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join:2002-01-17
Bloomington, IN | I am not surprised Bush is the most big business President ever, did you expect his FCC to do anything else? Why monoplies are allowed to keep out competition I will never understand, I would included Cable Internet in that as well. | |
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| Re: I am not surprised having seen what clinton did to all the businesses in America, I thank God for Bush and his common sense. Yet I don't think Bush had anything to do with this, I think it is right. Why? Simple, the states have no right to force companyies to do business a certain way, the states haveing overspent money are now trying everything they can do to slap us the taxpayers for anything they can, if they had gotten what they wanted we the end customers would have been paying a higher bill.
As for the we own it , ha, 75 years ago maybe, right now today, you are not forced to pay for a phone, your tax money does not go to the bells, stop trying to say we own it. We the tax payers might have helped in the deployment but that does not entitle ownership of the lines. The whole big business thing is so insane, anyone in this country can start any business, as long as the rules are followed. With more rules such as this are in place it is harder for the smaller start ups to get anywhere. | |
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clubs: | Re: I am not surprised said by ncredible:
I thank God for Bush and his common sense.
I'm not a very political person, but I don't think I've ever seen the words bush and common sense in the same sentence. | |
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join:2000-11-20
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| Re: I am not surprised I voted for Bush, but I don't like the way things are going with big business in this country. If the democrats would learn how to nominate a candidate worth a crap maybe we would have another choice. It's time for the governement to breakup the following: Wal-mart, telcos, and oil companies. Mergers + big business = consumers lose. | |
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N3OGH
Bear patrol must be working like a charm
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| Re: I am not surprised Breakup wall-mart? Under who's authority? For what reason? Wall-mart is not the product of any merger.
Wall-mart is simply the result of a savvy business strategy and excellent distribution systems.
As far as breaking up the telcos, the government did that once all ready, with very mixed (to be charitable) results. | |
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You'Ve Forgotten 9-11 Already
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| Re: I am not surprised said by N3OGH :Breakup wall-mart? Under who's authority? For what reason? Wall-mart is not the product of any merger. Wall-mart is simply the result of a savvy business strategy and excellent distribution systems. As far as breaking up the telcos, the government did that once all ready, with very mixed (to be charitable) results. Walmart was a result of alot of preditory pricing..they would come in undercut cost....or even sell below cost..run everyone out and then raise prices to make a margin that was acceptable...
not exactly the best way to conduct business
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Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY | Re: I am not surprised and then K Mart ran into the buzzsaw of Walmart:) | |
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Westland, MI
1 edit | Re: I am not surprised Most of K-Mart's original undoing was due to management issues (not dissimilar to Enron or Adelphia) rather than the result of competitive pressure from Walmart. K-Mart II will continue to be profitable as long are there are buyers for the real estate obtained from the Sears acquisition. | |
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join:2004-10-17
Rockford, IL | For all of the praise about Wall-Mart's business strategy, it has also been noted that for every job Wall-Mart creates, the community loses 1 1/2 Jobs. The other result is the end of local businesses. | |
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Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
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Cheyenne, WY | Re: I am not surprised Most all of the crap your hear about Walmart is put out by the Unions would want to organise it. | |
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Wal-Mart Sucks
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Howell, MI | Re: I am not surprised I don't work for a union and I won't step foot in that dollar weakening, job destroying, sprawl producing crap hole. | |
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SpitefulCrow
Insert Witty Tag Here
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Berkeley, CA
| said by Transmaster :Most all of the crap your hear about Walmart is put out by the Unions would want to organise it. And you think that letting the poor people working at Walmart shouldn't be allowed to unionize to get better working conditions and pay?  | |
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join:2004-05-10
Youngstown, OH
| I agree with you, they definitely need to increase competition. I don't really know where ncredible got his logic but it definitely was not from any of us.
If you give the telcos what they want, even when they promise faster speeds and lower prices, it will not work as we have already seen. Healthy competition is what drives down prices and increases service. Each company that competes wants to be the best, so services and products get better. In my case, there is SBC and a local cable company that offer broadband, thats it. They are both at a stalemate with speeds/pricing and not competing much at all. Monopolies could care less (case in point, Micro$oft). Now that their browser is finally threadened, they are JUST NOW makeing a new one. I hope Novell makes good with Linux next year and threatens Windows OS as well.
The point is, the FCC's decission is pretty much ensuring doom for any competion, and it will probably be a long time before most of us see any next-gen broadband.
