Along those lines, did the Kochs stop paying for getting (shill-job) posts published? Luke Visconti, CEO, DiversityInc

What does “that kind of thinking” and “telling the truth” have to do with winning an election, Luke? You remember and (mis)quote some of Romney’s gaffes, I remember Obama telling San Fran fatcats, in Jan ’08, I believe, that “under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket” and rural people “get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment”. And when did he explain to the sycophantic press that Republicans “can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back”?

Remember when Obama claimed we’d remember that this is the day we “began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal”? I do. And I also remember recently reading that France is trying to do some minor downgrading of their cradle-to-grave welfare policies to encourage and grow mid-size business.

In France, I’m told, there are very few companies with more than 49 employees because an outfit that employs 50 or more is in a separate hire/fire legal category and is nearly prohibited by law and regulation from letting an employee go. I see little difference between a French plethora of 49 employee firms and a future American flood of 30-hour part-time jobs. Fascism, as I understand it, is a more formal and legalized version of crony capitalism, with the government controlling, but not owning, the means of service and production; Mackey’s words seem fairly accurate, to me.

You, on the other hand, seem angry. “So I’ll post your “non-idealist intelligent adult” post, which is really a shill job for creepy people like the Koch brothers…”? What? Neither Mackey nor Alma mentioned Romney or the Kochs; are you some angry hack introducing straw men into the discussion so you can feel all progressively righteous as you angrily hack away?

Yes, you are. And I am glad you are. As with the Wahabist Muslims, or our local Amish, I prefer straight-up distrust, antipathy, and even hate to minced words and mealy-mouthed mumbling. I believe I understand you and your point of view rather well, sir, and I appreciate your willingness to open up.

Whole Foods needs to have their customer load cut while they do some serious thinking about the consequences of not taking proper care of their employees and of reverse-breaking federal law.

Raise your prices the same way you were going to do anyway to pad CEOs million-dollar pockets and take care of your most valuable asset instead … your workers.

Just do the right thing, Whole Foods, and bite it.

So I’ll post your “non-idealist intelligent adult” post, which is really a shill job for creepy people like the Koch brothers. Because the more that people who think like you get their opinion out, the more the rest of us will be able to do to solve our real problems: poverty, the prison-industrial complex and the systemic abuse of poor people, including the people who were allowed to come here—without documents—to work the menial jobs that nobody else would take. Luke Visconti, CEO, DiversityInc

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