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2012-06-21, 09:09 | Link #22122 |
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Yes, but I'm assuming the investigation that claims the girl's injuries were real and consistent with the story were not falsified. Even so, I understand you concern and that would be my outlook 99% of the time. I just get extremely angry on some primal level when I hear about people abusing little kids like that. Then again, were he somehow proven innocent, I'd feel like a jackass for it, but it seems the evidence corroborated the dad's story.
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2012-06-21, 09:26 | Link #22123 | ||
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2012-06-21, 10:39 | Link #22124 |
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce ad attacking Tim Kaine says health care law 'will kill jobs across America'
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-me...kaine-says-he/
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2012-06-21, 11:43 | Link #22125 | |
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I ran a small business once, and I contracted for health insurance and paid half my employees' premiums. I didn't have to do that (this was before the Massachusetts plan instituted under a certain former Republican governor of my state took effect), but I thought it was immoral to throw my employees to the health-insurance wolves and make them fend for themselves. Certainly you cannot be surprised to learn that the Republicans and their supporters feel no qualms about either taking things out of context (starts around 7:30) or even making things up out of whole cloth. Unfortunately in our post-Citizens-United era the ones who lie most often also have many more resources at their disposal to promote those lies in the public media.
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2012-06-21, 20:49 | Link #22126 |
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The US CoC is even anti-small business.... they are solely in the pockets of the Fortune 100 and their CEOs who don't want small business competition.
Don't think so? Look at the bills they support and oppose... do the math, the CoC does not want a level playing field for a true free market. They are exclusively working for the 0.01%.
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2012-06-21, 21:26 | Link #22127 | |
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... ... unless they start counting the one they ''created'' oversea.
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2012-06-21, 21:31 | Link #22128 |
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Small business accounts for the vast number of "job creations" in the US... the trend in the big boys has been to slash jobs or to under-value jobs over the last 20ish years, even including the overseas outsourcing.
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2012-06-22, 03:03 | Link #22129 |
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I've had to argue with rubbish from a fellow banker that said that we are all job creators just by virtue of being alive. (ie, I exist, therefore I eat/consume, an interesting take on a famous philosophical concept) He basically used it as an argument that if he has heaps of money in an account, he still creates jobs for people that need to manage all that money in his accounts.
I didn't think wealth automatically meant measurable job creation. (ie his example) I suspect he thought I had a anti-capitalist definition of job-creation.
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2012-06-22, 04:22 | Link #22130 | |
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2012-06-22, 10:59 | Link #22131 |
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The argument can hold if the money isn't just sitting in a bank, generating extremely minor amounts of labor, but rather being invested.
If a wealthy person injects his money into the circulation of the market, then absolutely yes, it's creating jobs. Likewise, one could argue that "the bank is doing that for me with my money", but I would have to say, in that case it's the BANK that's circulating investments and generating jobs, not the account holder. He is merely indirectly involved, and should not take the full credit.
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2012-06-22, 11:50 | Link #22132 |
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Money sitting in banks are used by the bankers in very risky investments by the same people that generated the current crisis in the first place, and now degrade the outlook of states because they support their failures with tax-payers' money. In other words a tax-payer pays more taxes to cover up his money lost by the bankers
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2012-06-22, 12:09 | Link #22133 | |
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2012-06-22, 12:14 | Link #22135 | |
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Also it's interesting that Greek is now the opposite of German. Ho boy, ever wondered if a football game can change history? Like if whoever loses is so pissed they will just blow up the EU? |
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2012-06-22, 12:16 | Link #22136 | |
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Glad Malkuth never ran for the Finance Minister position in Europe - it would have imploded in a spectacular singularity by just him making an apology.
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2012-06-22, 12:19 | Link #22137 | |
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Their? austerity is not exactly a policy that PIIGS did or do want, and now most Germans realize that they Merkel/Schäuble, and their bankers made a bad situation worse by enforcing the worst possible policies, for them and their export targets.
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2012-06-22, 12:22 | Link #22138 | |
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2012-06-22, 12:30 | Link #22140 | ||
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America wants to, but Big Corp wants to do it their way where free market is suppressed in favour of oil-igopoly (mispelling intended). The moose in Canada say they want their home to the west back. Europe wants to, but they are too busy with Euro 2012 - to the football stadium first! Everything else can wait. Quote:
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