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Posted on: Apr. 25 2014,12:38 pm |
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^ really? I operate in a free market, if I don't like it I'm free to go elsewhere. Are you chained to your job?
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Posted on: Apr. 25 2014,1:31 pm |
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Free market. Ha. Keep hanging on to that myth.
Once a corporation gets to a certain size, they can affect policy in Washington, bury competition, figure ways to pay next to nothing in taxes, and so on. Anheuser-Busch once told August Schell's that if they tried to go national with their brand, they would get stomped like a narc at a biker rally. Big Pharmaceuticals get things approved that shouldn't be, and Monsanto runs roughshod over good stewardship ideals and can destroy anyone that gets in their way. Why? So a handful of fatcat investors can make more money than they know what to do with. If we dismantled these monsters, it would adversely affect a very small percentage of the population, while making things better for just about everybody else. Why some people wish to preserve this f%$#ed-up status quo is beyond me. 
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Posted on: Apr. 25 2014,1:35 pm |
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Then don't participate.
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Posted on: Apr. 25 2014,2:57 pm |
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SB, do you really see nothing wrong with pharmaceutical companies and Monsanto types lying about research, destroying whistle-blowers and only paying fines when they finally get caught endangering or killing people? Or the big banks or investment firms getting small fines for swindling people? Or laundering drug money or things like the Libor scandal? And hardly any type of real investigation to get to the bottom of any wrong-doing whatsoever? Being able to "nether admit nor deny any wrong-doing" over and over and over. The constant revolving door between big and powerful institution/industries and government? The full of hooey uninformative press?
Have you read the retirement speech of one of heads of the SEC who retired not long ago? The whole transcript is available in several internet locations. It's not very long. It's better to read the whole original transcript than to read a synopsis and commentary on any news site. I'll try to post a link later when I'm on a different system. If I rember.
But do you honestly not have a problem with these things? Isn't it obvious that WE are not the ones being represented by this government?
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Posted on: Apr. 25 2014,3:20 pm |
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(Self-Banished @ Apr. 25 2014,11:11 am)
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(Self-Banished @ Apr. 25 2014,8:18 am)
QUOTE ^supply and demand. You sir are a certified wingnut How so? Because I'm an independent? Because I beleive in a free market system? Because I stand on my own two feet and make my own way? Please explain.
Than stop getting a subsidy for your fuel and disguising it as a "surcharge"!
But hey, you keep that free market "independent" dream going... 
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Posted on: Apr. 25 2014,6:57 pm |
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Nope, surcharge is a cost of doing business, plain and simple. When contracts are signed a copy of the fuel surcharge goes with.
If a butcher had to pay twice as much for a cow to butcher would you expect to buy hamburger at the same price?
When the gas station has to pay more to fill their inground tank do you think you should pay the same as you had been?
Why are there huge grain bins on a farm? Why no just take the harvested grain straight to market
Are you this dense? Or has the union eroded your mind?
Show me you're not by answering these questions.
By the way it's "Then" not "Than"
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Posted on: Apr. 25 2014,9:53 pm |
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^^^Don't we all at one time or another?
I pick my battles, carefully.
He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.
Sun Tzu
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