It is strange that you think it is a 'troll', when in reality these are the precise, exact considerations when hiring anybody. How much will they cost? Does hiring a person mean increasing liability because this type of person has special protections designated by government and can much easier sue the employer than another type of a person?
Governments forces employers to discriminate based on the same exact criteria that government uses to provide 'protections'. Remember, whatever government says it does, the effect is pretty much always the exact opposite one. Labour discrimination laws create discrimination, they don't eliminate it.
Robber barons: captains of industry that in many cases created their industries from nothing.
Child labour: a problem that free market capitalism solved. Children always worked and they are still working in countries where there are very little individual freedoms and very little capital. Free market capitalism allowed the parents of the children to become productive enough not to have to send their children to work, as parents always did before capitalists invested into tools, management, training and generally more efficient means of production to allow workers to produce much more with all these tools than they ever could before, thus allowing a smaller and smaller number of people to execute bigger and bigger tasks, which is what productivity is. Child labour will return to the USA as the parents of the children are becoming less and less productive every single day, which is the actual reality as opposed to fantasy that the gov't propaganda is pushing upon the population, pretending that Americans are becoming more productive. Very few Americans are increasing their productivity, vast majority is unproductive, as in it requires subsidies to live. Subsidies come in many forms, including loans by other nations that can never be repaid.
Rampant pollution: a byproduct of early stages of industrialisation, which is solved when governments do not interfere by a wealthier society, society that accumulates wealth through industrialisation. Indeed the worst polluters of all times are governments and government controlled economies. I was born in one of those countries, Chernobyl wasn't caused by private enterprise as an example.
Killing workers: free market capitalist employers do not kill workers or customers, that's not good for business it doesn't add to the bottom line. OTOH government kills people on daily basis. Be it wars or government created pollution or even government regulations that prevent people from having access to things, simple things such as medicine that may already exist but is not allowed, thanks gov't.
USA was the freest country in the world until it generated so much wealth that enough parasites could lift their heads above the ground and start destroying the country by using the worst traits of people: jealousy to those who make more without desire to work more, with a desire to be subsidised, things of that nature.
You are correct, I was talking about New Deal. Of-course Great Society was just as much a disaster.
New Deal was actually old deal, deal of all failing states based on inflation, destruction of individual liberties, growth of government that leads to inevitable economic collapse.
You are so blinded by your ideology that you cannot even imagine that what you are saying is actual bullshit. The only 'social compact' that USA had and was built upon and indeed thrived upon until the problem arose after the turn of the 20th century was that the government is small and unobtrusive and people are free to do business as they like. That is how USA became the largest creditor nation, largest manufacturer nation on the planet in such a tiny period of time, mostly after the Civil war and before the Federal reserve got the power to monetise government debt.
1981 was not the problem, actually 1981 with Paul Volcker's 21.5% interest rate was the correct step towards the solution to the problem that was in the making from 1908 (Sherman's act and breaking up of Standard Oil), through 1913 (creation of the IRS and the income tax and of the Federal reserve), through 1917 (allowing the Federal reserve bank to monetise debt of Congress), through 1925 (USA Fed monetising bad UK debt to France, which caused the bubble and the collapse of the bubble that in 1929), 1930 and all the way to 1945, which was the Great Depression era caused by Hoover and FDR with their 'Great Society' (really Horrific and Destructive Society), the depression was only thwarted by the end of WWII, when gov't cut taxes by 33% and spending by 66%, 1950s and 60s, which were full of nonsense like creation of Medicare, expansion of SS, finally 1971 when Nixon defaulted on the gold dollar in response to all of the previous government created inflation.
1981 was the year of a major correction to the problems created by the socialist, welfare state policies of the huge government and knuckleheads who have no idea about their own history or principles that the country was founded upon.
Those principles were very specifically against large government and for the individual liberties, of-course the principles have been violated time and again and this violation has been instilled into the likes of you, who have no idea what they are talking about.
