Sadly that's NOT how this system was supposed to work, the states are a unique part of the division of power, or they used to be.
You say that like it's supposed to mean something here. The Electoral College makes most states irrelevant in presidential elections, as only "battleground" states are contested by candidates. How exactly does making a mere dozen out of fifty states matter help your precious states matter?
One thing that amazes me is that some states are now voting on bills to reduce their effective power by making their electors follow a national popular vote.
All a state is, is a set of borders and the people that live there. As the Electoral College screws over people in both large and small states - only "battleground" states are contested - the states signing onto the popular vote pact are helping their people. A democratic vote in Texas will now actually mean something, as will a republican vote in California.
There is no justification for keeping the Electoral College, which was set up to give more power to slave states and give elitists the ability to ignore how the people voted and select any candidate they want for POTUS.
GP is 100% right that these are ultimately paid for by the rest of us.
100% corporatist talking point. All corporations set all prices to maximize revenue. Raise prices too high, consumers will move to competitors. If Bayer could raise prices without driving away their customers, they wouldn't wait for a judgement as an excuse to do so. Judgements which have so far been pocket change to them.
That's just repeating borish anti-union tropes that are powered by willful dumbfuckery. Any union is utterly dependent on the long term success of the company and industry it is in. As opposed to executives and unique Randian snowflakes like yourself, who only plan to work at a position for a year or two before applying for a different position with a different company.
Terrible workers getting paid the same as great workers.
This anti-union bullshit is predicated on the notion that you are just dying to do not only your own job, but Billy Bob's over there when he starts to slack off. Human beings simply aren't built that way.
Unsustainable compensation for workers.
Unions will accept cutbacks to save their jobs. Because, dipshit, their long term existence is utterly dependent on the long term well being of the company. As opposed to executives who DGAF if the company goes bankrupt in five years, if they can take their bonuses now and get off the ship before it sinks.
Taking dues and giving them to political causes that some of their members may not support.
Then vote to change what political causes the union engages in, or doesn't engage in. Contrast that to when a non-union shop takes the output of your labor, uses some of that for lobbying, in which you have absolutely no say whatsoever.
Would never want to be in a union again.
Don't let the door hit your dumb libertarian snowflake ass on the way out.
Unions act as a pushback against corporate greed. You do know that corporate greed affects workers at all ends of the pay scale, not just those at the bottom, yes? There is a reason why professional athletes, actors, screenwriters and directors are union members, even when they make six or seven figure salaries. It's so they don't get fucked over by those making eight, nine or even ten figures.
Getting politicians on the record opposing popular legislation is just as important as getting them to support it. So you can vote them out of office in the next election, after which your bill is brought up again. If it's still blocked, repeat the process until it is passed.
So how did that work for the GOP when they suddenly had the opportunity to repeal Obamacare and then all of a sudden decided not to?
Because Obomneycare was always their damned plan. Has been since the Heritage Foundation wrote it in opposition to the Clinton plan in the early 90's. Dole ran on it in '96, and Romney pushed it into law on the state level in Massachusetts. That they flip-flopped in a partisan play does nothing to change that fact.
Which is why Obomneycare is a great partisan hack test. If you're a Republican and you hate it, you must have voted for Clinton in '92 and '96. And for Democrats who loved it, you must have cried big tears when Romney lost the 2008 Republican primary.
Partly, but that's only a small part of the bigger picture. It's primarily because he knows there's a storm coming, as soon as Trump is gone and Brexit isn't distracting every moment of British political discourse anymore, the genie he let out of the bottle of blah blah blah blah
Russiagate has never been anything more than a giant steaming pile of McCarthyite BS. It's a DQ Blizzard of red baiting, Swiftboating from Hillbots, and yelling Squirrel! to distract you from the actual stolen election in 2016: the Democratic primary.
Literal partisan blinders. You think Bill Kristol is a Democrat??
ThinkProgress reports that its traffic from Facebook has been slashed by eighty percent due to a âoefact checkâ by the Weekly Standard which, through a series of moronic mental contortions, found ThinkProgress guilty of reporting fake news about Brett Kavanaugh of all things. In a twist of irony which would be delicious if it weren't so disgusting, the Weekly Standard is one of Facebook's authorized "fact checkers", and happens to be the brainchild of none other than bloodthirsty psychopath and rehabilitated #Resistance hero Bill Kristol.
