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Re: Vector's Chill and Relaxed Progressive Rage Thread
« Reply #4200 on: August 23, 2011, 02:48:13 am »

1. Dang that is confusing.

2. Conspiracies are just one big conspiracy to deprive the Earth Mother her stocks of precious aluminum.
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Re: Vector's Chill and Relaxed Progressive Rage Thread
« Reply #4201 on: August 23, 2011, 04:02:28 am »

1. Dang that is confusing.

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Sorry... I was worried it was overly-simplified.  I just took the first few guesses that came to mind.
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« Reply #4202 on: August 23, 2011, 04:04:20 am »

I think he means your user names, not your elaborate historical context :)
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« Reply #4203 on: August 23, 2011, 04:04:54 am »

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I'm going to go be stupid in bed now.
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Re: Vector's Chill and Relaxed Progressive Rage Thread
« Reply #4204 on: August 23, 2011, 08:25:41 am »

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Re: Vector's Chill and Relaxed Progressive Rage Thread
« Reply #4205 on: August 23, 2011, 12:05:33 pm »

Ah, the US Government, backdoor subsidizing corporate wages:

http://news.yahoo.com/usa-becomes-food-stamp-nation-sustainable-160645036.html

What's that Corporation (here Wal-Mart)? You don't want to pay even your supervisors decent wages or give them hours? No problem, we the taxpayers will give them food stamps to survive.


Tax... the... flying...fuck... out ... of... large corporations, until they pay their workers something. Why not? We the taxpayers are making sure their workers, even supervisors, don't starve.... I vote we make their CEOs personally criminally liable and kick in their board room doors, while forcibly jailing them until and unless a freaking supervisor makes a decent wage.... This should be viewed as a form of fraud on the corporation's part.

We the taxpayers, should not be paying for YOUR employees, especially your supervisors. This is not a proper way for corporations to contribute to their bottom line.

This woman should be getting her food money from her EMPLOYER, not the TAXPAYER, and it is her employer's fault that this is a problem.
« Last Edit: August 23, 2011, 12:10:45 pm by Truean »
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Re: Vector's Chill and Relaxed Progressive Rage Thread
« Reply #4206 on: August 23, 2011, 12:15:23 pm »

Ah, the US Government, backdoor subsidizing corporate wages:

http://news.yahoo.com/usa-becomes-food-stamp-nation-sustainable-160645036.html

What's that Corporation (here Wal-Mart)? You don't want to pay even your supervisors decent wages or give them hours? No problem, we the taxpayers will give them food stamps to survive.


Tax... the... flying...fuck... out ... of... large corporations, until they pay their workers something. Why not? We the taxpayers are making sure their workers, even supervisors, don't starve.... I vote we make their CEOs personally criminally liable and kick in their board room doors, while forcibly jailing them until and unless a freaking supervisor makes a decent wage.... This should be viewed as a form of fraud on the corporation's part.

We the taxpayers, should not be paying for YOUR employees, especially your supervisors. This is not a proper way for corporations to contribute to their bottom line.

This woman should be getting her food money from her EMPLOYER, not the TAXPAYER, and it is her employer's fault that this is a problem.

If you really want to rage, read the comments section on the story.  :(
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Re: Vector's Chill and Relaxed Progressive Rage Thread
« Reply #4207 on: August 23, 2011, 12:42:12 pm »

Ah, the US Government, backdoor subsidizing corporate wages:

http://news.yahoo.com/usa-becomes-food-stamp-nation-sustainable-160645036.html

What's that Corporation (here Wal-Mart)? You don't want to pay even your supervisors decent wages or give them hours? No problem, we the taxpayers will give them food stamps to survive.


Tax... the... flying...fuck... out ... of... large corporations, until they pay their workers something. Why not? We the taxpayers are making sure their workers, even supervisors, don't starve.... I vote we make their CEOs personally criminally liable and kick in their board room doors, while forcibly jailing them until and unless a freaking supervisor makes a decent wage.... This should be viewed as a form of fraud on the corporation's part.

We the taxpayers, should not be paying for YOUR employees, especially your supervisors. This is not a proper way for corporations to contribute to their bottom line.

This woman should be getting her food money from her EMPLOYER, not the TAXPAYER, and it is her employer's fault that this is a problem.

If you really want to rage, read the comments section on the story.  :(

"Progressive Rage Thread?"

