I think a lot of the comments here are due to IGNORANCE. Please, post sources/links about BoA not paying their taxes. As an igoramous I don't want to read your words...I want to read the words of a legit source. Please provide links and you shall change hearts/minds.
At some point America has become We the Rich, For the Rich, not We the People For the People. I don't give a flying __ about what party it is-why don't they all do their jobs for us the taxpayers not big business, lobbyists or big money! I think they should all HAVE to go to college and have a degree to hold an office, and that they should have merit pay, not a salary, and their personal assets be audited every year to keep them honest and truly working for the people who voted them in office
@ Metool2-apparently you are a right winger. I had a great grandfather who worked in the mines in Kentucky before, during and after the union wars-things got better, my great grandmother received Black Lung Pension until she died for his service in the mines because of the unions. My mothers father came to America with an 8th grade education, and trade school training, only to work in the sheet metal union in Detroit, go back to school, graduate Wayne State, and become local 292 business mgr.
@babygirlosg Yeah, I'm a proud conservative. I believe in working hard for what I get, and having the freedom to spend my money how I like it. I don't believe in handouts, taxes, and redistributive wealth (aka THEFT) like liberals do. I believe Unions have a right to exist, but don't have a right to press gang innocent workers into their ranks just to steal their money. Of course, since truth never values too high to liberals, they will twist it into 'Unions must not exist'.
yep Metool2 is a great name for you. LOL tool. WTH is wrong with you? too much Fox tv? get a clue you wouldn't have anything of what you have now if it weren't for unions. You wouldn't have vacations, your car, your medicines, your insurance, your ample pay, or your apartment, you'd be living in a hovel in the extremely large poortown working 24 hour shifts with no pay and no health coverage or sick days. try that one for size the next time you blab about unions idiots.
@the1tigglet You're really a fool if you believe any of that tripe. You're likely just another spoiled liberal brat thats never worked a hard day in your life and expect everything to be handed to you on a silver platter. That think your ENTITLED a high paying wage, for even a burger flipper job. You've been lied to by Unions, scared with the boogie man of 'Sweat shops' in this country, so you would support their stranglehold and keep prices high in this country. Look up Right to Work states.
@Metool2 1: i've worked since i was 15 for everything i have. 2: i lost my job in 2009 because your repiggie party let the banks do whatever the hell they wanted to do and thus killed the economy. 3: now those same repiggies are trying to kill unions because they pay for dems to be elected and because they cost big business interests too much money for human rights. go ride the WAAMbulance with all your rich 1% friends. in the end, when we are all dead you can't take it with you.
@Metool2 not only am i not scared because human rights violations always fail in this country, the repiggies who broke the law in trying to pass this will be recalled arrested and prosecuted, i am also not one of those little pansy pen pushers who have had everything handed to them since birth like i'm VERY sure you are by the way you sound and i live in a right to work state RIGHT NOW that allows companies to get away with murder and fire anyone for anything but they claim its fair and balanced
@the1tigglet I've worked hard since I was 15 as well (Earlier if you count harsh summers as a carpenter with my grandfather), and the economic collapse was because of the democRats. With the same 'We know better than the banks' mentality, forcing them into horrible lending practices, set us up on the house of cards that fell through. I live in a right to work state and you don't get fired 'for anything', on the contrary you can't just sit and do nothing and keep your job.
@Metool2 clearly you have no concept of history, the facts all point to the republican presidents and their constant taxation of the middle class and the upper middle class, and tax freedom for only the richest 1% and corporations of the country as well as the constant outsourcing and the "let the economy fix itself" philosophy which lead to the banks gathering and selling bad loans. this is what lead to the collapse. do yourself a favor turn off Fox news, you'll learn the truth.
you're also not in a right to work state if you people around you aren't being fired for anything and everything like whats happening here in va everyday since before the economic crash. you need to sit down buckle yourself in and go read the laws called the right to work act. they give all of the power to the corporations and make the board of labor useless and allow corps to get away with murder with no legal recourse.
Any idiots who say that Bank of America is being wrongly attacked needs to put down their beer bongs and turn off Fox news. You aren't seeing the big picture. They are laying off more and more workers while the middle class is paying their taxes for them and while they are giving bonuses and raises to their executives. When you see this and you aren't outraged you aren't paying attention. These are real people and real facts.
The Federal Reserve can not get answers for the nine trillion dollars it gave to Bank of America, as of March 14, 2011. Bank of America can not explain where the money went.
It never ceases to amaze me how some of the commenter's here are quick to blame unions but turn a blind eye to the corporate thievery committed by Wall Street and the big corporations. Could it be cowardice? Or is it collusion that borders on treason since many of these huge corporations are multinationals who could care less if their insatiable drive for profits means turning America into a third world country. The supporters of Wall Street and Big Business have blood on their hands.
@3MARSAURELIUS Funny you bring up Cowardice when its Unions who use threats, who terrorize, who ship protesters to artificially swell mob numbers in an attempt to scare and twist the arms of hard working Americans to further their destructive ends. You think Union leaders give a damn about honest work? It's all about money and power, and extorting it at any cost, damn the damage. They fool workers into thinking they NEED unions, because they need people foolish enough to give up money.
@Metool2 you have GOT to be kidding. we do need unions. People like you would love nothing more then to have your children working in sweat shops. They've made jokes about teaching your kids Chinese, well you might as well start because it's coming. Teach them chinese and teach them how to work in sweat shops and teach them how to work while having a serious lifethreatening disease because this is what you're repiggie masters want. At least obama followed the law when he passed bills.
@3MARSAURELIUS I totally agree, these sheeple have no idea what hardship is, they have never had to work for anything those who comment on union gangs. They forgot that the whole reason for unions during the industrial revolution was due to abuses by factory owners and child labor. these sheeple need to be sent to china to work for a year in a sweatshop for no money and no benefits and try to survive and see how the repiggies want this country run.
