It's pretty clearly anti-tax. Take the wax out of your ears, Dan.
No its not. Its anti-Obama under the guise of anti-tax small government reform. Color me cynical that after year after year of these policies they didn't have a problem to the point they do now. Why was Obama the tipping point WH?
What people say they stand for is one thing but what actually drives them to protest is another. It isn't as though the tea party movement has grown either.
Where, exactly, did I call for less regulation.
I agree with the author of the article that the big corps ought to be broken up! You're trying to put me in a box I don't fit in, here.
I still believe, however, that govt. is MORE to blame than the corps. It's govt. after all, that is taking money from me by coercion to pay those corps. The businesses, left to their own devices to not possess that kind of power.
"The businesses, left to their own devices to not possess that kind of power."
Their power to suck dollars out of citizens' pockets for ty products is much more sinister.
I dont' HAVE to buy the ty products; also, the corps in question are not in retail.
There were rumblings beforehand. Ron Paul's strong netroots and the enthusistic public manifestations made on his behalf were a foreshadowing IMO.
I don't see the two as necessarily being mutually exclusive.
"I dont' HAVE to buy the ty products"
you don't buy groceries?
you don't buy gasoline whose price has been inflated by Wall St speculators?
you don't buy prescription drugs made by BigPharma that don't do better than generics or don't do anything at all?
you don't have credit cards and bank accounts whose fees are jacked up for no increase in service?
etc, etc, etc.
I'm very picky and selective; I don't shop at Wal Mart, and generally groceries are not produced in China.
This has pissed me off forever, I am NOT opposed to govt. putting a stop to it - however, there is a thread on this, and WH has indicated how tricky regulating this stuff can be. Oh, and I live in a small town AND bought a scooter a couple of months ago; gets 85 mpg.you don't buy gasoline whose price has been inflated by Wall St speculators?
I am 41 years old. I have NEVER bought a non-generic drug for me or my family. Scout's honor.you don't buy prescription drugs made by BigPharma that don't do better than generics or don't do anything at all?
I, literally, have a no-fee, no minimum balance account as my primary checking at Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union - I never pay credit card fees or interest; in fact I take advantage of the generous rewards programs (went to Disney for free a couple of years ago w/the family).you don't have credit cards and bank accounts whose fees are jacked up for no increase in service?
No, really, I'm a discriminating, smart shopper - and manager of my money. It amazes me how many people are not, and are the "sheeple" you refer to in my sig. Protecting my rights to BE smart and wise with my $$$ should be as important as protecting their idiot selves from getting taken advantage of - if not more so.etc, etc, etc.
The government took your money and gave it to these mountebanks because our entire market system runs on credit -- if the lenders went under, most businesses would die, nobody could afford to buy a house, etc etc etc.
If legislators and administrators on both sides of the aisle hadn't incrementally whittled away at financial regulations to satisfy their corporate sugar daddies, if they'd enforced anti-trust laws or created new ones, if they'd kept the SEC from wilting into little more than a bull agency? I don't think we'd be in this position, and if some banks had made bad bets, they'd be rewarded with what they deserve: obsolescence.
You just defended the free market and the advocated the breaking up up large corporations which are not exactly statements which are inline with each other.
Why or how you are choosing to blame the government more than the corps is lost on me - especially when you just advocated breaking up the corporations which is not an anti government action.
[quote=101A;3762302]I'm very picky and selective; I don't shop at Wal Mart, and generally groceries are not produced in China.
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You said ty products not Chinese products.
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This has pissed me off forever, I am NOT opposed to govt. putting a stop to it - however, there is a thread on this, and WH has indicated how tricky regulating this stuff can be. Oh, and I live in a small town AND bought a scooter a couple of months ago; gets 85 mpg.
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I don't have too much of a problem with the gasoline manipulation tbh. I have more of a problem with our governments use of military force to protect it in the Persian gulf and the cost to our country in that manner. I have a problem with the lack of support to other technologies prior to the last decade or so (not that its even enough now).
Thats fine but drugs are not generic right off the bat so thats more of a statement of when you needed them. Also, certain drugs can be less effective when they are the generic version. They are not the same.I am 41 years old. I have NEVER bought a non-generic drug for me or my family. Scout's honor.
Credit Union or small local bank FTW. Great choice. This is an area where people are just re ed for the most part. I banked with BoA for about 2 months before I went back to a local bank. Its ing horrible.I, literally, have a no-fee, no minimum balance account as my primary checking at Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union - I never pay credit card fees or interest; in fact I take advantage of the generous rewards programs (went to Disney for free a couple of years ago w/the family).
People are not smart and rational. They are fairly re ed.No, really, I'm a discriminating, smart shopper - and manager of my money. It amazes me how many people are not, and are the "sheeple" you refer to in my sig. Protecting my rights to BE smart and wise with my $$$ should be as important as protecting their idiot selves from getting taken advantage of - if not more so.
Somebody said groceries (you or Boutons; was directly responding to that.
I don't have too much of a problem with the gasoline manipulation tbh. I have more of a problem with our governments use of military force to protect it in the Persian gulf and the cost to our country in that manner. I have a problem with the lack of support to other technologies prior to the last decade or so (not that its even enough now).
Eventually I may get something in which there is a newer drug which works better than one that existed 3 - 5 years earlier; however MOST diseases can be handled with the drug that is just a few years old, but just as effectively, despite what the drug company's ads tell you every night. Of course, every Rx we've gotten has either been and antibiotic (those are free in many stores now) or Oxcodone a couple of times 'cause I have a tendency to get crap that hurts a of a lot (ulcer on my freaking cornea, kidney stone, etc...)Thats fine but drugs are not generic right off the bat so thats more of a statement of when you needed them. Also, certain drugs can be less effective when they are the generic version. They are not the same.
Yeah.Credit Union or small local bank FTW. Great choice. This is an area where people are just re ed for the most part. I banked with BoA for about 2 months before I went back to a local bank. Its ing horrible.
Why democracy cannot work.People are not smart and rational. They are fairly re ed.
- Plato
If the businesses are "Too Big Too Fail" - that our government just can't help itself but bail these corps out; AND those corps then factor that in their business model???
They are too big to exist.
I don't dispute any of that. I just take issue with your embracing of that principle and the free market since both are at odds with each other. Someone supporting a free market system would say that the consumers would decide who was too big. I've started believe that notion is laughable.
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