1970s default on the gold dollar following all of the big government policies that started with the traitorous Teddy Roosevelt is what destroyed USA as a major economy of the world. The last 40 years have been a reflection and an inevitable progression towards the end of that economy and society simply based on the fake money created at an ever increased pace by the Federal reserve, monetising ever growing government expenses and debts.
No one should pay income related taxes. USA was not built with income related taxes, it was built with absolute minimal taxation on some imported goods and alcohol. USA was destroyed with large government and income taxes, that is true.
roman_mir is a psycho that I'm ashamed to share a UID within a range of 60,000
- you shouldn't worry about it, not only are you useless for any meaningful discussion, but you also can't count obviously.
your id is 1212466, mine is 125474, the difference is 1086992 or 18 times the difference you are 'ashamed of', so don't worry, you don't have to be ashamed of proximity to my id, you have to be ashamed of many other things, but not of that one.
But this would be the first time that a petition would actually demand that the USA federal government actually does what it is SUPPOSED to do, to force the USA government actually to apply the interstate commerce law correctly.... This is what the interstate commerce clause is meant for: use federal power to force States to stop anti-business practices that hurt businesses and people when States attempt to destroy competition by preventing businesses and people from engaging in interstate commerce. States are not supposed to be able to prevent businesses and individuals from competing with one another, that is the purpose of the federal interstate commerce law. Not to force people to buy products that they would not buy without government force applied to them by to prevent States from destroying free market capitalism, to prevent States from denying competition.
Of-course forever now the federal government and States engaged in anti-competitive practices that they accuse businesses of, which in reality are the product of the government corruption and collusion. Mandating and requiring business licenses for people to engage in commerce is the anti-competitive practice that needs to be stopped. Mandating and requiring that businesses abide by government rules and regulations is the anti-competitive practice that needs to be stopped. Income taxes are not only a horrible economic policy, it is also a way to segregate businesses into those, that have access to government officials and those that cannot compete because they are not getting special treatment.
Basically this petition is the first petition that I hear about that actually demands the USA government to behave Constitutionally where it concerns trade and business and individual freedoms. Of-course the government will pay 0 attention to it.
You are the idiot. Again, for the idiot that you are: USA went on a fishing expedition, issuing blanket demands to banks that operate to give up customer information (customers, that are not even account holders in USA branches of the targeted banks), trying to force foreign banks on foreign soil to give up account information on all USA citizens that have accounts in those banks. No court order for any specific crime, nothing, simply a demand to give up all data. Similar to NSA recording all phone calls (including that of all USA citizens) without any court order whatsoever. The difference is of-course that companies based in other countries with accounts opened in other countries are not subject to any USA demands and if companies complied with anything, they are suffering for it now domestically (loss of trust among the account holders and public in general), which is why foreign banks don't even want to accept new Americans as customers.
Wrong, in a global Internet age it shouldn't be that individuals all of a sudden lose more of the individual freedoms, it is governments that should lose their authority. In a global economy and society there is no place for government meddling, intrusion into our lives. The less intrusion that we suffer from governments of any place in the world the better.
WARS ARE STARTED BY GOVERNMENTS. People are mass murdered by governments. Governments are the enemy of the People, not voluntary cooperatives or businesses. It's governments that murder and torture people and do it 'legally' (since they are the ones defining what 'legally' means.) Governments are the enemy of the free thinking individuals.
This is the case for any normal country, as well it should be. I can't believe I'm defending Obama on something,
- that's because you have no idea what you are actually defending OR talking about. In case I am pointing out USA DOJ was on a FISHING EXPEDITION, there weren't even court orders against any specific people, there was a BLANKET DEMAND FOR ALL INFORMATION ON ALL ACCOUNTS HELD BY ANY AMERICANS IN A SWISS BANK.
but they're right on this one: if a country's legal system has a valid case for something, and issues a court order ordering you to turn something over, you can't just avoid a court order by saying "it's in my summer home in another country!". If you refuse, they can hold you in contempt of court until you decide to produce it. Maybe the other country can't be compelled to give it up, but you're in this country, and they can keep you in jail as long as they want.
