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Comment on: Gary A McAvin's Between The Eyes

Unpatriotic Capitalists!

5 Comments

Written Like a True Communist

TASS would love for you to be on their editorial board.

The most communistic group in the world were the kibbutz in Israel. Even these are failing like all communist states do.

Were you born like this ?

Or was it our decadent/incompetent public education that did this to you ?
As a capitalist, a 100% self made one, I can assure you that I had indeed enjoyed my journey through life. This in spite of many of your envious-bitter kind who never got off his butt physically nor intellectually.
As Henry Ford said : "Thinking is the hardest job there is"...Indeed it is!

I started as a lowly auto factory worker, studied at night (while my peers were drinking beer and chasing sluts)saved every penny (while my peers were getting in debt buying cars and other toys they couldn't really afford) then, eventually, I started a small farm producing melons. After years of hard work and savings, we expanded continuously until we came to the conclusion that no matter how hard and carefully we worked, the government bureaucracies were meddling into our affairs to the point where it wasn't worth it anymore.
We sold everything off almost 10 years ago, moved our production to Brazil and today we have grown beyond our wildest dreams with over 3000 people working with us. It was a simple choice, either stay in the US and close down or sell and move!
Having reached a ripe old age now and without any blood heirs to worry about, I have decided to parcel out the business to about 45-50 of my favorite co-workers who will then own the business, all of them Brazilian, now the next generation of "nasty capitalists" who will potentially employ more than 10.000 people in the not so distant future.

Your ignorance is showing

Instead of reciting the Poeple's History of the United States why don't I tell you about my cousin's husband. He owns a machine shop and for the last several years business has been declining. He has reduced his own pay and his bonus in order to maintain the workforce. For the last couple of years he has taken no bonus and his pay is just enough to get by. But he was able to not do any layoffs. Unfortunately business is such that finally they've had to do lob-attached layoffs when orders are low.

Some of the rich are money-junkies, but most are good people.

With the highest corporate taxes in the developed world do you really expect business to stay here. Now are adminisration is seeking to tax un-repatriated funds. Wouldn't you expect this to encourage business to pull the plug on US operations entirely.

If i is unpatriotic for these companies.

to move out of the country, then it is unpatriotic to condemn these companies and tax and "regulate" them out of existence,

Your comparison to Exodus is faulty. Israel was oppressed by Pharaoh, the government. It is a more accurate analogy to say that the foot of the oppressor is on the necks of the capitalists and they have been delivered from their bondage by moving out of the country.

If you don't like a company or a capitalist then don't buy from them, don't sell to them, and don't work for them. There are lots of people and companies I refuse to deal with. For instance, I will never buy another GM or Chrysler product.

Now that pharaoh, I mean the messiah, I mean the president is running much of our auto industry, banking industry, and home loan industry where will those who disagree turn? It is no more patriotic to practice blind obeisance to federal authority than it is to practice knee jerk rejection of federal authority. You did practice knee jerk rejection of the authority of president Bush, did you not?

I certainly hope...

... this is just poorly written satire.