Julian Castro: Women Can't Afford Tampons So They Can't Go To Work

[Ray From Cleveland]

So who do Gates and Buffet support? What about George Soros, Zuckerberg, the late Steve Jobs, Martha Stewart, Larry Page, Mike (soda size) Bloomberg?

You think Martha Stewart is ultra rich?

Wow.

Bloomberg is the one who is absolutely panicking that Liz Warren might be the nominee. That's how left he is.

Because he knows she wouldn't stand a chance in hell.

 

[SAYIT]

It odd but not surprising that those who extol the virtues of the "Union Age" (1945- 1970) invariably fail to note that the only industrial show in town was the US. The rest of the industrialized world lay in post WW2 rubble. Way to go, guys.

Like I said earlier. Those big union days were a bubble, and all bubbles burst. It couldn't' last forever, especially with foreign products entering the market, and a huge change in American consumer spending.

I can't tell you how many customers we lost years ago because companies either moved out of the state or out of the country primarily to get away from the unions. Unions were more than just protecting workers, they virtually took over entire businesses.

They told the company who they could hire and who they could fire. They told the company who they can promote and who they couldn't, even if the employee couldn't actually do the job. They told the company how much they have to pay the worker even if the worker wasn't worth half of his or her salary.

One of our last few union customers got rid of their union a little over a year ago. What pissed the workers off was a worthless employee getting a promotion to the highest paid job in the plant. He had the highest seniority and the union told the company he's the one that gets the job.

Well the owner of the company had to do the job instead, because the guy who got the promotion couldn't do the job. That's when the employees decided to take action.

They voted the union out, and the company decided who got that highest paying job based on ability to do it, and of course, years with the company. They fired about three people who were always worthless and never produced any real work, but they always had a job as long as they showed up and were breathing.

I love your useless stories. Always propping up conservative dogma even when the facts don’t support your tall tales.

Once the union movement was quashed, wages for working American stagnated. Companies promised wages would go up once the unions were gone. It never happened. Workers are still waiting for those raises.

So what companies made such a promise? I don't recall one.

What happened throughout the years was that when our workers made one dollar more an hour, overseas, they made three cents more an hour. When our wages raised another dollar, they raised their wages two cents an hour.

Eventually, unions priced us out of the world market.

With that competition and along with improving and greatly decreasing costs for automation, companies are looking for every way possible to cut costs to compete worldwide. That means less jobs for Americans.

We had to get rid of the unions. We had no choice, because American consumers refused to support those good jobs. That's why Walmart is number one, and Amazon is quickly taking the lead in selling consumer products.

Years ago, when you purchase gasoline, an attendant came out, filled your car, washed the windows, checked the oil and tire pressure, and you paid without getting out of your car. Then somebody had a thought: what if they allowed people to pump their own gasoline at a discounted rate??? It would keep the mechanics working on cars instead of losing money pumping gasoline.

It started out on one island. But because of demand, owners had to have two self-serve islands. Long story short, all gasoline stations in the US had to go to totally self-serve.

Did we put a lot of people out of work? Yes we did, but we saved money in the process.

Eventually, gas stations also got rid of the mechanics and service bays, and reconstructed their stations into convenience stores.

Typically, D-Lady accuses you of posting "facts don’t support your tall tales" by posting baseless tales. Typical because that is the leftards' M.O., and of course when asked to support her BS she simply skates away.

Working in the industrial field, I quite often get to talk with supervisors and even company owners about their plight. People think that these owners are all evil greedy men, when in fact, they are true Americans who hate to make decisions that lead to the demise of American workers.

People on the left have no idea of competition. They complain that a company doesn't do this, or a company doesn't do that. Well.......if you think a company should, then start your own and see if you can make your ideas work. Start a company that produces X, pay your workers twice what your competitors are paying theirs, and see if you can compete selling your product over their exact same product. Good luck with that one.

It's been tried to the accompaniment of brass bands ... and failed. There have been co-ops and union owned & operated companies in the US but even they must either adhere to the unforgiving rules of competition or fail.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

It's the fact, undisputed, that your redistribution system only creates wealth for the political leadership. Are you a political leader in the Socialist democrat movement?

Where was this fact proven?

Here's the thing. We had it right for a while.

