http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2008/10/afl-cio-targets/ The latest Headlines, news and blog posts from ABC News contributors and bloggers. Sat, 25 May 2013 16:49:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2008/10/afl-cio-targets/#comment-415755 McCain/Palin = Corporations First Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:22:57 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2008/10/afl-cio-targets/#comment-415755 A message to the Kool-Aid drunk Obama Nation (hereafter KADON) KADON, I think that you might be able to grasp the idea that few earn over $250,000 without a little help, a little help from, well, employees. Now, for simplicity, lets refer to those as employers, whether they be rich individuals or corporations. Enterprises run by employers, KADON, may well, not be the only supplier of the products/services they offer. They may well compete against many suppliers, even some from abroad, even some from abroad having certain cost advantages. These cost advantages, KADON, could be wages, raw material prices or, they could be tax expenses. That is right taxes are expenses, to employers, wealthy or not. Now, lets think about those U.S. corporations that are fighting for their life (please read this also to be fighting for the existence of the jobs that they offer, to employees, in the U.S.). Many corporations maintain physical presence in both the U.S. and the abroad. Now, hypothetically, if, their operations in the U.S. face an 80% tax rate on profits, while their Malaysian operations face only a 15% tax rate, then do you see, how it makes economic sense, for the employer, to think it is likely a very good decision to move operations from Ohio to Malaysia? Now, it will be more subtle, the tax rates aren't nearly as different, but they are different. Then, they might just stop hiring in Ohio and hire only in Malaysia. In any case, there are some in Ohio who might either be laid off or not hired. Regardless, even though your dear candidate will offer 95% of all Americans a lower tax rate, those laid off because their rich employer had to shift jobs overseas, still have no job. They'll be baffled 3 years from now. Maybe they'll say, I should have said thanks, but no thanks Senator on that tax plan to nowhere. So KADON, understand this simple lesson. The wealthy employ. If changes occur to the cost structure in their operations, including tax expenses, they will be incented to react, if they don't they may find themselves at a cost advantage sufficient to erode their economic viability on a permanent basis, or at least until they cease to exist, in which case, nobody has a paycheck from them. Ok, rich American corporations, lets assume that our above corporation is not struggling, lets say that it is called Exxon. Well, KADON, Exxon produces some energy in America, using American employees to do so. America is not a cheap place to produce energy. What, do you think Exxon will do, when President Obamba raises, as he likes to say so often, taxes on corporations that export jobs overseas? You got it! They'll divest (reads: send to the unemployment lines) their American energy production operations. This is an important concept, about wealth redistribution, that I want you to grasp KADON. When President Obama puts millions of Americans, formerly employed by 'wealthy corporations that export jobs overseas', onto the unemployment line, they will not, unless Ms. Pelosi redistributes wealth and gives them a nice fat Socialist welfare check, have any money to buy the goods and services offered by all small businesses, including those that the young Senator claims he will not tax additionally. Small business owners will be baffled too. "President Obama, thanks for not taxing my income additionally, thanks for going after the evil rich, but, my profit is nowhere near $232k, as it was before you took office, it is $104k, what happened? I drank the Kook-aid! I promise I did. I had to lay off 2 employees because demand is so weak for my products, because so many corporate types have been laid off and have no money to buy my products. I feel like a wealthy employer, please help"... Is it sinking in? One final thing, I hate to burst the bubble of all of you out there that have drank Mr. Obama's Kool-aid, but when he says "tax cuts for employers that export jobs overseas", he isn't really referring to Republican led legislation that actually instructed the IRS to give a tax credit to all corporations that actually did export jobs. What he is really referring to is Republican led legislation that incented corporations to not export jobs, by giving them a tax cut, but, even though the tax cuts were given, jobs were still exported, because the tax cuts weren't sufficient, for some, to allow them to maintain their U.S. employment. This is yet another aspect that Mr. Gibson, Ms. Couric, MSNBC, etc. have failed to present to the American public. Shame on them! I hope that this helps you all with your future pOstings, here and elsewhere. Posted by: Taxes 101 for American Voters | Oct 22, 2008 11:22:37 AM ---------------------------------------- Ok we get you're against Obama and his policies. Now explain in the same lengthy fashion why Bush/McCain policies are better since we have and are currently experiencing the utter failure of those Bush/McCain policies? A message to the Kool-Aid drunk Obama Nation (hereafter KADON)
