The Destructive Effects of Government

[Contumacious]

rdean said he was going to make you tone it down. How is that going for you.

The effects are even worse in rural areas where Walmart's presence drove out small groceries, that will now have no grocery stores after the exodus of Walmart. Lost jobs and higher food costs factoring in travel.

The damage done by Walmart putting all the small stores out of business is already done, but the closed stores are all within 10 miles of another Walmart that is staying open.

Soon, very very soon Comrade Sanders will NATIONALIZE Walmart stores and "teach" (wink, wink) them how to make a profit.

Mexico will finish constructing the border wall in order to prevent Americans from entering Mexico. Mark my words.


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Right, and rainbow colored unicorns will fly out of your ass.

Are you still tripping on LSD?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Liberal big government operates under the motto "We Know Best What's Good For You!"

Which is true. They actually get paid to figure that out...

And they do a exceedingly poor job of doing so.

"... there’s a tendency among bureaucrats, politicians, academics, and other members of the New Class to convince the people to hand over the major decisions of their lives to the “experts.”These experts aren’t all in the government, but they all collude with government to convince people that the experts have all the answers and that the people need to hand the reins over to them. They will tell us what to eat, what to drive,what to think.

It’s an approach that puts politics before economics. Because it is an attempt to politicize peoples’ lives.”
Nazis: Still Socialists, by Jonah Goldberg, National Review

 

[BULLDOG]

rdean said he was going to make you tone it down. How is that going for you.

The effects are even worse in rural areas where Walmart's presence drove out small groceries, that will now have no grocery stores after the exodus of Walmart. Lost jobs and higher food costs factoring in travel.

The damage done by Walmart putting all the small stores out of business is already done, but the closed stores are all within 10 miles of another Walmart that is staying open.

Soon, very very soon Comrade Sanders will NATIONALIZE Walmart stores and "teach" (wink, wink) them how to make a profit.

Mexico will finish constructing the border wall in order to prevent Americans from entering Mexico. Mark my words.


.

Right, and rainbow colored unicorns will fly out of your ass.

Are you still tripping on LSD?

There is just as much reason to believe what I wrote as there is to believe what you wrote.

 

[Dot Com]

rdean said he was going to make you tone it down. How is that going for you.

The effects are even worse in rural areas where Walmart's presence drove out small groceries, that will now have no grocery stores after the exodus of Walmart. Lost jobs and higher food costs factoring in travel.

The damage done by Walmart putting all the small stores out of business is already done, but the closed stores are all within 10 miles of another Walmart that is staying open.

Soon, very very soon Comrade Sanders will NATIONALIZE Walmart stores and "teach" (wink, wink) them how to make a profit.

Mexico will finish constructing the border wall in order to prevent Americans from entering Mexico. Mark my words.


.

I wonder if the good comrade Sanders is still driving his Trabant?

"The Trabant is an automobile that was produced by former East German auto maker VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau in Zwickau, Sachsen. It was the most common vehicle in East Germany, and was also exported to countries both inside and outside the communist bloc. The main selling point was that it had room for four adults and luggage in a compact, light and durable shell. Despite its mediocre performance and smoky two-stroke engine, the car is regarded with derisive affection as a symbol of the failed former East Germany and of the fall of communism (in former West Germany, as many East Germans streamed into West Berlin and West Germany in their Trabants after the opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989). For advocates of capitalism it is often cited as an example of the disadvantages of centralized planning as even refueling the car required lifting the hood, filling the tank with gasoline (only 24 litres[1]), then adding two-stroke oil and shaking it back and forth to mix. It was in production without any significant changes for nearly 30 years with 3,096,099 Trabants produced in total."
Trabant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


And, there is this:
...the man who goes to buy a car in Moscow, pays for it, and is told by the salesman that he can collect it on a particular date in 10 years' time. The buyer thinks for a moment and then asks: 'Morning or afternoon?'
The salesman, astonished by the question, asks: 'What difference does it make?'
And the buyer answers: 'Well, the plumber is coming in the morning.'

ironic post is ironic tinfoil grl


Henry Ford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Contumacious]

rdean said he was going to make you tone it down. How is that going for you.

The effects are even worse in rural areas where Walmart's presence drove out small groceries, that will now have no grocery stores after the exodus of Walmart. Lost jobs and higher food costs factoring in travel.

The damage done by Walmart putting all the small stores out of business is already done, but the closed stores are all within 10 miles of another Walmart that is staying open.

