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Topic Started: Dec 10 2008, 02:23 PM (332 Views)
dumblonde
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Am I the only one who is totally chapped that Citibank is not only purchasing naming rights for the mets field but now is sponsoring the Rose Bowl as well? :doh:
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towermonkey
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Your tax dollars at work.
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Manna Pro
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The banks are buying highways in europe, other banks, and all kinds of assets with OUR money...Theres no oversight at all..And no money for us..

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It's not our money anymore. I notice Bush blocked the automakers from taking any of the TARP funds away from his banker buddies. Gotta admit- once they bought him he sure stayed bought. As I recall that was Mark Twains definition of an honest politician.
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God forbid ANY of that money trickles down to the dreaded WORKERS! The consumers! People that actually produce things! People that return the money back into the economy by spending it!

And never mind that the auto industry is vital to national security..Who's gonna make our Humvees, armored personal vehicles, troop transports, tanks, 16 tracks, etc etc... China!? South Korea?

Futhermore the economy needs job creation- Obama is going to invest billions into that..Where else can you invest 25 billion and get 3 to 6 million sustainable jobs?

And people act like those are great jobs..It's tedidious mind numbing work. If my kid took a job at an Auto factory I'd cry..
Edited by Manna Pro, Dec 10 2008, 08:19 PM.
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We've become too good for blue collar jobs in America. We actually think we can survive without manufacturing capability.
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It's not just manufacturing that is suffering because of this American attitude that we're somehow all too good for manual labor. There are innumerable services that are suffering because of it, farmers are having difficult times recruiting new labor, the jobs just aren't glamorous enough to hold people in them for very long. There's this fallacy in America that anyone can be whatever he or she wants to be simply by virtue of being American. Never mind skill sets, work ethic, or personal performance. Those things can be made up for by turnover and outsourcing. Ah, the beauty of capitalism!

I've been thinking about this whole 'oversight' thing and I'm pretty sure it's a sham. Why? Think about it like this: the people who stand to make a lot of money, power, or assets are in charge of keeping track of taxpayer dollars, they make the regulations for the allocation of those dollars. Not just billions of dollars, either, but trillions of dollars. Unrealistic amounts of money. What incentive is there for *anyone* in elected office to act responsibly or in the best interests of the 'common' people when it has been proven time and again that when an elected official does something to violate his/her office, there are few to no repercussions at all? Unless there is a massive coup by the American *people*, these other people will continue to drain us dry. And we will have deserved it for our complacency.
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I have already spoken on all this before,, looks like Y is now seen the vision...

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Heh. Mtnman, I think that most of us here have been saying this for a while, actually. Not that my early-morning posts are always comprehensible. Or coherent. Heh. I'll give you that one...
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dumblonde
Dec 10 2008, 11:31 PM
We've become too good for blue collar jobs in America. We actually think we can survive without manufacturing capability.
We? Got a turd in your pocket?
I am blue collar.
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