When the Left responds to statements like Dan Cathy’s by boycotting establishments based upon their personal opinions and not their business practices, they’re actually giving the Right exactly what they want, which is the ability to do the same. For aren’t the “court of public opinion” and the “invisible hand” of the free market not one in the same?
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As both presidential candidates roll up their sleeves and get ready to fight even dirtier in the last 100 days before the election, people on all sides of the partisan spectrum are getting increasingly fed up with just how ugly this race is getting. With both candidates start to look more and more like assholes every day, whomever claims victory in November will likely find it to be a very hollow one.
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Consider one of Mr. Romney’s most famous remarks: “Corporations are people, my friend.” When the audience jeered, he elaborated: “Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people. Where do you think it goes? Whose pockets? Whose pockets? People’s pockets.” This is undoubtedly true, once you take into account the pockets of, say, partners at Bain Capital (who, I hasten to add, are, indeed, people). But one of the main points of outsourcing is to ensure that as little as possible of what corporations earn goes into the pockets of the people who actually work for those corporations.
Why, for example, do many large companies now outsource cleaning and security to outside contractors? Surely the answer is, in large part, that outside contractors can hire cheap labor that isn’t represented by the union and can’t participate in the company health and retirement plans. And, sure enough, recent academic research finds that outsourced janitors and guards receive substantially lower wages and worse benefits than their in-house counterparts.
Just to be clear, outsourcing is only one source of the huge disconnect between a tiny elite and ordinary American workers, a disconnect that has been growing for more than 30 years. And Bain, in turn, was only one player in the growth of outsourcing. So Mitt Romney didn’t personally, single-handedly, destroy the middle-class society we used to have. He was, however, an enthusiastic and very well remunerated participant in the process of destruction; if Bain got involved with your company, one way or another, the odds were pretty good that even if your job survived you ended up with lower pay and diminished benefits.
In short, what was good for Bain Capital definitely wasn’t good for America. And, as I said at the beginning, the Obama campaign has every right to point that out.
"Paul Krugman (NY Times)
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We’ve still got a long way to go, but this is a good start. Now, about that whole Citizens United thing…
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*PHEW*
That is all.
Oh, and HOORAY! :D
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Will they? After a seemingly endless series of capitulations on behalf of the left, if there’s ever a time for them to show some actual backbone, it’s now. It’s an election year, and the Dems have to know by now that they don’t have nearly the popular support that they’d like to believe. The Republican narrative is a powerful one, and is gradually absorbing liberalism through the ceaseless pounding of its good name and character. Without a strong counter-narrative to combat this onslaught, a true David v. Goliath struggle to slay the giant, all is stood to loss, and the only thing that might possibly save our country post-Democratic demise will be pure, honest, radical revolution.
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