Soon, very very soon Comrade Sanders will NATIONALIZE Walmart stores and "teach" (wink, wink) them how to make a profit.

Mexico will finish constructing the border wall in order to prevent Americans from entering Mexico. Mark my words.


.

I wonder if the good comrade Sanders is still driving his Trabant?

"The Trabant is an automobile that was produced by former East German auto maker VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau in Zwickau, Sachsen. It was the most common vehicle in East Germany, and was also exported to countries both inside and outside the communist bloc. The main selling point was that it had room for four adults and luggage in a compact, light and durable shell. Despite its mediocre performance and smoky two-stroke engine, the car is regarded with derisive affection as a symbol of the failed former East Germany and of the fall of communism (in former West Germany, as many East Germans streamed into West Berlin and West Germany in their Trabants after the opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989). For advocates of capitalism it is often cited as an example of the disadvantages of centralized planning as even refueling the car required lifting the hood, filling the tank with gasoline (only 24 litres[1]), then adding two-stroke oil and shaking it back and forth to mix. It was in production without any significant changes for nearly 30 years with 3,096,099 Trabants produced in total."
Trabant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


And, there is this:
...the man who goes to buy a car in Moscow, pays for it, and is told by the salesman that he can collect it on a particular date in 10 years' time. The buyer thinks for a moment and then asks: 'Morning or afternoon?'
The salesman, astonished by the question, asks: 'What difference does it make?'
And the buyer answers: 'Well, the plumber is coming in the morning.'

Venezuela , an oil rich country ,its economy sunk after the Chavez/Maduro socialist takeover.

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[NYcarbineer]

Liberal big government operates under the motto "We Know Best What's Good For You!"

What is amazing is how many drones bow to this.

Equally amazing that the flashing light "IDIOT" over their heads doesn't keep them awake at night.

Rather than rehash the damage that Franklin Roosevelt did to the economy by instigating the mortgage meltdown by occupying the private home mortgage industry with his shock troops....'Fannie Mae,'....here's one more casualty...actually 400 casualties....of big government meddling.


1. "Wal-Mart announced Jan. 15 it will close 269 stores globally, including 154 locations in the United States—affecting about 10,000 associates across the nation.
“The minimum wage in the city of Oakland played a factor, was one of the factors, they considered in closing the stores,” Oakland City Councilman Larry Reidtoldthe San Francisco Chronicle.

... this store has been very successful for Wal-mart.”

2. The Oakland location, which ranked among the city’s top sales-tax producers, closed its doors Sunday evening following the corporate announcement. The store’s 400 employees will stay on moving inventory through mid-February,reported the San Francisco Chronicle.



3. Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, a Democrat, has been leading statewide efforts to raise the minimum wage to $15.

“This higher city minimum wage eliminated the jobs of the very workers advocates wanted to help,” said James Sherk, a research fellow in labor economics at The Heritage Foundation.



4. California’s minimum wage rose to$10 an hour on Jan. 1. Oakland’s minimum wage was bumped from $9 to $12.25 in March 2015 and was raised to $12.55 at the start of this year.

5. “The true minimum wage is $0.00 an hour,” Sherk said.“Companies do not have to hire workers, and they will not pay them more than the value they create.”



6. If the Oakland Wal-Mart workers don’t find employment by Feb. 10, they will get 60 days of additional pay and a severance package with a week of pay for every year employed by Wal-Mart, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.



7. The San Francisco Chronicle says two Wal-Mart locations in Oakland’s neighboring city ofSan Leandro, where minimum wage is $10, will remain open.

8. The difference between these three locations is the Oakland Wal-Mart has over a 25 percent difference in labor costs for entry-level employees than the San Leandro locations, says Mark Perry, an American Enterprise Institute scholar and professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan’s Flint campus.

9. “Given the reality that Wal-Mart operates on razor-thin profit margins (only 2.8 percent last quarter), a 25 percent difference in labor costs for entry-level workers can be the difference between a store that turns a profit and a store that barely breaks even, or loses money,” Perrywrote.
Oakland’s Minimum Wage Is Up, Wal-Mart Is Out


One more success story for theDemocrts/Liberals/Progressives who know best.

Most of the Walmart store closings are occurring in states where the minimum wage is at the federal minimum wage, or lower.

Tell the whole story for once, liar.

I never lie.

Does that make you jealous?

I proved you lie a couple days ago when you called me a liar for saying you believe abortion is murder. Now you're lying about lying.

I never lie...but let's rub your face in it: quote any lie in the OP.

