maine_Jim said:
Yes - dump the unions. Why the heck should we care if the average joe actually makes a living wage! Call me crazy but them darn public workers and teachers sure don't need to be living in their own homes...there just lazy and leach off the system...right...as for the silver price - if you have been at this for a few years and have a large pile it can be fun to see the value rise. Unfortunately everything else has to go up in price at the same time.
Maine_Jim
I disagree (I hope you're being sarcastic). You've been watching FoxNews too much. I've worked in the public sector before and in law enforcement. It is a tough and stressful job. Most cops have less average life expectancies than average people due to the stress of the job. You need to put yourself in someone else's shoes. Saying "dump the unions" without any logically arguement is over the top and ignor$ant. Don't bash someone if you've never had to work in their shoes or have done their jobs. I'm not going to bash any teacher or make generalizations about them since I've never worked as one.
I would rather be in a union than be out on my own having to be kicked around by corporate big wigs who would rather pay people minimum wage or even less if minimum wage didn't exist. Unions aren't the only reason corporations went over seas and took all the jobs away. Workers in China on average only make $5000/year. With those numbers, it doesn't matter whether unions are there or not. No one can compete with that. China for a long time manipulated their currency exchange rate purposely move our jobs there. China has sweat shops, pay workers very little, no worker rights, and is polluted. I read today about some China company had exposed their workers to some poisoness toxin while the workers were putting together iphones. Next thing you know these greedy companies can move to Somolia and pay people there $0.10/hr.
I don't want to see corporations to run everything. Corporations don't care about anything other than money and answering to their shareholders. If they step on people's feet in the way of making money, so be it. Now they (people like billionaire Koch Brothers) pour in millions to dollars to buy elections and to buy politicians so they get their way. Watch the original movie "Robocop" and you'll see the satire of it where a corporation takes charge of the Detriot police force and replace them with Robocop so they make or save money. Of course, their own corporate greed gets in the way of doing what's right.
Remember ENRON? Enron used their power and money to deregulate the energy business in CA and they manipulated the market to intentionally cause power outages and drove up prices. Yeah, they had deep connections with George Bush Jr. too (worst president I have experienced in my lifetime) who did nothing to stop them. Enron ripped off millions from CA, caused Grey Davis to be recalled, and Schwarzenegger to be elected.
People complain about freeloaders. Sure there's freeloaders whether poor or rich (some rich people freeload too - it's called an inheiritance). People are inheiritantly selfish and so some people will take advantage of things. However there are also people who do need help and use it to get by to get on their feet. Call it an entitlement but I call it giving a helping hand. One of my friends was on unemployment for a year. He got let go and after a year finally got a good job where he's still at now. He didn't want to stay on umemployment and would rather have a good job so he worked at it to get one. People, please don't generalize. Foxnews just feeds you a bunch of crap paid by Billionaire Ruppert Murdoch. Things are not black and white in life.
Look at what David Koch has done with Wisconsin. They bought the Govenorship. It's funny how Scott Walker sounded so tough in talking with the press and unions yet he was like a little kiss-A$$ with the fake David Koch on the phone. It just shows who is running whom. At no where in the conversation with Koch, did Walker talk about the budget and how the state doesn't have money to Koch. Walker only talked about how he wanted to be the next Ronald Reagan and how sending "troublemakers" into the crowd would be bad politically and not because he worried about people getting hurt. What a scumbag.
Why should we let the top 2% of earners in the U.S. dictate the remaining 98%? Think independently folks.
On another note.. keep getting boxes. I've gotten skunked with dimes before too. I only average one dime per box so it's not suprising if you got skunked. Get those keepers now so you don't have to worry about the competition that appear when it's $50/oz. HH
UNION UNION UNION.. CHANT!!
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