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To: jwalsh07
Screw Amazon and every other company that wants to destroy the traditional family even further than what the Great Society accomplished.

Unless I am mistaken (and I certainly could be) Bezos and his wife used their own money for their wrongheaded donation. No doubt you have a job. You get a paycheck. You may even own a piece of the company. The money you make is yours to do with as you please. This was not Amazon the company. I seriously doubt that it is company policy to bring about the destruction of the traditional family. I suppose it might be written into some corporate by-laws somewhere, but I doubt it.

...your argument is the same one lefties and big government righties used to justify bailing out GM.

My argument has only a faint similarity to the one the lefties and big gov righties proclaim to justify bailing out GM. However, they only used their so-called concern for employees as window dressing for their agenda of putting government in control of an industry. I am simply saying that it is ineffective to hold the employees of a company accountable for the personal, individual actions of the founder who owns only about 20% of the company. That is a heck of a lot of money, but it is not a majority share.

I understand perfectly that if there is a demand someone will find a way to meet it. And they will need employees to do it, but not necessarily the same displaced employees who were laid off when the business tanks.

It may make us feel great to have done our part to stop the homosexual agenda by not shopping at Amazon, but that is about the only positive thing it will accomplish. That feel good stance has consequences in the lives of real people, not simply some faceless, utilitarian demographic. Sadly the failure to see, or give a damn about individuals is a blind spot of both the ideological left and right.

89 posted on 07/27/2012 9:39:23 PM PDT by newheart (At what point does policy become treason?)
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To: newheart

Your argument is exactly the same as the GM bailout. It was bogus then, it is bogus now. But perhaps you are consistently wrong. Did you support the bailout of GM to save those particular people’s jobs or are you a heartless bastard?


90 posted on 07/27/2012 9:57:10 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (.)
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