Our Congressman canceled townhall meeting

Aug 29, 2009 114 Replies

One major problem I see in USA is that plenty of Americans will buy crap without being forced to do so. And I see many instances of American businesses putting plenty of effort into stifling competition (can one say "Microsoft tax"?) and using psychologists to develop ads targeting youth to get "brand loyalty" as opposed to developing better products.

The taste quality of the food that I experience at McDonald's (infrequently in my case as is preferable) should be an example.

Heck, American dollar stores even manage to sell lightbulbs that are substantially inferior to ones that don't cost more at "big box home centers" (though the supermarkets get a lot more for "good light bulbs" and major chain drugstores get more still). It appears to me that at least some American businesses live from many Americans being ignorant or stupid. For that matter, with the gigatonnage of disinformation I see being spewed my way, I suspect much of "American business model" is doing other than competing to efficiently provide more for less.

- Don Klipstein ( snipped-for-privacy@misty.com)

Which the Obama administration has been so open with, huh?

Which the Obama administration has been so rife with.

Hmmm, lets go back to Senator Phil Gramms idea for free market forces.

Lets go back to crocked dealers that sell bad paper that they knew was bad.

Lets go back to hiding laws from the people and pass another PATRIOT Act. [1]

Yes, information is everywhere, and it wants to be free.

don

[1] Protection Against Threats, Real, Imagined, Or Theorized

If it's "readily available," then dammit, it's _his_ job to trot it out. Or yours, or whoever else claims the same assertion.

And speaking of snottiness...

Thanks, Rich

Maybe spying on citizens, tapping phones,reading email , shoving chemical glow sticks up the asses of random losers picked up in foreign countries?

For some people, the last eight years were just one big party.

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You assume that all people can read...some of our more politically challenged still believe that Clinton is President.

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When was the last time you posted any support (links) for any of your claims?

Like what, that freedom is better than slavery? How's this:

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( about 2,370,000 for freedom is better than slavery. )

Hope This Helps! Rich

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Hope This Helps! Rich

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Gosh, that is way short of convincing. Try something with a pro-capitalist change and well documented deltas. Do not select Enron, Love canal, or Bhopal. They are examples of capitalism run amuck.

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Right, and those two principles combined have improved the human condition worldwide better than any other force ever has.

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Profit's a good thing--it means people want your product enough to pay you a premium for it.

Should everyone work for a loss? Like the car companies? Do you work for less than you spend every year?

Competition ensures that premium is reasonable; if it isn't, someone else will undersell you.

Lack of profits means people don't want or need what you're selling, so you "die" economically, and move on to something more useful. That's also a good thing.

Government's incentive is to spend the maximum possible amount of money. More spending =3D more votes. Efficiency is undesirable. E.g., "What do you think a stimulus is?"

-- Cheers, James Arthur

So, if you get "ripped off" that "salesman" is justified because he made profit.

The crooks of wall street have taken all of use to the cleaners,

but they made profit so its OK.

Are we talking about the same thing ??

don

If there was no fraud involved, yes. If you feel "ripped off" it's your problem.

No, the crooks in Washington have taken us all to the cleaners. Wall Street only helped them.

Any more straw that you want to heap on?

Who knows what deranged things go on in your little mind.

No, he's justified because it is morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

Cheers! Rich

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Crooks of Wall Street? I think you mean the government which set up the game, and Obama, who's making good all those bets.

Absent Obama those debts and bets would disappear into bankruptcy; because he's guaranteeing them, we're all seriously, seriously cooked. The banks are *not* fixed, foreclosures are getting much worse, and we're spending borrowed money like water.

Personally, I'd worry about that, and stop fretting that a few people got paid more than you.(*)

(*) Oh, and lock up the crooks and tax cheats, of course. Geithner, the Freddie and Fannie execs (Rahm Emanuel was a board member), Charlie Rangel, William Jefferson, ACORN, to start, etc. Cheating shouldn't be allowed.

-- Cheers, James Arthur

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