Mr Khan said:
Kasz216 said:
Mr Khan said:
Then we just have to go start beating sense into businesses, as in why they're bothering to earmark rent-seeking in the first place when they could be doing more to expand their business with that kind of funding. We should not have to accept this waste as the status quo.
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So... outright authoritarianism then? That was a quick jump... i mean... really?
Otusde which... right now buisnesses DON'T have anything else to spend it on. They have record profits, and yet, there is no real demand increase. The only signfiicant demand increase we've really had has been fake government demand, which buisnesses were smart enough not to expand into because it's a losing proposition.
It's why we have record profits, but an unemployment rate that would be 11% if the partcipation rate was the same as when Obama took office and had 8.1 unemployment. (Unemployment was just announced today to be the lowest since January 2009... you know, not counting the huge participation rate drop.)
If I were wrong and you were right and money does matter, then it would make sense to spend money to get a president in who you think would be better for the economy and buisness. Companies normally would rather expand their pie then get a bigger piece of what exists afterall.
While if I'm right... it's not really being wasted anyway, because there is nowhere to go with that money anyway.... and hey there is more money to hire people like you... which you'll use to buy stuff theoretically... granted, only some of those types of jobs would be permanent which is a bummer... but at least there will be some increase in permanent demand.
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Eh, the odd hours bar me from the one job with the labor unions (can't take public transit at those hours, and my old car isn't up to commuting that far. Lost a tire and brakes just getting to the interview...). Haven't heard from the other one
It comes back to something we've discussed before, that businesses should be incentivized (though not straight-up forced) to spend money productively, to force them off of cash-hording and, in this case, rent-seeking.
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That's a shame. If anyone could use some good people it's the labor unions. They've taken a beating lately.
I'm pro labor unions msyself, though i think part of it is on them as they tend to operate dumb using there power to save people who quite honestly shouldn't be saved, leading to lost productivity, hiring of new (hopefully) competent workers while keeping around the saftey violators and just in general people who do nothing.
Which hurts the companys bottom line. Often leading to layoffs and people having to leave because some of the jackasses who hired on before them have seniority.
