Comments on: Alabama Murder Mystery Solved: The Shocking Story Of How A Chicken-Slaughtering Billionaire Plundered Rural America

By: Leatrice

Leatrice — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:04:46 +0000

Superb infortmiaon here, ol’e chap; keep burning the midnight oil.

By: Ro

Ro — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 02:30:36 +0000

According to Wikipedia, “In 1986, Bingham family patriarch Barry Bingham Sr. announced the family would sell all their media holdings including Standard Gravure. The employees of Standard Gravure made a bid to buy the company, but it was sold instead to Michael Shea from Atlanta, Georgia for $22 million. After the sale the employees learned that $11 million of their employee pension fund had been used to help finance Shea’s purchase.”

I’m not going to say he should have done it, but I understand.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:05:33 +0000

I think this opinion piece stretches it a bit too far, especially considering there isn’t much of a case for Reliance Steel or Kelley Foods being much like Pilgrim’s Pride at all… Layoffs as a sign of capitalism’s evils? Job markets change, and they have to be able to change! France’s unemployment rate is traditionally much higher than ours because it’s very hard to fire people there, so company’s avoid hiring unless they absolutely have to.

Pilgrim’s Pride sounds absolutely horrendous, but this shooting sounds like a case of suicidal depression leading to a completely irrational victim complex. Suicidal Depression is not a rational state, people – it’s a mental disorder. We can’t look at his actions while obviously in the grip of a mental disorder and draw logical conclusions from it.

By: ben

ben — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:59:41 +0000

great article but be careful citing PETA, they’re not exactly trustworthy.

By: H.D. Price

H.D. Price — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:14:52 +0000

“What’s wrong with me?”

You’re a right wing moron. That answer you’re question?

I see the Freepers jackasses come here, which means Ames is hitting the nail on the head. This is article is excellent and to the point.

As far as being “irrelevent”, the U.S. has been irrelevent for decades. It’s a pimped out whore for uber-capitalists and zionists whose M.O. is to kill and destroy anyone or anything that stands in the way of their hegemony over those who oppose them. These idiots on here defending “captialism” (the screwing of the poor by the rich) and using wikipedia as a tool to support their asinine arguments and denial of reality is pathetic. Kennedy started shipping jobs overseas? Yeah, right. Kennedy was killed because he opposed assholes like Bo Pilgrim (and Clint Murchison and the war machine).

By: Rocko

Rocko — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:08:47 +0000

To the idiots defending capitalism because free markets don’t exist, do everyone a favor and drop Hayek’s, Friedman’s et al apologias for their privileged class for a second and read up on Karl Polanyi. “Free market” is a retarded romantic myth and a fruit of the imperialist thinking of its time, up there with “white man’s burden”.

It’s not that a real free market hasn’t existed yet, it’s that such a thing as you frame it is impossible, as an economy is inextricable from a society, its values and its power dynamics. You don’t get to redefine the terms just for the sake of your pet ideology. What is passes around for capitalism is by sheer definition capitalism itself, your armchair interpretation be damned.

Bitching and moaning that capitalism is just fine and dandy and that all the shit it creates is because it has never been properly applied is a ridiculous sophistry that runs contrary to all historical and philosophical analyses. It’s a bullshit excuse that communists have been throwing around for ages and it doesn’t fly for them either.

By: ZedMan2K

ZedMan2K — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:02:09 +0000

Ok, I need to do a little rant here.
From what I have read most of the people posting here have a job, a good job. I don’t see too many people who have worked for a company that saw other workers laid off and then a “big contract” came in and now you need to work 2X as hard and fast to make up for the lost workers (with no incentives).
I see “DisappointedReader” post #25, state,
“Anyone who so much as slept through a single business course would roll on the floor laughing at the idea that a $3M salary for a CEO of a company employing 56,000 people is overpaid”
Your right, the only course that I could find (business for the people who only watch ‘FOX’) stated that you take as much as you can even if the work modal you have means the 56K people working are just cows or “chickens” if you will, and just run it into the ground and let the tax payers pay for your mess because you have 56,000 employees.
Yet this is the problem today, 56K employee’s means that you have something that the government needs to look at, after all its tax money, people employed and tax power on the government.
I worked many hours with out pay when my business was in trouble, as the owner of the Co., I didn’t make money when my Co. did not make money but I made sure that the people that worked for me was paid.
Today if you are a big biz. and you don’t make money, the Gov. will help you. If you get big enough you can do what ever you want to do and as a CEO, CFO, CIO or any top official, even if you are losing huge $ you do not need to worry, at worst if Co. goes under and the Gov. will help you, if not you have you nice severance package.
@DisappointedReader post #40
“I dare just one supporter, one fan of Ames article, to tell me just what exactly a “fair” salary would be for a CEO of a corporation like Pilgrim’s Pride.
C’mon, find your balls and give a number.”
A “fair” salary would and only be a % of the Co.’s profits, like I stated a CEO is like “the owner” of the Co. has 2 employees or 100,000, why does the rules change?
Why if Pilgrim’s Pride was run into the ground should the “Owner” or “CEO” make money?.. Let me know as my business went broke and I want to know why my bottom line is not in the black.!.

