Well, funny you should mention that.
The GOP has gotten by because they've played on the social issues. They keep offering to take our country back from the abortionists and liberals and gays and make it all like it was under Ward and June Cleaver.
But what they forget is why the real life Ward had a good paying job, so June could stay home.
Today, Ward has to worry about someone sending his job to China, while June is out working a second job and maybe having an affair with a co-worker. Meanwhile Wally and the Beaver are out hanging around with Eddy Haskel, and getting into all sorts of trouble.
The ironic thing is that in destroying that middle class you've created most of the problems you guys get upset about.
But Joe- you supported Santorum the biggest social issue primary candidate? You know Joe you support organized labor too??? You know what Joe- I think you are probably the most disingenuous poster on here- I submit you have never supported any GOP candidate.
You can submit any stupidity you want, but go back to January, when I supported Rick against both liberals and Romney supporters.
Santorum had no problem with organized labor, and he was one of the few guys who got it that the decline of the middle class is the real problem. The GOP produces one of these guys every few years. - Santorum, Huckabee, Buchanan- who realizes corportism and free trade are horrible idea..... and the Establishment panics and bombs the snot out of them, even if it costs them the general election.
As for the social issues, yeah, Santorum's religious silliness bothered me, but at least he put his religious crazy out on the table. Romney won't even say the word "Mormon" in public if can help it.
I guess I identified more with Santorum because he was the product of the same kind of working class Catholic upbringing I was. Five years ago, before my Romney-supporting boss showed me the true meaning of Christmas and Capitalism, I'd have said most of the same things.
Now I realize teh social issues are just something the plutocrats get to trick people into voting against their own interests, which is why abortion is still legal 40 years after
Roe v. Wade.
Everyone loves to blame “corporations” for shipping jobs overseas. But a corporation—or any business—that ceases to be profitable will soon cease to exist, depriving consumers of whatever goods and/or services it once provided.
Ahhh. But how is it going to be profitable if no one can afford it's products? As Henry Ford once observed, "If the people who work for me can't make enough money to buy my cars, I don't have a business."
U.S. wages are higher than they are almost anywhere else. Our health, safety and environmental laws are among the most stringent. Our affirmative action demands are the most exacting, except possibly for those of Malaysia and South Africa.
You talk like these are bad things. Personally, I like drinking clean water, breathing clean air, and knowing that all the equipment at the plant I work at won't fly apart at the seems and injure me.
No matter how far down we go, we are never going to get to the point were our workers will be as cheap or expendable as Chinese workers, and it shouldn't be something we should want to emulate to start with.
Unions raise the cost of labor. They block out non-union workers, carve out exclusive deals for themselves (sometimes with wages and benefits well above what the market should bear), and in the case of public unions, do all of this on the taxpayer’s dime.
The government, for its part, swoops in and regulates more and more, raising compliance costs. Then, it taxes (with the second-highest and soon-to-be the highest corporate tax in the world) and makes things even harder.
You want jobs? Stop punishing business for being business.
Then the businesses should stop acting like douchebags.
You know from Reagan to Bush-43, we did all the shit you said. (On economic issues, Clinton was indistinguishable from a Republican) We reduced union participation, we loosened up the regulations, we lowered taxes, etc. By your standards, we should be humming along today. But the exact oppossite has happened. We've been in economic decline since 1978. Your conclusion, "No, no, wait. There are still some working stiffs enjoying a middle class lifestyle. We need to put a stop to that shit! Then we'll have prosperity."
I'm not for punishing businesses for being businesses, but I think we should punish the shit out of them when they act like douchebags.