Unfortunately, while we are all fighting amongst ourselves with name calling, it still has no effect on the very rich, no matter what side of the political fence they sit. The money hoarders count on this. When we fight amongst ourselves, we leave them alone. If you are poor, or elderly or unemployed, not enough money is still not enough money, no matter who is in the White House.
Union thugs with entitlement mentality. They threaten peoples lives, destroy property, suck the life out of states... And then hide behind 'teachers'. "Ohh. You hate unions? So you hate old kindergarten teachers! Facist!" You people are sick.
@Metool2 I guess the same can be said about your Wall Street and corporate masters, whose only way of generating income, is through outsourcing and relying on billions in corporate welfare. You seem to forget that union members pay taxes too, and some of that money, along with everyone else's went to save the asses of the wealthy from skid row, and possibly from being lynched for screwing up our economy. Unions are the reason why you and your family aren't working in sweat shops fool.
@3MARSAURELIUS Keep repeating the Union Masters talking points sheep-man. Thanks to living in a Right to Work state, my family was actually able to WORK itself out of poverty. If we were shackled to Unions, we would still be struggling to make ends meet, having to give the union thugs a cut and being told when and where we could work. Union 'members' don't pay taxes. Workers pay taxes.
Smelly dirty rotten Bafoons= UNION THUGS!! Like Comedy Central, I hope they learn Mandarin Chinese and are teaching their Kids Mandarin, that will be who owns those factories and they will be SO HAPPY to have 3 bucks and hour!! These will be the first when the herd is Culled!! They are a herd and are a joke!!
@tama5pc Wow! How insightful! Oh yeah, the politicians that the corporations and super rich install are SOOOOOOO much better!! I am so glad we've had their leadership throughout the years! /sarcasm
@ambsie0 Absolutely correct. , and they even received money back, Just like many Huge corporations. There are huge loop holes in the tax system, that make this legal for companies to do this. Reagan did begin to fix this tax problem, but, the Clinton-Bush era brought it's return. The Federal Reserve, Big Banking, Politicians, Huge Corporations, The Media can not be trusted. They are all in bed together. GE also filed a 24,000 page tax return, and we have made cuts in the number of IRS agents.
@tinydancer1965 not really. i will stop it now for your sake. i gave you some facts, brought reality into your reality less world view, and you called me a schmuck. very even argument. you're a poopy head, now we are even.
@tinydancer1965 lol! yeah, screw american working people! screw people whose wages have stagnated or declined for going on 40 years. screw unions even thought they aren't nearly as strong as they used to be. yay for rich people. sure, we wealth inequality has exploded in recent decades, sure the rich could give a damn about you or this country, sure the rich have caused the economy to collapse, but i still will lick their boots. u might not have any class consciousness but the rich do
@tinydancer1965 are you kidding me? you call me a name, and that's your argument? i can see now why you think the way you do. you are stupid, un-educated and ignorant. you listen to rich people on the radio tell you what to do and you follow along like a good little sheep. baaaaah.
@tinydancer1965 You have said "'Unions are the school of communism' Lenin" (March 16th, 2011) and also said "HItler used the unions to consolidate loyalty and power" (November 30, 1999). So which is it? Are unions fascist or communist. Have you switched sides, Lisa or are you simply a capricious Scorpio (a non sequitur). What's your game? To just muckrake the rest of your life?
@Michaeltickledick Please see my comment to tinydancer1965 right next to this one to you. She badmouths people all the time and hasn't the foggiest idea what she's talking about.
@howedesign Ok, let's all pretend that you can win an argument without putting forth an argument. If you want to call me names and pretend you are saying something go ahead. Why do people like you think name calling is the same articulating your stance on a position? Grow up.
@Michaeltickledick You're quite confused, put down the joint - I'm warning you about tinydancer1965 who calls names and ridicules people then links to the comments from God knows where. Just look up to the top of this page under "Linked Comment". When you are replying to somebody like you have to me, try to see who it is please. Read the damned comment before responding.
Yes, and Lord forbid they protest fat ass Michael Moore's house, that Moron doesn't even HIRE union help for his movies!! Or, hey, Ed Schultz has a radio contract with Sirius /XM and it is nON UNION!! But, hey, don't let facts confuse the nutty useful idiots on the left!!
These douche bags STILL make DOUBLE what the private sector does. The people working at the bank make LESS than those dumb asses. PLEASE keep whining you upper class union ass bags. EVERYONE will remember this come 2012.
@savgal1211 yeah, screw working people. wall street banks cause the world wide economy to collapse, they get trillions, not billions, in bailouts, they pay no taxes and executive bonus pay INCREASES over previous years. don't look at the rich people behind the curtain though. ceo's make hundreds of times what workers do in this country when they used to make about 50 times what workers make. wealth inequality has exploded over the last 30-40 years, wages for the majority of people have...
@savgal1211 stagnated or declined for going on 40 years. let's be the useful idiots of rich people though and attack each other. let's go through some facts quickly. since jfk marginal income tax rates have been cut drastically, corporate tax rates are FAR lower than they used to be (most corporations, as EVERYONE knows pay under 10% in taxes), unions aren't nearly as strong as they used to be, services have been privatized, we have far more "free trade", de-regulation, amongst other things..
@savgal1211 what has been the effect of all this mr right wing free marketer? the country has become de-industrialized, wealth inequality has exploded, the economy has become finanicialized, ALL sectors of society (government, households, corporations, especially financial capital) are now drowning in debt as a result of the finanancialization, not just the government. it has been a disaster, and what do people like you do? you demand more of it. you're either stupid or a useful idiot.
@Michaeltickledick Wha is your answer? Oh, yeah, Marxist : "From those with the ability to those with the need"!! No thanks, the Founders didn't envision the sort of Socialist "Utopia" you and these Lemmings want!
Can't you/they make it on MERIT?? Hell no! You are GROUP THINK! the COLLECTIVE!! and those of us who made it the hARD way are sick and tired of whining pussy attitudes like yours!! Oh boo hoo, so the banks screwed ALL of us !!