KADON, I think that you might be able to grasp the idea that few earn over $250,000 without a little help, a little help from, well, employees. Now, for simplicity, lets refer to those as employers, whether they be rich individuals or corporations. Enterprises run by employers, KADON, may well, not be the only supplier of the products/services they offer. They may well compete against many suppliers, even some from abroad, even some from abroad having certain cost advantages. These cost advantages, KADON, could be wages, raw material prices or, they could be tax expenses. That is right taxes are expenses, to employers, wealthy or not. Now, lets think about those U.S. corporations that are fighting for their life (please read this also to be fighting for the existence of the jobs that they offer, to employees, in the U.S.). Many corporations maintain physical presence in both the U.S. and the abroad. Now, hypothetically, if, their operations in the U.S. face an 80% tax rate on profits, while their Malaysian operations face only a 15% tax rate, then do you see, how it makes economic sense, for the employer, to think it is likely a very good decision to move operations from Ohio to Malaysia? Now, it will be more subtle, the tax rates aren’t nearly as different, but they are different. Then, they might just stop hiring in Ohio and hire only in Malaysia. In any case, there are some in Ohio who might either be laid off or not hired.
Regardless, even though your dear candidate will offer 95% of all Americans a lower tax rate, those laid off because their rich employer had to shift jobs overseas, still have no job. They’ll be baffled 3 years from now. Maybe they’ll say, I should have said thanks, but no thanks Senator on that tax plan to nowhere.
So KADON, understand this simple lesson. The wealthy employ. If changes occur to the cost structure in their operations, including tax expenses, they will be incented to react, if they don’t they may find themselves at a cost advantage sufficient to erode their economic viability on a permanent basis, or at least until they cease to exist, in which case, nobody has a paycheck from them.
Ok, rich American corporations, lets assume that our above corporation is not struggling, lets say that it is called Exxon. Well, KADON, Exxon produces some energy in America, using American employees to do so. America is not a cheap place to produce energy. What, do you think Exxon will do, when President Obamba raises, as he likes to say so often, taxes on corporations that export jobs overseas? You got it! They’ll divest (reads: send to the unemployment lines) their American energy production operations.
This is an important concept, about wealth redistribution, that I want you to grasp KADON. When President Obama puts millions of Americans, formerly employed by ‘wealthy corporations that export jobs overseas’, onto the unemployment line, they will not, unless Ms. Pelosi redistributes wealth and gives them a nice fat Socialist welfare check, have any money to buy the goods and services offered by all small businesses, including those that the young Senator claims he will not tax additionally. Small business owners will be baffled too. “President Obama, thanks for not taxing my income additionally, thanks for going after the evil rich, but, my profit is nowhere near $232k, as it was before you took office, it is $104k, what happened? I drank the Kook-aid! I promise I did. I had to lay off 2 employees because demand is so weak for my products, because so many corporate types have been laid off and have no money to buy my products. I feel like a wealthy employer, please help”…
Is it sinking in?
One final thing, I hate to burst the bubble of all of you out there that have drank Mr. Obama’s Kool-aid, but when he says “tax cuts for employers that export jobs overseas”, he isn’t really referring to Republican led legislation that actually instructed the IRS to give a tax credit to all corporations that actually did export jobs. What he is really referring to is Republican led legislation that incented corporations to not export jobs, by giving them a tax cut, but, even though the tax cuts were given, jobs were still exported, because the tax cuts weren’t sufficient, for some, to allow them to maintain their U.S. employment. This is yet another aspect that Mr. Gibson, Ms. Couric, MSNBC, etc. have failed to present to the American public. Shame on them!
