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Watch out, Mitch Albom's on a tear

by: ScottyUrb

Sun Dec 14, 2008 at 14:15:00 PM EST


This is the best rant I've seen in a long, long time.

Kill the car, kill the country. History will show that when America was on its knees, a handful of lawmakers tried to cut off its feet. And blame the workers. How suddenly did the workers — a small percentage of a car’s cost — become justification for crushing an industry?

And when did Detroit become the symbol of economic dysfunction? Are you kidding? Have you looked in the mirror lately, Washington?

In a world where banks hemorrhaged trillions in a high-priced gamble called credit derivative swaps that YOU failed to regulate, how on earth do WE need to be punished? In a bailout era where you shoveled billions, with no demands, to banks and financial firms, why do WE need to be schooled on how to run a business?

Who is more dysfunctional in business than YOU? Who blows more money? Who wastes more trillions on favors, payback and pork?

ScottyUrb :: Watch out, Mitch Albom's on a tear
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loafing free press workers? (4.00 / 5)
apparently you've never worked for a news daily. there is no such thing as loafing in that environment. horribly over-worked and underpaid.

don't equate you pal bill oreilly's $10 mill for sitting on his ass all day to mean that's how it is everywhere.


i walked a picket line (4.00 / 1)
i walked a picket line with my dad when i was little...then he took me home and went to work on a friend's farm to help pay the bills while his union was out on strike.

anyone who thinks this strike thing is some cushy job is a silver-spoon-in-mouth, still-living-in-mom's-basement-sucking-on-her-tit loser.  


Lazy! (4.00 / 1)
Your dad would be a real worker if he crossed the picket line and kissed his boss' ass on a daily basis...or some such sh*t like that from the great wingnut thinker sidgrange...

I think a union guy stole his woman from him...


[ Parent ]
Real worker (0.00 / 1)
No, real workers go into the factory and go back to the lines and do stuff. If they instead kiss boss's asses, then they are almost as lazy as picket-line loafers.

The "Your dad" and "Sh*t" and "Wingnut" stuff is nonsequiturs showing you have no intent to discuss real issues or facts.

Stole his woman? I think you are babbling. Anything, as long as you don't have to deal with the facts.


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What facts? (4.00 / 1)
right wing talking points that have no basis in fact?

Define what the hell you mean by "real workers" that doesn't come across as plain dumb and you might get somewhere.

Don't roll in here and pretend that you are somehow the purveyor of high speech and dialog.

I would've thought you'd wet your pants with glee given that was the exact response you wanted with your opening salvo...

Spare me the moral high ground BS...at least until you learn to argue your points without using crayons...


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crayons, wet pants and talking points? (0.00 / 1)
I have no idea what the "right-wing talking points" are. I suppose it is some lame argument on your part, like some conservatives do the same thing.

Real workers are the ones doing the work. It is just plain dumb to attempt to expand the definition to non-workers.

"at least until you learn to argue your points without using crayons..."

You are babbling again. You spent most of the above post insulting and changing the subject. Only the 2nd sentence had anything to do with sticking to the subject.  


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And you failed (4.00 / 1)
to address it...

Because your whole entrance into this site was designed to produce a reaction.

I guess it beats "real work..."

Your first entry, which most people missed was to attack card check (right wing talking point)...when no one noticed that, you decided to attack worker who are organizing in an attempt to level the playing field (something you claim to support) in relation to the owners.

Your choosing to focus on the amount of money (which you get wrong...IE: another right wing talking point) union workers are able to carve out for themselves while the rich are ripping off the middle class by the billions.

You are either a very underinformed person or another wingnut hack trying to stir up trouble...


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Real work (0.00 / 1)
"right wing talking point"

What do you mean by that exactly? I read the Democrats' own proposal to get rid of free choice in union votes. That is where I got my information. I don't care what Limbaugh or the "right wing" says about it. Perhaps it is just another lame insult. Anything rather than refer to specific issues, right?

"you decided to attack worker who are organizing in an attempt to level the playing field"

What the worker was doing had nothing to do with "leveling the playing field".

"Your choosing to focus on the amount of money (which you get wrong...IE: another right wing talking point) union workers are able to carve out for themselves while the rich are ripping off the middle class by the billions."

That is not very coherent. Can you reword your statement? You accuse me of focusing on money, and at the end of the statement you actually focus on money.

"You are either a [meaningless insult] or [yet another nonsequitur meaningless insult]"

Yawn. Here we go again. A suggestion: stick to facts, instead of clever insults and false accusations. And be clear and consistent in arguments.


[ Parent ]
Wow (4.00 / 1)
you are not very bright...but you seem to think you are clever...

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It's not job (0.00 / 1)
"anyone who thinks this strike thing is some cushy job"

Its not a job. It's loafing. Not one car has been built on a picket line. Not one nugget of coal mined, not one ounce of steel smelted.

Kids should be brought up to to believe that you get ahead by working hard, not by loafing.


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feel better... (0.00 / 0)
sad little man?

I certainly hope you aren't posting on this site when you should be working...that would be lazy...

I guess you believe that workers owe their labor to the employer and are not allowed to negotiate, and even withhold their work should the employer not agree to terms...

Congratulations...you just reinvented slavery.

Huzzah!


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oh snap! (0.00 / 0)
but they're posting at work and getting away with it...and because they're getting away with it and haven't been caught bilking their employers it's okay because that's what the free market is all about: it's not unethical unless you get caught.  

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crackle. pop (0.00 / 1)
Actually, I am sitting in barcalounger in the middle of a picket line, using a laptop and sipping martinis.

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You're acting like a troll... (0.00 / 0)
A troll is someone who is new to an online community who says intentionally inflammatory things to make people angry.  That's what you're doing with comments like this.

I don't mind disagreement or differing opinions, but this kind of thing in unnecessary.

No, it makes no difference to me that you think you're responding to provocation.

Among the Trees


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So (0.00 / 0)
I guess I was right then...you are sitting at work posting on this site instead of working.

I won't go so far as to call you lazy, but you certainly are a thief if that is what you are doing...


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