Class warfare summed up in a simple joke (with an accompanying cartoon)

TheSportsPredictor · Mar 3, 2011

Holy shit, just announced that if Wisc. governor does not open Capitol tomorrow at 8 a.m. he will be held in contempt of court. Protestors erupt.

YGBFKM · Mar 3, 2011

Hopefully they'll send in the hyperbole police.

And it's protesters.

Buck · Mar 3, 2011

Similar incident happened not long ago. Was it Texas?
Democrats left state to prevent a quorum. State police were sent to round them up.

I think I'm recalling that correctly.

YGBFKM · Mar 3, 2011

http://townhall.com/columnists/paulgreenberg/2011/03/02/oh,_to_be_a_teacher_in_milwaukee!

doctorquant · Mar 3, 2011

Buck said:

Similar incident happened not long ago. Was it Texas?
Democrats left state to prevent a quorum. State police were sent to round them up.

I think I'm recalling that correctly.
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General thrust is roughly on target, but the devil's in the details. Gov. Goodhair tried to use the Texas Rangers* to round up at least some of the Texas 11 (the quorum-busting Democrats), but they went to Albuquerque and were therefore out of reach. There was some shitstorm about attempting to reach across state lines, but nothing came of that (either the reach-across or the controversy). Ultimately the standoff ended when one of the senators said the hell with it and came back.

*Rumor has it the Texas Rangers were also ordered to round up some top-flight free-agent pitching for the AL team in Arlington, but they were as successful in that endeavor as they were in the great Texas Senate Rodeo!

secretariat · Mar 3, 2011

YGBFKM said:

http://townhall.com/columnists/paulgreenberg/2011/03/02/oh,_to_be_a_teacher_in_milwaukee!
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WOOO!!!! TOWNHALL!!!!!

I love Townhall. It's the place for conservatives who aren't good enough to write for The Atlantic.

YGBFKM · Mar 3, 2011

secretariat said:

YGBFKM said:

http://townhall.com/columnists/paulgreenberg/2011/03/02/oh,_to_be_a_teacher_in_milwaukee!
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WOOO!!!! TOWNHALL!!!!!

I love Townhall. It's the place for conservatives who aren't good enough to write for The Atlantic.
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When did Starman take over your handle? Do you love lamp, too?

secretariat · Mar 3, 2011

No, but I killed a guy with a trident.

YGBFKM · Mar 3, 2011

I saw that.

old_tony · Mar 4, 2011

JayFarrar said:

Wal-Mart employs an army of lawyers, CPAs and lobbyists in an absolute effort to find every loophole and exploit to the maximum possible effect. They are generally shameless in sucking off the public teat as much as possible.

They also use the clout of gigantic buying power to force better deals out of vendors.

Wal-Mart rarely loses, they rarely blink and they have bent over and fucked nearly every municipality and state they do business in.

If they want to build a new store, they simple build what they want and make the local plan and zone commissions change their rules. If they won't do that, they go to the mayor, if the mayor won't budge, they go to the state legislature. And eventually the governor, but rarely get that far. And if they do, they just wait out term limits, support candidates who are friendly to the Wal-Mart way and get them elected, so then they can do what they wanted in the first place.

Most politicians just take it though. Employing the Bobby Knight philosophy of if you're going to get raped, you might as well enjoy it. After all, Wal-Mart does bring jobs to town and the always promise more a distribution center here, a larger store there.

In the very rare case of towns fighting back, they go to war and say that mayor is costing the city jobs, tax revenue, etc. But, like I said, rare. I'm only aware of one southern town Ridgeland, Miss. that told Wal-Mart to go fuck themselves and the mayor not only survived it, but thrived.

It is astonishing to see the number of people willing to defend the Wal-Mart way using some sort of crutch of that's just business or look at the tax they did pay bullshit.

Wal-Mart only gives a fuck about making more money so some dumbass Walton can buy more expensive art and then move to Texas to get out of paying state income tax.
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All companies should aspire to lose money. Just think how great America would be then.

Boom_70 · Mar 4, 2011

old_tony said:

JayFarrar said:

Wal-Mart employs an army of lawyers, CPAs and lobbyists in an absolute effort to find every loophole and exploit to the maximum possible effect. They are generally shameless in sucking off the public teat as much as possible.

They also use the clout of gigantic buying power to force better deals out of vendors.

Wal-Mart rarely loses, they rarely blink and they have bent over and fucked nearly every municipality and state they do business in.

If they want to build a new store, they simple build what they want and make the local plan and zone commissions change their rules. If they won't do that, they go to the mayor, if the mayor won't budge, they go to the state legislature. And eventually the governor, but rarely get that far. And if they do, they just wait out term limits, support candidates who are friendly to the Wal-Mart way and get them elected, so then they can do what they wanted in the first place.

Most politicians just take it though. Employing the Bobby Knight philosophy of if you're going to get raped, you might as well enjoy it. After all, Wal-Mart does bring jobs to town and the always promise more a distribution center here, a larger store there.

In the very rare case of towns fighting back, they go to war and say that mayor is costing the city jobs, tax revenue, etc. But, like I said, rare. I'm only aware of one southern town Ridgeland, Miss. that told Wal-Mart to go fuck themselves and the mayor not only survived it, but thrived.

It is astonishing to see the number of people willing to defend the Wal-Mart way using some sort of crutch of that's just business or look at the tax they did pay bullshit.

Wal-Mart only gives a fuck about making more money so some dumbass Walton can buy more expensive art and then move to Texas to get out of paying state income tax.
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All companies should aspire to lose money. Just think how great America would be then.
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And go to The Amazon business model- No bricks and mortar locations, limited head count of employees, mitigate need to charge sales tax.

Ben_Hecht · Mar 4, 2011

YGBFKM said:

secretariat said:

YGBFKM said:

http://townhall.com/columnists/paulgreenberg/2011/03/02/oh,_to_be_a_teacher_in_milwaukee!
Click to expand...

WOOO!!!! TOWNHALL!!!!!

I love Townhall. It's the place for conservatives who aren't good enough to write for The Atlantic.
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When did Starman take over your handle? Do you love lamp, too?
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secretariat said:

YGBFKM said:

http://townhall.com/columnists/paulgreenberg/2011/03/02/oh,_to_be_a_teacher_in_milwaukee!
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WOOO!!!! TOWNHALL!!!!!

I love Townhall. It's the place for conservatives who aren't good enough to write for The Trentonian.
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Fixed.

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