I hope that this helps you all with your future pOstings, here and elsewhere.
Posted by: Taxes 101 for American Voters | Oct 22, 2008 11:22:37 AM
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Ok we get you’re against Obama and his policies. Now explain in the same lengthy fashion why Bush/McCain policies are better since we have and are currently experiencing the utter failure of those Bush/McCain policies?

]]> http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2008/10/afl-cio-targets/#comment-415753 Taxes 101 for American Voters Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:22:37 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2008/10/afl-cio-targets/#comment-415753 A message to the Kool-Aid drunk Obama Nation (hereafter KADON) KADON, I think that you might be able to grasp the idea that few earn over $250,000 without a little help, a little help from, well, employees. Now, for simplicity, lets refer to those as employers, whether they be rich individuals or corporations. Enterprises run by employers, KADON, may well, not be the only supplier of the products/services they offer. They may well compete against many suppliers, even some from abroad, even some from abroad having certain cost advantages. These cost advantages, KADON, could be wages, raw material prices or, they could be tax expenses. That is right taxes are expenses, to employers, wealthy or not. Now, lets think about those U.S. corporations that are fighting for their life (please read this also to be fighting for the existence of the jobs that they offer, to employees, in the U.S.). Many corporations maintain physical presence in both the U.S. and the abroad. Now, hypothetically, if, their operations in the U.S. face an 80% tax rate on profits, while their Malaysian operations face only a 15% tax rate, then do you see, how it makes economic sense, for the employer, to think it is likely a very good decision to move operations from Ohio to Malaysia? Now, it will be more subtle, the tax rates aren't nearly as different, but they are different. Then, they might just stop hiring in Ohio and hire only in Malaysia. In any case, there are some in Ohio who might either be laid off or not hired. Regardless, even though your dear candidate will offer 95% of all Americans a lower tax rate, those laid off because their rich employer had to shift jobs overseas, still have no job. They'll be baffled 3 years from now. Maybe they'll say, I should have said thanks, but no thanks Senator on that tax plan to nowhere. So KADON, understand this simple lesson. The wealthy employ. If changes occur to the cost structure in their operations, including tax expenses, they will be incented to react, if they don't they may find themselves at a cost advantage sufficient to erode their economic viability on a permanent basis, or at least until they cease to exist, in which case, nobody has a paycheck from them. Ok, rich American corporations, lets assume that our above corporation is not struggling, lets say that it is called Exxon. Well, KADON, Exxon produces some energy in America, using American employees to do so. America is not a cheap place to produce energy. What, do you think Exxon will do, when President Obamba raises, as he likes to say so often, taxes on corporations that export jobs overseas? You got it! They'll divest (reads: send to the unemployment lines) their American energy production operations. This is an important concept, about wealth redistribution, that I want you to grasp KADON. When President Obama puts millions of Americans, formerly employed by 'wealthy corporations that export jobs overseas', onto the unemployment line, they will not, unless Ms. Pelosi redistributes wealth and gives them a nice fat Socialist welfare check, have any money to buy the goods and services offered by all small businesses, including those that the young Senator claims he will not tax additionally. Small business owners will be baffled too. "President Obama, thanks for not taxing my income additionally, thanks for going after the evil rich, but, my profit is nowhere near $232k, as it was before you took office, it is $104k, what happened? I drank the Kook-aid! I promise I did. I had to lay off 2 employees because demand is so weak for my products, because so many corporate types have been laid off and have no money to buy my products. I feel like a wealthy employer, please help"... Is it sinking in? One final thing, I hate to burst the bubble of all of you out there that have drank Mr. Obama's Kool-aid, but when he says "tax cuts for employers that export jobs overseas", he isn't really referring to Republican led legislation that actually instructed the IRS to give a tax credit to all corporations that actually did export jobs. What he is really referring to is Republican led legislation that incented corporations to not export jobs, by giving them a tax cut, but, even though the tax cuts were given, jobs were still exported, because the tax cuts weren't sufficient, for some, to allow them to maintain their U.S. employment. This is yet another aspect that Mr. Gibson, Ms. Couric, MSNBC, etc. have failed to present to the American public. Shame on them! I hope that this helps you all with your future pOstings, here and elsewhere. A message to the Kool-Aid drunk Obama Nation (hereafter KADON)