By: Jack Boot

Jack Boot — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:36:29 +0000

A century ago, Lloyd George described Czarist Russia as a tyranny moderated by assassination.
Perhaps America, too, is showing signs of moderation…

By: fajensen

fajensen — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:26:38 +0000

Here’s the thing: I don’t want free health care or vacation time. What I want is freedom–the freedom to be a sucker,

And you (‘mericans) clearly are just that:

Instead of wasting your life on work You could be off using your four-to-six weeks of paid vacation to travel somewhere cheap, get seriously shit-faced, fall over during some especially stupid drunken stunt AND not have to pay the hospital for putting you back together again – ready for next years holiday.

And your employer cannot sack you for being off sick …

By: DisappointedReader

DisappointedReader — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:09:04 +0000

EVERY MORNING I OPEN PALM-SLAP MY AYN RAND ANTHOLOGY IN DISBELIEF BECAUSE I LOVE IT SO MUCH. GOD BLESS GOD. FUCK CUMMUNIZM, I SUPPORTED BUSH UNTIL LIKE 2007

By: Commie

Commie — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:50:31 +0000

@DisappointedReader

The idiots in Eastern Europe THOUGHT that Communism didn’t work out well. For reasons such as: only 10 kinds of sausage were sold in a store in East Berlin versus 50 kinds in West Berlin. You’ll now see them change their minds as their countries slide into bankruptcy one by one…

By: Commie

Commie — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:43:21 +0000

@Gooftroop

I’ll take France any time before a trailer park filled with white people anywhere in the US.

By: DisappointedReader

DisappointedReader — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:53:49 +0000

Communism didn’t work out so well in eastern Europe, and yet people are hell-bent on seeing it brought back to life again in America, like a bad zombie film.

The only real comfort to be had is the fact that most of you idiots never will gain the motivation or resources to leave your mother’s basement.

By: Tom Owens

Tom Owens — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:18:37 +0000

Dead nutz, right on. Kill or be killed is where this is headed. The function of the leader is to be ruthless, by designating those to be sacrificed…

By: j-dog

j-dog — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:58:32 +0000

am I the only person who checks this website about 20 times a day looking for updates and comments??

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:13:08 +0000

What was interesting in the comments is what is a fair wage for corporate executives, Easy a clearly defined multiple of the minimum wage paid at the company. Something the clearly defines the additional responsibility, skill set and, the greater impact they have on company profitability, let’s say 10 times and beyond that, if the company is in a position to pay more, it can pay all of it’s workers more. Now when it comes to bonuses, well management has a responsibility to ensure the decision benefit the company over the long term, not just the current bonus, bleed the company dry cycle, so bonuses calculation should be done over the following decade and paid upon that basis. Of course as for current management, that hoard of psychopaths, seriously prison is the safest place for us keep them. Beware on forums, by far the bulk of right wing posts, are paid to post market droids, seriously what low IQ permanent minimum wage drone has the education, time or money (when sober) to read and posts on web sites. The professional liars are every where monitoring sites and trying to get first post.

By: aleke

aleke — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:52:05 +0000

Let me put the position of DisappointedReader more clearly for those that are having a hard time understanding.

“ Hey! I’m an idiot! Pay the rich people that already had money and murky connections to raise capital to start a horrible, predatory business anytime they want! Buy the politicians and regulators! It’s their money. They deserve it goddammit. “

By: Gooftroop

Gooftroop — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:35:15 +0000

Europe is falling apart. Take a walk through downtown Malmo or Oslo. Shitholes. France? are you kidding me? The suburbs are off limits to white people, thousands of old people die when the weather gets warm, and no young people can get jobs. The birth/death rate is ridiculous, too. Europe is fading into irrelevancy, whether you like it or not. Why do you think there is this push towards more right wingers these days? The policies are unsustainable. they are moving away from socialism, if anything. america couldnt afford to have europes policies because we had so many immigrants. now europe is experienceing immigration flows that the US experienced in the first half of the century, and shit is starting to collapse. you know I’m right. Germany’s the only one that kind of has it’s shit together.

By: j-dog

j-dog — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:28:05 +0000

@momu

You retard! The article explains is perfectly …. you just need to stop reading so literally and look for THEMES. Jesus.

By: DocAmazing

DocAmazing — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:43:41 +0000

DisappointedReader–

Aaaand his perqs went up, as did his bonuses. Keep reading. Sound out the words, if you need to.

As he is not plucking any chickens, I think we can safely say that the company’s profits are nto the fruit of Pilgrim’s labor, but of the labor of a whole bunch of people. How ’bout making his salary 2000% that of the lowest-paid worker there? Then he gets to be king of the hill, and the money stays in the company instead of being used to pay for arm-candy hookers as seen above.