Evidence? I looked this up with neutral search terms. While one of the items on the list could possibly have something to do with unions, they are not even explicitly mentioned here:
If you search around, you will see basically a similar list. Your evidence is, what? What on earth do you know about it -- because you've written multiple posts now and not a bit of actual fact has come out.
For one, to stop the steady erosion of these same rights. How many in here reading this, for example, are wearing a badge of courage for working a 60 hour "40 hour" work week while there are a ton of people still out on the street? Or how about "please stop giving me LESS money so I can continue to pay my bills?"
And they're totally unnecessary anyway, because we know that the paymaster, auto company, or federal government can always be trusted to be fair to their employees -- ensuring the safety of the middle class.
Nope. Facebook Chat went XMPP after the plugin came out, and also if you use something Facebook-specific, you don't have to enter as many of the settings.
If that's where you want to live, you should have to pay for it. Right now it costs you less to live out there even though it costs the government more.
Thank YOU sir for being one of those assholes who gets all "No guvment gon' decide where I live" over a simple statement of the fact that an exurban lifestyle is a drain on the whole economy and is not fair to the more denser areas that have to the likely considerable weight of the car exurbs along financially.
How is it different? When you are a company that makes BILLIONS and BILLIONS, it is a little different to provide inadequate health insurance or recommend that your employees take government assistance or any of the rest.
I don't have an original link for this, but I found it after a little bit of Googling. I'm sure I could find an official report if I looked harder:
"This report by the International Center for Technology Assessment (CTA) identifies and quantifies the many external costs of using motor vehicles and the internal combustion engine that are not reflected in the retail price Americans pay for gasoline. These are costs that consumers pay indirectly by way of increased taxes, insurance costs, and retail prices in other sectors.
The report divides the external costs of gasoline usage into five primary areas: (1) Tax Subsidization of the Oil Industry; (2) Government Program Subsidies; (3) Protection Costs Involved in Oil Shipment and Motor Vehicle Services; (4) Environmental, Health, and Social Costs of Gasoline Usage; and (5) Other Important Externalities of Motor Vehicle Use. Together, these external costs total $558.7 billion to $1.69 trillion per year, which, when added to the retail price of gasoline, result in a per gallon price of $5.60 to $15.14.
TAX SUBSIDIES - $9.1 to $17.8 billion.
The federal government provides the oil industry with numerous tax breaks designed to ensure that domestic companies can compete with international producers and that gasoline remains cheap for American consumers. Federal tax breaks that directly benefit oil companies include: the Percentage Depletion Allowance (a subsidy of $784 million to $1 billion per year), the Nonconventional Fuel Production Credit ($769 to $900 million), immediate expensing of exploration and development costs ($200 to $255 million), the Enhanced Oil Recovery Credit ($26.3 to $100 million), foreign tax credits ($1.11 to $3.4 billion), foreign income deferrals ($183 to $318 million), and accelerated depreciation allowances ($1.0 to $4.5 billion).
Tax subsidies do not end at the federal level. The fact that most state income taxes are based on oil firms' deflated federal tax bill results in undertaxation of $125 to $323 million per year. Many states also impose fuel taxes that are lower than regular sales taxes, amounting to a subsidy of $4.8 billion per year to gasoline retailers and users. New rules under the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 are likely to provide the petroleum industry with additional tax subsidies of $2.07 billion per year. In total, annual tax breaks that support gasoline production and use amount to $9.1 to $17.8 billion."
You're missing piece is the price of gas. Gas is artificially low now, which changes the price and which, since it's not taxed to the degree that it should be, stunts growth in mass transit partially because that money could fund transit and partially because no one has to use the train and so there is not enough demand for more service.
In your scenario, in a better case, your high-speed line would be augmented by low speed (but still fast) trains and light rail, all of which shorten the distance and the amount of time required to travel. Also, even in your current case, if you can avoid the bus, you can travel during trafficked periods because you are unaffected. And, in your current case, if that's a trip you make often, you probably live more proximate to the train.
Additionally, I have carried a lot of stuff on trains before.
First of all, no one should shop at Walmart period. It is a soulless evil company at all respects that hurts all of us on a daily basis. Second of all, thanks to their tax cheating ways, no one lives down the street from a Walmart anyway. There are plenty of grocery stores in reasonably built areas that are walking distance. Many of them even deliver.
Second of all, you absolutely can buy groceries on foot -- ever heard of a cart?
Third, sunk money? All of the road maintenance and fuel and costs to the environment are on-going. Slowly moving to a model that makes economic and efficient use of space will save money in the long run.
Really, all of your problems have been solved already: people not living in places that are less dense than streetcar suburbs. Raise the price of gas over time, people will move, and we don't have to deal with all off this robot cockery.
If you think it is a good thing to force people to own the software they need to do their job and you think that counts as hard work, then you are part of what's wrong with the world these days.
I'm with you until the bullshit argument about how everyone should live in the middle of nowhere and pollute and get fat (costing us in air quality and overweight unhealthy people).
Gary W. Longsine doesn't know what he's talking about and has no experience with Linux printing, which is actually often easier than Windows printing these days.
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The gap between the rich and the poor has grown exponentially. Explain that way please.
Evidence? I looked this up with neutral search terms. While one of the items on the list could possibly have something to do with unions, they are not even explicitly mentioned here:
http://blogs.hbr.org/financial-intelligence/2009/06/why-gm-failed.html
If you search around, you will see basically a similar list. Your evidence is, what? What on earth do you know about it -- because you've written multiple posts now and not a bit of actual fact has come out.
Oh really? And your evidence to support that statistic is exactly... what?
And they've hired half of the working class to kill the other half.
