Journal Captain Splendid's Journal: QOTD 13
A unionized public employee, a member of the Tea Party and a CEO are sitting at a table. In the middle of the table there is a plate with a dozen cookies on it. The CEO reaches across and takes 11 cookies, looks at the tea partier and says,“look out for that union guy, he wants a piece of your cookie”.
"we’re not making a strawman argument, (Score:1)
we’re making an ad hominem argument. So there, stoopid liberals!"
I was thinking of poor pudge... vicariously living the life of the CEO, when he's barely even a tea bagger, trying to force the union guy to give most of his share of his "extravagant benefits" back to the CEO, and pick up a few crumbs trickling down from the CEO's plate..
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Who bought the cookies? :-)
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Who bought the cookies? :-)
Well, if we're to follow the analogy properly, the Union guy went to the store and bought the materials, he prepared everything, and then cooked them. The CEO however paid for everything.
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Actually, the government "printed" the cookies.. as a redeemable coupon... The CEO is just part of a closed loop that dams up the flow of cookies to starve everybody downstream from him.. That's how trickle down is supposed to work
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The people preparing the cookies also have a lot invested in these cookies too. If the schmuck they entered into employment with is an asshole, their babies starve.
Some people have invested their credit*, and some people have invested their lives and their families' lives. Each deserves a fair share of the pie.
*I say invested their credit because even rich people don't invest their own money. Even a billionaire will borrow the money it would take to open a cupcake shop.
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The people preparing the cookies also have a lot invested in these cookies too. If the schmuck they entered into employment with is an asshole, their babies starve.
Some people have invested their credit*, and some people have invested their lives and their families' lives. Each deserves a fair share of the pie.
*I say invested their credit because even rich people don't invest their own money. Even a billionaire will borrow the money it would take to open a cupcake shop.
Totally there with you! :) What I didn't mention in my post was that there is a narrative being portrayed that the money is the important part of the investment.
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That narrative is pervasive. Among the anti-tax people there is a consistent conflation of money and freedom. Money is identical to freedom in their eyes, so taxation means less freedom.
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That narrative is pervasive. Among the anti-tax people there is a consistent conflation of money and freedom. Money is identical to freedom in their eyes, so taxation means less freedom.
Oh god... I don't even want to think about rehashing the idiot arguments in that direction again... thanks for ruining my day! :(
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The cookies were produced by the interest and investment income from a pool of capital that was started as mercantile revenues for cotton and sorghum - produced at extravagant profits by the institutionalised importation of forced slave labor, by a black African population, never henceforward compensated.
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That's easy: We did.
However, if all the cookies go to one person, then the rest of us, the ones that paid for them with our purchasing power (which of course comes from wages for our labor) will starve to death and nobody gets cookies.
Without the CEO, there can still be cookies. Without the teabagger, there can still be cookies. Without the workers...no cookies.
This principle is something that every first year economics student learns: Labor precedes capital. When that princi
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something that every first year economics student learns: Labor precedes capital. When that principle gets reversed, the cookies dry up and blow away.
Not in this country, not anymore. The economics schools at many institutions of higher learning here have been taken over by the conservatives who are now instead preaching reaganomics instead of actual economics. Now those dried up cookies are the fault of the worker for not giving adequate concessions. The only good news from the workers perspective on this issue is that now they are being trickled upon a little bit less.
Making the rounds with alacrity (Score:2)
Either this is making the rounds in liberal circles very quickly, or you listened to the Thom Hartman show today as well.
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