@savgal1211 you accuse people like ME of group think. you ignore economic history, you don't seem aware of the many rights that you and this country has as a result of unions, you get fed up on right wing propaganda that fills your head with silly ideas that have no basis in reality, then you claim that others are suffering from group think. i love it when pointing out the economic reality of modern america, the shape that the economy has taken over the last number of decades, and you boil...
@Michaeltickledick BTW FUCK THE UAW!! and ALL Unions!! Is that clear?? Whining baby Socialist! How about a "Hey hey Ho ho" chant, what a bunch of blathering retards!!
@savgal1211 it all down to "whining". you right wing know nothings weren't "whining" when you starting screaming insane tin pot conspiracy theories about a government takeover of the health care system (which was a pretty conservative bill overall). you aren't "whining" when you critique obama's spending or something like that. no, that's just reasonable critique. no matter how many facts people bring up it is nothing but whining. i know the game. people like you are mindless zombies.
@Michaeltickledick Yes, Defend Obama till the bitter bitter end!! Yes, the worthless fraud is out golfing and doing "Brackets' and michelle and the girls are off skiing, and don't forget the Thursday night parties !!
BTW, the Death panels? it is called the "Lifes system" and your Friend Cass Sustein is in charge of the health care.It WILL be rationed , don't you READ and follow other sources than MSLSD or Perky Katie Couric ??Do as YOU like, the rest of us are readying ..
@savgal1211 you're an idiot, just stop. i am not an obama defender, why the hell would i bother? i have a brain, i realize that i don't have to attach myself emotionally, like you have, to one of the two dominant, corporate controlled parties. i wouldn't support someone privatizing the educational system, a person signing another horrible “free trade” deal with s. korea, someone who we now know got rid of the public option (supported by wide margins across the ideological spectrum) BEFORE...
@Michaeltickledick You know what is really funny as hell? Morons in this video will be the FIRST to line up for free food and a tent and water when the economy collapses, and this is what you want, right? "Free health care, MAN, free housing, MAN" Wage parity, MAN" Oh yeah, since none of you are self sufficient and don't store food or guns or silver or are learning to make it on your own, you will be the first in line to riot for food!! And wage parity? Think CHINA!! Learn Mandarin!!
@Michaeltickledick Cass Sunstein has been quoted as saying "I urge that the government should indeed focus on life years rather than lives. A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people Ther, in his OWN WORDS!!
@savgal1211 the health care negotiations began. i wouldn't support someone who has stocked his administration with neo-liberal "free market" hacks, whose ideas got this country into this damn mess in the first place. I hate to break it to ya, please don’t jump out of the nearest window after hearing this, but obama is much closer to you ideologically than you’d like to admit, which is why our country is screwed. Our choice is...
@savgal1211 the slow decline of the neoliberal democratic party or the collapse offered by the republican party, who ideas are not only ideologically rigid, have little basis in reality and are a horrible failure, but these ideas have destroyed the economy. obama is different than people like you because he is more pragmatic, he's less of an ideological fanatic and he'll at least in speeches say things that are logical and grounded in reality, not irrational emotion. that's the only difference
@Michaeltickledick The communists in our country are in for a rude awakening very soon! Progressivism will be dead here in short order. I say bring on the petty revolution you leftist morons, you will rue the day you do! Most Americans who are Patriotic, will stomp you into the ground – at the voting booth! 2012 will become your political bloodbath alright, we’re going to root you from power once and for all
@savgal1211 what i hear from people like you is (i have to translate idiot into english), "more deindustrialization! more wealth inequality! more private, corporate debt! transfer more environmental costs onto us! we demand lower wages! i don't care if rich people and corporations have proven that they can't regulate themselves, and that their actions have caused economic destruction, i want more of it! i DEMAND more "free trade", no matter how disastrous!". we're saving u from yourselves
ur slogan should be, "we want a 3rd world america now!". i have lived in & traveled to poor countries. They don’t have social programs, regulations, the government doesn’t (because it can’t) pay for education, there is no environmental or work place protections and unions are non-existent. Those countries are horribly poor as a result. U idiots basically want to turn the US into something like Cambodia, and your nonsense Orwell double speak somehow convinces you that this is a march to freedom
@Ty311 "companies don't pay taxes - people pay taxes.", well, in case you missed the 20th century and haven't noticed a century and a half of corporate law, corporations ARE people under the damn law. giant, authoritarian, sociopathic people with limited liability. besides, since corporations were given the rights of people and started to use and abuse things like the 14th amendment they have paid taxes, far more than they do today. people like you are just puppets.
@tinydancer1965 lol! they create slaves. explain that. explain how unions, which once again aren't nearly as strong as they used to be, "suck blood". how much tax dollars have corporations gotten from the government? how much protection historically? bailouts? ever hear of the s and l crisis, the east asian crisis, the recent financial crisis where the banks got about 14 TRILLION in cash. when a sports owner wants to build a stadium, does he get tax dollars?
@tinydancer1965 we have the most protectionist agricultural system in the world, our agro corporations get more protection, and have since the 1930's, than in any other country. the government here covers more r and d costs than any other government in the west. how much tax dollars do unions get relative to THAT? please read up on what the hell you're talking about. besides, all the major technology that has come out of this country in recent decades (the internet, computers, civilian...
@tinydancer1965 aircraft, satellites you use for your phones, amongst other things) has come out of the largest socialist institution in the world, the us military. you are ignorant. unions simply allow people to collectively bargain with a corporation, which is a group of people who are collectively bargaining for their interests. the unions are made up of working people who create the damn wealth for the corporation. how in the hell can you miss this obvious fact? are you rich?
@Michaeltickledick If "the unions are made up of working people who create the damn wealth for the corporation," then those same union members should bear some responsibility when they destroy the profitability of the corporation. GM and Chrysler should have been allowed to go into bankruptcy and cancel the bloated union contracts they've been saddled with. Instead, they're limping along on life support, continung to build cars nobody wants to buy. Welcome to the Obma economy!
