Election 2012 Is Comming

the economy is no different, everything in life works on the same basic principals, the apple tree is a self-sustaining entity that just requires a little water and sunlight to thrive, if you intterupt that cycle and forgot to water the tree and water your neighbors while he is on vacation cause your a nice guy, his tree will produce the apples and then you will look at your tree in astonishment and tell the wife, "what happened" you blame the roots, you blame it on cloudy days, you call in a botanist and he tells you you need more water,more fertilizer and you just know now deep down that your water bill is going to skyrocket, you know you got a little lazy and skipped a few waterings.
the guy has a hot wife next door and you are more than happy to water that tree, cause maybe in your mind you'll get a touch of that, which you wont lol
If you really think about it your own body works on the same philosophy, you pump Mcdonalds into your system, your gonna get fat and lazy, whens the last time you've seen a fat 65 year old? btw, they dont make it to 65

18 pages later and I still don't know what Comming means...

Phil you still dont get it, I do not want our businesses to go off shore, but they are. Business leaving is not the disease, it is a symptom. The disease is the increasingly difficult and often hostile business environment we are creating in this country. Business is being driven off shore, and then we demonize them for doing what we caused them to do.

Hollywood wrote: 18 pages later and I still don't know what Comming means...

It's a typo HW. It's all about what the good folks in Cumming,GA decide.

This is interesting..   Top CEO compensation

I didnt have time to look, but did not see too many of the top 50 in any my everyday retail business crossings, yet alone even making anything in America.. lots of financial, insurance, and energy boys at the top.......interesting starbucks CEO is #5, and you wonder why its 5 buck a cup? .....comcast and cablevision #34 and 35!

Eric, Any one of the 15,000 can leave and start their own business anytime they want to, then they can be the CEO.We all make choices. You guys can keep your heads in the sand if you want, but business is leaving, taking jobs with them, we hate these businesses, the countries that get the jobs love them. You do the math.

I have Phil, one thing the government has no control of is when you wake up in the morning and you need a new car, take a right instead of a left to Kia, right down to the Ford dealership, pass Walmart on your way. pay a little more, buy an American product, better than saluting to the nips
We are the ones that create the supply and demand. you quit buying their *************** and the CEO's will notice and will adjust to the needs of Americans, they have no power if they have no money.
next thing you know Kia will be setting up in some fcn cornfield to keep their costs down and start advertising to the dumbass American that they are made right here....you know what, Fords are made here, Chevy's are made here and Americans are made here
Start taking care of US, not the fcn world,

eric lavine wrote: I have Phil, one thing the government has no control of is when you wake up in the morning and you need a new car, take a right instead of a left to Kia, right down to the Ford dealership, pass Walmart on your way. pay a little more, buy an American product, better than saluting to the nips We are the ones that create the supply and demand. you quit buying their *************** and the CEO's will notice and will adjust to the needs of Americans, they have no power if they have no money. next thing you know Kia will be setting up in some fcn cornfield to keep their costs down and start advertising to the dumbass American that they are made right here....you know what, Fords are made here, Chevy's are made here and Americans are made here Start taking care of US, not the fcn world,

I cannot afford to do this anymore. I purchased "Made in the USA" products before I retired. But now, I have to be realistic and I purchase what I can afford. I have all US made autos because I purchased them when I was still working. I have all US made boats for the same reason. However, my underware are now made in some asian country.

Eric, how do you get around a "living wage" in this country is probably $13 to $20 an hour and in other countries it may only be $1? Up until 10+- years ago, a lot of shoes were made in Maine, but not anymore. All the local companies were bought up by national companies and their manufacturing shipped to over seas. The same shoes are still just as pricey. We still have a New Balance being made or assembled here.

OverMyHead,

I commend your career as a paramedic. An honorable job for sure. It's jobs like that, which should pay very well.