KADON, I think that you might be able to grasp the idea that few earn over $250,000 without a little help, a little help from, well, employees. Now, for simplicity, lets refer to those as employers, whether they be rich individuals or corporations. Enterprises run by employers, KADON, may well, not be the only supplier of the products/services they offer. They may well compete against many suppliers, even some from abroad, even some from abroad having certain cost advantages. These cost advantages, KADON, could be wages, raw material prices or, they could be tax expenses. That is right taxes are expenses, to employers, wealthy or not. Now, lets think about those U.S. corporations that are fighting for their life (please read this also to be fighting for the existence of the jobs that they offer, to employees, in the U.S.). Many corporations maintain physical presence in both the U.S. and the abroad. Now, hypothetically, if, their operations in the U.S. face an 80% tax rate on profits, while their Malaysian operations face only a 15% tax rate, then do you see, how it makes economic sense, for the employer, to think it is likely a very good decision to move operations from Ohio to Malaysia? Now, it will be more subtle, the tax rates aren’t nearly as different, but they are different. Then, they might just stop hiring in Ohio and hire only in Malaysia. In any case, there are some in Ohio who might either be laid off or not hired.
Regardless, even though your dear candidate will offer 95% of all Americans a lower tax rate, those laid off because their rich employer had to shift jobs overseas, still have no job. They’ll be baffled 3 years from now. Maybe they’ll say, I should have said thanks, but no thanks Senator on that tax plan to nowhere.
So KADON, understand this simple lesson. The wealthy employ. If changes occur to the cost structure in their operations, including tax expenses, they will be incented to react, if they don’t they may find themselves at a cost advantage sufficient to erode their economic viability on a permanent basis, or at least until they cease to exist, in which case, nobody has a paycheck from them.
Ok, rich American corporations, lets assume that our above corporation is not struggling, lets say that it is called Exxon. Well, KADON, Exxon produces some energy in America, using American employees to do so. America is not a cheap place to produce energy. What, do you think Exxon will do, when President Obamba raises, as he likes to say so often, taxes on corporations that export jobs overseas? You got it! They’ll divest (reads: send to the unemployment lines) their American energy production operations.
This is an important concept, about wealth redistribution, that I want you to grasp KADON. When President Obama puts millions of Americans, formerly employed by ‘wealthy corporations that export jobs overseas’, onto the unemployment line, they will not, unless Ms. Pelosi redistributes wealth and gives them a nice fat Socialist welfare check, have any money to buy the goods and services offered by all small businesses, including those that the young Senator claims he will not tax additionally. Small business owners will be baffled too. “President Obama, thanks for not taxing my income additionally, thanks for going after the evil rich, but, my profit is nowhere near $232k, as it was before you took office, it is $104k, what happened? I drank the Kook-aid! I promise I did. I had to lay off 2 employees because demand is so weak for my products, because so many corporate types have been laid off and have no money to buy my products. I feel like a wealthy employer, please help”…
Is it sinking in?
One final thing, I hate to burst the bubble of all of you out there that have drank Mr. Obama’s Kool-aid, but when he says “tax cuts for employers that export jobs overseas”, he isn’t really referring to Republican led legislation that actually instructed the IRS to give a tax credit to all corporations that actually did export jobs. What he is really referring to is Republican led legislation that incented corporations to not export jobs, by giving them a tax cut, but, even though the tax cuts were given, jobs were still exported, because the tax cuts weren’t sufficient, for some, to allow them to maintain their U.S. employment. This is yet another aspect that Mr. Gibson, Ms. Couric, MSNBC, etc. have failed to present to the American public. Shame on them!
