York99 wrote:Because of the law I mentioned in the first paragraph, the law pretty much requires them to do so.
So this isn't just a problem with our laws...
...
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something there.
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York99 wrote:Because of the law I mentioned in the first paragraph, the law pretty much requires them to do so.
So this isn't just a problem with our laws...
Baldenhofer wrote:[youtube]http://youtu.be/xWXm3cd5S-o[/youtube]
Fast forward to :30 to see an officer toss some kind of explosive device into a small crowd of people trying to assist an injured occupant.
I first heard about this on the radio where I could only hear the audio. I couldn't believe this was happening somewhere that wasn't far, far away.
Marc Majcher wrote:York99 wrote:Because of the law I mentioned in the first paragraph, the law pretty much requires them to do so.
So this isn't just a problem with our laws...
...
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something there.
York99 wrote:Marc Majcher wrote:York99 wrote:Because of the law I mentioned in the first paragraph, the law pretty much requires them to do so.
So this isn't just a problem with our laws...
...
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something there.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I'm not totally clear on what's confusing, but I'll take a swing at it.
I'm saying that there is a problem from both sides of the issue. On one side, US law compels corporations to maximize profits. On the other side, maximizing those profits is easy when there is cheap foreign labor and when other countries offer lower corporate tax rates. So the system is stacked against American workers. Put somewhat more simply, the current corporate environment favors the corporations and not the workers or the general American public. That probably wasn't actually more clear.
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Marc Majcher wrote:York99 wrote:Marc Majcher wrote:York99 wrote:Because of the law I mentioned in the first paragraph, the law pretty much requires them to do so.
So this isn't just a problem with our laws...
...
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something there.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I'm not totally clear on what's confusing, but I'll take a swing at it.
I'm saying that there is a problem from both sides of the issue. On one side, US law compels corporations to maximize profits. On the other side, maximizing those profits is easy when there is cheap foreign labor and when other countries offer lower corporate tax rates. So the system is stacked against American workers. Put somewhat more simply, the current corporate environment favors the corporations and not the workers or the general American public. That probably wasn't actually more clear.
My confusion stems from saying that it's the law that requires them to maximize profits at any cost that's the problem, and then saying that it's not the laws that are the problem. Am I incorrect in thinking that it's the law that requires them to maximize profit's that actually the root problem here, and if that law were changed, things could start moving in a better direction?
mpbrockman wrote:Marc Majcher wrote:York99 wrote:Marc Majcher wrote:York99 wrote:Because of the law I mentioned in the first paragraph, the law pretty much requires them to do so.
So this isn't just a problem with our laws...
...
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something there.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I'm not totally clear on what's confusing, but I'll take a swing at it.
I'm saying that there is a problem from both sides of the issue. On one side, US law compels corporations to maximize profits. On the other side, maximizing those profits is easy when there is cheap foreign labor and when other countries offer lower corporate tax rates. So the system is stacked against American workers. Put somewhat more simply, the current corporate environment favors the corporations and not the workers or the general American public. That probably wasn't actually more clear.
My confusion stems from saying that it's the law that requires them to maximize profits at any cost that's the problem, and then saying that it's not the laws that are the problem. Am I incorrect in thinking that it's the law that requires them to maximize profit's that actually the root problem here, and if that law were changed, things could start moving in a better direction?
Marc, try reading the link below and see if it doesn't help clear things up. This former corporate tax attorney agrees with your thoughts about changing the corporate law structure - but conservatives would probably scream "socialism!"
Justin, the idea that Chinese, Mexican or Indian workers are going to stand up and demand higher standards is nice in theory, but rather unrealistically idealistic. To do so would cost them their jobs - and I don't think any of them are sitting around their call centers right now suffering crises of conscience - "Oh man, this job really belongs to an American worker". We also need to face up to the fact that Americans won't take some jobs - witness the draconian immigration law induced farm labor shortage in Georgia right now. Fact is, some "American jobs" are Mexican.
Molly Ivins used to say, "The rest of the country needs to take it's cue from Texas. When we need cheap labor, we start looking the other way at the border crossings. When we don't, we look back again."
Anyway, interesting article below:
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0119-04.htm
York99 wrote:...if Palin can make up words, so can I...
mpbrockman wrote:York99 wrote:...if Palin can make up words, so can I...
Really want to associate yourself with Palin (or George "the misunderestimated" Shrub)?
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