Dragonlady
Designing Woman
I feel like I've stumbled into a right-wing talking points convention. How is it that Canada, and the European countries are able to keep most of their jobs, considering that their workers are have higher minimum wages, more unions, higher taxes, and lots of regulations? The recycling laws in Germany would make an American right winger's head explode. And yet these people are retaining most of their manufacturing, and their economies are healthy. Canada now has the fastest growing middle class in the world, and our taxes are higher, are wages are higher, and everything costs more here.
Could it be "gasp" that the right wing is focusing on the WRONG things. My employer is required to pay unemployment insurance premiums, OHIP premiums, and make some Canada Pension Plan contributions, for each of his employees. Employees are also required to contribute to all of these things. Our minimum wage is nearly $11.00 per hour and yet Walmart is still one of the most profitable companies in Canada.
In Canada, if a company moves its IT department offshore, Canadians simply stop doing business with them, If politicians do things we dont' like, we refuse to vote for their party. The Progressive Conservative Party no longer exists because they gave us an 8% value added tax on all purchases. The GST is the most hated tax in Canada. The election after its introduction by the PC's, the part went from a solid majority in Parliament, to 4 sitting members, and lost party status - it takes 6 members to have funding for party offices on Parliament Hill.
And the lot of you here pillory a person who has lost his job through no fault of his own, is willing to work, and has skills. No wonder you vote Republican. You are incapable of discerning how thoroughly they lie to you.
Companies have record profits. They're sitting on piles of cash. They're not going overseas because of unions, regulations or taxes. They're going because it's more profitable. The primary goal of a corporation is to make the most money possible. A company has no other purpose. It has no conscience, no compassion, no feelings. It does care that the economy suffers every time a job is lost.
And you brainwashed twits buy it. Unquestioning loyalty to the party line. You lot are fools for buying it.
Could it be "gasp" that the right wing is focusing on the WRONG things. My employer is required to pay unemployment insurance premiums, OHIP premiums, and make some Canada Pension Plan contributions, for each of his employees. Employees are also required to contribute to all of these things. Our minimum wage is nearly $11.00 per hour and yet Walmart is still one of the most profitable companies in Canada.
In Canada, if a company moves its IT department offshore, Canadians simply stop doing business with them, If politicians do things we dont' like, we refuse to vote for their party. The Progressive Conservative Party no longer exists because they gave us an 8% value added tax on all purchases. The GST is the most hated tax in Canada. The election after its introduction by the PC's, the part went from a solid majority in Parliament, to 4 sitting members, and lost party status - it takes 6 members to have funding for party offices on Parliament Hill.
And the lot of you here pillory a person who has lost his job through no fault of his own, is willing to work, and has skills. No wonder you vote Republican. You are incapable of discerning how thoroughly they lie to you.
Companies have record profits. They're sitting on piles of cash. They're not going overseas because of unions, regulations or taxes. They're going because it's more profitable. The primary goal of a corporation is to make the most money possible. A company has no other purpose. It has no conscience, no compassion, no feelings. It does care that the economy suffers every time a job is lost.
And you brainwashed twits buy it. Unquestioning loyalty to the party line. You lot are fools for buying it.