- proves one thing, you have 0 idea of what you are talking about. 0 (*zero*, nada, zilch, zip, empty space, empty head).
Again, the foreign companies are not USA citizens and foreign companies are not subject to USA law on their own land. However if you are an American then you are a SECOND CLASS CITIZEN today (or lower) because foreign banks that have any presence in the USA whatsoever DENY your request to open a bank account:)
If you think this is normal and that is how all countries operate, think again. When you are in Switzerland if you are from India or from China or from Russia or from Germany or from UK or from Brazil or from Uganda you are not going to be prevented from opening a bank account. However if you are from good old US of A you will not be able to open a bank account if you do not have another passport, that's what it is like today to be an American. USA government turned USA citizens into persona non grata for foreign businesses.
By the way, USA is the only of 2 or 3 countries in the world that tax 'world income', as in even if you are not a resident in the country, you are forced to file income taxes every year and above certain income you are forced to pay USA related income taxes:) Great success building that 'independence' and 'freedom'. USA was created to escape this type of persecution, now it is one of the worst offenders against human rights in the world and when I say human rights I am talking about the right to be an individual, the right to self determination, the right not to be a slave to a collective.
By the way, there is 0% wrong with having foreign bank accounts all over the world. AFAIC in today's society everybody needs to have more than one passport and many many many bank accounts and business investments around the world not tied to their country of residence. Of-course you don't have to do it, but then you are owned, aren't you?
This has nothing to do with USA citizens, this is about sovereignty of people and countries that are not USA in the first place. Swiss bank doesn't have to disclose ANYTHING to the USA regime about its account holders in Switzerland. Of-course current oppressive USA regime disagrees, apparently you are on the wrong side of the individual rights on this one as well.
The *real* question is what about companies that do business here but are based in other countries?
- what do you mean it is a 'question'? We already know the answer to this. If a business has any presence on USA soil, the oppressive dictatorial USA government feels that it has full authority to demand all information from that business about its customers and their transactions.
Yeast with THC sounds like a perfect combination, get high while eating something baked and it could be any bread, a dope bagel, a funny muffin, a nostalgic croissant, the branding possibilities are endless!
The American dream (before it was hijacked by the realtors in the USA) has died a horrific death as the government completely overtook over every function of the market and declared itself to be the legal dictator state completely dominating over the individual human being. The American dream was the idea that equal under the law individuals could pursue their own happiness on their own terms, where apart from regulating criminal conduct, government wouldn't have any authority to stop the individuals from attempting to build their own lives and businesses the way they saw fit. That dream suffered its first heart attack during Teddy Roosevelt, second heart attack during the Hoover and FDR, it was kicked in the balls in the fifties and then had a minor stroke when Nixon took the world off the gold standard. Now the dream is a dying, rotting, gangrenous corpse, that is being systematically shat on by every self proclaimed 'saviour' of the society and its values, by all the Marxists, socialists, fascists and basically brainless, dickless, heartless pigs that are happy simply to take another shit on the Constitution and smear their faeces all around them - a form of societal self degradation that periodically descends one or another population of humans into the dark ages throughout history.
So you believe that what Afghans want is your version of a welfare state, that rather than being left alone they want to be corralled into your personal version of 'free paradise'? Why not just LEAVE THE PEOPLE ALONE and not try to play either occupants or saviours?
Yes, but also this is a meaningless move by Germany in the real sense of the world, because it is still not demanding that all of its gold is returned by the USA immediately.
