Comments on: Bailed-Out AIG Goons Force Poor to Choose Between Running Water and Food

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:48:12 +0000

Socialized medicine coming soon to Americans, The American Medical Cartel have had their “Executioners Rights” in the offices of their “Selection Committees” tied and regulated by Mr Obama, and they no longer rely only on the actuaries figures for ROI for the large Insurance Corps to determine who does and who does not live or die with or without humane medical coverage in America – some progress to be certain. America is still facinfg the oil barons however, and for a good study, Google, torrent the movie “Who Killed The Electric Car” Especially the guy who is lucky enough to make $750K an. If the bigger corporate fish find out, they will surely skin your fatted ass to the bone and throw your entrails to the sharks, gut your enterprise and eat your bean counters alive, it is called acquisition sometimes or other less publishable names, but your ass is in ultimate danger if you have that kind of resource going! America has far too many corporate lawyers far too few real Scientists, engineers of worth, and very expensive labor that on the whole does poorly! For Example: Chrysler cars falling apart on the streets! Goddammit! Americans Fatted Calves ready for the Asian fires!

By: Plamen Petkov

Plamen Petkov — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:50:52 +0000

so stopcrying clue us poor idiots in how did you manage to make $750K lastr year and in CA of all places tthats got double digits unemployment?
Whats your secret? if anyone can get rich, tell us so we can all do it too and then stop crying.

By: George Eliot

George Eliot — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:10:24 +0000

StopCrying, Exactly how much of your personal wealth and your company’s income was and is legally obtained? What about your startup funds? Were those legally obtained? BTW, “loan” from a drug dealer friend or cousin does not count as being legally obtained. How many of your employees are citizens or legal residents of the USA? What about the non-technical staff? Are the janitors, landscapers, receptionists, etc. citizens or legal residents of the USA? If your company made the money you claim last year, I think you can afford to pay living wages and benefits. Beings as how you state you are a person of color, what an apprenticeship program for smart inner city youth? I think, in exchange for being able to live and work in the USA, the Rusian mathmaticians could be asked to train some local kids.

By: az

az — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:22:19 +0000

Yo Viking, it's called State Monopoly Capitalism. Read up on yo' Lenin.

By: Marquelot

Marquelot — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:57:57 +0000

Ah, so Kentucky is full of republican idiots only for national elections. Although both parties are going to fuck you, at least the democrats use a little vasoline.

By: Viking

Viking — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:58:30 +0000

Kentucky is only Republican in national elections. We’re Democrats on the local level. Southern Democrats did not all migrate over to the GOP after the civil rights act, despite the myth.

What AIG is doing isn’t capitalism it’s corperate commmunism. When a company is large enough it can avoid any customer blowback by its sheer size and give lousy service without threat of retribution and the assurance that the feds will bail them out if they screw up.

By: cripes

cripes — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:56:08 +0000

Oh yeah, and the single-minded pursuit of money to the exclusion of all other things is not something decent people brag about. Especially considering the disgusting things that people who live for it do to their fellow men.

Time to stop pretending that exploiting others to become “rich” is a virtue, it’s not. christ said so 2,000 years ago, and I agree with him there. Calvinist rewrites and Newt Gingrich bullshit about “personal responsibility” doesn’t change anything, except provide cover for lying, cheating, selfish peices of crap who want us to worship their depravity.

By: cripes

cripes — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:50:31 +0000

If stopcrying is lying or not, I can’t say.

But I do know the american idea that everyone can make it “big” by being an entrepreneur, hiring other people and making alot of profit is a lie.

Since the wealth of just one “entrpreneur” depends on the exploitation and probably impoverishment of many times his number, then by definition, we can’t all do it.

Those “entrepreneurs” aren’t wealth creators, as the right would have you beleive; they are wealth extractos, taking away from millions the value they have created throught their labor.

But, hey, the theory works fine if your goal is to stop people from fighting for decent wages and conditions in the jobs they actually have, you know, teacher, factory worker, salesclerk. Instead of building a society where all jobs have the ability to earn a living wage, have decent housing and health care, we can just blame them for being too stupid to become millionaires!

By: obvious

obvious — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:27:41 +0000

i love stopcrying’s quote “The comment about “inherited wealth” is simply statistically untrue. I don’t want to “goad” but really, where did you learn that sort of silliness? Statistically (in the US at least) most inherited wealth (over 95%) is entirely spent within 18 calendar months.”

unfortunately, stopcrying is including ALL inheritances, and that 95% of squandered inheritance is disproportionately small sum wealth that’s spent on restaurant meals and trips to the mall. stopcrying does not refer to big-time money, the type that isn’t really touched by the death tax. of course he/she most likely gleaned this disingenuous nugget of information on some dipshit rightwing website, those sites do a great job of convincing dumbasses to view society as fair, and be less questioning of inequality.