Corporate Welfare:
I'm upset at corporations not paying their employees enough to survive and that corporation passing the bill off to the government. I'm serious by the way, there should be a law mandating that corporations pay their workers enough so the government shouldn't have to support them.  Why the flying fuck am I and the other taxpayers helping to pay this woman's salary through backdoor shit like this? A company should keep its workers from starving, it nothing else, so they can continue working. It is Wal-Mart's responsibility, not the government to see this SUPERVISOR doesn't starve....

Yahoo Contributor Comments:
And if you were referring to the comments on the source website, yes, those are horrid as a rule. They actually blame the poor woman who is being paid less than subsistence wages. It is Wal-Mart's fault.... The company, Wal-Mart, is getting rich from saving costs by not paying their labor and thrusting this off on the government.

The truth doesn't matter to people:
People have already made up their minds one way or the other and they don't care about anything that doesn't match up with their premade opinion. They have an idea in their head about "people on welfare are lazy and the system is full of fraud." Anything that seems to support that view is "true" to these people" anything that debunks it is "false" to these people.

There is welfare fraud, it is perpetrated by corporations shifting their employment costs to the government.
« Last Edit: August 23, 2011, 12:53:19 pm by Truean »
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Re: Vector's Chill and Relaxed Progressive Rage Thread
« Reply #4208 on: August 23, 2011, 12:48:03 pm »

Ah, the US Government, backdoor subsidizing corporate wages:

http://news.yahoo.com/usa-becomes-food-stamp-nation-sustainable-160645036.html

What's that Corporation (here Wal-Mart)? You don't want to pay even your supervisors decent wages or give them hours? No problem, we the taxpayers will give them food stamps to survive.


Tax... the... flying...fuck... out ... of... large corporations, until they pay their workers something. Why not? We the taxpayers are making sure their workers, even supervisors, don't starve.... I vote we make their CEOs personally criminally liable and kick in their board room doors, while forcibly jailing them until and unless a freaking supervisor makes a decent wage.... This should be viewed as a form of fraud on the corporation's part.

We the taxpayers, should not be paying for YOUR employees, especially your supervisors. This is not a proper way for corporations to contribute to their bottom line.

This woman should be getting her food money from her EMPLOYER, not the TAXPAYER, and it is her employer's fault that this is a problem.

If you really want to rage, read the comments section on the story.  :(

"Progressive Rage Thread?"

Corporate Welfare:
I'm upset at corporations not paying their employees enough to survive and that corporation passing the bill off to the government. I'm serious by the way, there should be a law mandating that corporations pay their workers enough so the government shouldn't have to support them.

Yahoo Contributor Comments:
And if you were referring to the comments on the source website, yes, those are horrid as a rule.

Yeah, sorry if that was unclear. I'm totally in agreement. I was just talking about how cringeworthy and raeg-inducing the Yahoo comment section was. Since it seemed to consist mostly of "See, it's all illegals and n-----s that are draining the country dry! We should get rid of food stamps altogether."
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Re: Vector's Chill and Relaxed Progressive Rage Thread
« Reply #4209 on: August 23, 2011, 12:50:09 pm »

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I get you, unfortunately I was in the middle of post editing. :P It's all good.

Yeah, people are stupid and think in black/white terms. Nothing is so simple. You can't simplify the world, so people need to get smarter.
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« Reply #4210 on: August 23, 2011, 01:42:07 pm »

Abortion provider statistics.

From Shakesville; comments are kind of wonky, so don't read them.  Posted because I thought it was a particularly interesting little piece of data.
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« Reply #4211 on: August 23, 2011, 03:51:28 pm »

From Shakesville; comments are kind of wonky, so don't read them.
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Re: Vector's Chill and Relaxed Progressive Rage Thread
« Reply #4212 on: August 23, 2011, 03:58:08 pm »

Abortion provider statistics.

From Shakesville; comments are kind of wonky, so don't read them.  Posted because I thought it was a particularly interesting little piece of data.
Huh, I never knew there were no Muslim doctors in the US...
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Re: Vector's Chill and Relaxed Progressive Rage Thread
« Reply #4213 on: August 23, 2011, 04:07:24 pm »

It doesn't say that, it just doesn't give data on them.
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« Reply #4214 on: August 23, 2011, 04:09:42 pm »

Trying to dig up the original article (I suspect the omission was due to selective quoting by the article Shakesville quoted), but it's behind a paywall. I'm not on campus right now, so I can't check to see if we happen to have a subscription, but here is what seems to be the correct link.
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