Comments on: Economic Dictatorship http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/19/economic-dictatorship/ Firedoglake weblog Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:39:31 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: lokywoky http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/19/economic-dictatorship/#comment-1504019 lokywoky Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:44:31 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/19/economic-dictatorship/#comment-1504019 <p>Dugg. Good post, Tula. Thanks.</p> <p>Yeah, I took too many vacations and crap. My daughter and I started a business in 2005. We worked 60-80 hours per week at it. Built it up and were providing jobs for 18 other people too. Then the housing crash hit - took our business down with it. We lost her house, my property, and both of us are in bankruptcy. I’m living on SSDI and the Bankruptcy Trustee is getting almost one-fifth of the pittance I get. I am taking in sewing to try to supplement my income even though I’ve been in the hospital seven times since December 1, 2007.</p> <p>Vacations, yeah right. I have trouble buying food, and have borrowed money from my 80-year-old mother to pay the power bills this winter (in Montana).</p> <p>Just what exactly is it that I’m supposed to give up? I have no retirement, no credit cards, no house, and I do have a car that I already paid for once but because it is still worth money - I have to pay for it again to the Bankruptcy Court.</p> Dugg. Good post, Tula. Thanks.

Yeah, I took too many vacations and crap. My daughter and I started a business in 2005. We worked 60-80 hours per week at it. Built it up and were providing jobs for 18 other people too. Then the housing crash hit – took our business down with it. We lost her house, my property, and both of us are in bankruptcy. I’m living on SSDI and the Bankruptcy Trustee is getting almost one-fifth of the pittance I get. I am taking in sewing to try to supplement my income even though I’ve been in the hospital seven times since December 1, 2007.

Vacations, yeah right. I have trouble buying food, and have borrowed money from my 80-year-old mother to pay the power bills this winter (in Montana).

Just what exactly is it that I’m supposed to give up? I have no retirement, no credit cards, no house, and I do have a car that I already paid for once but because it is still worth money – I have to pay for it again to the Bankruptcy Court.

]]> By: dosido http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/19/economic-dictatorship/#comment-1503863 dosido Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:26:23 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/19/economic-dictatorship/#comment-1503863 <p>Thanks for the responses, everyone. It really helps because I hear this a lot…now I know how to counter. Sorry I didn’t get it before.</p> Thanks for the responses, everyone. It really helps because I hear this a lot…now I know how to counter. Sorry I didn’t get it before.

]]> By: Tula Connell http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/19/economic-dictatorship/#comment-1503844 Tula Connell Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:04:33 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/19/economic-dictatorship/#comment-1503844 <p>Thanks, Mr. Cbi!</p> Thanks, Mr. Cbi!

]]> By: Mr.Cbl http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/19/economic-dictatorship/#comment-1503843 Mr.Cbl Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:58:52 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/19/economic-dictatorship/#comment-1503843 <p>Well put together post, Tula. Thank you.</p> Well put together post, Tula. Thank you.

]]> By: tbsa http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/19/economic-dictatorship/#comment-1503841 tbsa Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:55:41 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/19/economic-dictatorship/#comment-1503841 <p><em>they are the very thing we were trying to avoid when we formed this nation</em></p> <p>Agreed. Is the genie out of the bottle forever?</p> they are the very thing we were trying to avoid when we formed this nation

Agreed. Is the genie out of the bottle forever?

]]> By: perris http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/19/economic-dictatorship/#comment-1503839 perris Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:52:40 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/19/economic-dictatorship/#comment-1503839 <p>they need to walk far more then a mile, if they walk a mile they will laugh out loud at you</p> <p>these are robber barons, these are federalists, these are libertarians</p> <p>they are the very thing we were trying to avoid when we formed this nation</p> they need to walk far more then a mile, if they walk a mile they will laugh out loud at you

these are robber barons, these are federalists, these are libertarians

they are the very thing we were trying to avoid when we formed this nation

]]> By: tbsa http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/19/economic-dictatorship/#comment-1503838 tbsa Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:50:25 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/19/economic-dictatorship/#comment-1503838 <p>We haven’t taken a vacation in three years because we refuse to finance it on credit. I work ten hours a day, so does my husband. I don’t know what planet these republic bastards live on but it damn sure isn’t planet earth. I wish they’d have to walk a mile in our shoes for one week to show them how uniquely fucking American that is.</p> We haven’t taken a vacation in three years because we refuse to finance it on credit. I work ten hours a day, so does my husband. I don’t know what planet these republic bastards live on but it damn sure isn’t planet earth. I wish they’d have to walk a mile in our shoes for one week to show them how uniquely fucking American that is.

]]> By: perris http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/19/economic-dictatorship/#comment-1503837 perris Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:47:50 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/19/economic-dictatorship/#comment-1503837 <p>is everyone’s tubes fubar or just mine?</p> is everyone’s tubes fubar or just mine?

]]> By: perris http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/19/economic-dictatorship/#comment-1503836 perris Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:46:57 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/19/economic-dictatorship/#comment-1503836 <p>when a company produces a product on an unequatl playing field that product MUST face a tariff</p> <p>if they allow for slave labor, tariff the differance, if they allow for child labor, tariff the differance</p> <p>if their workforce is 50 hours tariff</p> <p>no health care, tariff</p> <p>no vacation, tariff</p> <p>no public education, tariff</p> <p>no retirement, tariff</p> <p>you create an equal playing field so laborers world wide reap the benfits of a global economy, not just the ceo’s</p> when a company produces a product on an unequatl playing field that product MUST face a tariff

if they allow for slave labor, tariff the differance, if they allow for child labor, tariff the differance

if their workforce is 50 hours tariff

no health care, tariff

no vacation, tariff

no public education, tariff

no retirement, tariff

you create an equal playing field so laborers world wide reap the benfits of a global economy, not just the ceo’s

]]> By: perris http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/19/economic-dictatorship/#comment-1503834 perris Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:42:22 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/19/economic-dictatorship/#comment-1503834 <p>answer to dosido since my java resonse is not working</p> <p>we stay competitive with them by adding a levy to products that are not produced on a level playing field</p> <p>this is simple stuff</p> answer to dosido since my java resonse is not working

we stay competitive with them by adding a levy to products that are not produced on a level playing field

this is simple stuff

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