I hope that this helps you all with your future pOstings, here and elsewhere.

]]> http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2008/10/afl-cio-targets/#comment-415750 McCain/Palin = Corporations First Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:40:32 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2008/10/afl-cio-targets/#comment-415750 I happen to be a an AFL-CIO member...our local spreads our wealth around by giving them money that, of course, comes from member dues. Can't say they've done much for us lately. Don't understand why they don't fight these union-busting 'right to work' laws. Don't remember the Clinton Era being the Golden Age of union workers, either. I'm proud of the history of the AFL-CIO and feel the workers' labor is a commodity to bargained for the best price just like any raw material or machinery. But, I have yet to see how Democrats have done anything for organized labor. Nor Republicans. Seems that when unions were stronger, America was a more prosperous country. Posted by: Grand Old Party | Oct 22, 2008 12:09:49 AM ---------------------------------------- Democrats are the friend of workers and organized labor. Republicans try to thwart Democrats, workers and unions at every turn. So use google and be an informed member of organized labor then your thinking will be much clearer. I happen to be a an AFL-CIO member…our local spreads our wealth around by giving them money that, of course, comes from member dues. Can’t say they’ve done much for us lately. Don’t understand why they don’t fight these union-busting ‘right to work’ laws. Don’t remember the Clinton Era being the Golden Age of union workers, either.
I’m proud of the history of the AFL-CIO and feel the workers’ labor is a commodity to bargained for the best price just like any raw material or machinery.
But, I have yet to see how Democrats have done anything for organized labor. Nor Republicans. Seems that when unions were stronger, America was a more prosperous country.
Posted by: Grand Old Party | Oct 22, 2008 12:09:49 AM
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Democrats are the friend of workers and organized labor. Republicans try to thwart Democrats, workers and unions at every turn. So use google and be an informed member of organized labor then your thinking will be much clearer.

]]> http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2008/10/afl-cio-targets/#comment-415748 Grand Old Party Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:09:49 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2008/10/afl-cio-targets/#comment-415748 I happen to be a an AFL-CIO member...our local spreads our wealth around by giving them money that, of course, comes from member dues. Can't say they've done much for us lately. Don't understand why they don't fight these union-busting 'right to work' laws. Don't remember the Clinton Era being the Golden Age of union workers, either. I'm proud of the history of the AFL-CIO and feel the workers' labor is a commodity to bargained for the best price just like any raw material or machinery. But, I have yet to see how Democrats have done anything for organized labor. Nor Republicans. Seems that when unions were stronger, America was a more prosperous country. I happen to be a an AFL-CIO member…our local spreads our wealth around by giving them money that, of course, comes from member dues. Can’t say they’ve done much for us lately. Don’t understand why they don’t fight these union-busting ‘right to work’ laws. Don’t remember the Clinton Era being the Golden Age of union workers, either.
I’m proud of the history of the AFL-CIO and feel the workers’ labor is a commodity to bargained for the best price just like any raw material or machinery.
But, I have yet to see how Democrats have done anything for organized labor. Nor Republicans. Seems that when unions were stronger, America was a more prosperous country.