Once you admit to lying about your position on abortion I'd be glad to.

 

[Contumacious]

rdean said he was going to make you tone it down. How is that going for you.

The effects are even worse in rural areas where Walmart's presence drove out small groceries, that will now have no grocery stores after the exodus of Walmart. Lost jobs and higher food costs factoring in travel.

The damage done by Walmart putting all the small stores out of business is already done, but the closed stores are all within 10 miles of another Walmart that is staying open.

Soon, very very soon Comrade Sanders will NATIONALIZE Walmart stores and "teach" (wink, wink) them how to make a profit.

Mexico will finish constructing the border wall in order to prevent Americans from entering Mexico. Mark my words.


.

Right, and rainbow colored unicorns will fly out of your ass.

Are you still tripping on LSD?

There is just as much reason to believe what I wrote as there is to believe what you wrote.

Is your real name, Cleopatra, queen of The Nile?

 

[NYcarbineer]

Liberal big government operates under the motto "We Know Best What's Good For You!"

What is amazing is how many drones bow to this.

Equally amazing that the flashing light "IDIOT" over their heads doesn't keep them awake at night.

Rather than rehash the damage that Franklin Roosevelt did to the economy by instigating the mortgage meltdown by occupying the private home mortgage industry with his shock troops....'Fannie Mae,'....here's one more casualty...actually 400 casualties....of big government meddling.


1. "Wal-Mart announced Jan. 15 it will close 269 stores globally, including 154 locations in the United States—affecting about 10,000 associates across the nation.
“The minimum wage in the city of Oakland played a factor, was one of the factors, they considered in closing the stores,” Oakland City Councilman Larry Reidtoldthe San Francisco Chronicle.

... this store has been very successful for Wal-mart.”

2. The Oakland location, which ranked among the city’s top sales-tax producers, closed its doors Sunday evening following the corporate announcement. The store’s 400 employees will stay on moving inventory through mid-February,reported the San Francisco Chronicle.



3. Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, a Democrat, has been leading statewide efforts to raise the minimum wage to $15.

“This higher city minimum wage eliminated the jobs of the very workers advocates wanted to help,” said James Sherk, a research fellow in labor economics at The Heritage Foundation.



4. California’s minimum wage rose to$10 an hour on Jan. 1. Oakland’s minimum wage was bumped from $9 to $12.25 in March 2015 and was raised to $12.55 at the start of this year.

5. “The true minimum wage is $0.00 an hour,” Sherk said.“Companies do not have to hire workers, and they will not pay them more than the value they create.”



6. If the Oakland Wal-Mart workers don’t find employment by Feb. 10, they will get 60 days of additional pay and a severance package with a week of pay for every year employed by Wal-Mart, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.



7. The San Francisco Chronicle says two Wal-Mart locations in Oakland’s neighboring city ofSan Leandro, where minimum wage is $10, will remain open.

8. The difference between these three locations is the Oakland Wal-Mart has over a 25 percent difference in labor costs for entry-level employees than the San Leandro locations, says Mark Perry, an American Enterprise Institute scholar and professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan’s Flint campus.

9. “Given the reality that Wal-Mart operates on razor-thin profit margins (only 2.8 percent last quarter), a 25 percent difference in labor costs for entry-level workers can be the difference between a store that turns a profit and a store that barely breaks even, or loses money,” Perrywrote.
Oakland’s Minimum Wage Is Up, Wal-Mart Is Out


One more success story for theDemocrts/Liberals/Progressives who know best.

Most of the Walmart store closings are occurring in states where the minimum wage is at the federal minimum wage, or lower.

Tell the whole story for once, liar.

I never lie.

Does that make you jealous?

Here's a map of the Walmart closings recently announced:

As you see, most are in conservative southern states where in most cases the minimum wage is no higher than the federal minimum wage or the California minimum wage.

As usual, the truth produces stunned silence from PoliticalChic, the least capable debater on USMB.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Do all you Trumpbots deny the impact that his 45% tariff on Chinese imports will have? To Walmart?

Isn't that supposed to bring good paying jobs back to the US?

I'm not wholly in disagreement with Trump if I thought that would work.

Since PoliticalChic doesn't dare tell us which Republican she supports for president we can't debate her on the matter.

 

[NYcarbineer]

You'd have thought by now that PC would have told us why more of the Walmarts that closed were in states with only the federal minimum wage,

but for once I guess we've shut her up.