@werelobo first off, i am not an obama supporter. i have a question though. do you know who makes the lexus? toyota. toyota tried to export a car to the us in the late 50's, it failed horribly. toyota's was supported, protected and owned at times by the japanese government for 25 years. the government stepped in multiple times to rescue toyota. if it was up to the "free market" toyota couldn't have gotten to the point that it could create the lexus. it would have went out of business...
@werelobo or it would have been bought up by a foreign competitor, probably gm. i have news for people like you, that is the only way countries have EVER developed. japan's model was copied by south korea, who did the same thing. i lived in china for a year and a half. i talked to some of my students about the cars they buy. they told me that china is trying to make a car now, i forgot the name. is china letting the "free market" work? of course not, this is the real world, they slap a...
@werelobo tax of 150% on foreign car imports to protect the infant car industry in china. that is how development has really worked. as i said before, the us was the most protectionist country in the west for a century and a half, they copied britain, who did the same thing. extreme protectionism that lasted for CENTURIES. that's how they overtook the dutch. read ha joon chang's "kicking away the ladder". no country develops using the "free market", every country that has developed has...
@Michaeltickledick had massive governmental intervention in the economy and the vast majority of countries in the developed world outside the us have strong unions. in many countries, like germany, unions have a dominant role in decision making at companies. in places like finland, which has the best educational system in the world, 100% of teachers belong to unions. you are just puking out right wing propaganda, its nothing more than news to the ears of billionaires. wake up.
Which is more impressive?...Banks that are motivated to manipulate society both financially and politically OR ..people that continue to fight for their right to continue their greed and manipulation lol . I can't believe the support I hear for these criminals who basically gambled away your entire economy due to your regulations (or lack thereof)..but hey..it's easier to blame liberals and muslims.
Actually, Bank of America paid no taxes in 2009 because they posted a net loss, not a $4 billion profit. But then, when have facts ever mattered to the far left?
@werelobo I'm on the "far left" and happen to be an economist. if you want to discuss economic reality, lets have at it. here's a small fact for you, like to hear your response. i always here from the right about the wonders of "free trade". the us, from about the war of 1812 to wwii was THE most protectionist country in the world, by a long shot. we, along with every other country that has eve developed, developed going against the advice of adam smith. "free trade" has destroyed the us..
in recent decades. the census bureau has said that not a SINGLE state has seen a net increase in jobs as a result of NAFTA. explain to me or anyone else here why we should stick to "free trade" and how wonderful it is vs the alternatives. can you give me an example of a country that developed using "free trade". just give me one in modern times. we can move on to taxes, regulation or anything else you'd like after you don't answer my question.
Look how fat these goons are. Jeebus. Money for jobs? Go home and try to conjure up a product or service someone actually wants to pay you for, then you'll get "money" for doing a "job".
MOBSTERS.. BASICALLY LAWLESS.. time to prosecute those that disrupt places of business. What is it they are saying..that anyone that makes money should give it to them? Nobody owes them ANYTHING!
@TEHTYMEKITTEH1 I am sure that the demons in the Republican party are getting some of that GE money too, so cut the left/ right bullshit and wake up. That's unless you are a corporate tool, if so, carry on, at least until the masses revolt, and start showing the corporate scumbags and Wall Street a little tough love.
I think a lot of the comments here are due to IGNORANCE. Please, post sources/links about BoA not paying their taxes. As an igoramous I don't want to read your words...I want to read the words of a legit source. Please provide links and you shall change hearts/minds.
areuter727 11 months ago
At some point America has become We the Rich, For the Rich, not We the People For the People. I don't give a flying __ about what party it is-why don't they all do their jobs for us the taxpayers not big business, lobbyists or big money! I think they should all HAVE to go to college and have a degree to hold an office, and that they should have merit pay, not a salary, and their personal assets be audited every year to keep them honest and truly working for the people who voted them in office
babygirlosg 11 months ago
@ Metool2-apparently you are a right winger. I had a great grandfather who worked in the mines in Kentucky before, during and after the union wars-things got better, my great grandmother received Black Lung Pension until she died for his service in the mines because of the unions. My mothers father came to America with an 8th grade education, and trade school training, only to work in the sheet metal union in Detroit, go back to school, graduate Wayne State, and become local 292 business mgr.
babygirlosg 11 months ago
@babygirlosg Yeah, I'm a proud conservative. I believe in working hard for what I get, and having the freedom to spend my money how I like it. I don't believe in handouts, taxes, and redistributive wealth (aka THEFT) like liberals do. I believe Unions have a right to exist, but don't have a right to press gang innocent workers into their ranks just to steal their money. Of course, since truth never values too high to liberals, they will twist it into 'Unions must not exist'.
Metool2 11 months ago
EXTORTIONISTS!!!
bydesign001 11 months ago
yep Metool2 is a great name for you. LOL tool. WTH is wrong with you? too much Fox tv? get a clue you wouldn't have anything of what you have now if it weren't for unions. You wouldn't have vacations, your car, your medicines, your insurance, your ample pay, or your apartment, you'd be living in a hovel in the extremely large poortown working 24 hour shifts with no pay and no health coverage or sick days. try that one for size the next time you blab about unions idiots.
the1tigglet 11 months ago
@the1tigglet You're really a fool if you believe any of that tripe. You're likely just another spoiled liberal brat thats never worked a hard day in your life and expect everything to be handed to you on a silver platter. That think your ENTITLED a high paying wage, for even a burger flipper job. You've been lied to by Unions, scared with the boogie man of 'Sweat shops' in this country, so you would support their stranglehold and keep prices high in this country. Look up Right to Work states.
