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ScoutFinch commented on the diary post Rush Doesn’t Need Your Stinking Ads! by spocko.
Stewartm – I agree with your points. The stories about CHinese labor made me even gladder to not be an acolyte of Mr. Jobs and his “wonderful” products…. However, my point is that when confronted with these abuses, a company like Apple doesn’t need the threat of boycott – it just needs the threat of [...]
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ScoutFinch commented on the diary post Rush Doesn’t Need Your Stinking Ads! by spocko.
Hey Spocko! CPM here…I love this approach. And for those who say it doesn’t work, note the recent actions by Apple in light of various revelations about working conditions in China….they have taken action to clean up the situation over there, FoxConn has provided raises to employees, etc. (I know none of this is enough [...]
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ScoutFinch commented on the blog post Democrats Fighting Funding Resolution To Stop a Dangerous Precedent
That was a response to 16.
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ScoutFinch commented on the blog post Democrats Fighting Funding Resolution To Stop a Dangerous Precedent
but at some point we should cut back on something in order to try and stay within budget.
That’s fine, except for two points:
1. The GOP always, always refuses to cut a single penny from the Pentagon budget, citing that we will all be murdered in our beds if this happens.2. No Congress has EVER done this with disaster funding, so it is an obvious political ploy on the part of the far right to move the goalposts (yet again).
Also, the fact is that cutting back on government spending isn’t the only way to balance the budget. There is also the issue of raising taxes. Which the GOP also refuses to do, even on people who make millions or billions of dollars and enjoy 15% tax rates. Because they’re “the producers” or something.
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ScoutFinch commented on the blog post The Fed and the SEC Disappoint Yet Again
I posted on this over at Naked Capitalism, but beyond Ben’s Ivory Tower approach (“Why won’t these peasants buy cake?”), he also totally ignores the role of our “elites” in INSPIRING any kind of confidence.
How are hundreds of millions of Americans supposed to feel confident when everyone in power denigrates their unemployment, blames the worker for a “skills deficit” instead of corporate masters for a “vision deficit”, refuses to prosecute a single banker who broke the world economy, and spends months and months wailing about Social Sec and Medicare, as though these teensy life supports had anything whatsoever to do with the Economic Collapse?
Americans are rightly scared out of their wits, since it seems both the politicos and oligarchs are not just winning, but stomping their boots on the faces of the middle class.
