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Zalatix

Zalatix's Journal
Zalatix's Journal
October 3, 2012

What would the ramifications be if Capitalism were declared to be a religious belief?

Is it too amorphous for that to practically ever happen? What laws would be invalidated under the Separation/Establishment Clause?

I am convinced at this point that Capitalism is a collection of myths and legends on par with the most superstitious aspects of organized religion.

Edited to add: yeah, I'm sure there could be negative consequences, too. I'm not sure what they would be, though.

October 2, 2012

Print this out, hold your nose, and sprinkle it on your farmland to fertilize.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/29/republican-women-feminine-gop-female_n_1924389.html?ref=topbar

Republican Women: Female GOP Politicians Look More Feminine, Congressional Physiognomy Study Suggests

Need I say more about this piece of shit study?
October 2, 2012

I've got an investment tip for you people (LOL!!):

Scott Brown joins Todd Akin, Ann & Mitt Rmoney, and the long, long, impossibly long list of Republicans who have lost toes by shooting first and aiming second.

Find a foot prosthetic company and invest. Now.

Unless those voter suppression efforts succeed in keeping 10 million Americans from the polls, there's going to be a lot of business being done by those companies on November 7th!!!

October 1, 2012

Does anyone know of studies that show how much food supermarkets throw out every day/month/year?

I'm interested in figuring out how much food gets thrown out due to people not buying it.

It would present a much clearer picture from a whole new perspective of how wasteful America's food and grocery industry really is.

September 30, 2012

The individual mandate: I and others warned that this was coming, too.

The ACA isn't what's going to destroy the finances of the working poor. It's the Individual Mandate. And this, too.

People were warned this was coming.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443437504577545770682810842.html

BY LOUISE RADNOFSKY

Around one in 10 employers in the U.S. plans to drop health coverage for workers in the next few years as the bulk of the federal health-care law begins, and more indicated they may do so over time, according to a study to be released Tuesday by consulting company Deloitte.

It is also safe to add that everyone responding to this will die of old age before Medicare for All is ever passed in America. That is, assuming it is ever passed in America.
September 29, 2012

Here's something that free trade and h1b advocates do not ever want to discuss.

The whole point of globalism is to eliminate American workers from the global market.

It exists for no other reason but to make workers poorer and to lower wages as far as they can go.

There is no other reason for global trade to exist.

September 28, 2012

Thank You, Millions Of Anonymous Chinese Workers Making $2 An Hour, We Love Our iPhone 5s!

THIS is what globalism is all about: driving wages down to $2 an hour. When you can no longer do this, all production becomes local and globalism utterly collapses, as it has no reason to continue existing.

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/thank-millions-anonymous-chinese-workers-making-2-hour-154049957.html

Assembling iPhones isn't exactly a high-glamour job. In fact, it's an exhausting, backbreaking, and mind-numbingly tedious job. And, unfortunately, making iPhones is not a job that pays enough to enable the folks who make the iPhones to actually buy an iPhone. (Even a crappy old iPhone 4 would be way out of reach for the people who make them, because it's ~$400 without a contract).

Monday morning Foxconn was forced to close its Taiyuan plant in China after a riot broke out at one of its worker dormitories according to news reports. Foxconn employees make Apple devices in addition to other products by Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard. At least 2,000 workers were involved in the brawl that supposedly broke windows at the factory and forced paramilitary policy trucks to patrol the area.

So, on behalf of the millions of us who just got our new iPhones, here's a big 'thank you' to the millions of people who made them.

"THANK YOU!"

By the way, if you don't believe that making iPhones is a tough, thankless job, read the description below, from someone who briefly helped make your iPhone.
September 28, 2012

Buyer's remorse hurting the Tea Party!

http://news.yahoo.com/politician-kept-budget-vow-now-tries-keep-job-165524872--election.html

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Shortly after newly elected Rep. Dan Benishek arrived in Washington, staffers raised a banner that proclaimed to visitors in his Capitol Hill suite: "If you are here to ask for more money, you're in the wrong office!"

The message was fitting for a tea party favorite who had railed against federal spending and a "nanny-state mentality" during the 2010 campaign that led to a Republican takeover of the House. But it was something new for his constituents in northern Michigan, a largely rural area where a spirit of self-reliance coexists with the reality that government — popular or not — is a crucial economic player.

For decades, Michigan's 1st Congressional District elected representatives who sided with conservatives on social issues like abortion while energetically seeking federal dollars for local projects — most recently Bart Stupak, a Democrat who retired after nine terms.

But Benishek aimed to fully embrace the conservative ideal. And now after two years in office, he finds himself in an unusual predicament, a politician taking heat for staying true to his campaign rhetoric rather than failing to do so. Whether he wins a second term will offer clues about how well the less-government-is-better philosophy actually plays out in the countryside and small towns where the staunchly conservative movement has flourished.
September 27, 2012

Europeans aren't scared of their Government, for damned sure. Not even their police thugs.

http://news.yahoo.com/anti-cuts-protests-erupt-streets-athens-madrid-160009097--sector.html

ATHENS/MADRID (Reuters) - Demonstrators have clashed with police on the streets of Athens and Madrid in an upsurge of popular anger at new austerity measures being imposed on two of the euro zone's most vulnerable economies.

In some of the most violent confrontations on Wednesday, Greek police fired tear gas at hooded rioters hurling petrol bombs as thousands joined the country's biggest protest in more than a year.

The unrest erupted after nearly 70,000 people marched to the Greek parliament chanting "EU, IMF Out!" on the day of a general strike against further cuts demanded by foreign lenders.

"We can't take it anymore - we are bleeding. We can't raise our children like this," said Dina Kokou, a 54-year-old teacher and mother of four who lives on 1,000 euros ($1,250) a month.

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