Metool2 11 months ago
@Metool2 1: i've worked since i was 15 for everything i have. 2: i lost my job in 2009 because your repiggie party let the banks do whatever the hell they wanted to do and thus killed the economy. 3: now those same repiggies are trying to kill unions because they pay for dems to be elected and because they cost big business interests too much money for human rights. go ride the WAAMbulance with all your rich 1% friends. in the end, when we are all dead you can't take it with you.
the1tigglet 11 months ago
@Metool2 not only am i not scared because human rights violations always fail in this country, the repiggies who broke the law in trying to pass this will be recalled arrested and prosecuted, i am also not one of those little pansy pen pushers who have had everything handed to them since birth like i'm VERY sure you are by the way you sound and i live in a right to work state RIGHT NOW that allows companies to get away with murder and fire anyone for anything but they claim its fair and balanced
the1tigglet 11 months ago
@the1tigglet I've worked hard since I was 15 as well (Earlier if you count harsh summers as a carpenter with my grandfather), and the economic collapse was because of the democRats. With the same 'We know better than the banks' mentality, forcing them into horrible lending practices, set us up on the house of cards that fell through. I live in a right to work state and you don't get fired 'for anything', on the contrary you can't just sit and do nothing and keep your job.
Metool2 11 months ago
@Metool2 clearly you have no concept of history, the facts all point to the republican presidents and their constant taxation of the middle class and the upper middle class, and tax freedom for only the richest 1% and corporations of the country as well as the constant outsourcing and the "let the economy fix itself" philosophy which lead to the banks gathering and selling bad loans. this is what lead to the collapse. do yourself a favor turn off Fox news, you'll learn the truth.
the1tigglet 11 months ago
you're also not in a right to work state if you people around you aren't being fired for anything and everything like whats happening here in va everyday since before the economic crash. you need to sit down buckle yourself in and go read the laws called the right to work act. they give all of the power to the corporations and make the board of labor useless and allow corps to get away with murder with no legal recourse.
the1tigglet 11 months ago
Any idiots who say that Bank of America is being wrongly attacked needs to put down their beer bongs and turn off Fox news. You aren't seeing the big picture. They are laying off more and more workers while the middle class is paying their taxes for them and while they are giving bonuses and raises to their executives. When you see this and you aren't outraged you aren't paying attention. These are real people and real facts.
the1tigglet 11 months ago
The Federal Reserve can not get answers for the nine trillion dollars it gave to Bank of America, as of March 14, 2011. Bank of America can not explain where the money went.
melvin6767 11 months ago
It never ceases to amaze me how some of the commenter's here are quick to blame unions but turn a blind eye to the corporate thievery committed by Wall Street and the big corporations. Could it be cowardice? Or is it collusion that borders on treason since many of these huge corporations are multinationals who could care less if their insatiable drive for profits means turning America into a third world country. The supporters of Wall Street and Big Business have blood on their hands.
3MARSAURELIUS 11 months ago
@3MARSAURELIUS Funny you bring up Cowardice when its Unions who use threats, who terrorize, who ship protesters to artificially swell mob numbers in an attempt to scare and twist the arms of hard working Americans to further their destructive ends. You think Union leaders give a damn about honest work? It's all about money and power, and extorting it at any cost, damn the damage. They fool workers into thinking they NEED unions, because they need people foolish enough to give up money.
Metool2 11 months ago
@Metool2 you have GOT to be kidding. we do need unions. People like you would love nothing more then to have your children working in sweat shops. They've made jokes about teaching your kids Chinese, well you might as well start because it's coming. Teach them chinese and teach them how to work in sweat shops and teach them how to work while having a serious lifethreatening disease because this is what you're repiggie masters want. At least obama followed the law when he passed bills.
the1tigglet 11 months ago
@3MARSAURELIUS I totally agree, these sheeple have no idea what hardship is, they have never had to work for anything those who comment on union gangs. They forgot that the whole reason for unions during the industrial revolution was due to abuses by factory owners and child labor. these sheeple need to be sent to china to work for a year in a sweatshop for no money and no benefits and try to survive and see how the repiggies want this country run.
the1tigglet 11 months ago
Unfortunately, while we are all fighting amongst ourselves with name calling, it still has no effect on the very rich, no matter what side of the political fence they sit. The money hoarders count on this. When we fight amongst ourselves, we leave them alone. If you are poor, or elderly or unemployed, not enough money is still not enough money, no matter who is in the White House.
lquirouette 11 months ago
Union thugs with entitlement mentality. They threaten peoples lives, destroy property, suck the life out of states... And then hide behind 'teachers'. "Ohh. You hate unions? So you hate old kindergarten teachers! Facist!" You people are sick.
Metool2 11 months ago
@Metool2 I guess the same can be said about your Wall Street and corporate masters, whose only way of generating income, is through outsourcing and relying on billions in corporate welfare. You seem to forget that union members pay taxes too, and some of that money, along with everyone else's went to save the asses of the wealthy from skid row, and possibly from being lynched for screwing up our economy. Unions are the reason why you and your family aren't working in sweat shops fool.
3MARSAURELIUS 11 months ago
@3MARSAURELIUS Keep repeating the Union Masters talking points sheep-man. Thanks to living in a Right to Work state, my family was actually able to WORK itself out of poverty. If we were shackled to Unions, we would still be struggling to make ends meet, having to give the union thugs a cut and being told when and where we could work. Union 'members' don't pay taxes. Workers pay taxes.
Metool2 11 months ago
Bank of America paid the same amout of taxes as General Motors paid last year .
imN0Ttheone 11 months ago
GE WE bring EVIL TO LIFE!!
savgal1211 11 months ago
Smelly dirty rotten Bafoons= UNION THUGS!! Like Comedy Central, I hope they learn Mandarin Chinese and are teaching their Kids Mandarin, that will be who owns those factories and they will be SO HAPPY to have 3 bucks and hour!! These will be the first when the herd is Culled!! They are a herd and are a joke!!
savgal1211 11 months ago
Never ever buy a car produced by the UAW. UAW members are ignorant, lazy, over-fed and they make shitty cars. Just look at the video.