And gosh, look at all those Republican co-sponsors of the pro-censorship, anti-BDS law. Both wings of of the right wing capitalist war party suck.
That's why I think that all police malpractice judgements should come out of the police retirement fund, not tax revenues.
Whenever there's a huge police brutality settlement in LA or NYC, it's not the taxpayers paying for it directly, but the city's insurance company. But, maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing if citizens periodically saw their "Brutality Tax" rise three quarters of a percent the way they see their sales taxes go up, as they would be more motivated to demand reform.
To paraphrase NDT, the neat thing about facts is they don't give a single shit about you Randian whackjobs or your fantasy economics. Not the tiniest, greenest little shit.
Now get your ass under that bridge for the next six months, living on nothing but raw potatoes, and tell us how awesome it will be for workers to work full time yet make starvation-level wages.
The preponderance of the evidence is that hands-free calls are not safer.
One hand on the wheel vs two. Two hands would give more control when the driver finally pays more attention to the road or has that "oh shit" burst of adrenaline.
The same type of laws are present in all 50 states.
And how many states are enforcing those laws against Tesla? That's the only thing relevant here, and Texas is the only state making noises about blocking not just sales, but repairs.
Lolwut. The minimum wage has remained so low for so long that people who work on it full time - or more - can qualify for state benefits. State benefits that cost taxpayer money. The math here isn't hard or disputable, though I guess it fits with your wanting other people to eat raw potatoes under a bridge to survive on making a few bucks a week if there's no minimum wage at all.. Never yourselves, just others. So denial kicks in that your tax dollars are subsidizing Walmart's quarterly profits.
Hang on isn't that exactly what happened here? Amazon increased the hourly wage and then immediately cut back on hours. How is this "false"?
Because it's propaganda. Amazon is a ruthlessly efficient company. If they thought they could save money by cutting workers from 30 hours a week to 20 - they would do that with or without a wage increase and pocket the extra profits. A wage increase is just the excuse, to sow FUD on paying more than poverty level compensation. Same goes for the talking point that higher wages will just result in higher prices. If you're middle management and go into the CEO's office to tell him you've just increased prices in response to a hike in the minimum wage, and that the higher prices shouldn't result in customers moving to the competition - he'll ask why you didn't do this a long time ago. Before telling you to clean out your desk.
And because demand is the only real job creator. Not capitalists, not the rich, not investors. Demand. And what does the most to increase demand? Giving workers at the lowest end of the totem pole more money to spend. Because spend it they will, most of it in the local economy. That means more jobs, not less.
The university where I work is in a province which recently significantly increased the minimum wage. Unfortunately, we employ students using research grants which did not similarly increase so now we have fewer research jobs for undergrad students which means fewer students gaining research experience.
Sounds like workers are leaving for higher paying jobs....not job losses as in people being unemployed or underemployed.
Sticking your head in the sand and pretending that there are no negative consequences is not a helpful strategy.
The only "negative consequences" are for those businesses that actually do close because they can't pay their workers a living wage. Good riddance. Any business that has to pay poverty-level wages doesn't deserve to exist. And aside from poor people having more money leading directly to more jobs created, a higher minimum lifts the floor for other workers as well. Why work a high stress job paying $15 an hour if low-stress jobs now have to pay just as much. So the high stress job has to offer more money to their workers. And to management, as they have to be paid more than the workers. etc
Yes, yes it did, and I quote a Randian rag based on hatorade, hand waiving and word salads
FTFY. No stats, no facts, no citations, just a bunch of tautologies. And your shitpiece is posted right next to one regurgitating 35 year old Cato propaganda on Social Security.
Flint's water problems were caused by an unelected emergency manager appointed by a capitalist to cut corners. So more tax cuts could be given to capitalist businesses and wealthy capitalists.
However you want to rationalize being ten pounds of shit crammed into a five pound sack. There are many, many legit ways to slam Bernie Sanders - but they're all from the left. His sheepdogging for the Democratic Party, acting as controlled opposition, support for Apartheid Israel, sneering that Hugo Chavez was a "dead communist dictator"....
So? Again, Amazon did nothing but lose money for the first ten years of its existence, but now it's a huge company and it's CEO is the richest man in the world. You think that after all that, Bezos is going to be risk-adverse to running one of his divisions in the red if it could bring massive profits in the future?
This is not hard to understand. Try to keep up.