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92361 | Usually I don't comment on spelling, but "wall"-mart? I mean seriously, how many times have you passed by a Wal-Mart in your lifetime that you still think it's "Wall-Mart"? | |
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Youngstown, OH | Re: I am not surprised Wow, calm down, it was probably a simple spelling error, or
else he was implying that "wall-mart" was putting up a wall between itself and competition.
Lighten up.
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Berkeley, CA | Wal-mart destroys local business and jobs and creates a bunch of underpaid jobs with no benefits or health insurance while at the same time providing horrible service and poor-quality products to the consumer. | |
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Montebello, CA | Re: I am not surprised Welcome to the future of America, and it has already begun.  | |
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Santa Monica, CA
| said by SpitefulCrow :Wal-mart destroys local business and jobs and creates a bunch of underpaid jobs with no benefits or health insurance while at the same time providing horrible service and poor-quality products to the consumer. Im sorry but what jobs is wal-mart distroying? As far as im concern, target, wal-mart, kmart.. All pay just above minimum wage. Same with most department/ mall stores: gap, jcpenny, sears, Barnes and noble, borders, tower music... Same with most food establishments. Mc Donald's, subway, Panera, starbucks,..
Basically all these organization pay less than $10 an hour to the majority of their employees. So stop blaming Wal-mart.. the blame can be spread around to just about any organization operating in a strip-mall
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join:2003-01-10
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| Re: I am not surprised said by valuepac0 :said by SpitefulCrow :Wal-mart destroys local business and jobs and creates a bunch of underpaid jobs with no benefits or health insurance while at the same time providing horrible service and poor-quality products to the consumer. Im sorry but what jobs is wal-mart distroying? As far as im concern, target, wal-mart, kmart.. All pay just above minimum wage. Same with most department/ mall stores: gap, jcpenny, sears, Barnes and noble, borders, tower music... Same with most food establishments. Mc Donald's, subway, Panera, starbucks,.. Basically all these organization pay less than $10 an hour to the majority of their employees. So stop blaming Wal-mart.. the blame can be spread around to just about any organization operating in a strip-mall do you work for walmart? My wife works at sams club every full time position is being replaced there with part times jobs. When she was hired she was told she could have steady days off now her days off seem to change every week. She paid for her dental plain for over 2 years before she finally got her dental card. If she isnt carefull because of her hire date being late in the year if she isnt carefull and gets dosnt get her vacation request in fast she gets screwed out of her vacation because the last quater of the year is blacked out. She was looking at transferring to wallmart because its alout closer to us. At wallmart the front end supervisers they call cos's dont evem get paid any more then regular cashiers. Now at sams club they are pulling this shit that if sh dont sign up x amount of people for a wallmart credit card he will be fired. She was hired as a cashier not to sign people up for credit. When will big companys understand that customers hate being hounded every time they shop to get a new credit card | |
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join:2004-07-12
Brooklyn, NY | If the democrats would learn how to nominate a candidate worth a crap maybe we would have another choice. we rather have a puppet for the corporate big-wigs as our president. i know, i know, it's all democrats fault. | |
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Mobile, AL | Re: I am not surprised I'm not saying its the democrats fault. They just need to nominate a more moderate candidate. I for one would probably cross the party lines if they did. | |
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join:2005-03-14
New Braintree, MA
| Re: I am not surprised Hillary LMAO. John Kerry LMAO. John Edwards, is moderate he actualy knows what america needs. Bush= The biggest idiot but Kerry would suck worse. My only option= Nader 04 LMAO. Im thinking next election wil lbe Bob Doles fake ARM 08. JK. Mccain08!!!  | |
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Your Freedom Fries Are Stale
join:2003-09-29
| Re: I am not surprised said by FTCXtreme :Hillary LMAO. John Kerry LMAO. John Edwards, is moderate he actualy knows what america needs. Bush= The biggest idiot but Kerry would suck worse. My only option= Nader 04 LMAO. Im thinking next election wil lbe Bob Doles fake ARM 08. JK. Mccain08!!! You're actually cheering on politicians who plan on screwing you out of your rights and dollars? People try too hard these days to be posterchilds for the phrase "glutton for punishment". | |
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Port Orchard, WA | danm........is this a politics discussion board?... | |
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Brooklyn, NY | That's because Bush is a village idiot. | |
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| Re: I am not surprised said by Zverina :That's because Bush is a village idiot.
Not to the majority that voted for him.:) | |
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Kompressor
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join:2002-02-12
Huntington Beach, CA
| said by Pz_ :said by ncredible:
I thank God for Bush and his common sense.