Dagney77 11 months ago
@tama5pc Wow! How insightful! Oh yeah, the politicians that the corporations and super rich install are SOOOOOOO much better!! I am so glad we've had their leadership throughout the years! /sarcasm
triftenC 11 months ago
FUCK BOA
northencail2099 11 months ago
GO GO GO!!!!!!!!!!
Kilia40 11 months ago
BTW, GE...Obama's friends, payed $0 in taxes..even though they made over 5billion last year!!!
ambsie0 11 months ago 2
@ambsie0 one thing at a time..
Kilia40 11 months ago
@ambsie0 Also, the DoJ currently cares more about copyright cases than kidnappings. The super rich own this country.
triftenC 11 months ago
@ambsie0 Absolutely correct. , and they even received money back, Just like many Huge corporations. There are huge loop holes in the tax system, that make this legal for companies to do this. Reagan did begin to fix this tax problem, but, the Clinton-Bush era brought it's return. The Federal Reserve, Big Banking, Politicians, Huge Corporations, The Media can not be trusted. They are all in bed together. GE also filed a 24,000 page tax return, and we have made cuts in the number of IRS agents.
melvin6767 11 months ago
Thugs! We know your agenda, the jig is up!!!
ambsie0 11 months ago
You are all over the place.
Let's stop this back and forth now. please.
tinydancer1965 11 months ago
@tinydancer1965 not really. i will stop it now for your sake. i gave you some facts, brought reality into your reality less world view, and you called me a schmuck. very even argument. you're a poopy head, now we are even.
Michaeltickledick 11 months ago
Your name says everything. You really ARE a schmuck!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.........
tinydancer1965 11 months ago
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I notice you didn't bother to reply to my actual comment. Thank you for proving my point.
werelobo 11 months ago
Without Capitalism and corporations, communist unions, community organisers, socialists, socialist programs would have nothing so suck the blood from.
Useful idiots & dupes: = liberals, progressives.
tinydancer1965 11 months ago
Feck the unions. Stop buying American made cars.
Unions are "the school of Communism" Lenin
tinydancer1965 11 months ago
@tinydancer1965 lol! yeah, screw american working people! screw people whose wages have stagnated or declined for going on 40 years. screw unions even thought they aren't nearly as strong as they used to be. yay for rich people. sure, we wealth inequality has exploded in recent decades, sure the rich could give a damn about you or this country, sure the rich have caused the economy to collapse, but i still will lick their boots. u might not have any class consciousness but the rich do
Michaeltickledick 11 months ago 2
@Michaeltickledick You are a schmuck.
tinydancer1965 11 months ago
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@tinydancer1965 are you kidding me? you call me a name, and that's your argument? i can see now why you think the way you do. you are stupid, un-educated and ignorant. you listen to rich people on the radio tell you what to do and you follow along like a good little sheep. baaaaah.
Michaeltickledick 11 months ago
@tinydancer1965 You have said "'Unions are the school of communism' Lenin" (March 16th, 2011) and also said "HItler used the unions to consolidate loyalty and power" (November 30, 1999). So which is it? Are unions fascist or communist. Have you switched sides, Lisa or are you simply a capricious Scorpio (a non sequitur). What's your game? To just muckrake the rest of your life?
howedesign 9 months ago 7
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howedesign 9 months ago
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@Michaeltickledick Please see my comment to tinydancer1965 right next to this one to you. She badmouths people all the time and hasn't the foggiest idea what she's talking about.
howedesign 9 months ago 5
@howedesign I don't know what you are talking about nor do I give a damn.
Michaeltickledick 9 months ago
@Michaeltickledick If you don't mind being called a schmuck for your views then OK, that's fine by me.
howedesign 9 months ago 2
@howedesign Ok, let's all pretend that you can win an argument without putting forth an argument. If you want to call me names and pretend you are saying something go ahead. Why do people like you think name calling is the same articulating your stance on a position? Grow up.
Michaeltickledick 9 months ago
@Michaeltickledick You're quite confused, put down the joint - I'm warning you about tinydancer1965 who calls names and ridicules people then links to the comments from God knows where. Just look up to the top of this page under "Linked Comment". When you are replying to somebody like you have to me, try to see who it is please. Read the damned comment before responding.
howedesign 9 months ago 3
Yes, and Lord forbid they protest fat ass Michael Moore's house, that Moron doesn't even HIRE union help for his movies!! Or, hey, Ed Schultz has a radio contract with Sirius /XM and it is nON UNION!! But, hey, don't let facts confuse the nutty useful idiots on the left!!
savgal1211 11 months ago
These douche bags STILL make DOUBLE what the private sector does. The people working at the bank make LESS than those dumb asses. PLEASE keep whining you upper class union ass bags. EVERYONE will remember this come 2012.
xxxxxxxpimptaddyone 11 months ago
@xxxxxxxpimptaddyone Well said!! These ass hats need to STFU and thank GOD they have jobs!!
savgal1211 11 months ago
@savgal1211 yeah, screw working people. wall street banks cause the world wide economy to collapse, they get trillions, not billions, in bailouts, they pay no taxes and executive bonus pay INCREASES over previous years. don't look at the rich people behind the curtain though. ceo's make hundreds of times what workers do in this country when they used to make about 50 times what workers make. wealth inequality has exploded over the last 30-40 years, wages for the majority of people have...
Michaeltickledick 11 months ago
@savgal1211 stagnated or declined for going on 40 years. let's be the useful idiots of rich people though and attack each other. let's go through some facts quickly. since jfk marginal income tax rates have been cut drastically, corporate tax rates are FAR lower than they used to be (most corporations, as EVERYONE knows pay under 10% in taxes), unions aren't nearly as strong as they used to be, services have been privatized, we have far more "free trade", de-regulation, amongst other things..
