Posted on 12/03/2012 5:33:04 AM PST by smokingfrog
A New York Times investigation has uncovered a shocking scandal they would have you believe involves big corporations blackmailing your state government and stealing tax dollars that should be spent on public education. This scandal, though not identified as such in the article, is called federalism. It finds its roots in the 10th Amendment of the United States Constitution.
Granted, the statistical research The Times provides in the piece is invaluable, but the article is confused as to the conclusions that flow from the numbers. The most glaring statistic is the dollar amount of gifts (to use Mitt Romneys phrase) that Texas doles out to corporate America each year: $19 billion. How could this be? Well, according to Sarah Eckhardt, a Travis County commissioner who has purportedly negotiated with evil giants like Apple and Hewlett-Packard, the poor little government folk simply cannot keep up:
They dictate their terms, and were not really in a position to question their deal terms, we dont have the sophistication or the resources to negotiate with a company that has the wherewithal the size of a country. We are just no match in negotiating with that.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
uh, yeah buddy, personally, I will take the little hospital. Less shifting of blame and responsibility, more attention to the patient.
oh yeeah, GM was a smashing success............NOT
It was until the unions took control. Fact is, when even simple neccesities began being mass produced it made life better and freed people to use their time inventing other things. I’m glad I can go to the store and buy items I need and they are available and affordable. Economies of scale; look it up.
It was until the unions took control. Fact is, when even simple neccesities began being mass produced it made life better and freed people to use their time inventing other things. I’m glad I can go to the store and buy items I need and they are available and affordable. Economies of scale; look it up.
Indeed and the jeep went to China,that Obama guy sure knows how to do business.
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Decades of Pavlovian training from the left must have worked on you then. You hate corporations because you've been taught to hate them.
Corporations have done as much to destroy the republic and states rights as any other entity. Their lobbyists and “we cant have 50 different regulations” mantra has been the engine of the consolidation of power in DC.
So you're arguing that more regulations are better for the "republic and states rights"? Or that decreasing government regulation somehow increases government power?
I'm not following your thinking here.
When states could regulate(in lieu of Federal) corporations things were much better. Some states may have felt A was better than B. Some states may have done something different.. It is better that control be pushed down to the state level. If you cannot understand what I am saying you are totally misunderstand the founding of the republic.
No, your original claim was that federal regulation is the fault of corporations; that the reason states rights are usurped by the feds is because of corporations.
I'm asking you to explain and/or prove that corporations are the cause of the feds' regulations, and your claim that these corporations lobbying for fewer regulations has somehow caused them.
Before EPA, OSHA etc. and states ran things, a state that had few regulations would be the place start ups could go to incubate. No more.
Bite me, you subway-slithering frotteur.
It's overloaded with about 10,000,000 children from Sinaloa, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Durango, Tamaulipas, Chihuahua, and Morelia. Studying for free, of course -- often indifferently, because Mexican culture puts more emphasis on children working to help the family than on academic success and persistence in pursuing college degrees.
Oh, and that's with lunches.
Meanwhile, there's a tiny, one-room school district in West Texas with 26 entire students. It's one of the best in Texas, and proud to be so.
When New York State's non-citizen service load is proportionate to Texas's, come back and write another article. Until then, F.O.
Bump.
Corporations had a very great deal to do with propagating the idea that America needed a strong, whip-hand central government to exert "strong control" of the nation's agenda and business environment. Anyone who felt differently got to discover the horrors of civil war.
After the Civil War, Atlantic Slope corporations and proprietors introduced such charming innovations as the tyranny of the clock, scab labor and union-busting, organized mass-immigration to crush wages (the giant ocean liners of J.P. Morgan's half-owned White Star Line were actually conveyor belts for immigrants, whom Morgan's railroads took out to the Great Plains to settle on his railroad land grants issued by the Gilded-Age Republican Congress), gun control (Presser vs. Illinois, a union-busting/gun-possession case, 1885/6), creative ergonomics and time/motion studies (10 engineering draftsmen to a light bulb, assembly-line speedups), and workplace security (the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, in which hundreds of girls were trapped by fire-escape exits chained shut to prevent girls sneaking out and taking a break). And, of course, the hallowed Ten-Dollar Payoff, in which any Bridget who'd lost her man in an industrial accident got $10 flat and orders to clear off company housing, if her family had any.
OK, now THAT I can agree with.
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