Comments on: Smug Hypocrites http://blog.workingamerica.org/2010/09/15/smug-hypocrites/ Working America's Blog Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:33:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: DHFabian http://blog.workingamerica.org/2010/09/15/smug-hypocrites/comment-page-1/#comment-974 DHFabian Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:50:53 +0000 http://www.workingamerica.org/blog/?p=3128#comment-974 The cause of massive job loss has been over a quarter of a century of massive, annual corporate "tax relief", much of which has been used to export our jobs to foreign nations. Workers in those nations largely have a far lower cost of living, and can subsequently live well on lower wages. By contrast, our corporations have been bleeding US consumers. We pay taxes so corporations don't have to. Our taxes cover the costs of shutting down and exporting our jobs. This won't change unless govt imposes/restores reasonable rules and conditions on US corporations. The cause of massive job loss has been over a quarter of a century of massive, annual corporate “tax relief”, much of which has been used to export our jobs to foreign nations. Workers in those nations largely have a far lower cost of living, and can subsequently live well on lower wages. By contrast, our corporations have been bleeding US consumers.

We pay taxes so corporations don’t have to. Our taxes cover the costs of shutting down and exporting our jobs. This won’t change unless govt imposes/restores reasonable rules and conditions on US corporations.

]]> By: Clarence http://blog.workingamerica.org/2010/09/15/smug-hypocrites/comment-page-1/#comment-973 Clarence Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:36:52 +0000 http://www.workingamerica.org/blog/?p=3128#comment-973 Not to mention the multi-million dollar paychecks pulled down by guys who are being rewarded for their willingness to throw people out of their jobs and/or houses. Wonder what Hasset makes, rewarding him for his ability to write thousands of words making wildly inaccurate predictions. And we've GOT to start directing people's attention to the elephant in the room, the military. Having an extra trillion dollars a year to work with would make decisions of how to get money and how to spend it a good deal easier. Instead of our factories making tanks, planes, bombs and bullets they could be making bicycles, mass transit systems, locally based sustainable energy systems... The creativity and intelligence that's now being put to use devising ever more grisly ways to make other people's lives miserable or ended to could be towards nurturing the planet we depend on back to health and therefore the lives of all of us a bit more pleasant. The employment generated by these projects would mean full employment, with plenty of room for the many tens of thousands of young people now stationed overseas and even for the many tens of thousands who otherwise would return be returning home unemployable due to death or massive physical or mental disability. Not to mention the multi-million dollar paychecks pulled down by guys who are being rewarded for their willingness to throw people out of their jobs and/or houses.
Wonder what Hasset makes, rewarding him for his ability to write thousands of words making wildly inaccurate predictions.

And we’ve GOT to start directing people’s attention to the elephant in the room, the military.
Having an extra trillion dollars a year to work with would make decisions of how to get money and how to spend it a good deal easier.
Instead of our factories making tanks, planes, bombs and bullets they could be making bicycles, mass transit systems, locally based sustainable energy systems…
The creativity and intelligence that’s now being put to use devising ever more grisly ways to make other people’s lives miserable or ended to could be towards nurturing the planet we depend on back to health and therefore the lives of all of us a bit more pleasant.
The employment generated by these projects would mean full employment, with plenty of room for the many tens of thousands of young people now stationed overseas and even for the many tens of thousands who otherwise would return be returning home unemployable due to death or massive physical or mental disability.

]]> By: lamecrow http://blog.workingamerica.org/2010/09/15/smug-hypocrites/comment-page-1/#comment-971 lamecrow Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:55:12 +0000 http://www.workingamerica.org/blog/?p=3128#comment-971 When Hassett says my fat paycheck is costing others jobs, well, maybe that's so, but let's introduce some proportion here: If my fat $22,000 salary is costing someone a job, how many jobs is my boss' $120,000 costing? How many jobs are lost to massive hoards of wealth? The magic hand of the market has been picking my pockets and the pockets of working people for far too long. When Hassett says my fat paycheck is costing others jobs,
well, maybe that’s so, but let’s introduce some proportion here: If my fat $22,000 salary is costing someone a job, how many jobs is my boss’ $120,000 costing? How many jobs are lost to massive hoards of wealth?

The magic hand of the market has been picking my pockets and the pockets of working people for far too long.

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