Elizabeth Warren has a message for you job producing freeloaders.

[pspr]

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Republicans make it sound like entrepreneurs come out of nowhere and create value out of nowhere and move society forward. That is not how it works.

Oh, contraire. That IS pretty much how it works. Someone gets an idea for a business, takes a risk with money they've saved and the money other partners/investors have saved and starts a business. If it grows they are financially rewarded and can expand and create jobs for other people. If it fails, the risk takers are the ones who lose their money (and sometimes their homes and families).

How are those workers and union bosses doing in Botswana without employers? Not making the incredible wages they make in the U.S., are they?

 

[Trader666]

And the bad thing is that morons like IQ 47 can't see it for what it is.

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The good thing is we have people out capturing this audio/video and making it public.

 

[Free Thinker]

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Reader Brent Amos offers a rejoinder:

What amazes me is how so many people linking this quote celebrate the sheer ignorance of it. People who build factories pay a variety of fees that also pay for roads, schools and many other things. Just a few fees in my locale are Building Plan Check and Permit Fee, Transportation Impact Fee, Parks Development Fee, School Impact Fee, Service Impact Fee (for police and fire), Treatment Plant Connection Capacity Charge, Trunk Line Capacity Charge, and any number of special fees depending on the nature of the building. These aren't fees for a factory necessarily, these are fees to build anything. Then for the life of the building there will be ongoing assessments (taxes) by the city and county that will be used to pay for city and county services and roads. The fee schedule for my city alone is 28 pages long.

Someone who builds something pays his fair share, especially here n California. Moreover, someone with the wherewithal to build in California has paid taxes on his (probably larger than average) personal income and residence. That developer also paid the salaries for the construction workers and then the employees that worked in the building who in turn paid income tax, sales tax, and if a homeowner, real estate tax.

Yes, almost everyone pays for roads, police and fire, but a developer has paid far more for such things than the average citizen. How much worse off would a community be that didn't have someone to build buildings and pay employees that then pay taxes? It isn't very hard to find communities that are dead or dying because they couldn't find businesses to locate there. The liberal myth that businesses don't pay their fair share is what drives those businesses to other states or countries.

And what's with the crack about "marauding bands"? Does Ms. Warren honestly believe that is a realistic problem in the U.S.? This isn't Europe.

Indeed. Warren's obnoxious quote is supposed to rebut those who accuse the left of engaging in class warfare. Instead, by dividing America into businessmen and "the rest of us," and portraying the former as freeloaders at the expense of the latter, she proves they are absolutely right.

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that is nonsense. she is exactly correct. business does not always carry the load. they ride on the infrastructure that the public pays for.
one small example. in the town i grew up in they started a manufacturing business. this business has heavy trucks going in and out day and night. these trucks have destroyed the roads leading to this small town. the public will pay to repair those roads. at the same time this business is a low wage crappy job business so they have a hard time finding employees. so what did they do. they imported mexicans to do the job. these imported employees have ,since they recieve no benefits, overwhelmed the welfare system in the area and flooded the schools with troubled children. tell me again how business does not benefit from public money.

 

[TraderDavid]

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This is the kind of shit we are up against, apparently Elizabeth Warren believes that evil businesses dont pay for anything. She just found 4 trillion in savings off the top of her head imagine what she could do if she had a weekend to dissect Obamacare.

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I'm disappointed in you on the crazy right. From reading some of your posts on this thread I was expecting something more from this clip. Did she say anything that you thought was factually innacurate?
Oh and by the way she didn't say that businesses don't pay for anything, where did you get that from? Maybe the clip didn't play all of it on my end.

 

[pspr]

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I'm disappointed in you on the crazy right. From reading some of your posts on this thread I was expecting something more from this clip. Did she say anything that you thought was factually innacurate?
Oh and by the way she didn't say that businesses don't pay for anything, where did you get that from? Maybe the clip didn't play all of it on my end.

Turn the VOLUME ON on your computer. Now, replay the video.

 

[TraderDavid]

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Turn the VOLUME ON on your computer. Now, replay the video.

LOL ok , maybe that was my problem. I was getting drowsy watching the market during lunch.

 

[Eight]

she sounds commonsensical.. who knows, maybe she is for Blacks working in the private sector? Oh, wait.. Democrat, never mind....

 

[jem]

So why are the wars going on

so why don't they fix medicare part d... it was a give away to the drug companies.

So why is ge paying no taxes.

To quote Ms. Warren

Thats 4 things right there. She should be supporting Ron Paul not democrats.

 

[Free Thinker]

Quote from jem:

So why are the wars going on

so why don't they fix medicare part d... it was a give away to the drug companies.

So why is ge paying no taxes.

To quote Ms. Warren

Thats 4 things right there. She should be supporting Ron Paul not democrats.

do you think much? lets take just one. medicare part d. what do you think would happen if tomorrow obama proposed that they change the law to force drug companies to negotiate large discounts on drugs purchased by medicare? could it pass the republican controlled house. who would be the roadblock? democrats or republicans.

 

[TraderDavid]

Quote from jem:

So why are the wars going on

so why don't they fix medicare part d... it was a give away to the drug companies.

So why is ge paying no taxes.

To quote Ms. Warren

Thats 4 things right there. She should be supporting Ron Paul not democrats.

We all should be supporting common sense, item by item.