Will Election 2010 Bring Republicans Back to Power?

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Get out of my party, pro-slavery, cheap foreign labor exploiting, free trade, corporate whore, neocons.

fred of AZ 8:58AM November 07, 2010

we need to work together or our country is going to keep driving like oba'ma said. As he said d stands for drive but i thank he is forgetting somthing like a car has a park a neutral a reverse and a drive he said the rep want to go in reverse and he wants to go forward i dont know about you but we need to stop this runaway train or car before we go off the cliff with obama and we all suffer for his happy moment. I dont thank we need a king we need a team. I understand it seems like it wont make a diffrents but i thank my r and your d need to work together and stop playing games but dont do everything obama wants or this is not working together. balance is the answer dont you thank so.

hick 67 of CA 2:52AM September 16, 2010

Check this out:
Pay + Benefits (incl soc secur) of ave US factory worker = $40,000 + $40,000 = $80,000.
Average factory employment = 1,200 workers.
Cost of human labor in ave US factory = $96 million.
----------Compare that to --->
Pay + Benefits of ave CHINESE factory worker = $5,000
***** Cost of Chinese labor in Chinese factory = $6 million !!!!!!
It costs $90 MILLION MORE PER YEAR to hire American factory workers (16 times more money)
It's INSANE to have free trade with countries that undercut us by destroying their environment and paying their workers poverty level wages. No problem though, we can do the same! Let's cut our union jobs and pay people the same here ($5,000 per year!) ! Then we can have 3 families living in each home (townhome that is...) all sharing one car! Great! Plus we can dump our toxic waste into the local rivers. Pesky EPA, take that! Then we can compete with the Chinese! Yay! Free trade is GREAT! THANKS REPUBLICANS FOR DESTROYING OUR STANDARD OF LIVING! The idle rich are who? They are anyone making over $7,000 per year! (because we should compete with Chinese workers apparently, thank Republicans!)
And please, spell independent correctly in your title! And please use its instead of it's (your second paragraph). Remember, it's means "it is." You used it's incorrectly 3 times in that paragraph.
My plan? Stop trading with countries that are communists. Get our balls back and act like Ronald Reagan toward communist countries, not like Bush corporate monkeys. The freedom loving western nations of the world should trade with each other. Other countries must adopt our level of freedoms (press, religion, speech, etc) before we send them our technology, money, and jobs in the form of free trade! The republicans who think that China is going to become powerful and then become a freedom loving nation are wrong. China is becoming more oppressive and dangerous! Soon it will challenge our power and WIN! Shesh!

Independent of MA 12:40PM September 06, 2010

Doesn't matter if one is Republican, Democrat, Independent, or Shih-Tzu ...if the cost of building a Ford Fiesta in Shen-Zhen, China is a sum total of $1.50 as opposed to costing $5.00 here in the USA, what would you do, Mr. Businessman??
Granted, since it's inception (initiated by H W Bush & passed into law by Clinton), I was able to view NAFTA as having it's "pyramid effect" come to it's culmination in a relativly short time.
Nonetheless, it is time to disband NAFTA and rebuild our own economy regardless of the generally negative and slow reponsive attitude of today's American factory worker!
Call me a "corporate shill" if you will, but it doesn't change facts!

havahavana of CA 4:47AM September 06, 2010

Here's a riddle: What do the following countries have in common?
Almussafes, Spain
Nanjing, China
Cologne, Germany
Cuautitlán Izcalli, Mexico
Rayong, Thailand
Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
Valencia, Venezuela (Yep, HUGO CHAVEZ'S home base)
Answer =
They're the countries where the Ford Fiesta is ASSEMBLED! Notice any countries missing from that list! Where is the USA on the list? Ford is an "American" car company because its headquartered in the USA. FORD HAS ALREADY CHOSEN TO BE AN AMERICAN COMPANY AND PAY "HIGH" AMERICAN TAXES. A TAX CUT WILL JUST ALLOW THEM TO OPEN MORE FACTORIES OVERSEAS!!! They realize that the real money savings is in cheap workers that will work LONG hours with NO BENEFITS and LITTLE PAY!
How silly of us to think that mega corporations would be loyal to America... It's ABOUT THE MONEY PEOPLE! REPUBLICANS, YOU'VE BEEN SOLD OUT BY THE CORPORATIONS YOU LOVE! YOU'RE TOO STUBBORN TO ADMIT IT!
REPUBLICANS: You say you're against socialism, but Bush passed Medicare part D (a huge social health care program). Plus Tea Party members refuse to cut medicare or social security (don't cut my favorite socialist programs, I'm entitled to them! Even though I never put a cent into medicare part D!) while they yell "down with socialism!"
The REPUBLICANS have shifted money and power to communist countries like China by opening their markets. Turns out free trade has made China a very powerful country and ruined our manufacturing base, but the corporations are making record profits and that's what matters. Surprisingly some republicans think that China's communist anti-Christian leaders will someday wake up and support freedom. It hasn't happened. In fact, they are growing more hard line in their anti-freedom policies!
Tea party members yell "pride, charity, freedom, God, country" and then support leaders that send factories, money, and technology to countries that hate all these things. Americans will have to take a 70% pay cut in order to bring down the cost of production to meet China. A Chinese engineer making wind turbines makes $7,000 per year! (and they're very intelligent and qualified). Thanks REPUBLICANS!
Now all the REPUBLICANS care about is getting a corporate tax cut. Why? So that corporations can have more money to invest overseas! Maybe they can build another factory in Shen-Zhen China.

Independent of MA 12:14AM September 06, 2010