tv time to all equally. Change the tax code to a flat tax for ALL income or institute a consumption tax. The country gets back to being a country and not a money machine for the "OPPOSAMES".
Media Companies make a lot of profit money off political ads. They do not have to pay for production, it is basically no-risk revenue and provides little real value to the audience.
Or founders never had the concept of this type of campagins
Huge petition???? less than 200k? Bill O'reily got over 600,000 for Anti Santcuary Cities.
This shows nothing except the BS and class division being espoused by progressives who who want Utopian Society of SAMES. Human Beings are animals. We need to succeed and we have values. Take those values away and mandate them, we become a society of boring, do nothings and so called intelectual watch dog nanny state. end of human beings and welcome the new world order of global government and human control.
We are at the cusp of the end of life on this planet. Buy on credit now!!! You will never have to pay it back. Just like the Fed Reserve. They print money because they know it wont matter in 20 years. There will be nothing left alive on earth.
Seniors, like anyone else, we act in their own best interests. Yes, the GP will do it's usual fear mongering but so will the Democrats. Hopefully, seniors will decide to leave both parties en masse like the majority of other Americans.
Willie W; You should read his book 'Where Have All The Leaders Gone?" that he published about ten years ago, it's a long way from a tribute to his business expertise. More a collection of business experiences and personal tragedies that prompted him to warn Americans about where their country was headed under the current leadership on both sides of the isle !
Capitalism’s “Efficiency”
. . . .
It’s ideology, not fact, -
- or to be more exact,
it’s Selfism’s Id, …
… that a capitalistic act
with “efficiency” is packed.
Whom are they trying to kid?
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