It's OK for the government to take away your freedom. Because you got a vote. Slashdot commenters say so.
If the government weren't oppressing you, then some corporation running the airlines might enact a reasonable policy instead, without consulting you at all. This way, you got a vote. See how great that worked out? You all remember voting for the TSA, right?
Unemployment is very high and it has been for about 4 years. There's a glut of idle labor. Why would you pay person X $11/hour for work persons X1-X200 will gladly do for $9.75/hour?
The only major non-union Supermarket in my area is Wal-Mart. Working for a Union outfit, I do have to pay more in union dues. But I make whole hell of a lot more working for a union place than I ever would at Wal-Mart.
Why should anyone care? Do you care about us? What does the union do for anyone besides the union?
Everyone I know at Wal Mart is on the edge, barely making ends meet, and on assistance programs, such as Food Stamps, TANF, etc.
Does the union support politicians who want to shrink these programs? No. They do not. They support politicians who want to expand these programs. Unions are part of the problem. For this reason alone, I hope Amazon and Wal Mart and all the non-union alternatives displace the union supermarkets.
Tell it to someone from 50 years ago. Today's union bosses have been trading off work their great grandfathers did for long enough. What do they have to offer anyone in the future besides cronyism, coercion, and corruption? Expensive and inconvenient groceries?
Fed Ex, UPS, and most large supermarkets are union operations. Less business for them means less power for union bosses and more power for individual citizens.
Society protects the farmer from thieves because if society didn't, no one would farm and you would starve. Or only highly armed groups of men would farm inside fortifications, and they would shoot guys like you from the walls.
The disease decided you shouldn't survive. Free people making free choices decided to help you live instead. They're just asking for something in return for their time and effort.
whine about patents. Because whining about patents cures... ?
People with drug patents might actually help you when you're sick. What will the anti-patent crowd do for you when you're sick? Besides trying to take away the financial incentive to cure you?
But the actions of a Phoenix ATF director over multiple administrations doesn't have a damn thing to do with Obama.
He just heard about it on the news, I guess -- like a lot of other things his administration has done lately.
Why stonewall the congressional investigation then? Why withhold documents? Why should people believe the Administration's story when they're hiding evidence from congressional investigators?
Knowingly allowed the guns to be supplied. Told gun dealers, who raised suspicion about the buyers, to sell the guns to the buyers for the drug cartels.
The rest of the world wants to know, "What's the friggen hold-up?"
We're a free country. Forcing a measurement system on everyone based on a central government edict isn't the way we have traditionally done things. That is changing though. Soon, no one will remember when the US was a free country.
The Right Answer is very frequently Common Sense. And Common Sense is what makes us better than those senseless morons who don't have any Common Sense. All of us who matter and are important have Common Sense -- or course we do. If you agree with us, you have Common Sense, and you are therefore not one of those senseless morons who disagree.
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US Military has roughly 1.4million troops total.
And starting tomorrow, President Obama will be quartering them at your house.
They told me this would happen if I voted for Mitt Romney. And they were right!
It's OK for the government to take away your freedom. Because you got a vote. Slashdot commenters say so.
If the government weren't oppressing you, then some corporation running the airlines might enact a reasonable policy instead, without consulting you at all. This way, you got a vote. See how great that worked out? You all remember voting for the TSA, right?
Unemployment is very high and it has been for about 4 years. There's a glut of idle labor. Why would you pay person X $11/hour for work persons X1-X200 will gladly do for $9.75/hour?
Chance of this story getting widely reported: none.
Since this story doesn't advance the opportunity for governments to exercise and consolidate power over individuals, it will not be widely reported.
Do these plutocrats all wear monocles in this story? Do they cross the Atlantic on their steam ships?
... said the union guy from the year 1937.
Wal Mart employees all work 80-hour weeks, I guess.
The only major non-union Supermarket in my area is Wal-Mart. Working for a Union outfit, I do have to pay more in union dues. But I make whole hell of a lot more working for a union place than I ever would at Wal-Mart.
Why should anyone care? Do you care about us? What does the union do for anyone besides the union?
Everyone I know at Wal Mart is on the edge, barely making ends meet, and on assistance programs, such as Food Stamps, TANF, etc.
Does the union support politicians who want to shrink these programs? No. They do not. They support politicians who want to expand these programs. Unions are part of the problem. For this reason alone, I hope Amazon and Wal Mart and all the non-union alternatives displace the union supermarkets.
Tell it to someone from 50 years ago. Today's union bosses have been trading off work their great grandfathers did for long enough. What do they have to offer anyone in the future besides cronyism, coercion, and corruption? Expensive and inconvenient groceries?
Tell it to someone from 50 years ago. We don't have to keep paying today's union abusers to thank people who died 50 or 75 years ago.
Fed Ex, UPS, and most large supermarkets are union operations. Less business for them means less power for union bosses and more power for individual citizens.
Society protects the farmer from thieves because if society didn't, no one would farm and you would starve. Or only highly armed groups of men would farm inside fortifications, and they would shoot guys like you from the walls.
The farmer who grows your food is also "blackmailing" you the same way.
The disease decided you shouldn't survive. Free people making free choices decided to help you live instead. They're just asking for something in return for their time and effort.
whine about patents. Because whining about patents cures ... ?
People with drug patents might actually help you when you're sick. What will the anti-patent crowd do for you when you're sick? Besides trying to take away the financial incentive to cure you?
But the actions of a Phoenix ATF director over multiple administrations doesn't have a damn thing to do with Obama.
He just heard about it on the news, I guess -- like a lot of other things his administration has done lately.
Why stonewall the congressional investigation then? Why withhold documents? Why should people believe the Administration's story when they're hiding evidence from congressional investigators?
Knowingly allowed the guns to be supplied. Told gun dealers, who raised suspicion about the buyers, to sell the guns to the buyers for the drug cartels.
Please tell me what you would consider a scandal.
Mitt Romney said 47% of people don't pay income taxes and so his tax cut message might not appeal to them. Scandal-palooza!
(Sorry dead Mexicans and grieving widows and orphans and parents of murdered children. You lose.)
It's just hundreds of innocent Mexicans murdered by guns the administration supplied to drug cartels. How is that a scandal?
Meanwhile, Mitt Romney made his dog ride on top of the family car once. Sorry widows and orphans of murdered Mexicans, you lose.
But "Common Sense" is not a quality. It is simply a way to say that people who disagree with you aren't sensible.
All the soil in Africa is made up of diamonds and zebra crap. Mostly diamonds.
The rest of the world wants to know, "What's the friggen hold-up?"
We're a free country. Forcing a measurement system on everyone based on a central government edict isn't the way we have traditionally done things. That is changing though. Soon, no one will remember when the US was a free country.
The Right Answer is very frequently Common Sense. And Common Sense is what makes us better than those senseless morons who don't have any Common Sense. All of us who matter and are important have Common Sense -- or course we do. If you agree with us, you have Common Sense, and you are therefore not one of those senseless morons who disagree.
Too bad President McCain kept us from repairing them by vetoing that stimulus package.