After the New Deal, but before Reagan, we had it right. The rich paid confiscatory taxes, when they died, their heirs did not inherit all of their wealth, just some of it. 33% of workers belong to unions and fair wages were the norm. During this time, we built fantastic infrastructure projects, we had an economy that was the envy of the world, we had a real, honest to God functioning middle class.

And then the Republicans fucked it all up.

You have no idea WTF you're talking about. First off, the Republicans warned of the dangers unions were giving this country. Jobs have been moving out since the 70's, mostly because of taxation and unions. What Republicans wanted to do is see that stopped or slowed down. The Democrats wanted to put the movement on super charge.

The glory days which you describe was nothing but a bubble, no different than the housing or tech bubble. All bubbles burst. They don't last forever because it's impossible.

During the 80's and after the recession, people became more frugal in their purchases. We went from buying quality made American products to cheap foreign products. It had nothing to do with Reagan or the Republicans, it had to do with the American consumer and still does today.

eisenhower was pro union AND the corporate tax rate was 90%... & it was one of the most prosperous times in america.

So you want to use the same economic strategies back then and expect them to work today?

Back in the day, American consumers purchased American made products. There was a huge turnabout with that solidarity back in the 80s after the recession.

Back in Eisenhower's days, our pay rate was closer to other countries. Therefore importing products was not even a consideration back then because it wouldn't have saved us any money, and people would have never bought their products.

Tax corporations at 90% now and see what would happen. Businesses would be closed up and out of this country in two weeks. Hell, tax them at 50% and the same thing would happen.

"If you want more of something, subsidize it. If you want less of something, tax it."
Ronald Reagan

what was the ratio of CEO pay & worker bees' pay? they would close because greed is good.

The talent started making the money. You can get a tow motor driver anywhere. You can't get a top rated CEO for twenty bucks an hour.

If you are looking for a good CEO, and don't want to pay him or her the 4 mil a year they're looking for, your competitor will, and take many of your customers with him.

But it's not just industry that made the conversion. It also happened in sports and entertainment as well. After all, what does a star batter in MLB make in comparison to the popcorn vendor, the beer vendor, the grounds keepers, the announcer? At one time, they didn't make crap. Today when you go to a sporting event, you are looking at a field or court of multimillionaires.

 

[Uncensored2008]

those poor women who qualify get phones courtesy of the gov'ment, because it's cheaper than landlines. & b4 you ignorantly start calling them obamaphones, like so many other dolts on this here forum - it was saint ronny who started that program.

REALLY? Reagan was giving out cell phones?

Did he travel to the future to get them?

Nah, you're just a fucking liar and too stupid to think through your lies before you tell them; typical Communist.

go back to school & take a reading comp class. back then it was LANDLINES.... now it's cell phones because they are cheaper.

Lifeline Program for Low-Income Consumers

Since 1985, the Lifeline program has provided a discount on phone service for qualifying low-income consumers to ensure that all Americans have the opportunities and security that phone service brings, including being able to connect to jobs, family and emergency services. Lifeline is part of the Universal Service Fund. The Lifeline program is available to eligible low-income consumers in every state, territory, commonwealth, and on Tribal lands.
[...]
On March 31, 2016, the Commission adopted a comprehensive reform and modernization of the Lifeline program. In the 2016 Lifeline Modernization Order, the Commission included broadband as a support service in the Lifeline program. The Commission also set out minimum service standards for Lifeline-supported services to ensure maximum value for the universal service dollar, and established a National Eligibility Verifier to make independent subscriber eligibility determinations.
[...]
Lifeline Program for Low-Income Consumers

AND

A short history of the ‘Obamaphone’
[...]
A little history. As far back as the 1930s, public policy established the need for universal phone service. During the Reagan administration, the FCC established the Universal Service Fund. A tax on everyone’s phone bill fed the fund, which enabled people to receive subsidies for basic telephone service. To qualify, a person or household must be receiving one or more of several federal assistance benefits. By the logic that established the term “Obamaphone,” you’d have to call a 1980s rotary phone installed via the Universal Service Fund a Reaganphone.

A short history of the ‘Obamaphone’ | Federal News Network

can you be a more poorly educated lazy deplorable? me thinx not.

Remember stupid fuck, you SAID

{those poor women who qualify get phones courtesy of the gov'ment, because it's cheaper than landlines. & b4 you ignorantly start calling them obamaphones, like so many other dolts on this here forum - it was saint ronny who started that program.}

because it's cheaper than landline.

