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02-19-2012, 09:19 PM
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But I have to ask why were all these mortgages written,,, the banks lured them in with incentives, they knew that most couldn't pay but they still wrote them.
Bottom line was it was all about money and how much can we make.
As far as I was concerned there should have never ever been one dime of taxpayer monies to bail any of the banks and investment firms out.... You want to talk about a Good Ole Boys club ? Then they turned around and gave themselves bonuses They should have all been left to faiI .
I think you forgot who insisted that they the Financial Institution give all these Home loan's out even at 100% with nothing down cause they wanted all to have there own homes even when they the borrower couldn't afford it,do you now recall 2006 Elections?,and to stay own topic,Wal Mart is not at fault,have you remembered yet who was in charge of Congress,Hint,Hint! I dont think they where lured!
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02-20-2012, 06:54 AM
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#198
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Hey, will someone look at the "Trillions of tax dollars our Government is giving away to countries that don't even need it? As well as cooperating in a covert way with the so called enemies our American Solders? Our own Government is the one stiring the pot. What about a pipe line from Canada to the U.S.A.? People hurting in this country, but Uncle Sam giving your tax dollars away helping set up factories out of country. How about our Military items being built with tax dollars in other countries? Even countries that hate Americans? WalMart is such a small thing on the totem pole compared to what Uncle Sam is doing to us!! Think about it!!
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02-20-2012, 04:50 PM
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#199
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National RV Owners Club Workhorse Chassis Owner Ford Super Duty Owner Carolina Campers
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With regards to the bailouts, it's anti-capitalistic. The in a purely capitalist system, greatest victory a company can win is to put their competitors out of business. This works to everyone's benefit, over the long haul. Like forest fires are an integral and important part of natures plan to revitalize the ecosystem, so it is with business. If I were in charge of Ford, I'd have been really PO'd about the government bailout of my chief domestic competitor.
From the ashes of a failed GM would have risen new startups with new ideas and innovations. The cream of the GM crop would have migrated over to other companies, Tesla for instance, to give them an infusion of experience and know-how and bring new exciting products to market.
By bailing out these businesses that otherwise would have failed, our government has sandbagged the whole process. Now, its business as usual, again doomed to fail because nothing has changed.
The free market works well and is a self leveling, self correcting system, as long as it is left alone. Government's role is to make sure the playing field remains level, everyone plays by the rules, and otherwise get out of the way.
For our government to stick its hand in the corner pocket to keep GM's (and the UAW's) 8 ball from falling was a short term benefit for a few at the long term cost of everyone. It's not how things should have played out.
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02-20-2012, 06:23 PM
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Originally Posted by wb6epp
Hey, will someone look at the "Trillions of tax dollars our Government is giving away to countries that don't even need it? As well as cooperating in a covert way with the so called enemies our American Solders? Our own Government is the one stiring the pot. What about a pipe line from Canada to the U.S.A.? People hurting in this country, but Uncle Sam giving your tax dollars away helping set up factories out of country. How about our Military items being built with tax dollars in other countries? Even countries that hate Americans? WalMart is such a small thing on the totem pole compared to what Uncle Sam is doing to us!! Think about it!!
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It's the military industrial complex, big bucks, big lobby. Won't change unless we make it change.
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02-20-2012, 06:28 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ramblin
With regards to the bailouts, it's anti-capitalistic. The in a purely capitalist system, greatest victory a company can win is to put their competitors out of business. This works to everyone's benefit, over the long haul. Like forest fires are an integral and important part of natures plan to revitalize the ecosystem, so it is with business. If I were in charge of Ford, I'd have been really PO'd about the government bailout of my chief domestic competitor.
From the ashes of a failed GM would have risen new startups with new ideas and innovations. The cream of the GM crop would have migrated over to other companies, Tesla for instance, to give them an infusion of experience and know-how and bring new exciting products to market.
By bailing out these businesses that otherwise would have failed, our government has sandbagged the whole process. Now, its business as usual, again doomed to fail because nothing has changed.
The free market works well and is a self leveling, self correcting system, as long as it is left alone. Government's role is to make sure the playing field remains level, everyone plays by the rules, and otherwise get out of the way.
For our government to stick its hand in the corner pocket to keep GM's (and the UAW's) 8 ball from falling was a short term benefit for a few at the long term cost of everyone. It's not how things should have played out.
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How about the bailout of the financial system? Let them all fail, banks, auto companies? That's what happened in the great depression, that worked out pretty well, after WWII put everyone to work.
