Stop right there. We disagree with him because we DO understand basic economics. Ya know, minor little things like you can’t continue to spend like a drunken sailor, stuff like that.
Door’s right over there. Don’t let it hit you in the ass on your way out.
Or stay and try to make it better.
Make sure to choose whichever option takes more balls to accomplish … because it doesn’t take any balls at all to tell you to leave.
As one who owns part of a business, I will say this is 100% correct. We would never do this.
Oh please. You’re so painfully idiotically wrong about everything that sometimes I think God must exist, simply because you assert he doesn’t. I wouldn’t trust you to add 2 and 2 if you had a calculator.
Exactly. Self-interest rules the day: despite all the bullshit about “job creators”, hiring is driven by demand. If you have enough people to meet the current demand for your business, you don’t hire. If you don’t, you do. You could repeal all business taxes and hand every business owner a check for a million dollars and it wouldn’t change the decision of whether to hire one more person or not. They’d just stick the money in the bank and wait for the economy to improve.
This is nothing but an asshole trying to spin their current lack of hiring to entice society into enacting policies that favor them. Manipulative and stupid, but not a threat to anything.
You might want to talk to the republicans about that whole “not spending money like a drunken sailor” idea.
Yeah, the idea that we might be able to bring about change in a democratic society is soooo unamerican.
For what it’s worth, that the impression I get as an outsider watching the US - that the Republicans (Tea Partiers, I guess) are indeed sabotaging your country. I have no particular strong feelings one way or the other for the US, but you’re taking the rest of the world down with you, and it would be super if you’d stop it.
Those of you who share my morbid interest in political pathology would be interested in exploring who the Tea Party. Or, more to the point, who the Tea Parties are. Tea Party Nation survived a troubled beginning to a condition of irrelevance. You may remember modest scandals about putting up a convention and the merriment that ensued when it was revealed how much money they were going to pay Sarah! to be keynote speaker.
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This is better than the fate of Dick Armey’s Tea Party Express, which died of anonymity. It was the Tea Party Express that was most obviously a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mammonite Church. It burst into being instantly, raising bo-koo bucks. A near miraculous birth, like the Goddess Athena ruptured into being from the forehead of Zeus. Except it wasn’t Zeus, it was the Koch Brothers, and it wasn’t the forehead. But I digress.
Suffice to say that it appears that Tea Party Nation would very much like to represent itself as the primary embodiment of the Tea Party, but those claims do not bear much scrutiny. When Tea Party Express was full of piss and vinegar, it was sponsoring professionally staged events all over the place. So was TP Nation, for a while. The difference appears to me that the Express was a vehicle for spending money, while TP Nation was a means to obtain it.
What remains is a modestly tidy website consisting of a variety of bloggish opinion, and a body of paid staffers and executives charged with making press releases.
As for the Tea Party Patriots…but soft! Enough.
This is our planet. You just live here.
I can never tell when you US Americans are kidding.
Neither can we, half the time.
You hate the country, then you must be happy they are sabotaging it. You and Tea Party are BFF.
As I’ve said before, the call for businesses not to hire demonstrates a complete lack of belief in her own principles. If she really thought that Obama’s policies were damaging the economy, then that damage would already be happening. She wouldn’t need to ask anyone to make it so.
Strikers and unions can try to change things in a way they think serves society better, right?
Why can’t employers?
Answer: they can. Glad I could explain that for you.
This lady is an idiot, doesn’t belong in business, and is delusional about Obama, Socialism or both. But the OP’s analysis is still flawed.
You ignore that in their minds, the other guys will make things better.
Well, that’s the way strikes work. You make it painful for people so they’ll agree to your demands. They also think they are doing what is necessary to eventually make things better.
Rather a broad brush, don’t you think?
I wonder if we could find something that right wing kook says that you wouldn’t rush to defend.
Huh? When have I defended anything Brookstone has had to say? More important, are you mored miffed that someone defended the position or that the position has a defense?
By the way, as I stated upthread, I think this is all a bunch of blustery nonsense.
Of course, if adding help at the moment makes good business sense otherwise, but you stick to this pledge, then your competitor with no such ideological scruples will hire, and get more done than you can, and drive you out of business.
Yep. Which is one reason why this is just blustery nonsense.
Not now, not ever.