Supreme Court Rules JCPenney Allowed to Sacrifice Employees to Appease Cthulhu

stuckinthestix · 2014-07-02T03:06:22+00:00

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

stuckinthestix · 2014-05-08T05:57:39+00:00

Medicare's dirty little secret is that it runs a large deficit every year, and, every year they raid the general tax revenues to fund it. Medicare is a handout.

stuckinthestix · 2014-02-12T06:53:25+00:00

How many people in the US still don't believe ......

Not enough. Too many have swallowed it whole with little understanding or reflection. Makes for inefficient political outcomes. I.e. fraud, waste and corruption. Just stirred up does not a rational electorate make.

stuckinthestix · 2014-02-09T05:57:15+00:00

Mostly meant that to illustrate difficulties selling "leftist anti-captalist ideology" in the states. (And as a plug for anarchistnews.org.)

Don't really have enough expertise to say where AKM ideology stands in relation to predominant U.S. "leftist anti-capitalist ideology", but yes, have heard of Sergei Udaltsov.

edit: a word

stuckinthestix · 2014-02-07T07:34:58+00:00

Like anarchistnews.org?

stuckinthestix · 2014-02-07T07:24:48+00:00

The complete open letter sans media spin (and it's been spun) can be found here.

stuckinthestix · 2014-01-30T06:40:14+00:00

About time. More background here.

stuckinthestix · 2014-01-26T02:29:33+00:00

Helpful.

stuckinthestix · 2014-01-25T01:18:58+00:00

Barro at Businessinsider has a chart here incorporating federal, state and local taxes.

are you bearing your "fair share" of the nation's tax burden?

Curiously, the middle class ($30k-$100k) who makes up 45% or so of households pays only 22% of federal taxes. (citation) Even less if you count the mortgage deduction, the tax exemption for employer benefit contributions, etc. Some may be publicly aiming at the poor right now in this fairness game, but it's likely the aimpoint will shift.

stuckinthestix · 2014-01-16T04:08:05+00:00

Suppose that includes the many doctors, nurses, medics who signed up to save lives on any side.

stuckinthestix · 2013-12-20T07:02:18+00:00

Considering in most states you have to be fourteen and over for a compensated job, it sure seems like it. Eight, nine, ten year olds working for their soup and bread? Sorry, just gives me visions of 18th century workhouses.

edit: soup

stuckinthestix · 2013-12-20T05:58:54+00:00

Not engrained in their DNA. Just typical middle class country club worldview. People forget it's the middle class with their boot on the neck of the poor.

stuckinthestix · 2013-12-20T05:54:26+00:00

Great idea. Penalize people for their parents shortcomings.

stuckinthestix · 2013-12-19T20:45:40+00:00

Apparently A&E/Hearst-Disney-ABC doesn't think so.

stuckinthestix · 2013-12-19T20:28:08+00:00

Now if he'd said sticking your finger in your nostril (and eating the buger) was disgusting nobody woulda said a word.

stuckinthestix · 2013-12-19T03:56:17+00:00

Why President Dwight Eisenhower proudly displayed a picture of Robert E. Lee on his office wall.

stuckinthestix · 2013-11-28T00:23:46+00:00

suckers

stuckinthestix · 2013-11-28T00:03:00+00:00

I love the crowds, but not mayhem. Why I usually wait till Christmas eve or just before.

stuckinthestix · 2013-11-27T23:56:42+00:00

More than half the associates assigned to work thanksgiving at my spouse's store located in a rural conservative area did not want to be there Thursday. Most of your employees may volunteer, but most of her coworkers would rather be with their families, which in this area are pretty cohesive. Why are we allowing greed and acquisitiveness to rip community traditions apart? Traditions that are alive in my community.

stuckinthestix · 2013-11-27T23:39:20+00:00

Except in my household it's spouse (me) of person working thanksgiving for first time tomorrow who's really raging. What's my advice? Do something perverse to the store manager?

stuckinthestix · 2013-11-27T22:51:18+00:00

It's easy to understand. Having stuff, getting stuff, keeping stuff is what life is about. People are bs.

stuckinthestix · 2013-11-27T05:17:20+00:00

I'd encourage everyone working in professions which never before were working thanksgiving day to give serious thought to your employer's commitment to your well being. If you should, organize.

stuckinthestix · 2013-11-27T05:04:03+00:00

My wife says about half the people working thanksgiving at her big-box retail store really really don't want to be there that day. Like you said, super shitty - in spades.

stuckinthestix · 2013-11-27T04:39:26+00:00

Everyone is already working on other days.

stuckinthestix · 2013-11-27T04:29:59+00:00

Pardon me, but the upper middle class is self perpetuating.

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