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[QP!]

Yes, yes... But management of any company will almost always act selfishly and take the lion's share of the profits for themselves. That's an unfortunate side of human nature.

Sure they will try.

And labor will fight and try to get their share.

The question is why you and others tend to always point at labor trying as the thing that is uncompetitive or otherwise bad?


When Management has too much leverage (the last bunch of years) it is not good. When labor has too much leverage it is also not good, but it has been decades since that was the case. Things are only now starting to shift to somewhat balanced state.

 

[Althea]

That's a part of it. Democrats pushed the nominal tax rate on corporate profits to one of the highest in the world. Regulations in general caused industry to choose moving, and environmental and safety ones were a big part of that. That isn't an argument against regulations per se, but rather an argument that regulations cost money, and if they cost enough money corporations either close or move to avoid paying for them.
Unions are another issue. The UAW just got Ford to agree to a 25% wage increase. I bet the management at Ford is already looking at putting plants in right-to-work states to avoid the union wage, or at moving operations out of the country that otherwise would have stayed.

I'm sure you're right about Ford and others as well. All auto manufacturers raped the consumers post Covid with fantasy shortages of vehicles. They made record profits, and the unions rightfully want their share.

The unions should be prepared to give back during lean times. The UAW happens to be a group of the worst whores in the nation when it comes to compensation. They gave a lot back during the crash, and now want to share in the spoils.

Which is fair. They may very well see a migration south of they don't watch their step.

 

[Nordberg]

Products get better when you are involved in the manufacture and creation. You improve them and merge them with comparable products and techniques. Our greedy owners are the reason China has the most patents and improvements. Our patriotism makes us easier to handle. Owners have no loyalty. The head of GE said he wishes he could put all his plants on barges and move them wherever he got the best deal.
You are not part of the solution. You are just a solvable and controllable business problem.

 

[Port Tack]

Biden. Trump is into himself. He'd do his four years in office and then be done and gone. No major harm, no foul. There'd be no economic or foreign policy train wreck that Biden would plague us with.

Biden on the other hand given four more years would continue to push the greentard disaster he's currently pushing with the concurrent domestic economic disaster that brings with it, would allow somewhere around 10 to 12 million illegals into the US (total) which would roughly double that population of criminal entrants that do the US virtually no good whatsoever. Spending would continue out-of-control with the national debt reaching the new debt ceiling creating that crisis again. His foreign policy would continue to destabilize the world. I could see China successfully invading Taiwan in a disaster on the order of Germany invading Poland. We don't need a doddering, senile, moron running the country into the ground.

Trump is the chickenshit that would abandon our allies in a heartbeat. Trump would do everything in his power to turn this country into a dictatorship. He already tried once. Biden will have no problem crushing that shithead like a bug. Not that everyone loves Biden but enough in this country realize how fucked up your criminal is.

 

[Port Tack]

Biden has eliminated Congress from the loop to the maximum extent he can. Immigration is a great example. Biden isn't even following established law on that. His--well, his handler's-- greentard stuff is the same thing. The EPA / CPSC push to eliminate gas consumer appliances is an example. Congress is actually trying to push back on that, but it's likely it won't happen because of how closely divided Congress is. A few votes against that pushback and Biden wins, and the Democrats on the Left championing that greentard shit know it.

It doesn't matter particularly who is president when Congress is closely divided because any president then has the power of the bureaucracy to push through all sorts of personal stuff via regulation and executive order. But the most damage will be done by a president that makes a hard left turn in policy, hands down. That's Biden at this moment.

Everyone knows what a criminal and asshole Trump is, even a significant number of republicans will not vote for him. Republicans in the house have shown what utter assholes they are so congress will go back to democratic control. We can thank trump for pretty much destroying the republican party.

 

[Port Tack]

You're blaming the Republican Party's dysfunction on Biden? Interesting. Yes, the close division of Congress should tell people something but blaming the lack of House Speaker on Democrats, much less Biden, is silly.

Disagreed. It's the other way: With a dysfunctional Congress, not very much gets done. This is exactly the plan for those supporting weakening and, if possible, eliminating the Federal government. Examples are the lack of both Immigration and Election reform.

You just said a few posts ago that you would be voting for that dysfunction if Trump was not there running? You like dysfunction? Well, at least you are one of those many republicans that will refuse to vote for their Velveeta man? Thankfully there are a lot like you, enough to kill any chance that shithead has of winning.

 

[Port Tack]

No, I'm blaming our rising social and economic dysfunction on Biden who has a free hand to purvey Leftist insanity through policy, regulation, and executive order, because Congress (both parties) can't get their collective shit together and do anything reasonable due to the increasing gulf between the two parties.

Democrats have no problem getting things done, don't include your fucked up party in your dysfunction.

 

[Hawkeye10]

You just said a few posts ago that you would be voting for that dysfunction if Trump was not there running? You like dysfunction? Well, at least you are one of those many republicans that will refuse to vote for their Velveeta man? Thankfully there are a lot like you, enough to kill any chance that shithead has of winning.

"U will be assimilated...resistance is futile"

 

[Port Tack]

I did for 38 years. 2012 was my last time voting Republican. I'd consider returning if they nominated a sane candidate like Nikki. Odds are, I'll be voting a straight Libertarian ticket again next year.

I voted republican many times but the Republican party I voted for was not the Republican party of today, not by a long shot! The Republicans I voted for would never consider abandoning the Ukraine or dropping out of NATO to name two biggies.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

You just said a few posts ago that you would be voting for that dysfunction if Trump was not there running? You like dysfunction?

Well, at least you are one of those many republicans that will refuse to vote for their Velveeta man?

Thankfully there are a lot like you, enough to kill any chance that shithead has of winning.

No. No. I do, believe that big problems should be well thought out by reasoning people, not political parties with the sole agenda of pandering to votes.

I'm no longer a Republican and would never vote for a treasonous, draft-dodging, lying pedophile like Donald J. Trump. Perhaps you have a better understanding now of why I didn't like Bill Clinton either. LOL

You're free to hate and dream just like the Trump geezers.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

I voted republican many times but the Republican party I voted for was not the Republican party of today, not by a long shot! The Republicans I voted for would never consider abandoning the Ukraine or dropping out of NATO to name two biggies.

Agreed on all points.