rabbitcaebannog
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Smaller businesses do get tax breaks. Your argument is a red herring.
Its not about those companies, its about the smaller companies that CANT grow due to taxes and regulations. The conglomerates PREFER that taxes and regulations stay high...it doesnt affect them one bit, they can afford the lawyers and lobbyists anyway.
To put her in perspective of your time, she was governor of Texas and was Karl Rove's first big test to beat as GW Bush's attack dog and that's when GW Bush became governor of Texas just before becoming president. That woman was sooooooo funny. She had an incredible speaking style that had the right amount of comedic pause and delivery. Worked well for her in politics. Below is a link to 7 minute story she told about the TSA back in 2004. Funny to see if you got the time.
rl]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LA1dfHqLTc[/url]
Greetings, PoweRob. :2wave:
That was one of the funniest things I have listened to in a long time! :lamo: She was great, wasn't she? Thanks for posting it! :thumbs: (I'm still laughing.....)
We need good paying, full time jobs! That's why Republicans (and Obama) are pushing trade deals to ship more jobs overseas!Liberals taking things out of context, imagine that.
The Obama economy is a part-time, low wage economy. We need good paying, full time jobs. Electing Democrats will not get you work.
I think some of the greatest comedians are Texans and they tend to be politically active. Her, Jim Hightower and especially Kinky Friedman.
Ah, Kinky Friedman - the poor man's Donald Trump - shows up occasionally, says outrageous things and disappears again! :lamo: I like him!
Please tell me how the GOP cares about workers.
Well, they care about exploiting them. They care about denying equal pay for women, robbing pensioners and those with 401Ks, they care about not allowing for unions to organize or health care benefits for those fully employed.
Say what you want but it takes a lot to maintain that.
What? How exactly do I deny women equal pay by not mandating employers provide women equal pay? Is this like one of those tricks where if I give people the freedom to decide what they will pay people that somehow I'm forcing employers to not pay women equally?
The central problem is that Jeb's comment belies a childish understanding of the economy.
First it shows a complete disconnect from the realities of the modern w. The most productive people are already maxxed out. We may only be paid for 40hrs a week, but 60 is a better average and 80 isn't uncommon. We also don't take much vacation even though we're entitled to it, mostly because it's impossible to take more time off and finish what we need to do.
Second, it shows a complete inability to do simple math. If your "plan" expects to generate 4% growth as far as the eye can see, would you not also have to put in longer and longer hours... also as far as the eye can see? Increasing the number of hours everyone works would presumably only get you a one time increase in productivity. Hours worked does not compound like interest.
Third, it ignores history. When has any country ever brute forced itself into economic growth? Countries grow in productivity because either its workforce grows or its workforce becomes more efficient.
Fourth, it completely misses the roadblocks for growth. Companies are sitting on some absurd number of trillions of dollars in unused capital. The reason they don't grow is the same reason that small businesses don't hire themselves into success. Produce as much as you like, but you only make money on the things you actually sell. The current limit to economic growth isn't a lack productivity, it's demand.
Fifth, it's completely tone deaf. The problem with our country is that we don't work hard enough? Please. Live in the real world for a little Mr Bush and then let us know what you think.
Seriously.... Jeb's comment is dumber than Romney's 47%. At least you understood where Romney was coming from.
And this from the party that relied on the Supreme Court to tell the nation what the Democrats meant when they said the ACA wasn't really a tax and the federal subsidies didn't apply only to state exchanges.
What?
I don't pay any ACA tax.
The law obviously intended for federal subsidies to apply to states that refused to set up their own exchanges. Please read the SCOTUS decision before you use it as a talking point.
The central problem is that Jeb's comment belies a childish understanding of the economy.
First it shows a complete disconnect from the realities of the modern w. The most productive people are already maxxed out. We may only be paid for 40hrs a week, but 60 is a better average and 80 isn't uncommon. We also don't take much vacation even though we're entitled to it, mostly because it's impossible to take more time off and finish what we need to do.
Second, it shows a complete inability to do simple math. If your "plan" expects to generate 4% growth as far as the eye can see, would you not also have to put in longer and longer hours... also as far as the eye can see? Increasing the number of hours everyone works would presumably only get you a one time increase in productivity. Hours worked does not compound like interest.
Third, it ignores history. When has any country ever brute forced itself into economic growth? Countries grow in productivity because either its workforce grows or its workforce becomes more efficient.
Fourth, it completely misses the roadblocks for growth. Companies are sitting on some absurd number of trillions of dollars in unused capital. The reason they don't grow is the same reason that small businesses don't hire themselves into success. Produce as much as you like, but you only make money on the things you actually sell. The current limit to economic growth isn't a lack productivity, it's demand.
Fifth, it's completely tone deaf. The problem with our country is that we don't work hard enough? Please. Live in the real world for a little Mr Bush and then let us know what you think.
Seriously.... Jeb's comment is dumber than Romney's 47%. At least you understood where Romney was coming from.
Of course, many part-time jobs are combined with other part-time jobs to support a family. Sometimes up to three or four. Which Jeb's brother said was uniquely American.
Saudi oil money can certainly give you a divorced perspective from the American experience.
She had an incredible speaking style that had the right amount of comedic pause and delivery.
She had an incredible speaking style that had the right amount of comedic pause and delivery.
What? How exactly do I deny women equal pay by not mandating employers provide women equal pay? Is this like one of those tricks where if I give people the freedom to decide what they will pay people that somehow I'm forcing employers to not pay women equally?
Ah, more of your Libertardian dream world rhetoric.
Your position? Are you a employer, Henrin?
The Supreme Court, in its first ruling on the ACA, declared it was constitutional because the mandate was a tax. Chief Justice Roberts parked his integrity and twisted himself into a pretzel in order to make that ruling to save the ACA.
I suggest you take your own advice to avoid looking foolish.
Half the time Henrin, you're either so damn contradictory, confusing, or vague in your statements I haven't the slightest idea how to respond to you.
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