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Posted on: Apr. 22 2015,2:47 pm |
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My God this is becoming hilarious.😃
Strange, but hilarious.
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Posted on: Apr. 22 2015,3:03 pm |
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QUOTE cheese-eating surrender monkeys
I always attributed that one to Groundskeeper Willie on The Simpsons. But I digress...
Why do our so-called leaders hate the notion of a strong middle class and low unemployment numbers? Somebody really needs to answer that one. I can't think of a sensible answer beyond greed. And no, "greed" and "profits" are not interchangeable terms.
And I really don't give a hoot if people suddenly have to pay more for their big-screen TV's again, if that's what's implied by making them here again. A new color Motorola in 1966 cost about $5000 in today's dollars. (Chew on that for a while.) The economy was booming, and the bulk of the populace was NOT in hock up to their eyeballs.
Then, the 80's happened. Greed somehow becomes sexy again, and all the safeguards put in place to keep big business and Wall Street from shooting craps with loaded dice come tumbling down, right on through Billy Clinton's Presidency, when we got NAFTA and the repeal of Glass-Steagall. The best and simplest explanation for what the latter implied came from Sloan Sabbith, the money honey from HBO's series The Newsroom, where she said:
"After the great depression, congress wanted to put a firewall between the investment banks and the commercial banks - they wanted to be sure Wall Street could melt to the ground and the commercial banks wouldn't be touched. They passed a law - the Glass-Steagall Act. Now you could be Gordon Gecko or George Bailey but you couldn't be both."
"The culture of deregulation culminates in 1999 (Glass-Steagall gets repealed) and immediately banks start merging. Gordon Gecko can use George Bailey's bank balance to make bets."
The hyper-inflation that alki's worried about won't come to pass as a result of trying to make things here again. It will come about after our economy tanks one more time (it's only a matter of time) and the dollar is no longer the reserve currency of the world. Then, ten-dollar loaves of bread and the like won't be far behind.
The time to fix this is now.
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Posted on: Apr. 22 2015,3:10 pm |
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^^I just can't argue with that except that we have to do something about it now, we're past the point of doing anything about it, at least with the leaders presently in office.
Nothing to do now but sit back and watch.
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Posted on: Apr. 22 2015,3:27 pm |
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Seriously, free trade with the Chinese is crazy. They have no regard for laws, patents, or trademarks.
Look at the Chibson guitars they're selling out the back door of the Epiphone factory.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IrU2hDWVyfA
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Posted on: Apr. 22 2015,3:37 pm |
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TPP: Obama against Warren, Reich, Baker, Krugman... but with GOP
http://www.dailykos.com/story...ith-GOP
I'm going to have give Obama the Flip Flop on Trade
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Posted on: Apr. 22 2015,3:41 pm |
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Global economy is not a good term. It is if it works completely. Why do things cost more in this country versus another? Pharmaceuticals is a good example. Don't be misled, this is a street lined in gold for the same old winners.
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Posted on: Apr. 22 2015,3:56 pm |
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Protectionism only protects people from buying the highest quality products at the lowest possible price..
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Posted on: Apr. 22 2015,10:54 pm |
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You have to protect your brands. As an owner of a Les Paul it infuriates me. These scumbags burn Made in the USA on the back and will print any serial number you want so you can't even depend on that to tell if it's a legit guitar.
I'm glad my American made Les Paul is the cheapest version and will never be counterfeited. Why spend $350 to counterfeit an $900 guitar. But my friends with customs and deluxe models might have a toughtime selling because of the counterfeits.
Check out tmall.com by setting up an account with a forwarding company like mistertao.com but you have to misspell things you're looking for because the forwarding company search engine blocks certain searches like dior, vans, ping. If you can't find it with search just browse the shoes. You can pickup a pair of vans for $11 or $12 instead of $50 and up.
You can't have freetrade with the crooked Chinese until they stop the counterfeiting that's been going on for over 25 years.
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