Wait stupid fuck, you said NOT LANDLINE but CELL PHONE. Remember stupid? You can't keep your lies straight - because you tell so many.

So again stupid, what does this have to do with life line?

You're just a fucking liar and too stupid to think through your lies before you tell them; typical Communist.

 

[Dragonlady]

It odd but not surprising that those who extol the virtues of the "Union Age" (1945- 1970) invariably fail to note that the only industrial show in town was the US. The rest of the industrialized world lay in post WW2 rubble. Way to go, guys.

Like I said earlier. Those big union days were a bubble, and all bubbles burst. It couldn't' last forever, especially with foreign products entering the market, and a huge change in American consumer spending.

I can't tell you how many customers we lost years ago because companies either moved out of the state or out of the country primarily to get away from the unions. Unions were more than just protecting workers, they virtually took over entire businesses.

They told the company who they could hire and who they could fire. They told the company who they can promote and who they couldn't, even if the employee couldn't actually do the job. They told the company how much they have to pay the worker even if the worker wasn't worth half of his or her salary.

One of our last few union customers got rid of their union a little over a year ago. What pissed the workers off was a worthless employee getting a promotion to the highest paid job in the plant. He had the highest seniority and the union told the company he's the one that gets the job.

Well the owner of the company had to do the job instead, because the guy who got the promotion couldn't do the job. That's when the employees decided to take action.

They voted the union out, and the company decided who got that highest paying job based on ability to do it, and of course, years with the company. They fired about three people who were always worthless and never produced any real work, but they always had a job as long as they showed up and were breathing.

I love your useless stories. Always propping up conservative dogma even when the facts don’t support your tall tales.

Once the union movement was quashed, wages for working American stagnated. Companies promised wages would go up once the unions were gone. It never happened. Workers are still waiting for those raises.

So what companies made such a promise? I don't recall one.

What happened throughout the years was that when our workers made one dollar more an hour, overseas, they made three cents more an hour. When our wages raised another dollar, they raised their wages two cents an hour.

Eventually, unions priced us out of the world market.

With that competition and along with improving and greatly decreasing costs for automation, companies are looking for every way possible to cut costs to compete worldwide. That means less jobs for Americans.

We had to get rid of the unions. We had no choice, because American consumers refused to support those good jobs. That's why Walmart is number one, and Amazon is quickly taking the lead in selling consumer products.

Years ago, when you purchase gasoline, an attendant came out, filled your car, washed the windows, checked the oil and tire pressure, and you paid without getting out of your car. Then somebody had a thought: what if they allowed people to pump their own gasoline at a discounted rate??? It would keep the mechanics working on cars instead of losing money pumping gasoline.

It started out on one island. But because of demand, owners had to have two self-serve islands. Long story short, all gasoline stations in the US had to go to totally self-serve.

Did we put a lot of people out of work? Yes we did, but we saved money in the process.

Eventually, gas stations also got rid of the mechanics and service bays, and reconstructed their stations into convenience stores.

Typically, D-Lady accuses you of posting "facts don’t support your tall tales" by posting baseless tales. Typical because that is the leftards' M.O., and of course when asked to support her BS she simply skates away.

Working in the industrial field, I quite often get to talk with supervisors and even company owners about their plight. People think that these owners are all evil greedy men, when in fact, they are true Americans who hate to make decisions that lead to the demise of American workers.

People on the left have no idea of competition. They complain that a company doesn't do this, or a company doesn't do that. Well.......if you think a company should, then start your own and see if you can make your ideas work. Start a company that produces X, pay your workers twice what your competitors are paying theirs, and see if you can compete selling your product over their exact same product. Good luck with that one.

You've never come within sniffing distance of the corporate people who make these decisions, or the owners of large multi-national corporations responsible for billions of dollars of sales. You haven't spent any time discussing matters of trade with cabinet ministers and premiers, so don't try to mansplain business to me, asshole.

As someone who was paid to offer advice to companies, and employers on financial and legal matters, I find your comments both condescending and utterly without basis in fact. Your ideas of what liberals know and think are rooted in your own igorance of how business and how the economy functions.

