Republicans constantly put down the business-worthiness of the country and their states.

[gulliver]

Today I heard a Republican "leader" in Missouri (my home state) say the following on NPR:

“The courts have made Missouri the worst place in the nation to be sued if you’re an employer," Lager saidl "No employer is gonna move to a state or substantially grow in a state where their risk of being sued is greater than anywhere else in the nation.”

http://www.news.stlpublicradio.org/post/workplace-discrimination-bill-being-blocked-mo-senate

Why are we not sick of that? Why are Republicans being given a free pass to level insult after insult on the business-worthiness of our country and our home states? Has anyone stopped to think that it might be, oh, just a little bit counterproductive when the country and the states are desperate for jobs?

Picture a team of foreign business people visiting Missouri. They want to know whether they should locate a plant here. Then they turn on NPR and hear some dumb-ass Republican "leader" shooting off his mouth about how bad the state is.

Of course they do the same thing to America as a whole too. I don't know when the last time was that I heard a Republican say "You know, the United States is a great place to do business."

Assholes.

[patrice]

1. They accuse anyone who is positive of being Utopian, but they are DYSTOPIAN.

Utopia is one of their latest buzzz words. I'm seeing it repeated here and there.

Ever since the Tories, and later the Constitutional Convention, there have been those who think, rather than institute policies to empower human development, we should assume only the worst on average and that justifies the authoritarian use of power, which of course further insures low learning and development, further justifying oppression. It is interesting that devolution has occurred just as much within the ruling-class, which has lead us to this place where those amongst them who MIGHT invest in the human right to develop to the fullest of one's individual potential are considered enemies by others amongst them who want to continue old master:serf relationships = Missouri. Their current objective is, ostensibly justified by geo-economics, to drive American wages down absolutely as much as possible, as that, low wages:high productivity, is supposed to be the ONLY thing about us to attract, and to shore-up actually since the Derivative Crash, foreign investments in U.S.

One of the most aggravating things about this is to hear how hardship brings out the best human development, when the opposite is true. Yes, necessity IS the mother of invention, but without resource enrichment invention starves and minds are capped. This IS Dystopia.