]]> http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2008/10/afl-cio-targets/#comment-415746 McCain/Palin = Corporations First Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:45:20 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2008/10/afl-cio-targets/#comment-415746 The Republican party is the party of division. The Democratic party is the party of inclusion. The republican party relies on division to win elections. That why they always use wedge issues to pit one group of americans against another. They pit black against white, straight vs gay, well off vs struggling american, old vs young, city vs suburb/rural. big cities vs small towns, pro gun vs anti gun, pro life vs pro choice,south vs north etc. That's the republican playbook, they have to pit us against each other to win and they have become experts at it. It's up to voters to penalized them for their behavior and ruining our great nation. Nov 4, 2008 Judgment Day. The Republican party is the party of division. The Democratic party is the party of inclusion. The republican party relies on division to win elections. That why they always use wedge issues to pit one group of americans against another. They pit black against white, straight vs gay, well off vs struggling american, old vs young, city vs suburb/rural. big cities vs small towns, pro gun vs anti gun, pro life vs pro choice,south vs north etc. That’s the republican playbook, they have to pit us against each other to win and they have become experts at it. It’s up to voters to penalized them for their behavior and ruining our great nation.
Nov 4, 2008 Judgment Day.

]]> http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2008/10/afl-cio-targets/#comment-415743 Greg h Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:17:45 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2008/10/afl-cio-targets/#comment-415743 Obama and Biden have said that they are against Coal mining. There is no way they are going to win West Virginia. Obama and Biden have said that they are against Coal mining.
There is no way they are going to win West Virginia.

]]> http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2008/10/afl-cio-targets/#comment-415742 The People's Republic of Obama Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:37:13 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2008/10/afl-cio-targets/#comment-415742 If George McGovern says Card Check is too liberal a proposal, then it must be pretty damned liberal. Expect the Obama/Pelosi/Reid axis of evil to pass Card Check in January--thus stripping American workers of their right to a secret ballot in unionizing elections, which has been law since FDR. The purpose is for union thugs to intimidate 100,000's more hourly workers into signing cards for unionizing their workplaces. This will cripple our economy and competitiveness and drive more jobs overseas. If you hate outsourcing, you ain't seen nothin' yet. But it will give Big Labor goombahs millions more in mandatory dues with which to campaign for Democrats. Enjoy the Glorious Obama Revolution, Comrades. If George McGovern says Card Check is too liberal a proposal, then it must be pretty damned liberal. Expect the Obama/Pelosi/Reid axis of evil to pass Card Check in January–thus stripping American workers of their right to a secret ballot in unionizing elections, which has been law since FDR.
The purpose is for union thugs to intimidate 100,000′s more hourly workers into signing cards for unionizing their workplaces. This will cripple our economy and competitiveness and drive more jobs overseas. If you hate outsourcing, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
But it will give Big Labor goombahs millions more in mandatory dues with which to campaign for Democrats.
Enjoy the Glorious Obama Revolution, Comrades.

]]> http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2008/10/afl-cio-targets/#comment-415739 Concerned about Idiot Americans Voting Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:27:11 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2008/10/afl-cio-targets/#comment-415739 Concerned American, Here is another post of mine for you to read...get you up to speed on your IQ: A message to the Kool-Aid drunk Obama Nation (hereafter KADON) KADON, I think that you might be able to grasp the idea that few earn over $250,000 without a little help, a little help from, well, employees. Now, for simplicity, lets refer to those as employers, whether they be rich individuals or corporations. Enterprises run by employers, KADON, may well, not be the only supplier of the products/services they offer. They may well compete against many suppliers, even some from abroad, even some from abroad having certain cost advantages. These cost advantages, KADON, could be wages, raw material prices or, they could be tax expenses. That is right taxes are expenses, to employers, wealthy or not. Now, lets think about those U.S. corporations that are fighting for their life (please read this also to be fighting for the existence of the jobs that they offer, to employees, in the U.S.). Many corporations maintain physical presence in both the U.S. and the