Michaeltickledick 11 months ago
@savgal1211 what has been the effect of all this mr right wing free marketer? the country has become de-industrialized, wealth inequality has exploded, the economy has become finanicialized, ALL sectors of society (government, households, corporations, especially financial capital) are now drowning in debt as a result of the finanancialization, not just the government. it has been a disaster, and what do people like you do? you demand more of it. you're either stupid or a useful idiot.
Michaeltickledick 11 months ago
@Michaeltickledick Wha is your answer? Oh, yeah, Marxist : "From those with the ability to those with the need"!! No thanks, the Founders didn't envision the sort of Socialist "Utopia" you and these Lemmings want!
Can't you/they make it on MERIT?? Hell no! You are GROUP THINK! the COLLECTIVE!! and those of us who made it the hARD way are sick and tired of whining pussy attitudes like yours!! Oh boo hoo, so the banks screwed ALL of us !!
savgal1211 11 months ago
@savgal1211 you accuse people like ME of group think. you ignore economic history, you don't seem aware of the many rights that you and this country has as a result of unions, you get fed up on right wing propaganda that fills your head with silly ideas that have no basis in reality, then you claim that others are suffering from group think. i love it when pointing out the economic reality of modern america, the shape that the economy has taken over the last number of decades, and you boil...
Michaeltickledick 11 months ago
@Michaeltickledick BTW FUCK THE UAW!! and ALL Unions!! Is that clear?? Whining baby Socialist! How about a "Hey hey Ho ho" chant, what a bunch of blathering retards!!
savgal1211 11 months ago
@savgal1211 it all down to "whining". you right wing know nothings weren't "whining" when you starting screaming insane tin pot conspiracy theories about a government takeover of the health care system (which was a pretty conservative bill overall). you aren't "whining" when you critique obama's spending or something like that. no, that's just reasonable critique. no matter how many facts people bring up it is nothing but whining. i know the game. people like you are mindless zombies.
Michaeltickledick 11 months ago
@Michaeltickledick Yes, Defend Obama till the bitter bitter end!! Yes, the worthless fraud is out golfing and doing "Brackets' and michelle and the girls are off skiing, and don't forget the Thursday night parties !!
BTW, the Death panels? it is called the "Lifes system" and your Friend Cass Sustein is in charge of the health care.It WILL be rationed , don't you READ and follow other sources than MSLSD or Perky Katie Couric ??Do as YOU like, the rest of us are readying ..
savgal1211 11 months ago
@savgal1211 you're an idiot, just stop. i am not an obama defender, why the hell would i bother? i have a brain, i realize that i don't have to attach myself emotionally, like you have, to one of the two dominant, corporate controlled parties. i wouldn't support someone privatizing the educational system, a person signing another horrible “free trade” deal with s. korea, someone who we now know got rid of the public option (supported by wide margins across the ideological spectrum) BEFORE...
Michaeltickledick 11 months ago
@Michaeltickledick You know what is really funny as hell? Morons in this video will be the FIRST to line up for free food and a tent and water when the economy collapses, and this is what you want, right? "Free health care, MAN, free housing, MAN" Wage parity, MAN" Oh yeah, since none of you are self sufficient and don't store food or guns or silver or are learning to make it on your own, you will be the first in line to riot for food!! And wage parity? Think CHINA!! Learn Mandarin!!
savgal1211 11 months ago
@Michaeltickledick Cass Sunstein has been quoted as saying "I urge that the government should indeed focus on life years rather than lives. A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people Ther, in his OWN WORDS!!
savgal1211 11 months ago
@savgal1211 the health care negotiations began. i wouldn't support someone who has stocked his administration with neo-liberal "free market" hacks, whose ideas got this country into this damn mess in the first place. I hate to break it to ya, please don’t jump out of the nearest window after hearing this, but obama is much closer to you ideologically than you’d like to admit, which is why our country is screwed. Our choice is...
Michaeltickledick 11 months ago
@savgal1211 the slow decline of the neoliberal democratic party or the collapse offered by the republican party, who ideas are not only ideologically rigid, have little basis in reality and are a horrible failure, but these ideas have destroyed the economy. obama is different than people like you because he is more pragmatic, he's less of an ideological fanatic and he'll at least in speeches say things that are logical and grounded in reality, not irrational emotion. that's the only difference
Michaeltickledick 11 months ago
@Michaeltickledick The communists in our country are in for a rude awakening very soon! Progressivism will be dead here in short order. I say bring on the petty revolution you leftist morons, you will rue the day you do! Most Americans who are Patriotic, will stomp you into the ground – at the voting booth! 2012 will become your political bloodbath alright, we’re going to root you from power once and for all
savgal1211 11 months ago
@savgal1211 what i hear from people like you is (i have to translate idiot into english), "more deindustrialization! more wealth inequality! more private, corporate debt! transfer more environmental costs onto us! we demand lower wages! i don't care if rich people and corporations have proven that they can't regulate themselves, and that their actions have caused economic destruction, i want more of it! i DEMAND more "free trade", no matter how disastrous!". we're saving u from yourselves
Michaeltickledick 11 months ago
ur slogan should be, "we want a 3rd world america now!". i have lived in & traveled to poor countries. They don’t have social programs, regulations, the government doesn’t (because it can’t) pay for education, there is no environmental or work place protections and unions are non-existent. Those countries are horribly poor as a result. U idiots basically want to turn the US into something like Cambodia, and your nonsense Orwell double speak somehow convinces you that this is a march to freedom
Michaeltickledick 11 months ago
Looks like a Nazi rally to me
companies don't pay taxes - people pay taxes.
Will they protest in front of the White House, being that 90% of Obama's administration have yet to pay their 2009 taxes?
Ty311 11 months ago
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@Ty311 "companies don't pay taxes - people pay taxes.", well, in case you missed the 20th century and haven't noticed a century and a half of corporate law, corporations ARE people under the damn law. giant, authoritarian, sociopathic people with limited liability. besides, since corporations were given the rights of people and started to use and abuse things like the 14th amendment they have paid taxes, far more than they do today. people like you are just puppets.
