beagle9
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. Yeah, and the crazy thing is, is that diesels don't emit the amount of carbons a gasoline vehicle does (no where near the amount).. All explanations of today that we see and hear now, but going back to the Glory days in comparison, just what the Hell happened ????? It used to be that when a product was built, it was built to last, and the price was right. This empowered American's, and it allowed them to save more instead of having to spend more to replace the inferior products in which monopoly corporations are shoving down their throats with barely no options anymore to escape it all.... We as an American people were stronger and more self sustaining when we could purchase a Kenmore washer and dryer that lasted over 20 years like me and the wife had done or like it was with many other products we purchased over the years. Just look at the products you can still find that was built years and years ago in yard sells that still work.Conservatives do not want low level workers to enjoy a living wage. Adults holding two or three low level jobs are doing so because, as Conservatives believe, they are somehow not motivated. Not motivated. What a thing to think about someone out there working two or three jobs.
Conservatives do want people to enjoy a livable wage. What we conservatives do not want is making all jobs a livable wage. Conservatives want people to make themselves worth more money--not government making them worth more money. As long as taxpayers subsidize people who don't want to try harder, why would they try harder??
Conservatives believe that labor is a commodity like raw materials or packaging. This labor commodity should be controlled by the owners of the means of production by suppressing wages, for the benefit of the owners and shareholders.
Labor is a commodity, and like all commodities, has a value. Forcing increased payment of labor does not make that labor more valuable, it's still worth the same, only you are paying more for it.
Conservatives believe that organized labor is not only unnecessary but a direct threat to the owners of the means of production. Organized labor would mean corruption, unreasonably high wages, benefits and a greater emphasis on workplace health and safety. Unions should be shunned at all cost, in spite of the historical fact that when labor unions were strong, the middle class was strong. Coincidence? Absolutely not.
Of course not, but that was at a time when consumers supported unions. They don't today, and we are now in a global market. The American consumer is obsessed with "cheap." The cheaper the product, the more that product sells. You can't produce a cheap product with union labor. It just isn't possible.
Conservatives believe that the highest incomes deserve tax breaks while those who can least afford it should be taxed more, as illustrated in the current tax bill slithering through congress today.
The current tax bill provides lower taxation for the lower middle-class, and more taxation for the higher middle-class. As FactCheck noted, middle-class is considered anywhere from above poverty to six figure incomes. In that class, 63% of those people will see a reduction in taxes on the lower end of that scale.
And Conservatives believe that working class Americans should buy into this political ideology even though it offers little to the very voters they are courting.
It adds child credits, it keeps mortgage deductions for all that currently hold them, and those who buy homes in the future with under 500K loans will still receive those deductions. Those who purchase a home more than 500K (yes, those upper-class people) will no longer be able to write them off beyond 500K.
American has been duped, and it hasn't been purdy. Wake up America... 18 wheelers are a great example of the problem, where as inferior products are being built, the price steady going up, and the trucks not holding up now. Even though they cost 20 or 40 times more than what they cost not so long ago it would seem... They are plagued with problems. Ain't that right Ray ?? I have friends that drive, and they got horror stories to tell Ray, and especially about those def systems, heater and air conditioning controls, motors, lift axle systems where apply, front end alignment, stress cracks, and on and on. American's have been duped badly. It's no wonder why the wealth has been concentrated so much at the top. It has all been by design.
The problem with trucks today is the EPA. they had to manufacture trucks with so much pollution crap that it drove costs out of the roof. To try and compensate for the tens of thousands of dollars In pollution crap, they cut down on quality parts. So now these trucks break down all the time.
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