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To: combjelly who wrote (759875)

12/28/2013 9:12:30 AM

From: koan

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Costco manages to do it. They pay well and even provide good health insurance. But it takes unions in the end to force everyone to do it. Can you imagine the Koch brothers paying as much as they can afford to pay without being forced to by unions-lol??

Another poster nailed it:

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Lovecraft was talking about the historical underpinnings of the modern Republican party

He defined the Republican idea, an institution based on greed

It has been the same for a century or more

Tactically, they are masters at co-opting various special interest groups to carry water for the pigs at the center

The Koch brothers and those similarly wealthy connive to get people to act against their economic interests by appealing to their single issue drivers

anti-abortion
anti-gay
anti-gun control
racists
anti-immigration
anti-Obamacare
anti-taxes

..any individual or group willing to substitute a single issue for a balanced, reasoned, approach is low hanging fruit for the GOP, and the pigs intent on maintaining their strangle hold on the wealth of the country

The Southern Strategy was simply the taking of the political power of nominal southern Democrats who are too stupid to realize that their racism is costing them their economic and health future as they support the Republican pols who play to their racism but do the economic bidding of the uber-wealthy

..how about that Duck Dynasty....

To: combjelly who wrote (759875)	12/28/2013 9:14:08 AM
From: koan	Respond to of 1574493

Get quotes daily Sign in with Facebook Sign in options Join Goodreads H.P. Lovecraft > Quotes > Quotable Quote “As for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes based on the bygone agricultural-handicraft world, and revel in (consciously or unconsciously) mendacious assumptions (such as the notion that real liberty is synonymous with the single detail of unrestricted economic license or that a rational planning of resource-distribution would contravene some vague and mystical 'American heritage'...) utterly contrary to fact and without the slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.” ? H.P. Lovecraft

To: combjelly who wrote (759875)	12/28/2013 1:05:34 PM
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>> If they put the money the spend on stock buybacks into wages, they could give every employee like a $7 an hour raise. Sure, if they quit investing money in new stores they could eek out a raise for employees, too. But how would that even make sense? If you don't give stockholders a return for their investment, you will not be able to raise capital when you need it. Your lack of understanding of business is astounding. >> Right now the tax payers are subsidizing the Walmart shareholders. That is a totally absurd claim. Just dumb, even for you. If government wants to buy shit for Walmart employees, that's on government, not on Walmart.