Michaeltickledick 11 months ago
@Michaeltickledick Unions suck. They create slaves. Without corporations and capitalism unions wouldn't have anything to suck blood from.
tinydancer1965 11 months ago
@tinydancer1965 lol! they create slaves. explain that. explain how unions, which once again aren't nearly as strong as they used to be, "suck blood". how much tax dollars have corporations gotten from the government? how much protection historically? bailouts? ever hear of the s and l crisis, the east asian crisis, the recent financial crisis where the banks got about 14 TRILLION in cash. when a sports owner wants to build a stadium, does he get tax dollars?
Michaeltickledick 11 months ago
@tinydancer1965 we have the most protectionist agricultural system in the world, our agro corporations get more protection, and have since the 1930's, than in any other country. the government here covers more r and d costs than any other government in the west. how much tax dollars do unions get relative to THAT? please read up on what the hell you're talking about. besides, all the major technology that has come out of this country in recent decades (the internet, computers, civilian...
Michaeltickledick 11 months ago
@tinydancer1965 aircraft, satellites you use for your phones, amongst other things) has come out of the largest socialist institution in the world, the us military. you are ignorant. unions simply allow people to collectively bargain with a corporation, which is a group of people who are collectively bargaining for their interests. the unions are made up of working people who create the damn wealth for the corporation. how in the hell can you miss this obvious fact? are you rich?
Michaeltickledick 11 months ago
@Michaeltickledick If "the unions are made up of working people who create the damn wealth for the corporation," then those same union members should bear some responsibility when they destroy the profitability of the corporation. GM and Chrysler should have been allowed to go into bankruptcy and cancel the bloated union contracts they've been saddled with. Instead, they're limping along on life support, continung to build cars nobody wants to buy. Welcome to the Obma economy!
werelobo 11 months ago
@werelobo first off, i am not an obama supporter. i have a question though. do you know who makes the lexus? toyota. toyota tried to export a car to the us in the late 50's, it failed horribly. toyota's was supported, protected and owned at times by the japanese government for 25 years. the government stepped in multiple times to rescue toyota. if it was up to the "free market" toyota couldn't have gotten to the point that it could create the lexus. it would have went out of business...
Michaeltickledick 11 months ago
@werelobo or it would have been bought up by a foreign competitor, probably gm. i have news for people like you, that is the only way countries have EVER developed. japan's model was copied by south korea, who did the same thing. i lived in china for a year and a half. i talked to some of my students about the cars they buy. they told me that china is trying to make a car now, i forgot the name. is china letting the "free market" work? of course not, this is the real world, they slap a...
Michaeltickledick 11 months ago
@werelobo tax of 150% on foreign car imports to protect the infant car industry in china. that is how development has really worked. as i said before, the us was the most protectionist country in the west for a century and a half, they copied britain, who did the same thing. extreme protectionism that lasted for CENTURIES. that's how they overtook the dutch. read ha joon chang's "kicking away the ladder". no country develops using the "free market", every country that has developed has...
Michaeltickledick 11 months ago
@Michaeltickledick had massive governmental intervention in the economy and the vast majority of countries in the developed world outside the us have strong unions. in many countries, like germany, unions have a dominant role in decision making at companies. in places like finland, which has the best educational system in the world, 100% of teachers belong to unions. you are just puking out right wing propaganda, its nothing more than news to the ears of billionaires. wake up.
Michaeltickledick 11 months ago
Which is more impressive?...Banks that are motivated to manipulate society both financially and politically OR ..people that continue to fight for their right to continue their greed and manipulation lol . I can't believe the support I hear for these criminals who basically gambled away your entire economy due to your regulations (or lack thereof)..but hey..it's easier to blame liberals and muslims.
RootUnique 11 months ago 2
Actually, Bank of America paid no taxes in 2009 because they posted a net loss, not a $4 billion profit. But then, when have facts ever mattered to the far left?
werelobo 11 months ago
@werelobo I'm on the "far left" and happen to be an economist. if you want to discuss economic reality, lets have at it. here's a small fact for you, like to hear your response. i always here from the right about the wonders of "free trade". the us, from about the war of 1812 to wwii was THE most protectionist country in the world, by a long shot. we, along with every other country that has eve developed, developed going against the advice of adam smith. "free trade" has destroyed the us..
Michaeltickledick 11 months ago
in recent decades. the census bureau has said that not a SINGLE state has seen a net increase in jobs as a result of NAFTA. explain to me or anyone else here why we should stick to "free trade" and how wonderful it is vs the alternatives. can you give me an example of a country that developed using "free trade". just give me one in modern times. we can move on to taxes, regulation or anything else you'd like after you don't answer my question.
Michaeltickledick 11 months ago
Way to go UAW, screw these simps!
louiejc 11 months ago
light them all on fire
HangProgressives 11 months ago
Look how fat these goons are. Jeebus. Money for jobs? Go home and try to conjure up a product or service someone actually wants to pay you for, then you'll get "money" for doing a "job".
GStreetHits 11 months ago
These people are money hungry violent trash
Yababoos123 11 months ago
MOBSTERS.. BASICALLY LAWLESS.. time to prosecute those that disrupt places of business. What is it they are saying..that anyone that makes money should give it to them? Nobody owes them ANYTHING!
TRINITYNTB 11 months ago
What about liberal douchebag GE? They didnt pay any taxes either assclowns
TEHTYMEKITTEH1 11 months ago
@TEHTYMEKITTEH1 I am sure that the demons in the Republican party are getting some of that GE money too, so cut the left/ right bullshit and wake up. That's unless you are a corporate tool, if so, carry on, at least until the masses revolt, and start showing the corporate scumbags and Wall Street a little tough love.
3MARSAURELIUS 11 months ago
These clowns need to be sued for Obstructing business
TEHTYMEKITTEH1 11 months ago
People power. Go!
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