Posted on 10/16/2006 6:45:49 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Full disclosure: I have deliberately driven major road projects (such as the Dan Ryan expansion in Chicago) instead of diverting around them simply to observe their construction.
You're crazy.
Can you post verification that [insert company name here] has enjoyed consecutive quarters of higher profits passed on to their shareholders?
And you're rude.
Regards, Ivan
Check your FReepmail again and we'll bring it back here.
Do you have the documention, or no?
Good morning, Ivan. Your point's well taken and that's what I'm talking about. I'm willing to pay more for another brand of jeans because of Levi's having outsourced. Besides, the workmanship has suffered in the process.
We are not talking about T-bills and CDs. Try to keep up, will ya?
"Can you post verification that [insert company name here] has enjoyed consecutive quarters of higher profits passed on to their shareholders?"If you slowed-down a bit, you might not have forgotten you made it.
In all honesty, I don't pretend to be some wizened economist. Far from it. But I do pretty well with intuition, and on this subject it's telling me outsourcing is a consumer ripoff.
Maybe so. But I look at Wal-Mart, how they're a really good investment [talking stocks here] but yet at the same time they're criticized for not doing well by their employees. It's like screwing somebody over is part of the corporate game.
There is a definition for this. It's called socialism. The companies are nominally privately owned, but under strict control of government.
so‧cial‧ism /ˈsoʊʃəˌlɪz
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1. | a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole. |
2. | procedure or practice in accordance with this theory. |
3. | (in Marxist theory) the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles. And no, I'm not doing the hyperbole thing here either... |
Regards, Ivan
Another reason I don't wear them.
The 281 issue was never about whether it would be a free road or a toll road. It was whether ARMA would build the toll road with money from raising taxes and selling bonds or the toll road would be built with private money. The notion that ARMA was forced into it is absurd. They looked at how much more it would cost them and how much longer it would take.
Thanks for for your link to Cashtrap which proved my point about the legislature giving the authority. BTW, you look absolutely marvelous hanging out with leftists at Cashtrap.
In fact, I can imagine the howls if this was purely a private project. Think Kelo.
Your #1:
control the means and production (of the roads)
Vesting of ownership in the community
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