By: az

az — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:38:38 +0000

25: So are you one of those people here to tell me about Google MoneyTree? Because otherwise your comments presupposing that all Americans are able to start successful companies making a lot of money at the same time are kinda… even more dubious that Google MoneyTree and all those other referral spam pyramids/whatever.

By: adolphhitler

adolphhitler — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:50:44 +0000

@25…ok, you got me…dont worry, no offense taken

By: StopCrying

StopCrying — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:58:52 +0000

I’m half white I guess, my Dad is black. Nice of you to ask. You went to the race card awfully quickly. I suppose I needed to be white to think for myself? Amusing. My company is primarily staffed by Russians (great mathematicians), so I do read the exile. The writing is good, and it’s not slathered with government propaganda. Call bullshit all you’d like ‘lil hitler, it’s the fact.

Let’s face it. Most Americans are just too soft to chase the dream. So, they ask someone else for a job and are accept what that person gives them. Don’t go bashing the capitalists too much mate, or you’ll find out how tough unemployment is.

The comment about “inherited wealth” is simply statistically untrue. I don’t want to “goad” but really, where did you learn that sort of silliness? Statistically (in the US at least) most inherited wealth (over 95%) is entirely spent within 18 calendar months. Besides, I’m hardly wealthy. My company has only been doing this well for about six years. But I hope to be wealthy by saving my money rather than buying flashy swag. In my experience those who can actually do… the rest sit around and complain about some mythical “they.”

But, in the interest of not being a wanker I say we drop it. Sorry if I offended, it was not my intention.

By: adolphhitler

adolphhitler — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:54:00 +0000

@21…I find it difficult to believe that anyone who makes 750k a year reads this website…i call bullshit

By: Necronomic Justice

Necronomic Justice — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:57:25 +0000

@21. StopCrying

Let me guess, you are white?

By: jester l

jester l — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:37:52 +0000

Is stop crying for real, or just trying to goad us? I’m sorry but most wealth is inherited. I’m sure you work hard, but so does everyone else. Luck and birth are the main indicators of wealth.
Of course there is also the morality of obscene wealth issues. Then there is the fact that a market economy cant sustain itself without adequate demand, a demand which it inherently destroys, leading to crisis.

By: StopCrying

StopCrying — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:49:37 +0000

Why do Americans whine so much? I was born in Southern KY, have a (poor) high school education, and made over $750K last year. Admittedly, it was mostly in US dollars which are of questionable value (LOL). And yes, I moved to a CA for the better weather. When did our society become all crybabies who can’t take on any personal responsibility. Like it or not, people make personal choices in the US and live with the consequences. If you don’t like being poor, go make some money. Alternatively, we can follow the EU and RU into a society of entitlements. Either works I suppose. But have some courage and make a statement. Stop whining that you were ripped off, pull up your panties, and go earn what you want. I’m glad I was born poor in the US. It evidently made me stronger and more capable than the majority eh?

By: fallout11

fallout11 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:43:40 +0000

Solid point, umdesch4.
A bit late now, but just to point out that in the arid US Western states, the right to water has often historically led to outbreaks of “shootin”, and remains a contentious and thorny issue to this day, just barely papered over with massive (and failing) government irrigation projects.
Likewise, Midwesterners backed bank robbers during the Great Depression because they (rightfully) saw them and the local LEO (who was busy enforcing repossession) as predatory, deserving of what they got.
I’d be damned if some predatory entity would leech off of me for water or oxygen, get some bolt cutters and a rifle and fight back.

By: umdesch4

umdesch4 — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:51:31 +0000

While I’m definitely not advocating violence, to say it wouldn’t work is naive. Just google “Cochabamba water war” to see how Bolivia dealt with an attempt at water privatization. Seems no-one really gave a crap until shots were fired.

By: Necronomic Justice

Necronomic Justice — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:19:35 +0000

@OP Holyfuck Yasha, I was almost going to skip reading this one.

@16, What was the CPUSA strategy again? Wasn’t it vote Democrat?

By: az

az — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:45:15 +0000

16: The CPUSA is a non-electoral party that supports Obama and the Democrats. They go on CNN/MSNBC/Fox News sometimes but that’s it. Their greatest ambition is their plan to control the country by 2050 but I don’t know how that’s working out. There’s also the PSL and WWP but most of what they do is community organizing, trying to control ANSWER, and publishing poorly-written newspapers. It’s really not the lack of resources that is the problem though, as Nepal, India, Peru (I think), etc. it’s that “without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.” Currently, however, these movements have no plan for America and wouldn’t know what to do with it if they were in power, except doing petty and needlessly confrontational stuff that would piss most people off. So really, I don’t blame you, and I don’t blame them. If you joined one of those movements, you’d probably give up and become even more disillusioned within a month anyway.