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slayton
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Here and There
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Oct 17, 2012 - 04:18am PT
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Ricky, your analogy pretty much fails. Regardless of this brilliant and inspirational CEO who I hired 4 years ago. Guy had a great resume, nice clothes, spoke well and got me over my latent white Southern guilt
You have this Turns out that all of the employees can't stand the uber-cool CEO. Won't work with the guy, won't cooperate with the guy - won't do poop except lay down like speed bumps.
Your analogy fails to mention working toward the common good of the company, just that your new manager has a good resume and the workers "can't stand the uber-cool CEO. Won't work with the guy, won't cooperate with the guy - won't do poop except lay down like speed bumps."
To be a closer analogy to today's reality in Washington you should say what you did above about the workers but also that their agenda and their actions are to ensure that the CEO doesn't succeed despite the common good of the company They just want him out. Screw the company.
There is no compromising or working with a party that has made it's stated agenda a platform of ruining the CEO at all costs. That is what we have had for the past four years.
AS the owner of your "company" what would you do?
And, of course, realize that this is just an analogy and not a very good one at that. The US is a country not a company and the President working with Congress or the Senate is not the same as a CEO working with employees.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 17, 2012 - 06:51am PT
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Base104,
The Mitt is not real. He's plastic. We picked up a lot of sh#t in the woods at Facelift. The second greatest offender was plastic.
He is a shoe salesman, trying to fit plastic shoes on the public, who deserve leather..
He's a revivalist with a hang-up: he loves his money.
He's elitist, he is authoritarian when it comes to women, and I really hate negatives, but he ain't very impressive. He's a nice, interesting man I would not trust to hold my money.
Mr. Obama, however, has kept the company afloat in spite of the lackadaisical congrefs. They share the blame, if blame is doled out, for why the president's efforts have not yeilded huge increases in business profits and reductions in the jobless rate.
Obstruction of a decent try. Five yards, repeat the down. Er, the term of office.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Oct 17, 2012 - 07:59am PT
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I think Mitt is truly sincere..No , really....
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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Oct 17, 2012 - 11:19am PT
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He is a shoe salesman, trying to fit plastic shoes on the public, who deserve cardboard..
Fixed.
WE are eating ourselves into obesity, debt and death. WE are quietly laying down our freedoms for protection against non-threats. WE don't pay attention to people like Julian Assange, Amber Lyon, WE invade other nations.
No sir, Romney is doing exactly what he should be doing.
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Oct 17, 2012 - 11:33am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 17, 2012 - 11:38am PT
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Mr. Davis, with respect to your assertion,
I happen to have lost over 65 pounds in eighteen months. I am more politically aware and caring than ever. I resent our unworthy involvement in wars like we have tried to wage, when the effort should have been simple to find that late SOB.
But it's too late, huh?
I love cardboard with my urinal cake.
I'd rather eat that than have a reckless egomaniac like Mitty in the oval office.
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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Oct 17, 2012 - 03:02pm PT
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I didn't mean to suggest that I endorsed either candidate - that was no veiled assertion ;D
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the kid
Trad climber
fayetteville, wv
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 17, 2012 - 05:43pm PT
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good post Philo..
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the kid
Trad climber
fayetteville, wv
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 17, 2012 - 05:44pm PT
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oh wow.
i forgot to add..
MY post made it to 200!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 18, 2012 - 12:10pm PT
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Hawkeye
climber
State of Mine
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Oct 18, 2012 - 12:13pm PT
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michaeld
Sport climber
Sacramento
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Oct 18, 2012 - 12:14pm PT
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Obama is a tosser I heard.
and Mitt is the catcher.....
:D
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Hawkeye
climber
State of Mine
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Oct 18, 2012 - 12:16pm PT
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michaeld
Sport climber
Sacramento
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Oct 18, 2012 - 12:31pm PT
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Does nobody get my joke? I made a funny.
His name is Mitt, like catchers Mitt....
;D
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Hawkeye
climber
State of Mine
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Oct 18, 2012 - 12:59pm PT
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khanom,
different thread. curious, are you raising produce somewhere? is it your company, i was just curious, sounds interesting.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 18, 2012 - 01:21pm PT
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Yeah, what is it you grow up there in GH? Pine needles? Sylvester has a pine needle plantation at his place. :0)
Back to Topic...hut!
I don't think anyone's going to cop to "catching" anything around here, dude, but I did.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 20, 2012 - 10:43pm PT
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"There's a lot more work to be done, obviously, but history itself suggests that changing the trajectory of things takes time and patience and, as FDR demonstrated, intelligent experimentation. (All Mitt Romney seems to offer is a return to the very policies that got us into this mess in the first place.)"--Ken Burns, who happens to depend on NPR rather a lot
http://www.unionleader.com/article/20121019/OPINION02/710199989/1004/opinion
I realize this following statement is somewhat debateable in light of the later resistance of congress to FDR's programs.
"Unfortunately, unlike FDR, who had great cooperation from across the aisle for many of his programs, Obama has had to pretty much go it alone. As the Republican Party ignored his gestures of compromise and bipartisanship, they also moved further and further to the right, the furthest right they have ever been since the party was founded in 1856."
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Fossil climber
Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
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Oct 22, 2012 - 11:40pm PT
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The President doesn't run the country. Money does. Obama may be able to tweak it very slightly. Romney will tweak it towards money.
Chrystia Freeland, author of Plutocrats: :"The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else" says that the present trend towards plutocracy may not be a deliberate power grab:
"You don't do this in a kind of chortling, smoking your cigar, conspiratorial thinking way. You do it by persuading yourself that what is in your own personal self-interest is in the interests of everybody else. So you persuade yourself that, actually, government services, things like spending on education, which is what created that social mobility in the first place, need to be cut so that the deficit will shrink, so that your tax bill doesn't go up. And what I really worry about is, there is so much money and so much power at the very top, and the gap between those people at the very top and everybody else is so great, that we are going to see social mobility choked off and society transformed.”
Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says,
“Of all the costs imposed on our society by the top 1 percent, perhaps the greatest is this: the erosion of our sense of identity, in which fair play, equality of opportunity, and a sense of community are so important. America has long prided itself on being a fair society, where everyone has an equal chance of getting ahead, but the statistics suggest otherwise: the chances of a poor citizen, or even a middle-class citizen, making it to the top in America are smaller than in many countries of Europe. The cards are stacked against them. It is this sense of an unjust system without opportunity that has given rise to the conflagrations in the Middle East: rising food prices and growing and persistent youth unemployment simply served as kindling. With youth unemployment in America at around 20 percent (and in some locations, and among some socio-demographic groups, at twice that); with one out of six Americans desiring a full-time job not able to get one; with one out of seven Americans on food stamps (and about the same number suffering from “food insecurity”)—given all this, there is ample evidence that something has blocked the vaunted “trickling down” from the top 1 percent to everyone else. All of this is having the predictable effect of creating alienation—voter turnout among those in their 20s in the last election stood at 21 percent, comparable to the unemployment rate."
And Canada is close behind on the same path.
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