Of-course the German central bank authorities decided a couple of weeks back that it is better to pretend that the USA still has German gold and not raise any noise than to make it clear that its gold is gone. Germany requested the USA Fed to return its gold about 2 years ago, USA came out saying that it will return half of the gold within 7 year period but in 2 years only returned 1/100th of what it was supposed to, actually the numbers can be found here. In any case if Germany truly wanted to make a statement it would insist on the return of its gold, with the correct serial numbers on the bars and everything.
If Germany simply wanted to get the gold back it also has a choice of selling the gold in the market and getting dollars back, which the Fed could easily provide by creating them out of thin air as it always does, so that then Germany could buy the gold back in the market (of-course fewer tons could be bought since the prices would go up, but at least it wouldn't be a total loss as it is now). Any of this would be better than a useless symbolic gesture.
Your meta comments stopped making sense even during the last post, here:
In this case which would you support, the freedom of the employees to make their own choices or the freedom of HL to try to dictate those choices for them?
- what kind of logic is this? The 2 statements have nothing to do with each other.
Would I support freedom of employees or freedom of HL "to dictate"? You have squarely placed your bias into that very statement.
I support freedom of the individual AND I disagree with your premise that HL 'dictates' anything to anybody! Government dictates to HL AND to the employees by getting between them and changing the rules of the private contract.
As to 'sock puppet' nonsense, either you want to hear my answer to your comment or you do not. If you do not then state so clearly and I will not answer. If you do however want to have an answer, then you will have to accept that I can only leave 2 comments in 24 hour period on my main account and I have no choice but to use my backup account (which also can only be used twice in a day) and it should not matter to you how I left the comment, but it seems it does, which means you are not actually discussing anything here.
This case should not have anything to do with religion in the first place, people that run businesses must not be abused by the government and having their freedoms revoked just because they are running a business.
Government must not have any authority to dictate to people what type of compensation the employer and the employee agree upon. Government must not have any authority to dictate that compensation must be provided in a form of insurance or contraceptives or in form of any other product or currency that goes against the agreement between the actual 2 parties involved - a person buying labour and a person selling labour.
This is a win for freedom but not completely, because it mentions religion in the first place. Religion has nothing to do with this, it's about INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM.
- government doesn't have anything "to provide", it can only take away from somebody in order to subsidise somebody else, it doesn't produce anything and has nothing to give to anybody for free. If you are talking about government stealing even more resources from those, who are already being stolen from in order to provide bread and circuses to those, who are already on welfare anyway, then all you will achieve will be more corruption, even less production, as those producing, will be moving their productive capacity out of the country even faster.
The reality is that USA (and many others, like the Canadian or European) workers are much more expensive than workers from countries that do not have the insane socialist labour laws that raise the cost of doing business just enough for companies not to hire in those places any longer. This is not about an hourly wage, even if the hourly wage was exactly the same in USA and in India it still would not make sense to hire Americans. This is about the insane labour laws, the insane government agenda of running welfare / socialist / fascist states, where the individual is subservient to the government. It is too expensive to deal with big government where you cannot even pay a simple cash bribe for the government to go away and not come back.
For 9 years I was a contractor, doing what needed to be done for many different clients. 1 year? My longest contract (with all the extensions) lasted for 5 years, and I left that one to start my own business. My shortest contract was about 2 weeks, I came to do what the client needed, did it and went on.
Waltons and Kochs do much more for the current society than Musk is, they are bringing cheapest goods possible to the most people that the possibly can. Musk's creativity is actually very narrow in its target market, but he can become Ford of today if he manages to find efficiencies and actually mass produce cheaper and cheaper vehicles even in the modern age of enormous government created inflation.
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It is strange that you think it is a 'troll', when in reality these are the precise, exact considerations when hiring anybody. How much will they cost? Does hiring a person mean increasing liability because this type of person has special protections designated by government and can much easier sue the employer than another type of a person?
Governments forces employers to discriminate based on the same exact criteria that government uses to provide 'protections'. Remember, whatever government says it does, the effect is pretty much always the exact opposite one. Labour discrimination laws create discrimination, they don't eliminate it.
charges against the employer for having such a person in their employ
- mental note, do not hire women, they cost unforeseen amounts in possible lawsuits.
