Please understand one thing about DimSon and the "robust" economy

[DancingBear]

The simpleton believes it.

Oh yes he does. For you see, in his world, where jobs are being "bought back" for 75 cents on the dollar, and where companies are showing bulging bottom lines as they downsize and outsource, and where earnings per share and a rising Dow equate to "everyone" being happy then the world according to DipShit is all roses.

He can not even begin to equate the fact that Joe Worker who made $20 an hour before being laid off is now making $12 an hour, and his benefits are half of what they were. This, to Chimpie, is the free market correcting itself. These are NEW jobs being created, you see.

It's all good.

The man is a fucking moron, to be sure, but to him the glass really is half full.

Of very expensive bourbon.

[Al-CIAda]

1. His first act in response to 'helping' the hurricane victims was to

suspend the 'prevailing wage' for assistance and rebuilding efforts.

How naked a 'tell' is that outrage.

[DancingBear]

3. But, but, then Haliburton could help even more

Without having to worry about paying out all those extra wages, they could make more profit, which will help their shareholders, which will allow said shareholders to in turn hire illegal immigrants to watch their children while they attend "close the borders" rallies.

Geez, don't you know how bidness works??

[NorCalDem]

2. Exactly!

Let's examine this hypothetical, shall we:

Year 1:
100 people make $1,000 each

Year 2:
99 people make $0.0 and 1 person makes $110,000

Holy shit, the economy grew by 10% between year 1 and year 2.

Now, shall we conjecture which year was the better year for each individual (save 1% of the group)? As I always say, everyone is better off when EVERYONE is better off!

[applegrove]

4. Americans are doing there part to bolding go into the 21st Century.

Shopping at discount stores when their wages stall or go down. It also fights inflation.

What the hell are the rich doing? How are they sacrificing in this time of war?

[Deja Q]

5. Yes, but walmart's business model is a gooood thing and so free-enterprise

even if taxpayer money still goes to them!

(it's amazing how many people blindly swallow the kool-aid without reading the ingredients. They don't think. They're taught and then taught to react to what they were originally taught.)

[applegrove]

6. I'm not talking Wal Mart. Every store in the USA sells stuff from China.

The only stores doing business this year or the very "high end" and the very "discount". Nobody is shopping at the mid level stores.

Are all the Americans who shop at a place they can afford drinking kool-aid? Nope. They are trying to make do.

Wal-Mart is an example of nothing.

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. First off, he doesn't believe anything past his own bottom line. He

simply regurgitates whatever is fed to him. He couldn't care less. His base is the 'haves and have mores' by his own admission. He thinks poor people are poor because they are lazy! He has never had to worry a day in his miserable silver spooned life about a God Damned thing. He never wanted to be the President, he wanted to be the baseball commissioner. Actually he just wants other peoples' money to live off of. He doesn't believe in anything. He is arrogant and greedy and self-serving and self- absorbed, small-minded and well just a waste of sperm!