The last time I looked, Jeff Bezos was the richest man in the world, and he was putting Walmart out of business. Bezos is a liberal who pays his workers more than double what your heros, Walmart and McDonalds, pay their workers. Bill Gates is also a liberal. Second richest man in the world. He gave all of his workers stocks in the company. Microsoft created more millionaire employees than any corporation in history. Many of the Microsoft millionaires went on to start their own successful businesses.

Starbucks is another liberal company with a history of "overpaying" their barristas and counter staff, with rapid advancement, bonuses, medical benefits for part time workers, and other wages and benefits you fools are convinced no successful company can provide.

Walmart isn't welcome in New York because they don't pay their workers enough money to live on and expect taxpayers to subsidize those wages with food stamps and earned income credits. Pretty soon, other municipalities will be forced to drive out these corporate parasites. Pay a living wage or get outta town.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Like I said earlier. Those big union days were a bubble, and all bubbles burst. It couldn't' last forever, especially with foreign products entering the market, and a huge change in American consumer spending.

I can't tell you how many customers we lost years ago because companies either moved out of the state or out of the country primarily to get away from the unions. Unions were more than just protecting workers, they virtually took over entire businesses.

They told the company who they could hire and who they could fire. They told the company who they can promote and who they couldn't, even if the employee couldn't actually do the job. They told the company how much they have to pay the worker even if the worker wasn't worth half of his or her salary.

One of our last few union customers got rid of their union a little over a year ago. What pissed the workers off was a worthless employee getting a promotion to the highest paid job in the plant. He had the highest seniority and the union told the company he's the one that gets the job.

Well the owner of the company had to do the job instead, because the guy who got the promotion couldn't do the job. That's when the employees decided to take action.

They voted the union out, and the company decided who got that highest paying job based on ability to do it, and of course, years with the company. They fired about three people who were always worthless and never produced any real work, but they always had a job as long as they showed up and were breathing.

I love your useless stories. Always propping up conservative dogma even when the facts don’t support your tall tales.

Once the union movement was quashed, wages for working American stagnated. Companies promised wages would go up once the unions were gone. It never happened. Workers are still waiting for those raises.

So what companies made such a promise? I don't recall one.

What happened throughout the years was that when our workers made one dollar more an hour, overseas, they made three cents more an hour. When our wages raised another dollar, they raised their wages two cents an hour.

Eventually, unions priced us out of the world market.

With that competition and along with improving and greatly decreasing costs for automation, companies are looking for every way possible to cut costs to compete worldwide. That means less jobs for Americans.

We had to get rid of the unions. We had no choice, because American consumers refused to support those good jobs. That's why Walmart is number one, and Amazon is quickly taking the lead in selling consumer products.

Years ago, when you purchase gasoline, an attendant came out, filled your car, washed the windows, checked the oil and tire pressure, and you paid without getting out of your car. Then somebody had a thought: what if they allowed people to pump their own gasoline at a discounted rate??? It would keep the mechanics working on cars instead of losing money pumping gasoline.

It started out on one island. But because of demand, owners had to have two self-serve islands. Long story short, all gasoline stations in the US had to go to totally self-serve.

Did we put a lot of people out of work? Yes we did, but we saved money in the process.

Eventually, gas stations also got rid of the mechanics and service bays, and reconstructed their stations into convenience stores.

Typically, D-Lady accuses you of posting "facts don’t support your tall tales" by posting baseless tales. Typical because that is the leftards' M.O., and of course when asked to support her BS she simply skates away.

Working in the industrial field, I quite often get to talk with supervisors and even company owners about their plight. People think that these owners are all evil greedy men, when in fact, they are true Americans who hate to make decisions that lead to the demise of American workers.

People on the left have no idea of competition. They complain that a company doesn't do this, or a company doesn't do that. Well.......if you think a company should, then start your own and see if you can make your ideas work. Start a company that produces X, pay your workers twice what your competitors are paying theirs, and see if you can compete selling your product over their exact same product. Good luck with that one.

You've never come within sniffing distance of the corporate people who make these decisions, or the owners of large multi-national corporations responsible for billions of dollars of sales. You haven't spent any time discussing matters of trade with cabinet ministers and premiers, so don't try to mansplain business to me, asshole.

As someone who was paid to offer advice to companies, and employers on financial and legal matters, I find your comments both condescending and utterly without basis in fact. Your ideas of what liberals know and think are rooted in your own igorance of how business and how the economy functions.