Robber barons: captains of industry that in many cases created their industries from nothing.
Child labour: a problem that free market capitalism solved. Children always worked and they are still working in countries where there are very little individual freedoms and very little capital. Free market capitalism allowed the parents of the children to become productive enough not to have to send their children to work, as parents always did before capitalists invested into tools, management, training and generally more efficient means of production to allow workers to produce much more with all these tools than they ever could before, thus allowing a smaller and smaller number of people to execute bigger and bigger tasks, which is what productivity is. Child labour will return to the USA as the parents of the children are becoming less and less productive every single day, which is the actual reality as opposed to fantasy that the gov't propaganda is pushing upon the population, pretending that Americans are becoming more productive. Very few Americans are increasing their productivity, vast majority is unproductive, as in it requires subsidies to live. Subsidies come in many forms, including loans by other nations that can never be repaid.
Rampant pollution: a byproduct of early stages of industrialisation, which is solved when governments do not interfere by a wealthier society, society that accumulates wealth through industrialisation. Indeed the worst polluters of all times are governments and government controlled economies. I was born in one of those countries, Chernobyl wasn't caused by private enterprise as an example.
Killing workers: free market capitalist employers do not kill workers or customers, that's not good for business it doesn't add to the bottom line. OTOH government kills people on daily basis. Be it wars or government created pollution or even government regulations that prevent people from having access to things, simple things such as medicine that may already exist but is not allowed, thanks gov't.
USA was the freest country in the world until it generated so much wealth that enough parasites could lift their heads above the ground and start destroying the country by using the worst traits of people: jealousy to those who make more without desire to work more, with a desire to be subsidised, things of that nature.
You are correct, I was talking about New Deal. Of-course Great Society was just as much a disaster.
New Deal was actually old deal, deal of all failing states based on inflation, destruction of individual liberties, growth of government that leads to inevitable economic collapse.
You are so blinded by your ideology that you cannot even imagine that what you are saying is actual bullshit. The only 'social compact' that USA had and was built upon and indeed thrived upon until the problem arose after the turn of the 20th century was that the government is small and unobtrusive and people are free to do business as they like. That is how USA became the largest creditor nation, largest manufacturer nation on the planet in such a tiny period of time, mostly after the Civil war and before the Federal reserve got the power to monetise government debt.
1981 was not the problem, actually 1981 with Paul Volcker's 21.5% interest rate was the correct step towards the solution to the problem that was in the making from 1908 (Sherman's act and breaking up of Standard Oil), through 1913 (creation of the IRS and the income tax and of the Federal reserve), through 1917 (allowing the Federal reserve bank to monetise debt of Congress), through 1925 (USA Fed monetising bad UK debt to France, which caused the bubble and the collapse of the bubble that in 1929), 1930 and all the way to 1945, which was the Great Depression era caused by Hoover and FDR with their 'Great Society' (really Horrific and Destructive Society), the depression was only thwarted by the end of WWII, when gov't cut taxes by 33% and spending by 66%, 1950s and 60s, which were full of nonsense like creation of Medicare, expansion of SS, finally 1971 when Nixon defaulted on the gold dollar in response to all of the previous government created inflation.
1981 was the year of a major correction to the problems created by the socialist, welfare state policies of the huge government and knuckleheads who have no idea about their own history or principles that the country was founded upon.
Those principles were very specifically against large government and for the individual liberties, of-course the principles have been violated time and again and this violation has been instilled into the likes of you, who have no idea what they are talking about.
1970s default on the gold dollar following all of the big government policies that started with the traitorous Teddy Roosevelt is what destroyed USA as a major economy of the world. The last 40 years have been a reflection and an inevitable progression towards the end of that economy and society simply based on the fake money created at an ever increased pace by the Federal reserve, monetising ever growing government expenses and debts.