I completely understand the whole price equation of buying products here in America. Not everyone is in a position to spend more money on American made products. Most times you can't even find products made in the US. It's not the consumers fault, I blame the companies who have chosen to outsource their products/work. American made products are often more expensive but a lot of them are of better quality too, which will last longer and be cheaper in the long run. One of my favorite companies Patagonia, makes excellent products(many here in the USA) and I can rest assured knowing that even their products not made in the US do not use slave labor. We don't need companies that demand endless growth. They are self eating watermelons and only benefit a very small group of individuals.

skicat2001 wrote: I will say this. Americans are kicking some foregin hinny in the auto industry now. Japs, and the germans are hurting. Chevy, Ford, and Dodge are up to the top. Screw the forgeiners... BTW, the only reason why Chevy is doing great now, after redoing there contract they finally got rid of the UNIONS!!!

Huh? Chevy still uses the UAW union.

My daughter moved to Victoria, Canada two weeks ago. She will be there for at least two years. At the border crossing she was given her Social Insurance card. She, like all Canadian residents, have their medical care paid for by the Canadian Government. Best part is, she and her husband are covered by this health care system even when they are visiting me in the US. Go Canada!

eric lavine wrote: im still trying to figure out Canada John, except for the rude frenchies, not a word from them, some say socialized medicine doesnt work....that is until they start paying out of pocket. my feelings are not one person in this country should be without healthcare, and i feel the better insurance you have the better the treatment you recieve....it should be a right not a privilidge

Canada is not socialized medicine, it is single payer health care. You pick your doctor, just like here in the US, and the government pays the bill. Without insurance companies gouging everyone for their cut medicine is very inexpensive to the government. That is why so many people go on drug buying junkets to Canada, the medicine is just as inexpensive to consumers, should they be visiting and not have Canadian insurance. My daughters husband has been there for a year now and is very impressed with their system, having used it several times. Those stories of waits to see a doctor are ridiculous. The wait is much longer here. My endocrinologist is booked 10 weeks ahead, and it took 7 weeks just to get an appointment with the surgeon who did my last shoulder surgery last November. Wait time here is longer and our health care is not as good. I don't understand why the Republicans are trying to reverse the gains we have made in the last few years. A country should be judged according to how it treats its most vulnerable citizens. I have another daughter who is basicay uninsurable. She bas two smlirt start up businesses and is one of the hardest workers I know. The biggest problem in building a successful small business for her is that she must keep her job at another company so she can buy health insurance through them. And how about all those small businesses that the Republicans want to cut taxes on, the majority of small businesses in this country are doctors and lawyers, the very group most say they dislike. The tax problem is more loss of revenue than spending. In 1965 corporate America paid 30% of the total revenue in face@. Today they pay 6%. Now that's Accountimagination. Ah have candidates like Romney who say he has the solution, but he made his money moving his hedge fund, Bain Capitol, to the Bahamas and Caymen islands to avoid US corporate taxes. And what moved there? A brass plaque on a lawyers door. These are some of the problems we face as a nation. This intolerance for others is only weakening us. until we have some real cooperation among our citizens and politicians we will continue to decline.
Oh, and the reason my daughter and her husband have moved to Canada, there is no longer any money here for science and education. My daughter's husband is a physicist working on a post doctorate at the University of Victoria in high energy particle physics phenomenology. The prospects don't look good for returning to the US for science any time soon. Fermilab, the particle accelerator run by the University of Chicago, where be got his PHD in physics, was shut down two weeks ago because the government decided 5-6 years ago to quit funding it. It may be off to France and CERN for the two of them after Canada. That is where particle physics is now. And they too have free health care.

They held a reception at Fermilab for everyone who had worked there, on the day it was turned off for good. I was lucky enough to be the Dr's guest at that reception. It was both exciting and sad to see all of the scientists from around the world together in one place, possibly for the last time in the US. Here is a photo of the Dr. at the reception.

Go green & save a flush? Is that how they do it in Texas when they're camping and listening to country music? We prefer indoor plumbing and homes without wheels up here!