badgenome said:
I just don't see why it would significantly change the market. Instead of just assuming that all employers are Dickensian villains, put yourself in their shoes and think logically: if you have a reliable employee, are you really going to replace them with someone new and unproven just because you can pay them a few bucks less a month? Of course not. And strictly from a standpoint of cost, if you have invested anything at all in training your employees, it wouldn't even be close to worth it. Need I remind you of Microsoft? When they were simply giving away software (oh, what a crime), they were villainized beyond belief as some kind of evil monopoly. Now that they just hire lobbyists like everyone else, no one really gives a fuck about them. I assume you think it's Republicans who are in the pockets of big business, but why is it Democrats who receive the most money? In particular that shining white knight Barack Obama, who is planning to raise $1 billion for his reelection: that money isn't going to all come from small donors, especially not in this economy. Big business is totally cool with big government, because they can generally nudge regulations in the direction that they want, and who really cares when you have a department of compliance bigger than most other companies? The only people who find regulations truly limiting are small businesses. By the way, it's not as if this stuff is undisclosed like you suggest. It has to be disclosed, but... what does that mean? It's not like the media does a great job informing people, even when it doesn't have an agenda. So the information is out there, but unless you dig it up yourself or the media decides to slap you in the face with it, you'll probably never know about it. It's transparency without transparency. Again, I submit that the only way to really deal with the problem is to devolve power back to the states. Why should someone who lives on the ass end of the country have to follow all the ins and outs of some shitty little city on the eastern seaboard just to be able to make an informed decision when he goes to vote? Hooray for Australia and all that, but 310 million wildly diverse people cannot fucking be centrally governed. |
Well there is one guy who writes a book for the Presidents, or at least he used too, not sure if he does anymore.
I got it during the Bush vs Gore election. Or Bush vs Kerry... was fun.
The best candidate in retrospect was Chris Dodd.
The Dodd Frank act is amusing when you find out he was the presidential candidate who received the most donations from Wal-Street and Big Banks on either side. Which is espiecally telling considering he was never a real contender.