abroad. Now, hypothetically, if, their operations in the U.S. face an 80% tax rate on profits, while their Malaysian operations face only a 15% tax rate, then do you see, how it makes economic sense, for the employer, to think it is likely a very good decision to move operations from Ohio to Malaysia? Now, it will be more subtle, the tax rates aren't nearly as different, but they are different. Then, they might just stop hiring in Ohio and hire only in Malaysia. In any case, there are some in Ohio who might either be laid off or not hired. Regardless, even though your dear candidate will offer 95% of all Americans a lower tax rate, those laid off because their rich employer had to shift jobs overseas, still have no job. They'll be baffled 3 years from now. Maybe they'll say, I should have said thanks, but no thanks Senator on that tax plan to nowhere. So KADON, understand this simple lesson. The wealthy employ. If changes occur to the cost structure in their operations, including tax expenses, they will be incented to react, if they don't they may find themselves at a cost advantage sufficient to erode their economic viability on a permanent basis, or at least until they cease to exist, in which case, nobody has a paycheck from them. Ok, rich American corporations, lets assume that our above corporation is not struggling, lets say that it is called Exxon. Well, KADON, Exxon produces some energy in America, using American employees to do so. America is not a cheap place to produce energy. What, do you think Exxon will do, when President Obamba raises, as he likes to say so often, taxes on corporations that export jobs overseas? You got it! They'll divest (reads: send to the unemployment lines) their American energy production operations. This is an important concept, about wealth redistribution, that I want you to grasp KADON. When President Obama puts millions of Americans, formerly employed by 'wealthy corporations that export jobs overseas', onto the unemployment line, they will not, unless Ms. Pelosi redistributes wealth and gives them a nice fat Socialist welfare check, have any money to buy the goods and services offered by all small businesses, including those that the young Senator claims he will not tax additionally. Small business owners will be baffled too. "President Obama, thanks for not taxing my income additionally, thanks for going after the evil rich, but, my profit is nowhere near $232k, as it was before you took office, it is $104k, what happened? I drank the Kook-aid! I promise I did. I had to lay off 2 employees because demand is so weak for my products, because so many corporate types have been laid off and have no money to buy my products. I feel like a wealthy employer, please help"... Is it sinking in? One final thing, I hate to burst the bubble of all of you out there that have drank Mr. Obama's Kool-aid, but when he says "tax cuts for employers that export jobs overseas", he isn't really referring to Republican led legislation that actually instructed the IRS to give a tax credit to all corporations that actually did export jobs. What he is really referring to is Republican led legislation that incented corporations to not export jobs, by giving them a tax cut, but, even though the tax cuts were given, jobs were still exported, because the tax cuts weren't sufficient, for some, to allow them to maintain their U.S. employment. This is yet another aspect that Mr. Gibson, Ms. Couric, MSNBC, etc. have failed to present to the American public. Shame on them! I hope that this helps you all with your future pOstings, here and elsewhere. Concerned American,
Here is another post of mine for you to read…get you up to speed on your IQ:
A message to the Kool-Aid drunk Obama Nation (hereafter KADON)
KADON, I think that you might be able to grasp the idea that few earn over $250,000 without a little help, a little help from, well, employees. Now, for simplicity, lets refer to those as employers, whether they be rich individuals or corporations. Enterprises run by employers, KADON, may well, not be the only supplier of the products/services they offer. They may well compete against many suppliers, even some from abroad, even some from abroad having certain cost advantages. These cost advantages, KADON, could be wages, raw material prices or, they could be tax expenses. That is right taxes are expenses, to employers, wealthy or not. Now, lets think about those U.S. corporations that are fighting for their life (please read this also to be fighting for the existence of the jobs that they offer, to employees, in the U.S.). Many corporations maintain physical presence in both the U.S. and the abroad. Now, hypothetically, if, their operations in the U.S. face an 80% tax rate on profits, while their Malaysian operations face only a 15% tax rate, then do you see, how it makes economic sense, for the employer, to think it is likely a very good decision to move operations from Ohio to Malaysia? Now, it will be more subtle, the tax rates aren’t nearly as different, but they are different. Then, they might just stop hiring in Ohio and hire only in Malaysia. In any case, there are some in Ohio who might either be laid off or not hired.