Drinks all around. to the silence of the lame.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

You'd have thought by now that PC would have told us why more of the Walmarts that closed were in states with only the federal minimum wage,

Maybe their incomes are too low even for Walmart? That happens, when you race to the bottom and can't even produce your own fucking socks and underwear.

 

[SuperDemocrat]

I've noticed that government is more a nussiance in my life. I thought of the times when I got into trouble with the law and they were always over things that really didn't affect anyone else at all but the minute I need the police to come by and scare away some thieves they seem to take their sweet time about it. Perhaps we have created to many laws to enforce and the police have to pick and choose which ones do and don't. This means it can't enforce laws against theft and other such things but I guess that is because there is no money involved in catching a theif as much as there is in fining someone for speeding. Perhaps we ought to fine theft in the same way we fine speeding that way the government will have some kind of incentive to go after theives.

 

[SuperDemocrat]

You'd have thought by now that PC would have told us why more of the Walmarts that closed were in states with only the federal minimum wage,

Maybe their incomes are too low even for Walmart? That happens, when you race to the bottom can't even produce your own fucking socks and underwear.

The solution to that is to eliminate the income tax that way walmart can stay in business....What do you say to that?

 

[NYcarbineer]

You'd have thought by now that PC would have told us why more of the Walmarts that closed were in states with only the federal minimum wage,

Maybe their incomes are too low even for Walmart? That happens, when you race to the bottom can't even produce your own fucking socks and underwear.

People have forgotten that Walmart promised to set its own internal minimum wage, starting next month I think,

at $9.00 an hour.

 

[SuperDemocrat]

You'd have thought by now that PC would have told us why more of the Walmarts that closed were in states with only the federal minimum wage,

but for once I guess we've shut her up.

Drinks all around. to the silence of the lame.

I prefer silence of the lame to loudness of the stupid.

 

[SuperDemocrat]

You'd have thought by now that PC would have told us why more of the Walmarts that closed were in states with only the federal minimum wage,

Maybe their incomes are too low even for Walmart? That happens, when you race to the bottom can't even produce your own fucking socks and underwear.

The mythical situation of race to the bottom has never happenned.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Liberal big government operates under the motto "We Know Best What's Good For You!"

What is amazing is how many drones bow to this.

Equally amazing that the flashing light "IDIOT" over their heads doesn't keep them awake at night.

Rather than rehash the damage that Franklin Roosevelt did to the economy by instigating the mortgage meltdown by occupying the private home mortgage industry with his shock troops....'Fannie Mae,'....here's one more casualty...actually 400 casualties....of big government meddling.


1. "Wal-Mart announced Jan. 15 it will close 269 stores globally, including 154 locations in the United States—affecting about 10,000 associates across the nation.
“The minimum wage in the city of Oakland played a factor, was one of the factors, they considered in closing the stores,” Oakland City Councilman Larry Reidtoldthe San Francisco Chronicle.

... this store has been very successful for Wal-mart.”

2. The Oakland location, which ranked among the city’s top sales-tax producers, closed its doors Sunday evening following the corporate announcement. The store’s 400 employees will stay on moving inventory through mid-February,reported the San Francisco Chronicle.



3. Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, a Democrat, has been leading statewide efforts to raise the minimum wage to $15.

“This higher city minimum wage eliminated the jobs of the very workers advocates wanted to help,” said James Sherk, a research fellow in labor economics at The Heritage Foundation.



4. California’s minimum wage rose to$10 an hour on Jan. 1. Oakland’s minimum wage was bumped from $9 to $12.25 in March 2015 and was raised to $12.55 at the start of this year.

5. “The true minimum wage is $0.00 an hour,” Sherk said.“Companies do not have to hire workers, and they will not pay them more than the value they create.”



6. If the Oakland Wal-Mart workers don’t find employment by Feb. 10, they will get 60 days of additional pay and a severance package with a week of pay for every year employed by Wal-Mart, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.



7. The San Francisco Chronicle says two Wal-Mart locations in Oakland’s neighboring city ofSan Leandro, where minimum wage is $10, will remain open.

8. The difference between these three locations is the Oakland Wal-Mart has over a 25 percent difference in labor costs for entry-level employees than the San Leandro locations, says Mark Perry, an American Enterprise Institute scholar and professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan’s Flint campus.

9. “Given the reality that Wal-Mart operates on razor-thin profit margins (only 2.8 percent last quarter), a 25 percent difference in labor costs for entry-level workers can be the difference between a store that turns a profit and a store that barely breaks even, or loses money,” Perrywrote.
Oakland’s Minimum Wage Is Up, Wal-Mart Is Out


One more success story for theDemocrts/Liberals/Progressives who know best.

