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what side I'm on is clear. carbon taxes everywhere, including on vehicles.So you would rather kill the planet with CO2?
Pick a side, Boo...
So you would rather kill the planet with CO2?
Pick a side, Boo...
what side I'm on is clear. carbon taxes everywhere, including on vehicles.So you would rather kill the planet with CO2?
Pick a side, Boo...
Last edited by boutons_deux; 12-18-2014 at 03:26 PM.
ing dreamy global communist.
Call it what you will, but we need tariffs on stuff that US industries make, so we can keep jobs here.
Free trade is good.
Globalization isn't.
carbon tax would ADVANCE our future, your carbon-loving oil fantasies lead to .
The reason the US is a decent country is because people didn't sit around hundreds of years ago thinking "if the Brits are so bad, why are people still coming here?" and "If witch burning is so bad, why are people still coming here?" and "if slavery is so bad, why are people still coming here?". Think about it, law of the excluded middle doesn't work here.
I don't get your point here. Tariffs are on imported goods. Are you saying that US industries that manufacture things abroad need to have their goods taxed to compete with themselves locally?
yep, the Chinese have held down their currency vs US$ to make their goods cheaper.
Compounded with the low-cost labor and low-cost of doing business (eg, Ms of Chinese sick and dead from pollution), US mfrs gained an UNFAIR ADVANTAGE building in China and re-imported tariff/duty-free to US.
Just because it's US mfrs dumping their products on the USA doesn't mean it's not dumping. Chinese mfrs dumping solar panels on USA are now tariffed.
Same with US Ag dumping Ms of tons of cheap, subsidized, tarif-free factory corn on MX, destroying 10Ks of subsistence farms, pushing those farmers to look for income in USA.
What BigCorp achieved over the past 40 years with their globalization (also of free movement/sloshing of capital) has destroyed much of the mfr-ing base in USA AND killed Ms of US jobs. Many were UNION jobs which was also an objective of the VRWC globalization strategy, destroy the Power of The People vs BigCorp. Of course, BigCorp and their investors (capitalists) have profited enormously from destroying US labor and US unions.
What could go wrong
English is very easy to learn (no school needed) and easy to pull off for employment because there are so many variations in dialect.
3/4 of the worlds population would want to immigrate to any and every White nation.
There are atleast 10 nations I rather be born a White Male, than in the USA. You can't hide in a gated community all your life
If gas prices stay at $2.00 per gallon, we are going to see just how ''reliable" these oil patch jobs really are....
CC is right though....keep your nose to the grindstone.....pass a drug test...and work on character and your reputation of always doing the right thing and you can do well out there...but it is easier if you have that Masters or PHD..
CC lives in fantasyland.
America lives by its self-glorifying, self-congratulating myths.
One of the biggest is that because a few make it big, or at least comfortable, EVERYBODY can.
10Ms of people work 40+ hours/week in 1,2,3 DEAD-END jobs (America is World Champion in creating, maintaining such ty jobs because they can find people so desperate for ty low-paying jobs), remain in or near poverty. Aren't too smart, aren't managerial/entrepreneurial, parents weren't educated, didn't value education, grew up in poor, ty neighborhoods, ty schools, horrible, violence/drug-ridden neigborhoods. And it's 100% on them for not making $100K/year.
I’ve Crunched the Numbers, and the American Dream Is Dead
A California economics professor says he’s crunched the numbers, and he has concluded that the American Dream is dead.
Gregory Clark, a researcher at the University of California, Davis, found that social mobility had diminished significantly in the past 100 years, reported KOVR-TV.
“America has no higher rate of social mobility than medieval England or pre-industrial Sweden,” Clark said. “That’s the most difficult part of talking about social mobility, is because it is shattering people’s dreams.”
He said social mobility is little different in the United States than in other countries, where ancestry strongly predicts adult social status.
“The status of your children, your grandchildren, your great-grandchildren, (and) your great-great grandchildren will be quite closely related to your average status now,” Clark said.
That’s upsetting to many of his students, Clark said.
“My students always argue with me, but I think the thing they find very hard to accept is the idea that much of their lives can be predicted from their lineage and their ancestry,” he said.
http://www.alternet.org/economy/econ...can-dream-dead
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Last edited by boutons_deux; 12-23-2014 at 06:40 AM.
One Strike and You’re Out: New CAP Report Offers Road Map to Eliminate Barriers to Economic Security and Mobility for People with Criminal Records
Washington, D.C. — As many as one in three Americans have some type of criminal record. Yet having any kind of criminal history—even for minor offenses or an arrest without a conviction—can create lifelong barriers that can stand in the way of basic necessities such as employment and housing.
This has broad implications, not only for the millions of individuals who are prevented from moving on with their lives and becoming productive citizens but also for their families, communities, and the nation’s economy. If not for recent trends in mass incarceration, our nation’s poverty rate would have fallen by 20 percent between 1980 and 2004, a recent study found.
https://www.americanprogress.org/press/release/2014/12/02/102335/release-one-strike-and-youre-out-new-cap-report-offers-road-map-to-eliminate-barriers-to-economic-security-and-mobility-for-people-with-criminal-records/
I live in a community with a healthy mixture of backgrounds with no gates.
The key is that we work and work hard.
We are not afraid of a few kids skipping school and tagging stuff.
NW San Antonio, small neighborhood with great neighbors.
Cost of living very low here, it's close to perfect for me.
This is a great place to be and I am thankful for my neighborhood. Nowhere else I'd rather be. You think you are going to live in Russia and avoid getting mugged or robbed? Sure.
I also get to eat TexMex here, some of the best food in the world, I'll stay thank you. You go off to Norway and let the pensioners live off you. Let's see how you afford that; Eating fish out of cans everyday.
All those counties on boots graph that are white and European on the upper left part of the graph, you cannot possibly afford to live there. The cost of living is sky high, with the possible exception of Finland.
Last edited by pgardn; 12-23-2014 at 09:40 AM.
Just like CC, "I'm OK, so everybody else must be OK" (and if they aren't, I don't GAF. I got mine)
Sorry you got left behind Boo, but your biterness and success envy isn't helping you any.
Should have studied harder and picked a major you could get a real job with.
The Great Boutons has had a real, well-paying, professional job from his first month out of an Ivy League university.
So do you have a Maserati too?
nope, my doesn't need enhancementSo do you have a Maserati too?
I think "had" is the key here.
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