Buying from China

• "Frank says most high school kids don't know when the government is taking advantage of them. Yet Frank apparently doesn't realize that the government is taking advantage of all of us when they take money from us and give it to hedge fund magnates and investment bank CEO's while those corporate titans pay NO income tax."

And that, my friend, is not free-market capitalism. It is crony capitalism ... the same as that practiced by the Robber Barons of a century ago and before. An interesting point in our history, if you want to know about crony capitalism, was during the period when the railroads were being built.

When the free market has only the illusion of private ownership, with strict, dictatorial government control, it is indeed "socialism." It is the type of socialism known as fascism, and it was touted by both FDR and Churchill as a viable way to run a country. Both men are on record lauding the fascist system in Mussolini's Italy in the 1930s. Before FDR, it was Woodrow Wilson.  Study the history of the 16th and 17th Amendments to the Constitution for some interesting answers.

Frank

To say employees are a commodity harkens back to the slave trade, which is still a basic underpinning of our present situation. To assign a certain "value" is incredibly arbitrary when one factors in who is assigning that value. 

It also assumes that we are all just islands, alone and aloof in this nation of over 330 million, which is farce. We are a community, down to our genes.

Back then it was good teeth, a strong back and if you could breed that got you ahead. Commodity indeed. I think we are not only past, but beyond that, unless one has drank too much cruel-aid, rationalizing their way through life.

All the best,
Nonoise

for the factually challenged, Boeing is headquartered in Chicago. They are the for profit people who trusted me with that cool billion dollars......every year...

saddle your kids and grandkids with a trillion $ in debt to build a wall they will tunnel under or sawzall thru....true idiots love a wall in the modern world...