MAGA/GOP: An easy explanation.

[Dutch Uncle]

You're not sorry, you're pathetic.

Not a pathetic as veterans who openly break their oaths to the Constitution like you, Terry.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

No, Trump didn't. That's Leftist propaganda passed on by the Democrat party and their supporters in the MSM.

You didn't answer the question, Terry. Is it because you and I both know you favor canceling all those socialist programs?

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Not a pathetic as veterans who openly break their oaths to the Constitution like you, Terry.

 

[Kafka]

Then you can give them YOUR money freely, just don't demand and force me to give them mine.

There are a LOT of Red states in the US that take more money from the federal government than they pay into it. That ship has already sailed and ironically enough it is the Red states that are leading the charge of sucking up other people's money.

You don't get the difference here. You are willing to rob me of wealth to give it to others you deem should have it, I'm not a thief, like you.

If you live in a red state you probably actually are.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

There are a LOT of Red states in the US that take more money from the federal government than they pay into it. That ship has already sailed and ironically enough it is the Red states that are leading the charge of sucking up other people's money.



If you live in a red state you probably actually are.

That old canard again? Try parsing that by what the money is for first.

 

[Kafka]

That old canard again? Try parsing that by what the money is for first.

Can't take it being a "taker" and not a "maker"?

Do better. Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps.

Oh and STFU about taking money from one group and giving it to another who don't deserve it.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Can't take it being a "taker" and not a "maker"?

I'm very much a "maker." I've spent most of my life making stuff, fixing stuff, and keeping things running.

Do better. Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps.

I very much did exactly that. I don't see where the fruits of my labor should be used to support the indolent, worthless, and lazy. Why should a penny of my money go to help homeless drug addicts who chose to do that to themselves, as but one example?

Oh and STFU about taking money from one group and giving it to another who don't deserve it.

No, I won't "STFU" about that. You may be fine with wealth confiscation, but I'm not. It doesn't work and hasn't worked anywhere it has been tried. All it does is ensure more of the population are equally poor and miserable.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

I'M AN OATH-BREAKING TRAITOR

FTFY, Terry.

 

[Taichiliberal]

Apparently you missed the part where Lucky Ducky was a low-paid employee who got fired by the envious rich guy. Apparently you've forgotten that even minimum wage workers pay taxes too -- FICA, sales tax, personal property taxes, etc.

Either he's just pretending those things don't exist or are somehow illogically irrelevant. Or he just doesn't think before he posts and hopes he can BS his way out of people noticing his errors.

 

[Taichiliberal]

Let me explain the world of big business to you. Remember most of your CEO friends are likely to vote Republican. So keep that in mind as you read this.

YOU are a consumer. YOUR purchasing of products is key to the business staying in business. FURTHER we developed the STOCK MARKET so other people could pony in money to help companies they liked by providing them capital. Now you may not know this but in business in America in the 21st century GROWTH is king. If you don't grow you die according to the current biz zeitgeist. To that end Wall Street (the Stock Market) requests that the CEO's accurately estimate how the business will do in FUTURE QUARTERS. So they need to really make sure YOU the consumer BUY THEIR SHIT.

It is all they want. It is everything. The product isn't even important anymore, just the PURCHASE.

To that end they are ALWAYS seeking ways to lower the cost of their goods and services. The added bonus is that YOU the consumer don't really care so much how they do that...you just want the lower costs.

Best way to reduce operational expenses and drive more money to the bottom line is to FIND CHEAPER LABOR.

Remember: YOU ARE DEMANDING THIS FROM THE CEO'S. YOU. We all are.

Quickest way to do that is to offshore the jobs.

Now that transportation costs are low enough to do it globally that's how we got to where we are today.

It is literally OUR FAULT that these jobs are gone. Yours and mine. We are all complicit.

So, perhaps YOU should STFU.

You left out a few things:

1- PROJECTION! By the absurd business models of today, a business is judge by how close it is to reaching it projected sales. This is a primary part of the Stock Market engine for all it represents. Actual labor costs, product costs be damned.

2. Outsourcing is driven by corporate greed for profit. That means reducing labor costs (salary, medical) to it's lowest level. So they outsource the labor of the product to a country that has a lower COLA, minimum labor laws as compared to ours. Then they ship the product back to America, and sell it at a price that covers their transportation costs. In the long run, the competitive costs between companies to the consumer are essentially negligible to the COLA.

The shenanigans of the CEOS are not at the behest of the consumer....never has been.

 

[Litmus]

Can't take it being a "taker" and not a "maker"?

Do better. Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps.

Oh and STFU about taking money from one group and giving it to another who don't deserve it.

The military industrial complex and bankers are the biggest offenders in this category as well.

 

[Ross Dolan]

You're not sorry, you're pathetic.

I makes you feel better about yourself to think that...fine with me.

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

Either he's just pretending those things don't exist or are somehow illogically irrelevant. Or he just doesn't think before he posts and hopes he can BS his way out of people noticing his errors.

People who feel the need to call low-income citizens "moochers" have pretty shitty self-esteem. Imagine being so bereft of empathy and compassion that you can only build yourself up by putting others down. There is a lot of that here, esp. on the RW.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

People who feel the need to call low-income citizens "moochers" have pretty shitty self-esteem. Imagine being so bereft of empathy and compassion that you can only build yourself up by putting others down. There is a lot of that here, esp. on the RW.

Which is why I think they, meaning Terry in this case, is suffering a cognitive disorder which has been getting much worse over the past two years.

Bitter, paranoid and angry geezers are often sick in both mind and body. Having their spouse divorce them or dump them into a memory care facility would also trigger them.