The last time I looked, Jeff Bezos was the richest man in the world, and he was putting Walmart out of business. Bezos is a liberal who pays his workers more than double what your heros, Walmart and McDonalds, pay their workers. Bill Gates is also a liberal. Second richest man in the world. He gave all of his workers stocks in the company. Microsoft created more millionaire employees than any corporation in history. Many of the Microsoft millionaires went on to start their own successful businesses.

Starbucks is another liberal company with a history of "overpaying" their barristas and counter staff, with rapid advancement, bonuses, medical benefits for part time workers, and other wages and benefits you fools are convinced no successful company can provide.

Walmart isn't welcome in New York because they don't pay their workers enough money to live on and expect taxpayers to subsidize those wages with food stamps and earned income credits. Pretty soon, other municipalities will be forced to drive out these corporate parasites. Pay a living wage or get outta town.

WTF did I say I spoke with corporate managers of multinational companies? I said companies period. You know, the ones that were forced to move their jobs overseas?

Jeff Bezos used to sell books. That was it. My employer had stock in Amazon years ago and dropped it. Yes, he came up with a great idea, and I use Amazon all the time as most people. But when he moved several operations here, the liberals were the first to complain about the low wages Amazon pays. They offer between 11 and 15 bucks an hour, but you are on your feet all day hustling orders. McDonald's here offers slightly less.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Hourly-Pay/Amazon-Hourly-Pay-E6036.htm

Microsoft did pay their employees well because their competition was little. But Macintosh came back strong, and is still strong today. In fact Apple sued Microsoft many times for stealing and using their ideas. And don't say that Microsoft doesn't use foreign labor for some of their products. In fact because of Trump's crackdown on immigration, Microsoft is considering moving operations out of the country. And remember, the iPhone is assembled in China, and Macintosh is another well known liberal company.

Starbucks is another one with little competition. Perhaps a mom and pop's coffee shop here and there, but no other major franchise to worry about. Because of what they pay their employees, that's why you pay ten bucks for a coffee and small pastry. A virtual monopoly can charge that and get away with it too.

 

[SAYIT]

I love your useless stories. Always propping up conservative dogma even when the facts don’t support your tall tales.

Once the union movement was quashed, wages for working American stagnated. Companies promised wages would go up once the unions were gone. It never happened. Workers are still waiting for those raises.

So what companies made such a promise? I don't recall one.

What happened throughout the years was that when our workers made one dollar more an hour, overseas, they made three cents more an hour. When our wages raised another dollar, they raised their wages two cents an hour.

Eventually, unions priced us out of the world market.

With that competition and along with improving and greatly decreasing costs for automation, companies are looking for every way possible to cut costs to compete worldwide. That means less jobs for Americans.

We had to get rid of the unions. We had no choice, because American consumers refused to support those good jobs. That's why Walmart is number one, and Amazon is quickly taking the lead in selling consumer products.

Years ago, when you purchase gasoline, an attendant came out, filled your car, washed the windows, checked the oil and tire pressure, and you paid without getting out of your car. Then somebody had a thought: what if they allowed people to pump their own gasoline at a discounted rate??? It would keep the mechanics working on cars instead of losing money pumping gasoline.

It started out on one island. But because of demand, owners had to have two self-serve islands. Long story short, all gasoline stations in the US had to go to totally self-serve.

Did we put a lot of people out of work? Yes we did, but we saved money in the process.

Eventually, gas stations also got rid of the mechanics and service bays, and reconstructed their stations into convenience stores.

Typically, D-Lady accuses you of posting "facts don’t support your tall tales" by posting baseless tales. Typical because that is the leftards' M.O., and of course when asked to support her BS she simply skates away.

Working in the industrial field, I quite often get to talk with supervisors and even company owners about their plight. People think that these owners are all evil greedy men, when in fact, they are true Americans who hate to make decisions that lead to the demise of American workers.

People on the left have no idea of competition. They complain that a company doesn't do this, or a company doesn't do that. Well.......if you think a company should, then start your own and see if you can make your ideas work. Start a company that produces X, pay your workers twice what your competitors are paying theirs, and see if you can compete selling your product over their exact same product. Good luck with that one.