Regardless, even though your dear candidate will offer 95% of all Americans a lower tax rate, those laid off because their rich employer had to shift jobs overseas, still have no job. They’ll be baffled 3 years from now. Maybe they’ll say, I should have said thanks, but no thanks Senator on that tax plan to nowhere.
So KADON, understand this simple lesson. The wealthy employ. If changes occur to the cost structure in their operations, including tax expenses, they will be incented to react, if they don’t they may find themselves at a cost advantage sufficient to erode their economic viability on a permanent basis, or at least until they cease to exist, in which case, nobody has a paycheck from them.
Ok, rich American corporations, lets assume that our above corporation is not struggling, lets say that it is called Exxon. Well, KADON, Exxon produces some energy in America, using American employees to do so. America is not a cheap place to produce energy. What, do you think Exxon will do, when President Obamba raises, as he likes to say so often, taxes on corporations that export jobs overseas? You got it! They’ll divest (reads: send to the unemployment lines) their American energy production operations.
This is an important concept, about wealth redistribution, that I want you to grasp KADON. When President Obama puts millions of Americans, formerly employed by ‘wealthy corporations that export jobs overseas’, onto the unemployment line, they will not, unless Ms. Pelosi redistributes wealth and gives them a nice fat Socialist welfare check, have any money to buy the goods and services offered by all small businesses, including those that the young Senator claims he will not tax additionally. Small business owners will be baffled too. “President Obama, thanks for not taxing my income additionally, thanks for going after the evil rich, but, my profit is nowhere near $232k, as it was before you took office, it is $104k, what happened? I drank the Kook-aid! I promise I did. I had to lay off 2 employees because demand is so weak for my products, because so many corporate types have been laid off and have no money to buy my products. I feel like a wealthy employer, please help”…
Is it sinking in?
One final thing, I hate to burst the bubble of all of you out there that have drank Mr. Obama’s Kool-aid, but when he says “tax cuts for employers that export jobs overseas”, he isn’t really referring to Republican led legislation that actually instructed the IRS to give a tax credit to all corporations that actually did export jobs. What he is really referring to is Republican led legislation that incented corporations to not export jobs, by giving them a tax cut, but, even though the tax cuts were given, jobs were still exported, because the tax cuts weren’t sufficient, for some, to allow them to maintain their U.S. employment. This is yet another aspect that Mr. Gibson, Ms. Couric, MSNBC, etc. have failed to present to the American public. Shame on them!
I hope that this helps you all with your future pOstings, here and elsewhere.

]]> http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2008/10/afl-cio-targets/#comment-415735 steve Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:17:05 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2008/10/afl-cio-targets/#comment-415735 ==Well if Barack is a socialist as so many right wingers claim, we wont have to worry about Russia or Venezuela anymore, we'll have a couple new comrades. Right so if he's a socialist then we have some new friends, if he's not, then these guys view him as not only a capitalist pig but an inexperienced and soft capitalist pig that they are going to experiment on to test his mettle at the expense of American interests. Great choice here. ==Well if Barack is a socialist as so many right wingers claim, we wont have to worry about Russia or Venezuela anymore, we’ll have a couple new comrades.
Right so if he’s a socialist then we have some new friends, if he’s not, then these guys view him as not only a capitalist pig but an inexperienced and soft capitalist pig that they are going to experiment on to test his mettle at the expense of American interests. Great choice here.

]]> http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2008/10/afl-cio-targets/#comment-415733 social Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:08:32 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2008/10/afl-cio-targets/#comment-415733 ==I do beleive Biden here - Russia, Iran, Venezuela etc are all licking their chops to test the resolve of this man..== Well if Barack is a socialist as so many right wingers claim, we wont have to worry about Russia or Venezuela anymore, we'll have a couple new comrades. ==I do beleive Biden here – Russia, Iran, Venezuela etc are all licking their chops to test the resolve of this man..==
Well if Barack is a socialist as so many right wingers claim, we wont have to worry about Russia or Venezuela anymore, we’ll have a couple new comrades.

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