I'm not a very political person, but I don't think I've ever seen the words bush and common sense in the same sentence. When have you seen 'Clinton' and 'common sense' in the same sentence? | |
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join:2004-03-20
Bend, OR
| Re: I am not surprised said by Kompressor :said by Pz_ :said by ncredible:
I thank God for Bush and his common sense.
I'm not a very political person, but I don't think I've ever seen the words bush and common sense in the same sentence. When have you seen 'Clinton' and 'common sense' in the same sentence? BUSH is the AntiChrist of Common Sense. | |
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| Re: I am not surprised You are entitled to your stupidity. We heard the same leftist propaganda B.S. about Reagan in the 1980s..."He's stupid, a simpleton, not compassionate, a right wing fanatic, a cowboy, a fake, a war monger, calling the communist Soviet Union an "Evil Empire" would ruin our fragile relationship with them, he will worsen the Cold War with the Soviet Union by building up our military, telling Gorbachev to "Tear down the East Berlin Wall" was lunacy ...blah...blah...blah!" For you to post the same incorrect, boring, politically leftist mantra we have been hearing for 25 years reveals something about your I.Q. level. | |
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Bend, OR
3 edits | Re: I am not surprised said by History-101:
You are entitled to your stupidity. We heard the same leftist propaganda B.S. about Reagan in the 1980s..."He's stupid, a simpleton, not compassionate, a right wing fanatic, a cowboy, a fake, a war monger, calling the communist Soviet Union an "Evil Empire" would ruin our fragile relationship with them, he will worsen the Cold War with the Soviet Union by building up our military, telling Gorbachev to "Tear down the East Berlin Wall" was lunacy ...blah...blah...blah!" For you to post the same incorrect, boring, politically leftist mantra we have been hearing for 25 years reveals something about your I.Q. level. I am unsure who you are talking to, but it isn't me. I am not a PROGRESSIVE/LEFTIST. I am a moderate Republican, a Reagan Republican, a sad supported of Ross, and I am in Mensa, so I am not perfect, but not dumb either.
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| Re: I am not surprised I did not say "you" were stupid. I said that you are entitled to your "stupidity". It is my viewpoint that your statements regarding Bush are stupid and simply wrong. I correct my emotionally charged statement implying something about your I.Q. level by stating that I really cannot know your overall intelligence on other subjects. Neverless, although Bush bashing has become a popular sport among many people, I am offended when I hear the usual cheap shots against our popularly elected U.S. President. I also deserve a say in defending President Bush just as you have the right in this country to verbally bash him.
I am sorry if I offended you personally on a level outside this political topic. That was not my intent and I appreciate that you posted your views. It's just that that the hearing the same left wing crap for several decades and having that politically left mantra historically be wrong so many times has made some of us on the conservative side more than a little pissed off. | |
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Belvidere, NJ | Yesh, damn that Clinton for 8 years of a roaring economy, job creation and relative peace. Damn him, damn him, damn him.
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| What a crock of .... The best economic times of the last 50 years were the Clinton years. Big and small business were happy as clams raking in the money.
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Doublethink Is Doubleplus Ungood.
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| Actually, states DO have the right to force businesses to do business a certain way and do all the time. The FCC was specifically given the right to overrule state regulations on communication matters. If they weren't, the states rules would remain in place. This has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not the states have the "right" to regulate businesses. | |
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join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR
| said by ncredible:
having seen what clinton did to all the businesses in America Yea, I saw what Clinton did .. he presided over the greatest ecomonic expansion in the history of the country. His advisors, like Bob Rubin, steered us clear of the Asian economic crisis. He eliminated the budget deficit. And lots and lots of people got rich.
From an economic perspective, I really, really miss Clinton. | |
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| Re: I am not surprised I wouldn't call Clinton's Y2K technology bubble and year 2000 recession a success. It was Clinton's federal policies and his failed oversight and that gave rise to "era of the rich" that created the bubble of corrupt fake wealth companies like ENRON, MCI-WORLDCOM, etc. along with all those thousands internet start-ups that stole peoples investments. Much of that wealth in the late 1990s was built on lies and cooking financial books. Bush inherited Clinton's tech bubble recession and has been trying to put integrity back into the American big business investment since he took office in 2001. | |
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join:2003-11-19
Pompano Beach, FL | Yeah try to start a small company making an O/S for home PCs. Then tell me how the whole big business thing is insane. | |
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| I find it funny the quoted used Honda as an example.
YOU CAN NOT GET A HONDA WITH ALL THE TRIMMINGS OR MADE TO ORDER!
Honda forces items onto the consumer, ex. if you don't want a sunroof with your V6 and air bags TOO BAD. They don't even have packages.
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