"Mommy hav I earned my bowl of rice, yet?"
Mommy: "Keep working, I want some fish head soup too"
Posted on 12/07/2012 5:47:36 PM PST by chessplayer
In an interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook for Thursday's NBC Rock Center, host Brian Williams wondered why the tech giant couldn't be a "made-in-America company" and outlined a political scenario in which President Obama was all-powerful: "Let's say our Constitution was a little different and Barack Obama called you in tomorrow and said, 'Get everybody out of China and do whatever you have to do, make these, make everything you make in the United States.'"
Cook responded by suggesting American workers simply didn't have the capacity to manufacture Apple products: "Over time, there are skills that are associated with manufacturing that have left the U.S., not necessarily people, but the education system stopped producing them."
Her “good guys” were strange ducks, but the bad guys were pegged
The manufacturing process requires procedures the EPA will not allow.
There’s nobody more dangerous than one who is stupid but thinks he knows everything.
But the problem is...the liberals haven't got to where its going yet!
They live and die for today!...They think eating their "seed corn" is a progressive thought when there is no dessert tonite....
A 'litttle different'?
What a constitutionally-illiterate human being!!!
Was it for this kind of intellectual midget that millions of freedom-loving Americans have sacrificed their lives and liberties?
Any citizen who would trust the judgment of any one, or of any collection of imperfect elected officials, to make such decisions on behalf of every other citizen, simply does not understand the history of civilization's struggles against such arbitrary power.
Is it possible that Williams has read the stories of those brave and courageous souls who, risking their own "lives, property, and sacred honor," signed our Declaration of Independence from such an arrogant and petty tyrant?
So-called "Progressives" are determined to set the cause of liberty back more than two centuries, embracing the Old World ideas from which their ancestors fled, and they have found their man who, given the chance, would take us in that direction, all the while calling it "forward."
In the semantics of "progressives," indeed, backward is "forward" and into the darkness which existed before the light of liberty brought enough opportunity, creativity, productivity, prosperity and plenty to bring hope and help to the entire world.
You have to know more than just how to put a condom on a banana!
Brian Williams wants everyone ,plus himself making minimum wage with food stamps ,if you are a brown noser . People like Brian would be the first to visit the reeducation camps and not to do a story .
"Mommy hav I earned my bowl of rice, yet?"
Mommy: "Keep working, I want some fish head soup too"
>>Not very many high school graduates are ready to learn anything.
We teach children that a university education leading to a professional career is the only path to success. Not everyone wants to be an doctor, lawyer, or MBA. A lot of people like to work with their hands, but we’ve shipped all those jobs overseas or given them to illegals who work for almost nothing. The kids have no motivation to learn anything.
Even a kid who wants to be an engineer quickly learns that engineering is a dead-end job in this country unless you get the business degree to move you quickly into management while you are young.
Create the opportunities and pay the people you can find now well, and more people will start training to get in. In other words, subsidize what you want to grow.
ABC World News Tonight did a story a few nights ago.....their “Made in America” segment.
Diane Sawyers mentioned that Apple is planning to build a $100 million facility in the U.S. next year to build Ipads.
That woman is far more productive than the majority of Obama voters.
Hey gang! Let’s play some more useless “What If?” with Brian Williams !!!!
What if Cynthia McKinney had written the Constitution?
What if the Japs and Nazis had won WWII?
What if Stanley Anne Dunham had really been the boy her father wanted?
What if Brian Williams wasn’t a half baked Nancy Boy with a Man Crush on Barack Obama?
In essence, yes, but they’ll avoid such an outright Soviet maneuver.
Instead, they’ll abuse the Commerce Clause and force a business that leaves one state to pay taxes and unemployment the to the former state, so, in essence, there will be “no escape.”
Because their goal is to bring us down to the third-world status, which they have to do from within.
When Obammie the Commie said that you can’t change DC from within DC, I’m surprised no one made the obvious point that Obammie the Commie was proving the point that he does not want to change DC, that is why he is there.
He doesn’t want to change DC, he wants to increase the speed of the direction DC is headed and where it is dragging the country: over the cliff and into the sewer.
Directive 10-289
In the name of the general welfare, to protect the people’s security, to achieve full equality and total stability, it is decreed for the duration of the national emergency that:
Point One. All workers, wage earners and employees of any kind whatsoever shall henceforth be attached to their jobs and shall not leave nor be dismissed nor change employment, under penalty of a term in jail. The penalty shall be determined by the Unification Board, such Board to be appointed by the Bureau of Economic Planning and National Resources. All persons reaching the age of twenty-one shall report to the Unification Board, which shall assign them to where, in its opinion, their services will best serve the interests of the nation.
Point Two. All industrial, commercial, manufacturing and business establishments of any nature whatsoever shall henceforth remain in operation, and the owners of such establishments shall not quit nor leave nor retire, nor close, sell or transfer their business, under pentalty of the nationalization of their establishment and of any and all of their property.
Point Three. All patents and copyrights, pertaining to any devices, inventions, formulas, processes and works of any nature whatsoever, shall be turned over to the nation as a patriotic emergency gift by means of Gift Certificates to be signed voluntarily by the owners of all such patents and copyrights. The Unification Board shall then license the use of such patents and copyrights to all applicants, equally and without discrimination, for the purpose of eliminating monopolistic practices, discarding obsolete products and making the best available to the whole nation. No trademarks, brand names or copyrighted titles shall be used. Every formerly patented product shall be known by a new name and sold by all manufacturers under the same name, such name to be selected by the Unification Board. All private trademarks and brand names are hereby abolished.
Point Four. No new devices, inventions, products, or goods of any nature whatsoever, not now on the market, shall be produced, invented, manufacturerd or sold afer the date of this directive. The Office of Patents and Copyrights is hereby suspended.
Point Five. Every establishment, concern, corporation or person engaged in production of any nature whatsoever shall henceforth produce the same amount of goods per year as it, they or he produced during the Basic Year, no more and no less. The year to be known as the Basic or Yardstick Year is to be the year ending on the date of this directive. Over or under production shall be fined, such fines to be determined by the Unification Barod.
Point Six. Every person of any age, sex, class or income, shall henceforth spend the same amount of money on the purchase of goods per year as he or she spent during the Basic Year, no more and no less. Over or under purchasing shall be fined, such fines to be determined by the Unification Board.
Point Seven. All wages, prices, salaries, dividends, profits, interest rates and forms of income of any nature whatsoever, shall be frozen at their present figures, as of the date of this directive.
Point Eight. All cases arising from and rules not specifically provided for in this directive, shall be settled and determined by the Unification Board, whose decisions will be final.[
Because the fun is in taking the freedom of others, not in giving up their own freedom.
When you argue with a leftist about ‘socialism’, they claim that we aren’t a socialist nation because the government doesn’t own the means of production. My answer is always, ‘The government doesn’t need to ‘own’ property when they can control it through regulation and taxation.’
(Actually, we’re operating under ‘Corporatism’ as Mussolini defined it.)
"Over time, there are skills that are associated with manufacturing that have left the U.S., not necessarily people, but the education system stopped producing them."
Bingo! This ain't yo daddy's America anymore. In fact, it isn't even America anymore. OTOH: The morons in this country are good at texting and playing with their "smart" phones.
It’s cheaper for companies to operate in China for a reason. The main cost of manufacturing is labor. The Chi-coms offer slave labor and hellish living conditions for factory workers.
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