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02-20-2012, 06:34 PM
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Originally Posted by henderson
How about the bailout of the financial system? Let them all fail, banks, auto companies? That's what happened in the great depression, that worked out pretty well, after WWII put everyone to work.
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I didn't say let them ALL fail, you did. I said let the failing ones fail.
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02-20-2012, 08:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Ramblin
I didn't say let them ALL fail, you did. I said let the failing ones fail.
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Well that's 2 of the big 3 automakers. How many banks would have survived without the bailout? We bailed out everything from local banks to the big investment banks, then there is AIG who we bailed out which kept other banks from going under. I'm not saying I liked it I'm saying letting the capitalist system run its due course might have done damage that would take decades to overcome. What do you think?
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02-20-2012, 08:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Dick Noble
I am a retired CPA. As such, I have studied the value of a capitalist system. It is the single most productive system that mankind has ever come up with. However, it is also the single most wasteful system devised. It is wasteful of anything that it uses; both resources and people. It must be regulated so that there is the greatest good for the greatest number (the many). The problem we Americans have is in balancing the need for regulation verses the need for innovation and growth. Without balance, we all suffer from excesses.
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Agreed.
As I have said before on this thread, America's downfall is greed and the "I want it now" mentality. And it is going to get worse before better. And that isn't me being a debbie downer, it's just what is right in front of us and pretty obvious.
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02-20-2012, 08:57 PM
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Originally Posted by dieselclacker
If you "regulate," is it still capitalism?
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I kind of got the feeling that he meant "regulate" as in everyone regulating themselves and seeking some balance...something that is a big failure here in america with most people and companies.
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02-20-2012, 09:01 PM
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Originally Posted by RJay
They win customers and sales of course. A lot of the opposition to Walmart is irrational. There are big chain and box store alternatives to every department in Walmart so it's not that Walmart doesn't have completion and that people don't have an alternative. In fact, as some members have mention, the prices for some items are higher at Walmart. What Walmart does offer, that no other store does, is one-stop-shopping and at prices that virtually all can afford.
Arguments, such as, Walmart killed the mon an pop stores, squeeze suppliers, abuse their employees, ruin neighborhoods, being a cooperate bully, etc. are a smoke screen by a segment of the population with an agenda. I suspect that a lot of this bluster would soon disappear if Walmart was to go union.
The only bad shopping experience I've had a Walmart is it gets too crowded.
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Perhaps you should do more research on how Walmart has 'squeezed' suppliers to the point that most of the brands and products we have loved in America are getting so cheap to the point they are not even worth buying. And yes, THEY ARE a corporate bully.
Walmart today is nothing like what Sam Walton touted back in the day. Walmart isn't to blame for all that is wrong with America, but they are certainly a product of what we are becoming in this society.
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02-21-2012, 09:34 AM
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Senior Member
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Ramblin, You nailed it, great post (#199).
Nick
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02-21-2012, 10:54 AM
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Location: Mariposa, CA
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Ford Takes $5.9B Gov't Loan
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Originally Posted by Ramblin
If I were in charge of Ford, I'd have been really PO'd about the government bailout of my chief domestic competitor.
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Ford Takes $5.9 Billion Government Loan
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02-21-2012, 03:24 PM
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#209
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Location: SW Florida
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Here is how Wal-Mart works:
They stock a brand named product made in the USA and have another made overseas for them to mimic the USA brand labeled Wal-Mart brand. Their brand is .30 cents cheaper. They know people like the brand name product so they will watch how many brand name products are sold compared to their brand. When their product reaches 75% sales of the brand name they drop the brand name and there goes thousands of USA jobs.
Sure, you got it .30 cents cheaper but now there are a lot of good people out of work which makes the economy go down. It doesn't take long as we have all seen to lose hundreds of thousands of jobs here in the USA.
We the people have the power to change things but we are too cheap and lazy. If no one bought gas from Exxon or Mobile for just 1 month the price of gas would drop a buck a gallon but no one will do it. They are now setting us up for $5 a gal. gas and we just sit and take it.
You can blame anyone you want but as long as we the people don't do anything about it the prices will go up, the economy will go down and our kids and grand kids will pay the price for our indifference.
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02-21-2012, 11:22 PM
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#210
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Join Date: Jan 2012
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what I want to know is, once we all are on welfare, who they going to tax? come to think of it, they will tax everyone on welfare. that's obvious right?? do you, the gov, take food stamps or must we sell them on the black market to get money to pay our taxes??
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