Random Politics & Religion #00

How?

I can think about *** and racism at the same time. Ask me how !

I just can't be bothered to care if she lies to me or pisses all over my leg and tells me its raining. I'm too enthralled with her sex/gender/whatever to vote for anyone else.

According to Biden’s records, the President did not respond to either e-mail.

FTFY

I'm shocked Biden knows how to operate e-mail...

Any of you know who Alonzo Bodden is?

He's a comedian who's done a skit on Just For Laughs who made jokes about defending white people... to other white people.

Any of you know who Alonzo Bodden is?

He's a comedian who's done a skit on Just For Laughs who made jokes about defending white people... to other white people.

I can't get Netflix those commies at Comcast won't let me !

Editor’s Note: On Monday, General Motors announced a $5 billion stock buyback. The beleaguered car-maker is appeasing grumbling shareholders by making their shares worth more.

Buying back stock limits its supply and therefore artificially drives up its value. To make those purchases, GM is reducing its cash reserves from $25 billion to $20 billion. (Recall that you, the taxpayer, helped prop up GM’s cash reserves with a $49.5 billion bailout in 2009.)

The stock buyback, combined with higher dividends, is expected to result in $10 billion for shareholders through 2016. It’s a grand time to be holding GM stock. And a bad time to have been behind the wheel of one of the thousands of defective vehicles for which GM is currently under investigation by the Department of Justice.

But GM’s not the only corporation throwing taxpayers under the bus. Almost all public companies do stock buybacks, writes plutocrat progressive Nick Hanauer in the following Making Sen$e column. He should know. The entrepreneur and original Amazon investor has done them too.

Hanauer authored the most popular post ever on this page last fall: on corporations not paying overtime and how doing so would address the crisis of growing economic inequality. He was also featured in a story of ours on the minimum wage and in Robert Reich’s film, “Inequality for All.”

The billionaire investor has used his high-profile platform to address his peers, most famously in the 2014 TED talk, “Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming.” Today, he returns to Making Sen$e with another example of, to him, extravagant corporate overreach: stock buybacks.

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Our crisis of income inequality wasn’t principally caused by the rich not paying enough tax, even though we don’t. Rather, it is largely the product of the $1 trillion a year that once went to wages, but now goes to corporate profits. And this demand and investment-killing trillion-dollar-a-year transfer of wealth from the bottom 80 percent of households to the top 1 percent is the direct result of the economic and regulatory policies both Republicans and Democrats have imposed since the dawn of the trickle down era.

Rather, it is largely the product of the $1 trillion a year that once went to wages, but now goes to corporate profits.

transfer of wealth from the bottom 80 percent of households to the top 1 percent is the direct result of the economic and regulatory policies both Republicans and Democrats have imposed

think about this. what you eat for lunch today is a result of which marketing campaign had the greatest impact.

I know (suspect, anyhow) you're just being facetious, but as a member of the generation that has grown up completely inundated in advertising, I'm not sure I even react to it anymore.

I make the overwhelming majority of my food from scratch. The small percentage that I get pre-prepared, as from a restaurant or as a frozen meal, probably has some ad campaign somewhere but I couldn't tell you the last time I saw, for instance, an ad for Hungry Howie's pizza. I only mostly go there because it's walking distance and I'm too cheap to pay delivery fees.

I'm really not sure that advertising, traditional advertising, works anymore. I can't think of a single friend who went out and bought anything. Unless it was from Apple, of course. *** Apple.

I can't think of a single friend who went out and bought anything. Unless it was from Apple, of course. *** Apple.

There's nothing that gets the chicks faster than a (guy) (being) smart (and buying the right) car.

What car is that?

A Bugatti Veyron.