No one should pay income related taxes. USA was not built with income related taxes, it was built with absolute minimal taxation on some imported goods and alcohol. USA was destroyed with large government and income taxes, that is true.
it's not those who cast the votes, it's those who tally them up that count.
roman_mir is a psycho that I'm ashamed to share a UID within a range of 60,000
- you shouldn't worry about it, not only are you useless for any meaningful discussion, but you also can't count obviously.
your id is 1212466, mine is 125474, the difference is 1086992 or 18 times the difference you are 'ashamed of', so don't worry, you don't have to be ashamed of proximity to my id, you have to be ashamed of many other things, but not of that one.
But this would be the first time that a petition would actually demand that the USA federal government actually does what it is SUPPOSED to do, to force the USA government actually to apply the interstate commerce law correctly.... This is what the interstate commerce clause is meant for: use federal power to force States to stop anti-business practices that hurt businesses and people when States attempt to destroy competition by preventing businesses and people from engaging in interstate commerce. States are not supposed to be able to prevent businesses and individuals from competing with one another, that is the purpose of the federal interstate commerce law. Not to force people to buy products that they would not buy without government force applied to them by to prevent States from destroying free market capitalism, to prevent States from denying competition.
Of-course forever now the federal government and States engaged in anti-competitive practices that they accuse businesses of, which in reality are the product of the government corruption and collusion. Mandating and requiring business licenses for people to engage in commerce is the anti-competitive practice that needs to be stopped. Mandating and requiring that businesses abide by government rules and regulations is the anti-competitive practice that needs to be stopped. Income taxes are not only a horrible economic policy, it is also a way to segregate businesses into those, that have access to government officials and those that cannot compete because they are not getting special treatment.
Basically this petition is the first petition that I hear about that actually demands the USA government to behave Constitutionally where it concerns trade and business and individual freedoms. Of-course the government will pay 0 attention to it.
You are the idiot. Again, for the idiot that you are: USA went on a fishing expedition, issuing blanket demands to banks that operate to give up customer information (customers, that are not even account holders in USA branches of the targeted banks), trying to force foreign banks on foreign soil to give up account information on all USA citizens that have accounts in those banks. No court order for any specific crime, nothing, simply a demand to give up all data. Similar to NSA recording all phone calls (including that of all USA citizens) without any court order whatsoever. The difference is of-course that companies based in other countries with accounts opened in other countries are not subject to any USA demands and if companies complied with anything, they are suffering for it now domestically (loss of trust among the account holders and public in general), which is why foreign banks don't even want to accept new Americans as customers.
Wrong, in a global Internet age it shouldn't be that individuals all of a sudden lose more of the individual freedoms, it is governments that should lose their authority. In a global economy and society there is no place for government meddling, intrusion into our lives. The less intrusion that we suffer from governments of any place in the world the better.
WARS ARE STARTED BY GOVERNMENTS. People are mass murdered by governments. Governments are the enemy of the People, not voluntary cooperatives or businesses. It's governments that murder and torture people and do it 'legally' (since they are the ones defining what 'legally' means.) Governments are the enemy of the free thinking individuals.
This is the case for any normal country, as well it should be. I can't believe I'm defending Obama on something,
- that's because you have no idea what you are actually defending OR talking about. In case I am pointing out USA DOJ was on a FISHING EXPEDITION, there weren't even court orders against any specific people, there was a BLANKET DEMAND FOR ALL INFORMATION ON ALL ACCOUNTS HELD BY ANY AMERICANS IN A SWISS BANK.
but they're right on this one: if a country's legal system has a valid case for something, and issues a court order ordering you to turn something over, you can't just avoid a court order by saying "it's in my summer home in another country!". If you refuse, they can hold you in contempt of court until you decide to produce it. Maybe the other country can't be compelled to give it up, but you're in this country, and they can keep you in jail as long as they want.
