It is now time for Atlas to Shrug...

As it appears that Obama has won this election, following Fox News calling both Ohio and PA for him, I think it is now time for the businessmen and women who run this country to make it quite clear what the consequences are to those people who sold out their freedom for empty promises.

Small business owners, your taxes are now going to be raised. You now will face the difficult choice of either cutting your costs by laying people off, or by passing the increased costs of taxation on to your customers. This time I want you to take the time to tell that laid off employee exactly why he has lost his job. Tell him that the Obama tax increase has forced you to take his salary and give it to "the middle class". If he protests that he is part of the middle class, then explain that he should make good use of the $500 he sold his vote for, because it cost him his job.

For the manufacturers: When you move your production facilities overseas because the US has the second highest corporate income taxes in the world, make sure your workers understand that their Union is mostly to blame, and they should go talk to them about why it was a good idea to vote for the guy who would make all union votes public.

For your customers: Explain that the price of your product has gone up because of your taxes being increased, and because the rising price of oil from keeping the caribou happy has forced you to charge them more. Tell them you tried inflating your tires, but unfortunately it did not put any more gasoline in your tank.

Consumers: When you go shopping, and are considering buying a high ticket item, when you change your mind, make sure that they know that if you had only kep that extra 3% of your salary.... the "chump change", you could have bought their item.

Make them understand that capitalism requires capital, and unfortunately Obama gave the capital you needed to somebody who was more deserving than them.

Tell them that you are sure they will be OK, because Obama told them it would be so.

Ask them how they are enjoying their "Change", and if they have any more "Hope" for the future.

You know how to make your own BATTERIES? Wow. Got link?

It's a pretty common science project actually: just google "homemade battery" and you'll find hundreds of ways to do it. Basically, you need two different metals suspended in acid. I took copper from an old wire, some aluminum foil, and put them in some vinegar which also had salt in it. You can stick a piece of copper and a galvanized (zinc) nail into opposite ends of a lemon and that'll work. You can use bleach, salt water, cola, lots of things.

The current is very low, however. You have to connect a lot of them together to get a good current out of them--and you can probably only scrape together enough to run very low power devices. Still, once you know the scientific principle behind it, it's knowledge that may come in handy someday! :)

“So the next question is the means - are you suggesting we pool our resources to buy these media outlets?”

If you can go in with some like minded people and buy a local daily (or weekly) then go for it. If you don't insult the values and the intelligence of the demographic it might actually make money! If not, or if it breaks even, then at least the damage being done by the rest of the media can start to be undone.

Other alternative is to become (gasp) a journalist and infiltrate the whole works from reporter to editor to college professor. Think of it as being a G-Man infiltrating the CPUSA fifty years ago. Pay is low, but in this thread people are saying that they don't want to feed the beast.

The reason that there are too many democrats in the media is simple: there are not enough republicans. It just isn't our thing. Used to journalists didn't go to journalism school, they were cops, firemen, businessmen, whatever and whoever from ordinary walks of life that took up a pen somewhere along the way. They had a different perspective, what-with actually having had real jobs at some point. Now people go to journalism to become shameless left wing propagandists.

If the old media is dying, then while it deserves to die what will take the place of what it should have been doing? It ought to be possible to open a paper and just read the simple facts. Without a trustworthy media we are what, left with the postmodern proposition that there is no objective truth? It becomes a contest of demagogues and who can put on the most TV ads (and by the way, that ain't us anymore).

Back when I was in school the engineering college would not accept credit hours (for the total credit hours requirement) for journalism classes. It would accept them from literature, history, home economics, animal husbandry, weight lifting, whatever. But it specifically singled out (in the catalog) the journalism college to say that their credits were simply meaningless towards a real degree. Point being, how hard can it be? I've got the feeling that it is closer to the bottom 10% than the top 10% that go to journalism school. And these C- slackers are doing more harm to this country than Al Qaeda. They are doing more damage than Osama bin Laden. They pose as big a threat as the USSR at its strongest. They are corroding this country from within. Does anyone doubt that this republic, if it falls, will fail from within? Guess who is doing it—well, we are in a way because we just wring our hands and wag our fingers as though that will fix it somehow. If you're mad as Hell then do something about it: do the job that these jerks aren't.

“Point being, how hard can it be? I’ve got the feeling that it is closer to the bottom 10% than the top 10% that go to journalism school. And these C- slackers are doing more harm to this country than Al Qaeda.”

My experience in college confirms this opinion.

It’s kind of like the teaching curriculum..the curriculum itself didn’t make good teachers.Some kids went into that area because they couldn’t hack it anywhere else.
But then there were the genuine teachers - the ones who loved kids and had good heads on their shoulders.
They were going to be good teachers despite the curriculum.

I only have ONE business in California. Don’t be fooled by this “party” crap, both Republican and Democratic parties only serve to divide the citizens into different factions and these factions are only after the truth, flat and simple. But the illuminati’s best weapon is keeping people denied of that truth and so the members of the various parties think other people inside and outside of our country are to blame for the dysfunction here. Nothing could be further from the truth.

If, by some slim miracle, we actually had truthful history books that engaged in meaningful criticism in our schools, we’d probably find that the citizenry had far more in common than what the oligarchs are letting us realize. If we realized we had that much in common, then our common energy would be able to be focused on keeping them honest, which they aren’t about to let happen, so it becomes imperative for them that we be kept in the dark and guessing instead of informed. To the oligarchs, an informed population is a dangerous one, that’s why FoxNews had become a common reference for the past WhiteHouse team. It was the laughing stock of serious journalism.

Personally, I think Bush was the worst president we’ve had since Coolidge, but his traitorous actions toward this country are right in line with his father, Reagan, and the Clintons. Obama is an intelligent guy, but he is already showing that he is being constrained by the same set of forces that constrained the Bushes and the Clinton’s. Please note that every candidate that opposed the Trade Agreements during these last two elections was summarily hustled off center stage. Think about that. God forbid the American public ever learned the truth about who stole our manufacturing base.

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