You first, dipshit. Price wars are as old as business. Brick and mortar included. There is nothing about having a physical store presence that forces companies to run in the black when they can run in the red to increase their marketshare. Walmart proved this decades before the Internet was ever a thing. Run at a loss - which Amazon can easily afford here - until competitors are driven out of the market. Then you raise prices and rake in the cash. An elementary economic principle that any fifth grader could tell you after getting a D in remedial economics.
Mindlessly regurgitating the trope that minimum wage increases lead to job losses - which are debunked each and every time the minimum wage is raised and by other countries with higher minimums - speaks to your feeble, indoctrinated, elitist mind. And you shitweasles are never arguing for poverty level wages for yourselves, only for those unwashed "others". So fuck off.
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You say that like it's supposed to mean something here. The Electoral College makes most states irrelevant in presidential elections, as only "battleground" states are contested by candidates. How exactly does making a mere dozen out of fifty states matter help your precious states matter?
All a state is, is a set of borders and the people that live there. As the Electoral College screws over people in both large and small states - only "battleground" states are contested - the states signing onto the popular vote pact are helping their people. A democratic vote in Texas will now actually mean something, as will a republican vote in California.
There is no justification for keeping the Electoral College, which was set up to give more power to slave states and give elitists the ability to ignore how the people voted and select any candidate they want for POTUS.
100% corporatist talking point. All corporations set all prices to maximize revenue. Raise prices too high, consumers will move to competitors. If Bayer could raise prices without driving away their customers, they wouldn't wait for a judgement as an excuse to do so. Judgements which have so far been pocket change to them.
That's just repeating borish anti-union tropes that are powered by willful dumbfuckery. Any union is utterly dependent on the long term success of the company and industry it is in. As opposed to executives and unique Randian snowflakes like yourself, who only plan to work at a position for a year or two before applying for a different position with a different company.
This anti-union bullshit is predicated on the notion that you are just dying to do not only your own job, but Billy Bob's over there when he starts to slack off. Human beings simply aren't built that way.
Unions will accept cutbacks to save their jobs. Because, dipshit, their long term existence is utterly dependent on the long term well being of the company. As opposed to executives who DGAF if the company goes bankrupt in five years, if they can take their bonuses now and get off the ship before it sinks.
Then vote to change what political causes the union engages in, or doesn't engage in. Contrast that to when a non-union shop takes the output of your labor, uses some of that for lobbying, in which you have absolutely no say whatsoever.
Don't let the door hit your dumb libertarian snowflake ass on the way out.
Unions act as a pushback against corporate greed. You do know that corporate greed affects workers at all ends of the pay scale, not just those at the bottom, yes? There is a reason why professional athletes, actors, screenwriters and directors are union members, even when they make six or seven figure salaries. It's so they don't get fucked over by those making eight, nine or even ten figures.
Getting politicians on the record opposing popular legislation is just as important as getting them to support it. So you can vote them out of office in the next election, after which your bill is brought up again. If it's still blocked, repeat the process until it is passed.
Because Obomneycare was always their damned plan. Has been since the Heritage Foundation wrote it in opposition to the Clinton plan in the early 90's. Dole ran on it in '96, and Romney pushed it into law on the state level in Massachusetts. That they flip-flopped in a partisan play does nothing to change that fact.
Which is why Obomneycare is a great partisan hack test. If you're a Republican and you hate it, you must have voted for Clinton in '92 and '96. And for Democrats who loved it, you must have cried big tears when Romney lost the 2008 Republican primary.
Russiagate has never been anything more than a giant steaming pile of McCarthyite BS. It's a DQ Blizzard of red baiting, Swiftboating from Hillbots, and yelling Squirrel! to distract you from the actual stolen election in 2016: the Democratic primary.
Literal partisan blinders. You think Bill Kristol is a Democrat??
And gosh, look at all those Republican co-sponsors of the pro-censorship, anti-BDS law. Both wings of of the right wing capitalist war party suck.
Whenever there's a huge police brutality settlement in LA or NYC, it's not the taxpayers paying for it directly, but the city's insurance company. But, maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing if citizens periodically saw their "Brutality Tax" rise three quarters of a percent the way they see their sales taxes go up, as they would be more motivated to demand reform.
To paraphrase NDT, the neat thing about facts is they don't give a single shit about you Randian whackjobs or your fantasy economics. Not the tiniest, greenest little shit.