You've never come within sniffing distance of the corporate people who make these decisions, or the owners of large multi-national corporations responsible for billions of dollars of sales. You haven't spent any time discussing matters of trade with cabinet ministers and premiers, so don't try to mansplain business to me, asshole.

As someone who was paid to offer advice to companies, and employers on financial and legal matters, I find your comments both condescending and utterly without basis in fact. Your ideas of what liberals know and think are rooted in your own igorance of how business and how the economy functions.

The last time I looked, Jeff Bezos was the richest man in the world, and he was putting Walmart out of business. Bezos is a liberal who pays his workers more than double what your heros, Walmart and McDonalds, pay their workers. Bill Gates is also a liberal. Second richest man in the world. He gave all of his workers stocks in the company. Microsoft created more millionaire employees than any corporation in history. Many of the Microsoft millionaires went on to start their own successful businesses.

Starbucks is another liberal company with a history of "overpaying" their barristas and counter staff, with rapid advancement, bonuses, medical benefits for part time workers, and other wages and benefits you fools are convinced no successful company can provide.

Walmart isn't welcome in New York because they don't pay their workers enough money to live on and expect taxpayers to subsidize those wages with food stamps and earned income credits. Pretty soon, other municipalities will be forced to drive out these corporate parasites. Pay a living wage or get outta town.

WTF did I say I spoke with corporate managers of multinational companies? I said companies period. You know, the ones that were forced to move their jobs overseas?

Jeff Bezos used to sell books. That was it. My employer had stock in Amazon years ago and dropped it. Yes, he came up with a great idea, and I use Amazon all the time as most people. But when he moved several operations here, the liberals were the first to complain about the low wages Amazon pays. They offer between 11 and 15 bucks an hour, but you are on your feet all day hustling orders. McDonald's here offers slightly less.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Hourly-Pay/Amazon-Hourly-Pay-E6036.htm

Microsoft did pay their employees well because their competition was little. But Macintosh came back strong, and is still strong today. In fact Apple sued Microsoft many times for stealing and using their ideas. And don't say that Microsoft doesn't use foreign labor for some of their products. In fact because of Trump's crackdown on immigration, Microsoft is considering moving operations out of the country. And remember, the iPhone is assembled in China, and Macintosh is another well known liberal company.

Starbucks is another one with little competition. Perhaps a mom and pop's coffee shop here and there, but no other major franchise to worry about. Because of what they pay their employees, that's why you pay ten bucks for a coffee and small pastry. A virtual monopoly can charge that and get away with it too.

My contact with D-lady has been with a bitter, leftarded Canadian whose life is so lame she spends it at an American politics board.

"Nuff said?

 

[SweetSue92]

Save money save the planet

Lunapads Washable Cloth Menstrual Pads & Period Underwear

Sez a guy. lol

When people whine that they can't afford things there is always a way to do the same thing in a more cost effective manner.

We didn't always live in a disposable society you know

My opinion here is that when the feminists (and I consider myself one, but a sane one) have nothing to complain about but sales tax on tampons, I believe our work is done.
It would be better to work on issues like raising our boys to be rapists and raising our girls to dress and behave like .... that singer who did the Super Bowl probably ten years ago and did all but fuck the microphone....
Tampon sales tax? Who thinks of these things to make the burning issue of the month?

The movement is in the process of eating itself.

Leftist movements always do. Not being conservatives, they conserve nothing. Being activists, they must always "activate". So they continue eating, and we end up with....this.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

So what companies made such a promise? I don't recall one.

What happened throughout the years was that when our workers made one dollar more an hour, overseas, they made three cents more an hour. When our wages raised another dollar, they raised their wages two cents an hour.

Eventually, unions priced us out of the world market.

With that competition and along with improving and greatly decreasing costs for automation, companies are looking for every way possible to cut costs to compete worldwide. That means less jobs for Americans.

We had to get rid of the unions. We had no choice, because American consumers refused to support those good jobs. That's why Walmart is number one, and Amazon is quickly taking the lead in selling consumer products.

Years ago, when you purchase gasoline, an attendant came out, filled your car, washed the windows, checked the oil and tire pressure, and you paid without getting out of your car. Then somebody had a thought: what if they allowed people to pump their own gasoline at a discounted rate??? It would keep the mechanics working on cars instead of losing money pumping gasoline.

It started out on one island. But because of demand, owners had to have two self-serve islands. Long story short, all gasoline stations in the US had to go to totally self-serve.