- proves one thing, you have 0 idea of what you are talking about. 0 (*zero*, nada, zilch, zip, empty space, empty head).
Tax evasion is not a crime in Switzerland and shouldn't be anywhere else either, by the way. Defining tax evasion as a crime is an act of aggression against individual rights of people on this planet by the cooperating collective mob and the mafia known as 'government'.
Again, the foreign companies are not USA citizens and foreign companies are not subject to USA law on their own land. However if you are an American then you are a SECOND CLASS CITIZEN today (or lower) because foreign banks that have any presence in the USA whatsoever DENY your request to open a bank account :)
If you think this is normal and that is how all countries operate, think again. When you are in Switzerland if you are from India or from China or from Russia or from Germany or from UK or from Brazil or from Uganda you are not going to be prevented from opening a bank account. However if you are from good old US of A you will not be able to open a bank account if you do not have another passport, that's what it is like today to be an American. USA government turned USA citizens into persona non grata for foreign businesses.
By the way, USA is the only of 2 or 3 countries in the world that tax 'world income', as in even if you are not a resident in the country, you are forced to file income taxes every year and above certain income you are forced to pay USA related income taxes :) Great success building that 'independence' and 'freedom'. USA was created to escape this type of persecution, now it is one of the worst offenders against human rights in the world and when I say human rights I am talking about the right to be an individual, the right to self determination, the right not to be a slave to a collective.
By the way, there is 0% wrong with having foreign bank accounts all over the world. AFAIC in today's society everybody needs to have more than one passport and many many many bank accounts and business investments around the world not tied to their country of residence. Of-course you don't have to do it, but then you are owned, aren't you?
This has nothing to do with USA citizens, this is about sovereignty of people and countries that are not USA in the first place. Swiss bank doesn't have to disclose ANYTHING to the USA regime about its account holders in Switzerland. Of-course current oppressive USA regime disagrees, apparently you are on the wrong side of the individual rights on this one as well.
By the way, any sufficiently truthful statement is indistinguishable from 'flamebait'. In other words, TRUTH HURTS, doesn't it?
Oh, and by the way it is not only just foreign businesses that operate on USA soil that are forced to comply with nonsensical USA demands, the foreign governments are giving in whenever presented with any demand really. USA is way out of line on all of its oppressive tactics, it will not end well.
The *real* question is what about companies that do business here but are based in other countries?
- what do you mean it is a 'question'? We already know the answer to this. If a business has any presence on USA soil, the oppressive dictatorial USA government feels that it has full authority to demand all information from that business about its customers and their transactions.
Yeast with THC sounds like a perfect combination, get high while eating something baked and it could be any bread, a dope bagel, a funny muffin, a nostalgic croissant, the branding possibilities are endless!
The American dream (before it was hijacked by the realtors in the USA) has died a horrific death as the government completely overtook over every function of the market and declared itself to be the legal dictator state completely dominating over the individual human being. The American dream was the idea that equal under the law individuals could pursue their own happiness on their own terms, where apart from regulating criminal conduct, government wouldn't have any authority to stop the individuals from attempting to build their own lives and businesses the way they saw fit. That dream suffered its first heart attack during Teddy Roosevelt, second heart attack during the Hoover and FDR, it was kicked in the balls in the fifties and then had a minor stroke when Nixon took the world off the gold standard. Now the dream is a dying, rotting, gangrenous corpse, that is being systematically shat on by every self proclaimed 'saviour' of the society and its values, by all the Marxists, socialists, fascists and basically brainless, dickless, heartless pigs that are happy simply to take another shit on the Constitution and smear their faeces all around them - a form of societal self degradation that periodically descends one or another population of humans into the dark ages throughout history.
So you believe that what Afghans want is your version of a welfare state, that rather than being left alone they want to be corralled into your personal version of 'free paradise'? Why not just LEAVE THE PEOPLE ALONE and not try to play either occupants or saviours?