Just for balance, my union's staff is unionized.
Jobs could be done for free, too, in slave times. Why isn't that better?
For one, to stop the steady erosion of these same rights. How many in here reading this, for example, are wearing a badge of courage for working a 60 hour "40 hour" work week while there are a ton of people still out on the street? Or how about "please stop giving me LESS money so I can continue to pay my bills?"
If everything is going so well, why are incomes falling?
And they're totally unnecessary anyway, because we know that the paymaster, auto company, or federal government can always be trusted to be fair to their employees -- ensuring the safety of the middle class.
Did someone mention "pulling teeth" to get support? That's my guess.
Except you get what you pay for.
Which would you rather be smashed in the face with: the in-flight mag or an iPhone?
Nope. Facebook Chat went XMPP after the plugin came out, and also if you use something Facebook-specific, you don't have to enter as many of the settings.
Believe what you want, but you're not correct.
If that's where you want to live, you should have to pay for it. Right now it costs you less to live out there even though it costs the government more.
Thank YOU sir for being one of those assholes who gets all "No guvment gon' decide where I live" over a simple statement of the fact that an exurban lifestyle is a drain on the whole economy and is not fair to the more denser areas that have to the likely considerable weight of the car exurbs along financially.
I stand corrected on the proximity. Around here, and most places I've seen, that is absolutely not the case.
As for Walmart:
http://news.change.org/stories/8-reasons-we-should-fight-to-keep-walmart-out-of-our-major-cities
How is it different? When you are a company that makes BILLIONS and BILLIONS, it is a little different to provide inadequate health insurance or recommend that your employees take government assistance or any of the rest.
I don't have an original link for this, but I found it after a little bit of Googling. I'm sure I could find an official report if I looked harder:
"This report by the International Center for Technology Assessment (CTA) identifies and quantifies the many external costs of using motor vehicles and the internal combustion engine that are not reflected in the retail price Americans pay for gasoline. These are costs that consumers pay indirectly by way of increased taxes, insurance costs, and retail prices in other sectors.
The report divides the external costs of gasoline usage into five primary areas: (1) Tax Subsidization of the Oil Industry; (2) Government Program Subsidies; (3) Protection Costs Involved in Oil Shipment and Motor Vehicle Services; (4) Environmental, Health, and Social Costs of Gasoline Usage; and (5) Other Important Externalities of Motor Vehicle Use. Together, these external costs total $558.7 billion to $1.69 trillion per year, which, when added to the retail price of gasoline, result in a per gallon price of $5.60 to $15.14.
TAX SUBSIDIES - $9.1 to $17.8 billion.
The federal government provides the oil industry with numerous tax breaks designed to ensure that domestic companies can compete with international producers and that gasoline remains cheap for American consumers. Federal tax breaks that directly benefit oil companies include: the Percentage Depletion Allowance (a subsidy of $784 million to $1 billion per year), the Nonconventional Fuel Production Credit ($769 to $900 million), immediate expensing of exploration and development costs ($200 to $255 million), the Enhanced Oil Recovery Credit ($26.3 to $100 million), foreign tax credits ($1.11 to $3.4 billion), foreign income deferrals ($183 to $318 million), and accelerated depreciation allowances ($1.0 to $4.5 billion).
Tax subsidies do not end at the federal level. The fact that most state income taxes are based on oil firms' deflated federal tax bill results in undertaxation of $125 to $323 million per year. Many states also impose fuel taxes that are lower than regular sales taxes, amounting to a subsidy of $4.8 billion per year to gasoline retailers and users. New rules under the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 are likely to provide the petroleum industry with additional tax subsidies of $2.07 billion per year. In total, annual tax breaks that support gasoline production and use amount to $9.1 to $17.8 billion."
You're missing piece is the price of gas. Gas is artificially low now, which changes the price and which, since it's not taxed to the degree that it should be, stunts growth in mass transit partially because that money could fund transit and partially because no one has to use the train and so there is not enough demand for more service.
In your scenario, in a better case, your high-speed line would be augmented by low speed (but still fast) trains and light rail, all of which shorten the distance and the amount of time required to travel. Also, even in your current case, if you can avoid the bus, you can travel during trafficked periods because you are unaffected. And, in your current case, if that's a trip you make often, you probably live more proximate to the train.
Additionally, I have carried a lot of stuff on trains before.
First of all, no one should shop at Walmart period. It is a soulless evil company at all respects that hurts all of us on a daily basis. Second of all, thanks to their tax cheating ways, no one lives down the street from a Walmart anyway. There are plenty of grocery stores in reasonably built areas that are walking distance. Many of them even deliver.
Second of all, you absolutely can buy groceries on foot -- ever heard of a cart?
Third, sunk money? All of the road maintenance and fuel and costs to the environment are on-going. Slowly moving to a model that makes economic and efficient use of space will save money in the long run.
Really, all of your problems have been solved already: people not living in places that are less dense than streetcar suburbs. Raise the price of gas over time, people will move, and we don't have to deal with all off this robot cockery.
If you think it is a good thing to force people to own the software they need to do their job and you think that counts as hard work, then you are part of what's wrong with the world these days.
Have you ever seen a company like that?
That is rather peculiar. If you move somewhere where your cell phone no longer works, you're ordinarily allowed out of the contract.
I'm with you until the bullshit argument about how everyone should live in the middle of nowhere and pollute and get fat (costing us in air quality and overweight unhealthy people).
Everyone who's been put in this position likely knows that Windows is infinitely more likely to get fucked up, and fast.
Gary W. Longsine doesn't know what he's talking about and has no experience with Linux printing, which is actually often easier than Windows printing these days.
There. REALLY fixed that for you.