Did we put a lot of people out of work? Yes we did, but we saved money in the process.

Eventually, gas stations also got rid of the mechanics and service bays, and reconstructed their stations into convenience stores.

Typically, D-Lady accuses you of posting "facts don’t support your tall tales" by posting baseless tales. Typical because that is the leftards' M.O., and of course when asked to support her BS she simply skates away.

Working in the industrial field, I quite often get to talk with supervisors and even company owners about their plight. People think that these owners are all evil greedy men, when in fact, they are true Americans who hate to make decisions that lead to the demise of American workers.

People on the left have no idea of competition. They complain that a company doesn't do this, or a company doesn't do that. Well.......if you think a company should, then start your own and see if you can make your ideas work. Start a company that produces X, pay your workers twice what your competitors are paying theirs, and see if you can compete selling your product over their exact same product. Good luck with that one.

You've never come within sniffing distance of the corporate people who make these decisions, or the owners of large multi-national corporations responsible for billions of dollars of sales. You haven't spent any time discussing matters of trade with cabinet ministers and premiers, so don't try to mansplain business to me, asshole.

As someone who was paid to offer advice to companies, and employers on financial and legal matters, I find your comments both condescending and utterly without basis in fact. Your ideas of what liberals know and think are rooted in your own igorance of how business and how the economy functions.

The last time I looked, Jeff Bezos was the richest man in the world, and he was putting Walmart out of business. Bezos is a liberal who pays his workers more than double what your heros, Walmart and McDonalds, pay their workers. Bill Gates is also a liberal. Second richest man in the world. He gave all of his workers stocks in the company. Microsoft created more millionaire employees than any corporation in history. Many of the Microsoft millionaires went on to start their own successful businesses.

Starbucks is another liberal company with a history of "overpaying" their barristas and counter staff, with rapid advancement, bonuses, medical benefits for part time workers, and other wages and benefits you fools are convinced no successful company can provide.

Walmart isn't welcome in New York because they don't pay their workers enough money to live on and expect taxpayers to subsidize those wages with food stamps and earned income credits. Pretty soon, other municipalities will be forced to drive out these corporate parasites. Pay a living wage or get outta town.

WTF did I say I spoke with corporate managers of multinational companies? I said companies period. You know, the ones that were forced to move their jobs overseas?

Jeff Bezos used to sell books. That was it. My employer had stock in Amazon years ago and dropped it. Yes, he came up with a great idea, and I use Amazon all the time as most people. But when he moved several operations here, the liberals were the first to complain about the low wages Amazon pays. They offer between 11 and 15 bucks an hour, but you are on your feet all day hustling orders. McDonald's here offers slightly less.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Hourly-Pay/Amazon-Hourly-Pay-E6036.htm

Microsoft did pay their employees well because their competition was little. But Macintosh came back strong, and is still strong today. In fact Apple sued Microsoft many times for stealing and using their ideas. And don't say that Microsoft doesn't use foreign labor for some of their products. In fact because of Trump's crackdown on immigration, Microsoft is considering moving operations out of the country. And remember, the iPhone is assembled in China, and Macintosh is another well known liberal company.

Starbucks is another one with little competition. Perhaps a mom and pop's coffee shop here and there, but no other major franchise to worry about. Because of what they pay their employees, that's why you pay ten bucks for a coffee and small pastry. A virtual monopoly can charge that and get away with it too.

My contact with D-lady has been with a bitter, leftarded Canadian whose life is so lame she spends it at an American politics board.

"Nuff said?

American politics is interesting. WTF is going on in Canada that anybody (including Canadians) would care about?

If anything, our politics is more entertainment than it is politics. I think the only ones that beat us out in that category are Great Britain politics where I see them standing up, putting their book on the podium, and yell back and forth with each other. The onlookers participate like people here in black churches.

 

[JoeB131]

So in other words, you didn't do shit. The government took your taxes and you believe they are being used to help the poor, so out of sight out of mind. Got off your lazy liberal ass and do something. Me, I've worked with the disadvantaged kids in my area for the past 17 years as a Boy Scout leader. That's in addition to "paying my taxes". If you aren't part of the solution, you're part of the problem.

Nope, I don't making poor people grovel in front of your Sky Pixie is really a way to help them.

