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Old 07-28-2010, 09:27 AM
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I agree with Chas and Finn too.

Whoa

Besides, the Dems are half the ruling class too. So half the corps should be hiring.

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Old 07-28-2010, 09:30 AM
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I agree with Chas and Finn too.

Whoa

Besides, the Dems are half the ruling class too. So half the corps should be hiring.

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I would give you big odds that the Dems are a significant minority in the board rooms.

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I would give you big odds that the Dems are a significant minority in the board rooms.

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Yeh, but that only makes sense. For better or worse, the GOP is the party of management and the Democrats are the party of labor. I would give you similar odds that Republicans are a significant minority (probably a bigger minority) in the upper echelons of Big Labor. It is what it is.
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Yeh, but that only makes sense. For better or worse, the GOP is the party of management and the Democrats are the party of labor. I would give you similar odds that Republicans are a significant minority (probably a bigger minority) in the upper echelons of Big Labor. It is what it is.
of course this is true which is why it is so ironic to see all these tea bags swearing allegiance to their masters as they are oppressed by them
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of course this is true which is why it is so ironic to see all these tea bags swearing allegiance to their masters as they are oppressed by them
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Old 07-28-2010, 10:09 AM
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of course this is true which is why it is so ironic to see all these tea bags swearing allegiance to their masters as they are oppressed by them
+2. My mother-in-law is a case in point (bless her heart). Her husband was a union master printer, her sister a schoolteacher, and her brother a government worker. All three of her kids work for the Federal Gov't. Two of their spouses are schoolteachers. I don't ever think she's eaten a bite a food that wasn't provided by someone who was a natural Democratic constituent.

That said, she's somewhere to the right of Attila the Hun on the political spectrum and blind to the irony of it. She worships at the altar of the Maharushi and truly thinks Glenn Beck is brilliant and insightful. Go figure.
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Yeah, the Dems are really labor

Someone please look up net worth of Congress by party. And perhaps their background too.

I've seen what the party of labor's done to the laborers in my hometown.

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Yeah, the Dems are really labor

Someone please look up net worth of Congress by party. And perhaps their background too.

I've seen what the party of labor's done to the laborers in my hometown.

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The point is where the parties draw their constituencies, not how much money their elected representatives have or how they got it. Also, we've been down this road a hundred times on this board. The wealth among our congressmen and senators is pretty much equally divided between the two parties. There's really no conclusion to be drawn other than that politics is a very lucrative business.

Now, Cleveland. Don't you think the corporate (Republican) bosses are at least equally to blame for moving their operations, first to cheap "right to work" states (red states) and then to foreign countries? I do.

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I would give you big odds that the Dems are a significant minority in the board rooms.

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I suspect it's more evenly divided than you think, especially in the financial sector.

But I'm having difficulty mining any data. You have to take it case by case.

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Old 07-28-2010, 06:21 PM
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I suspect it's more evenly divided than you think, especially in the financial sector.

But I'm having difficulty mining any data. You have to take it case by case.

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I'm sure there are some democrats among the ruling elite. But you might have a point about the financial sector. There are plenty of sharp cookies there that long ago realized how damaging voodoo economics can be.

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