Now get your ass under that bridge for the next six months, living on nothing but raw potatoes, and tell us how awesome it will be for workers to work full time yet make starvation-level wages.
Uh huh. Just like how after the first state explicitly banned gay marriage, the other 49 immediately followed suit. Every last one. Because reasons.
One hand on the wheel vs two. Two hands would give more control when the driver finally pays more attention to the road or has that "oh shit" burst of adrenaline.
And how many states are enforcing those laws against Tesla? That's the only thing relevant here, and Texas is the only state making noises about blocking not just sales, but repairs.
Like Al Gore, the mere mention of AOC triggers the lizard brain in right wingers. It's embarrassing - for you.
Lolwut. The minimum wage has remained so low for so long that people who work on it full time - or more - can qualify for state benefits. State benefits that cost taxpayer money. The math here isn't hard or disputable, though I guess it fits with your wanting other people to eat raw potatoes under a bridge to survive on making a few bucks a week if there's no minimum wage at all.. Never yourselves, just others. So denial kicks in that your tax dollars are subsidizing Walmart's quarterly profits.
Priiiiice waaaaar. Google it.
Bezos wouldn't be the richest man in the world if Amazon had never turned a profit....so it's a good thing that's not what I said.
Just like Walmart will never drive Woolworths out of business since they both sold cheap crap at low margins?
Because it's true. Dumbass.
Don't know what a link or a meme is old man?
Guess you're just going to play willfully obtuse instead of dealing with your irrational hatorade based on anecdotes and confirmation bias?
Are you an Old Economy Steve who's engaging in a case of "a noun, a verb, and millenials?"
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Because it's propaganda. Amazon is a ruthlessly efficient company. If they thought they could save money by cutting workers from 30 hours a week to 20 - they would do that with or without a wage increase and pocket the extra profits. A wage increase is just the excuse, to sow FUD on paying more than poverty level compensation. Same goes for the talking point that higher wages will just result in higher prices. If you're middle management and go into the CEO's office to tell him you've just increased prices in response to a hike in the minimum wage, and that the higher prices shouldn't result in customers moving to the competition - he'll ask why you didn't do this a long time ago. Before telling you to clean out your desk.
And because demand is the only real job creator. Not capitalists, not the rich, not investors. Demand. And what does the most to increase demand? Giving workers at the lowest end of the totem pole more money to spend. Because spend it they will, most of it in the local economy. That means more jobs, not less.
Sounds like workers are leaving for higher paying jobs....not job losses as in people being unemployed or underemployed.
The only "negative consequences" are for those businesses that actually do close because they can't pay their workers a living wage. Good riddance. Any business that has to pay poverty-level wages doesn't deserve to exist. And aside from poor people having more money leading directly to more jobs created, a higher minimum lifts the floor for other workers as well. Why work a high stress job paying $15 an hour if low-stress jobs now have to pay just as much. So the high stress job has to offer more money to their workers. And to management, as they have to be paid more than the workers. etc
FTFY. No stats, no facts, no citations, just a bunch of tautologies. And your shitpiece is posted right next to one regurgitating 35 year old Cato propaganda on Social Security.
FTFY2.
However you want to rationalize being ten pounds of shit crammed into a five pound sack. There are many, many legit ways to slam Bernie Sanders - but they're all from the left. His sheepdogging for the Democratic Party, acting as controlled opposition, support for Apartheid Israel, sneering that Hugo Chavez was a "dead communist dictator"....
So? Again, Amazon did nothing but lose money for the first ten years of its existence, but now it's a huge company and it's CEO is the richest man in the world. You think that after all that, Bezos is going to be risk-adverse to running one of his divisions in the red if it could bring massive profits in the future?
You first, dipshit. Price wars are as old as business. Brick and mortar included. There is nothing about having a physical store presence that forces companies to run in the black when they can run in the red to increase their marketshare. Walmart proved this decades before the Internet was ever a thing. Run at a loss - which Amazon can easily afford here - until competitors are driven out of the market. Then you raise prices and rake in the cash. An elementary economic principle that any fifth grader could tell you after getting a D in remedial economics.
Mindlessly regurgitating the trope that minimum wage increases lead to job losses - which are debunked each and every time the minimum wage is raised and by other countries with higher minimums - speaks to your feeble, indoctrinated, elitist mind. And you shitweasles are never arguing for poverty level wages for yourselves, only for those unwashed "others". So fuck off.