I leave that sort of thing to the professionals, thanks..

 

[JoeB131]

These pioneer women worked from sun up to sun down, no running water, no hot water, no refrigerator, no tampons.... how did they ever survive?

They didn't. They usually died before the age of 50 if they weren't one of the 10% of women who died in childbirth.

 

[JoeB131]

You're a completely typical liberal. You're lazy, morally bankrupt, and attracted to oppression and violence. The epitome of a wannabe communist. If you ever had a taste of what it is really like to live under the conditions you advocate you'd change your tune if only to save your own ass.

A guy whose screen name is a degrading sort of Japanese Porn where women are shit on really doesn't have a place to call someone "morally bankrupt".

Yes, actually making sure that poor people don't go to bed hungry at night is JUST LIKE COMMUNISM.

Hey, since you love Japan so much, you know they have the kind of welfare state that you'd call "Communism". So does most of Europe.

 

[Blues Man]

What a shameless fucking hypocrite.

‘Allowing’ the government to confiscate your income through taxes is an act of ‘charity’ and selfless humanism, but someone actually getting off their ass and helping real people in the real world with real sweat and effort doesn’t count? Even you don’t believe that bullshit

Why would I waste my time doing that? I'm already working 80 hours a week, thanks... I'd like to actually enjoy myself on the time I have to myself. I mean, honestly, I can't think of a more useless activity than showing up at a soup kitchen so you can feel better about yourself.

I do think that the government should provide benefits and entitlements, not because I care that much about "the poor", i just don't want them robbing my house because they are hungry.

You see, the mistake you make is you all think I'm a liberal. I'm not. I am a cold-hearted pragmatist. If kindness solves a problem, I will use kindness. If cruelty solves a problem, I'm down with that, too.

Good talk, Dripping Poop... I"m sure you have some weird Japanese porn to wank off to, so I won't keep you.

If you were working 80 hours a week you wouldn't have time to post the drivel you do on a daily basis

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[JoeB131]

The problem is you keep telling yourself that.

Depending on the government is a good thing? Perhaps in China or Cuba, but not the US.

Any government large enough to give you everything you want is large enough to take everything you have. When your freedom depends on being dependent of other people, you have no freedom at all.

You know what, when a Conservative talks about "Freedom", it usually means the ability of people with money to abuse the rest of us.

Like when your boss had the "Freedom" to cut off your health insurance, you screamed "FREEEEEEEEDOM" because, gosh darn, you just didn't want to take that government healthcare from a Negro.

When I heard this, I thought of you.

The View’s Joy Behar nails ‘sad truth’ about spiteful Trump voters: ‘They don’t want health care if you get it also’

“The View” co-host pointed to a New York Times column written by University of Florida professor Darlena Cunha, who spoke with some of her neighbors about their support for the scandal-plagued Republican president.

One man who struck up a conversation with the writer apologized right away for his poor dental health, which he couldn’t afford to improve, but said he’d rather do without health care than pay for someone he didn’t think deserved it.

“I’d rather take care of my own self with tape than be stuck in a system where I pay for everyone else,” the man told Cunha.

Behar was flabbergasted by the man’s attitude, but said his view was sadly common among Trump supporters.

 

[JoeB131]

Because he knows she wouldn't stand a chance in hell.

Actually, when the Trump Recession hits, the Democrats could run Spanky the Clown and win.

 

[JoeB131]

If you were working 80 hours a week you wouldn't have time to post the drivel you do on a daily basis

I spend one hour in the morning, and maybe one in the evening.

That leaves a lot of hours to work, buddy.

 

[Blues Man]

If you were working 80 hours a week you wouldn't have time to post the drivel you do on a daily basis

I spend one hour in the morning, and maybe one in the evening.

That leaves a lot of hours to work, buddy.

Bullshit

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[Erinwltr]

Only a matter of time before we are told they are contributing to THE global warming and need to be either banned or so expensive that only white left wing elitists can buy them.

Plus, aren't they made from petroleum based products?

Man, you belly ache about everything on USMB. How the hell someone becomes so negative I'll never know.

 

[JoeB131]

Bullshit

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I'm sorry you are math challenged.

 

[Blues Man]

Bullshit

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I'm sorry you are math challenged.

I have actually worked 80 plus hours a week for extended periods of time unlike you so I know that you are full of shit

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