This is directly (see link) from Walmart's CEO Doug McMillon's Q and A on the closings:

Question: Are you having to close stores and clubs because of Walmart’s investment in wages?

McMillon's Answer:

Not at all.

Doug McMillon Answers Questions About Sharpened Focus on Stores

That's what truth looks like, PC. Make a note of it.

 

[SuperDemocrat]

This person could have posted the negative affects of XYZ thing and it would not have gathered the attention of "liberals" but the minute XYZ = government then the left comes in and attacks it. It just kind of makes me think that deep down most people on the left are defending authority in the same way an asskissing employee defends their employer at every turn. The employer can be the worse organization in the world yet that employee will defend it up until they are terminated and perhaps even after that. I would understand the rationale if government had zero negative affects in our society but that isn't the case at all. It also isn't the case that government has zero positive effects either. No one cares when government does good but I'm afraid that even when govenrment officials act bad they will defend it and defend those actions. I guess buttkisser will always need a place to go in life.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

You'd have thought by now that PC would have told us why more of the Walmarts that closed were in states with only the federal minimum wage,

Maybe their incomes are too low even for Walmart? That happens, when you race to the bottom can't even produce your own fucking socks and underwear.

The mythical situation of race to the bottom has never happenned.

It's happening even as we speak.

 

[SuperDemocrat]

Liberal big government operates under the motto "We Know Best What's Good For You!"

What is amazing is how many drones bow to this.

Equally amazing that the flashing light "IDIOT" over their heads doesn't keep them awake at night.

Rather than rehash the damage that Franklin Roosevelt did to the economy by instigating the mortgage meltdown by occupying the private home mortgage industry with his shock troops....'Fannie Mae,'....here's one more casualty...actually 400 casualties....of big government meddling.


1. "Wal-Mart announced Jan. 15 it will close 269 stores globally, including 154 locations in the United States—affecting about 10,000 associates across the nation.
“The minimum wage in the city of Oakland played a factor, was one of the factors, they considered in closing the stores,” Oakland City Councilman Larry Reidtoldthe San Francisco Chronicle.

... this store has been very successful for Wal-mart.”

2. The Oakland location, which ranked among the city’s top sales-tax producers, closed its doors Sunday evening following the corporate announcement. The store’s 400 employees will stay on moving inventory through mid-February,reported the San Francisco Chronicle.



3. Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, a Democrat, has been leading statewide efforts to raise the minimum wage to $15.

“This higher city minimum wage eliminated the jobs of the very workers advocates wanted to help,” said James Sherk, a research fellow in labor economics at The Heritage Foundation.



4. California’s minimum wage rose to$10 an hour on Jan. 1. Oakland’s minimum wage was bumped from $9 to $12.25 in March 2015 and was raised to $12.55 at the start of this year.

5. “The true minimum wage is $0.00 an hour,” Sherk said.“Companies do not have to hire workers, and they will not pay them more than the value they create.”



6. If the Oakland Wal-Mart workers don’t find employment by Feb. 10, they will get 60 days of additional pay and a severance package with a week of pay for every year employed by Wal-Mart, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.



7. The San Francisco Chronicle says two Wal-Mart locations in Oakland’s neighboring city ofSan Leandro, where minimum wage is $10, will remain open.

8. The difference between these three locations is the Oakland Wal-Mart has over a 25 percent difference in labor costs for entry-level employees than the San Leandro locations, says Mark Perry, an American Enterprise Institute scholar and professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan’s Flint campus.

9. “Given the reality that Wal-Mart operates on razor-thin profit margins (only 2.8 percent last quarter), a 25 percent difference in labor costs for entry-level workers can be the difference between a store that turns a profit and a store that barely breaks even, or loses money,” Perrywrote.
Oakland’s Minimum Wage Is Up, Wal-Mart Is Out


One more success story for theDemocrts/Liberals/Progressives who know best.

Most of the Walmart store closings are occurring in states where the minimum wage is at the federal minimum wage, or lower.

Tell the whole story for once, liar.

I never lie.

Does that make you jealous?

I proved you lie a couple days ago when you called me a liar for saying you believe abortion is murder. Now you're lying about lying.

I never lie...but let's rub your face in it: quote any lie in the OP.

Once you admit to lying about your position on abortion I'd be glad to.

if you thought a fetus is alive then yes abortion would be murder.