and so, I should continue to support companies that pay subsistence wages ? and ensuring that they will always be subsistence wages helps them how, exactly ?

I'm not clear what your point is.

The fact is that these countries could easily enforce policies where the employees would get paid better and we would still be able to buy cheap crap. You forget that they get shit wages because Mitt Romney doesn't have enough houses, not because that's what they have to be paid to be competitive.

Why is it that the race to the bottom is always such a popular "free market" slogan ?

the second amendment has been dead for decades ?

this is why I can't take you 2nd amendment nutters seriously.

there more guns now in this country than there's ever been and you say the second amendment is dead.

and yet I can go down the street about 1 1/2 miles and buy myself a gun. I can even buy one when I'm insane and want to shoot 42 people on a university campus, or kill 8 people at an appearance by a congresswoman.

but the 2nd amendment is dead ?

pathetic.

they believe in something that does not exist, which as far as I know means they are, in fact, somewhat of a nut-case.

are all people who believe in santa claus and the tooth fairy nut cases ? how about if they believe in Odin ? Which God and or abstract entity without any evidence to support its existence can I believe in and not be considered a nut-case ?

as we allow more families to become homeless then will learn that they have to go that extra mile to achieve.

It's important to not provide help of any sort to anybody at anytime or they'll just turn into degenerate slackers.

America ! Fuck yeah !

and generate far less pollution, because they could have implemented pollution control technologies from the get-go.

Why they did not is a real mystery to me. Greed and corruption are almost certainly at the root of it, though.

this crap gets modded insightful ?

there's no consensus among oil companies that humans are affecting the climate. Scientists who actually have a clue do have a pretty good idea what's going on, and people like you are never going to believe what they have to say regardless of how much evidence gets shoved in your face.

why is it all you denier types think there is a vast conspiracy of grant-writing culture members but think that multi-billion dollar corporations WHO HAVE NO ETHICAL STANDARDS WHATSOEVER, except to make money, are somehow not interested in spreading disinformation.

of the US govt to use indefinite detentionn ?

wouldn't this be a terrorist act ?

their bluffing. although it should be interesting to watch some political heads explode as they have to figure out how to get campaign contributions from CEOs which have been renditioned.

they just want to see what they can get away with.

they try a bunch of different screw the customer ideas with the sole goal of having at least one or two of them stick.

why shouldn't they ? we no longer have a government looking out for us, and generally complicit with this sort of sh*t.

it's absolutely shocking that the FCC went to bat for the little people. easy good publicity I suppose.

As a subset of working examples in the US, I'd say someone who

doesn't think you can manage your own healthcare - even if it's unaffordable to 30 or 40% of the people in the country
choose your own light bulbs - nice right wing lie you have there - the regulation was for increased efficiency
choose to work for less than minimum wage rather than be totally unemployed - because what we want is a race to the bottom and millions of people who have to scrape to get by. and how am I going to shop for health care on my less than minimum wage.
choose what toilet or shower-head you have - again, what's wrong with regulating for efficiency ? especially when it's needed to counteract the subsidization of fossile fuels ?
choose whether or not to smoke - around people who don't want to breathe your second hand smoke
or choose to responsibly carry a firearm - yeah, we should just all strap a six-shooter to our sides

dude, you seriously hate people who aren't doing as well as you are, don't you ?

you and I don't want to live in the same country - and that's part of the problem. I'll stay here, you move to Somalia.

yes - should be interesting to see what happens to the young and optimistic who don't make a million dollars and then find they can't get hired when they are 50.