From the audience — RE: RE: When Bush-worlds collide
I've chosen to reprint this comment to Steve's 'RE: When Bush-worlds collide' because I think he'd probably have some interesting/entertaining responses for a few of RT's questions and points.
('Comments' are generally not reprinted on the front page, but I often find that an audience's thoughts are more interesting than what's happening on stage at any given moment.)
Fire away, Steve!
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RT Miller said...
It never ceases to amaze me that someone so obviously gifted with intelligence could also be so insanely naive (or obtuse).
Steve asks:
"Why do we think that the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. can or should have any impact on the number of manufacturing jobs held by Americans, or the balance of goods purchased by Americans from overseas versus those made here?"
Well the answer is & should be obvious to the vast majority of individuals: Free market capitalism is based on greed! Executives (and American consumers) want the cheapest goods possible. And the cheapest goods possible are produced by paying the lowest wages possible.
(Un?) Fortunately, the federal government (the one Steve so despises) outlawed slavery meaning ALL people HAD to be paid (damn liberals)! Then, when mills across the country weren't paying their workers enough, the government again over-stepped its bounds & forced employers to pay fair wages (imagine how unfair that was to those poor wealthy factory owners..again damn liberals!).
Now, with globalization inevitable, corporations have stopped paying people in our own country those gawdy wages ($14 an hour) and opt to select their work pool from third world countries where their governments don't meddle in peoples' business (like safe working conditions & reasonable wages). So as long as corporate America is selfish and greedy & as long as the playing field isn't fair, the government has to regulate and (like Steve so often loves to say) force charity at the point of a gun.
Too bad it has to be that way though, why can't the rich & powerful just be charitable on their own?
I guess the government doesn't HAVE to regulate: we could just go back to breadlines, illiteracy, 80 hour work weeks, & 50 year life expectancy. Is that what you want, Steve? Because if things opereated the way you would like that's what we would have. The few & fortunate would be fine and the masses would all be in poverty. We can't turn the clock back, Steve. If you think we can you need to wake up from your fantasy dream land.
If you really wanted things to improve you would work with other people who are tired of the ridiculous & the status quo -- regardless of whether they are a (damned) liberal or not.
There are plenty of things that could be done. A federal consumption (sales) tax would place the tax burden squarely on the shoulders of people who can afford to by $20 million homes and $5 million boats, while easing the burden on the middle, working, & lower classes. But i don't see you talking about that. I see you talking about "liberals", & "socialists", & "marxists" and abortion (wait, i thought the government should get out of people's business).
Do you really care about any of those things? Or do you just love to argue?
('Comments' are generally not reprinted on the front page, but I often find that an audience's thoughts are more interesting than what's happening on stage at any given moment.)
Fire away, Steve!
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RT Miller said...
It never ceases to amaze me that someone so obviously gifted with intelligence could also be so insanely naive (or obtuse).
Steve asks:
"Why do we think that the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. can or should have any impact on the number of manufacturing jobs held by Americans, or the balance of goods purchased by Americans from overseas versus those made here?"
Well the answer is & should be obvious to the vast majority of individuals: Free market capitalism is based on greed! Executives (and American consumers) want the cheapest goods possible. And the cheapest goods possible are produced by paying the lowest wages possible.
(Un?) Fortunately, the federal government (the one Steve so despises) outlawed slavery meaning ALL people HAD to be paid (damn liberals)! Then, when mills across the country weren't paying their workers enough, the government again over-stepped its bounds & forced employers to pay fair wages (imagine how unfair that was to those poor wealthy factory owners..again damn liberals!).
Now, with globalization inevitable, corporations have stopped paying people in our own country those gawdy wages ($14 an hour) and opt to select their work pool from third world countries where their governments don't meddle in peoples' business (like safe working conditions & reasonable wages). So as long as corporate America is selfish and greedy & as long as the playing field isn't fair, the government has to regulate and (like Steve so often loves to say) force charity at the point of a gun.
Too bad it has to be that way though, why can't the rich & powerful just be charitable on their own?
I guess the government doesn't HAVE to regulate: we could just go back to breadlines, illiteracy, 80 hour work weeks, & 50 year life expectancy. Is that what you want, Steve? Because if things opereated the way you would like that's what we would have. The few & fortunate would be fine and the masses would all be in poverty. We can't turn the clock back, Steve. If you think we can you need to wake up from your fantasy dream land.
If you really wanted things to improve you would work with other people who are tired of the ridiculous & the status quo -- regardless of whether they are a (damned) liberal or not.
There are plenty of things that could be done. A federal consumption (sales) tax would place the tax burden squarely on the shoulders of people who can afford to by $20 million homes and $5 million boats, while easing the burden on the middle, working, & lower classes. But i don't see you talking about that. I see you talking about "liberals", & "socialists", & "marxists" and abortion (wait, i thought the government should get out of people's business).
Do you really care about any of those things? Or do you just love to argue?
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