So you agree it wasn’t the corporations’ existence which hurt your situation, it was government programs which made it more profitable for some corporations to leave? government programs which rewarded failing industries with your money?

But you’re mad at the corporations and me?

Your solution would be to enslave the corporations and force them to stay here to give folks jobs? What if they went to North Dakota? (which has a very low unemployment rate right now) That would also be the corporations’ fault? The government should force them to remain in the Bluff Springs area?

If businesses could not act in ways which made them profitable, they would go out of business and all their products would cease and all their jobs would end.

David for clear sight

Until you walk a mile in someone else’s shoes, don’t judge why someone is on assistance. Not everyone on it is worthless. You’re more worthless for your lack of compassion.

I wonder who brainwashed you into believing the big corporations are killing our economy.

They are a big part OF our economy. To prove it to yourself, imagine them instantly being gone.

Poof! Microsoft’s gone as Apple, IBM, Google, so is the software which runs our computers and the computers and systems themselves and the people who worked for them and the people they bought from and the dividends paying into retirement accounts.

Poof! Gulf Power’s gone. So is the electricity to our homes and the people who worked for them and the people they bought from and the dividends paying into retirement accounts.

Poof! Exxon, BP, CITGO, all the many evil oil companies are gone. So is the gasoline for our cars, the diesel for our trucks, the plastics we use in everything around us, the things which were brought to us by car or truck, the jobs we can no longer go to and the people who worked for them and the people they bought from and the dividends paying into retirement accounts.

EVEN OUR BELOVED POTATO CHIPS ARE GONE BECAUSE THEY CAN’T GET TO US AND THE PEOPLE WHO MANUFACTURED THEM ARE GONE!

David for appreciating those who work
to provide for others

Have we gotten into the ’sheeple’ mindset so much that we are just willing to accept anything the government does as inherently good?

Are we willing to have 100% of our income or property or personal savings taken by government so that it can be given to those to whom it perceives as needing it more than we?

I basically question the legality and constitutionality (federal or state) of it all.

I am not unwilling to help someone who needs it; I am no longer willing to accept being forced to help someone I do not desire to help.

Benjamin Franklin said something to the effect-I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer-I support that point of view, myself.

It cannot be good that government be involved in every aspect of our lives; the government can only continue to mess things up for us all.