Posted on 03/02/2002 7:10:34 AM PST by Willie Green
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:02:24 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Alcoa Inc. Chairman Alain J. P. Belda asked the company's board of directors in January to cut his 2002 salary by 20 percent
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
Talk about cronyism and revolving doors!!!!
Boy does this ever stink!!! Especially with domestic aluminum production being obliterated by such issues as the California Energy Crisis and imports from antiquated, pollution-belching smelters in Eastern Europe.
Open season for us "conspiracy theorists"!!!
Thanks to the Governor of California sucking up all the hydroelectric power from Washington State, Alcoa can no longer survive there. And with Alcoa gone, Boeing is leaving, too.
That's kind of a "which left first, the chicken or the egg?" scenario.
Boeing boosting Red China's aerospace capabilities is well documented.
(As if that's going to change China's policy of forced abortions.)
You have a problem with Wilson's "deregulation" and "free markets"...?
Well it's a known fact O'Neill wants to eliminate taxes on corporations and with government spending on the rise we know us individual taxpayers will be sooo much better off with those lower prices, NOT...never mind the higher individual taxes to make up the difference.
As I've stated before. If taxes on corporations are eliminated, I'm going to incorporate my small business along with all my personal assets and those GOP brainwashed nitwits who think eliminating taxes on one group of tax payers is a good idea can then assume MY tax burden as well....Simply put I hope he does eliminate corporate MY tax burden.
I could agree with elimination of the corporate income tax if it was replaced with a 10-15% tariff on all imported goods. That would at least give our domestic industry a fighting chance.
These global idiots are hellbent on destroying America's industrial infrastructure and national security in a manner that Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Tojo, Mussolini, Kruschev, Mao Tse Tung, Castro and others could only dream of.
The source of raw material for our tinfoil hats has been compromised!!!
God Save the Republic!!!
I always love it when an anti-republican tries to divert the blame with false issues.Yes, Wilson signed the legislation which passed through the California legislature.Do you happen to know the margin by which it was carried by the Democrate controlled California legislature?
It was unanimous.
A veto would have been overridden, and the Dems would have blasted him for not signing it.
You need a little history lesson.
The deregulation bill (AB1890) was authored by Assembly Speaker (R)Jim Brulte under direction from Wilson's PUC.
The year it was introduced and passed the Republicans had control of the Assembly...AB stands for "Assembly Bill"
Of course it was unaminous it was unaminous because it contained everything the Democrats ever wanted and the results are still having their negative effects on us.
AB 1890 Assembly Bill - CHAPTEREDBILL NUMBER: AB 1890 CHAPTERED BILL TEXT CHAPTER 854 FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE SEPTEMBER 24, 1996 APPROVED BY GOVERNOR SEPTEMBER 23, 1996 PASSED THE SENATE AUGUST 31, 1996 PASSED THE ASSEMBLY AUGUST 30, 1996 CONFERENCE REPORT NO. 1 PROPOSED IN CONFERENCE AUGUST 28, 1996 AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 19, 1996 AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 8, 1996 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JULY 19, 1995 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JULY 11, 1995 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JUNE 19, 1995 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 25, 1995 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Brulte (Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Conroy, Kuykendall, and Martinez) (Principal coauthors: Senators Leonard, Peace, and Sher) (Coauthors: Assembly Members Ackerman, Alby, Baca, Battin, Baugh, Boland, Frusetta, Goldsmith, Harvey, Margett, McPherson, Miller, Morrissey, Morrow, Pringle, Richter, Alpert, Baldwin, Brown, Bustamante, Cunneen, Davis, Ducheny, Escutia, Gallegos, Hawkins, Hauser, House, Kaloogian, Katz, Knowles, Machado, Mazzoni, Kevin Murray, Willard Murray, Napolitano, Olberg, Poochigian, Rainey, Rogan, Takasugi, and Woods) (Coauthors: Senators Alquist, Calderon, Haynes, Johannessen, Kelley, Maddy, Ayala, Dills, Costa, Craven, Hughes, Johnston, Kopp, Killea, Leslie, Marks, Petris, Polanco, Rosenthal, Russell, Solis, and Monteith)
Anti-Republican?...NO, but unlike you GOP lockstep nitwits I don't like getting screwed by Republicans any more than I like getting screwed by Democrats.
"Blame, hell," said Pete Wilson. "I take credit for having been the driving force to launch deregulation."-----
"I will not pretend to you that (the legislation) was a perfect, free-market mechanism. It wasn't. I knew that at the time. I signed it knowing that," said Wilson. "I thought whatever flaws would emerge ... they would be addressed by our successors."
He takes credit, I gave him credit.
excerpt Back in 1994 the elitists and their political servants told us NAFTA would reduce illegal immigration, remove trade barriers and modernize Mexico. Since then immigration has been a tidal wave of some 10 million people from Mexico alone. They have served to lower wages here and most pay little taxation. Their pressure on our medical and social system has been huge. In fact, in many areas of the Southwest, 70% or more of live births are to illegal aliens, whose offspring are Americans by jus soli.
Yes, trade barriers have been removed and Mexico has been modernized. We have lost hundreds of thousands of good paying jobs and have had an exodus of manufacturing from America. It has meant the virtual extinction of American cities and towns. Worse yet, few of the illegal immigrants have any education. Free trade is a myth. We have destroyed our industrial base in order to subsidize other nations, particularly Mexico and China. We cannot compete with slave labor.
America is being destroyed by free trade and globalization. The only winners are transnational corporations run by business and political elites, who now form a new ruling proletariat. Worse than all of this is that American culture is being destroyed and the political effect of dual citizens voting in US elections will cause the demise of Indo-European civilization in the US. It’s called conquest through immigration and our leadership and their elitists’ masters are responsible for it. Every effort possible is being made to stamp out our small and even medium sized businesses in America. Our business, cultural and political independence is vanishing, as is our social and intellectual autonomy.
We are about to become serfs to mega corporations that live by a slide rule. This concentration of business and industrial power will kill our democracy and our republic and destroy self-government. The majority of Americans unfortunately don’t know what is being done to them and when they realize it, then it will be too late. Then the only way they’ll get their freedom back is to fight and die for it. end excerpt
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