Yes, but also this is a meaningless move by Germany in the real sense of the world, because it is still not demanding that all of its gold is returned by the USA immediately.
Of-course the German central bank authorities decided a couple of weeks back that it is better to pretend that the USA still has German gold and not raise any noise than to make it clear that its gold is gone. Germany requested the USA Fed to return its gold about 2 years ago, USA came out saying that it will return half of the gold within 7 year period but in 2 years only returned 1/100th of what it was supposed to, actually the numbers can be found here. In any case if Germany truly wanted to make a statement it would insist on the return of its gold, with the correct serial numbers on the bars and everything.
If Germany simply wanted to get the gold back it also has a choice of selling the gold in the market and getting dollars back, which the Fed could easily provide by creating them out of thin air as it always does, so that then Germany could buy the gold back in the market (of-course fewer tons could be bought since the prices would go up, but at least it wouldn't be a total loss as it is now). Any of this would be better than a useless symbolic gesture.
Your meta comments stopped making sense even during the last post, here:
In this case which would you support, the freedom of the employees to make their own choices or the freedom of HL to try to dictate those choices for them?
- what kind of logic is this? The 2 statements have nothing to do with each other.
Would I support freedom of employees or freedom of HL "to dictate"? You have squarely placed your bias into that very statement.
I support freedom of the individual AND I disagree with your premise that HL 'dictates' anything to anybody! Government dictates to HL AND to the employees by getting between them and changing the rules of the private contract.
As to 'sock puppet' nonsense, either you want to hear my answer to your comment or you do not. If you do not then state so clearly and I will not answer. If you do however want to have an answer, then you will have to accept that I can only leave 2 comments in 24 hour period on my main account and I have no choice but to use my backup account (which also can only be used twice in a day) and it should not matter to you how I left the comment, but it seems it does, which means you are not actually discussing anything here.
This case should not have anything to do with religion in the first place, people that run businesses must not be abused by the government and having their freedoms revoked just because they are running a business.
Government must not have any authority to dictate to people what type of compensation the employer and the employee agree upon. Government must not have any authority to dictate that compensation must be provided in a form of insurance or contraceptives or in form of any other product or currency that goes against the agreement between the actual 2 parties involved - a person buying labour and a person selling labour.
This is a win for freedom but not completely, because it mentions religion in the first place. Religion has nothing to do with this, it's about INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM.
Have government provide a basic income
- government doesn't have anything "to provide", it can only take away from somebody in order to subsidise somebody else, it doesn't produce anything and has nothing to give to anybody for free. If you are talking about government stealing even more resources from those, who are already being stolen from in order to provide bread and circuses to those, who are already on welfare anyway, then all you will achieve will be more corruption, even less production, as those producing, will be moving their productive capacity out of the country even faster.
...the other red herring argument was age discrimination...
The reality is that USA (and many others, like the Canadian or European) workers are much more expensive than workers from countries that do not have the insane socialist labour laws that raise the cost of doing business just enough for companies not to hire in those places any longer. This is not about an hourly wage, even if the hourly wage was exactly the same in USA and in India it still would not make sense to hire Americans. This is about the insane labour laws, the insane government agenda of running welfare / socialist / fascist states, where the individual is subservient to the government. It is too expensive to deal with big government where you cannot even pay a simple cash bribe for the government to go away and not come back.
For 9 years I was a contractor, doing what needed to be done for many different clients. 1 year? My longest contract (with all the extensions) lasted for 5 years, and I left that one to start my own business. My shortest contract was about 2 weeks, I came to do what the client needed, did it and went on.
Waltons and Kochs do much more for the current society than Musk is, they are bringing cheapest goods possible to the most people that the possibly can. Musk's creativity is actually very narrow in its target market, but he can become Ford of today if he manages to find efficiencies and actually mass produce cheaper and cheaper vehicles even in the modern age of enormous government created inflation.