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    Re: They're all laughing at you

    Quote Originally Posted by Laxdad24 View Post
    Now I don’t disagree with you but it’s not like the ‘Rona is doing this to ALL small businesses. Like Ort said ...restaurants, Hospitality, tourism ...yup. Crippled. And it’s shameful. But dispute this tiny slice of RightWing ‘Murica ...I don’t believe nationwide people give two shits about small businesses. They want the BBD. Bigger Better Deal. If Wicked owns a bait and tackle shop and sells Wiggly Jiggly worms for $5 for 2 and Cabela’s sells them for $10 for 10 ...sorry ..we’re all buying from Cabelas. Same with Wally World. I hate that place. It stinks of cheap slave labor. But they have everything and it’s cheap. Atleast places like Bj’s and Costco’s pays their employees decent.

    Look. Supporting the little guy is great. And I do it whenever I can. But to say Covid and our counties response to it is somehow a conspiracy against small business is just waaaaayyy to Tin Hat man. You guys need to sell off your shit and move to some homestead out in Montana.


    You can’t have it both ways. You can’t want “fair business practices for everyone “ and want Capitalism. Wall St won’t allow it. Period. We’re all gonna be good little citizens and buy our stuff from the stores Wall St says. It’s like an old coal mining town. You all buy from the company store because that’s all that’s there. And they own your ass.


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    Oh my. You’ve become almost unbearable to read anymore.

    I didn’t say it was a conspiracy against small busine....

    You know what never mind.





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    Re: They're all laughing at you

    Quote Originally Posted by Laxdad24 View Post
    Now I don’t disagree with you but it’s not like the ‘Rona is doing this to ALL small businesses. Like Ort said ...restaurants, Hospitality, tourism ...yup. Crippled. And it’s shameful. But dispute this tiny slice of RightWing ‘Murica ...I don’t believe nationwide people give two shits about small businesses. They want the BBD. Bigger Better Deal. If Wicked owns a bait and tackle shop and sells Wiggly Jiggly worms for $5 for 2 and Cabela’s sells them for $10 for 10 ...sorry ..we’re all buying from Cabelas. Same with Wally World. I hate that place. It stinks of cheap slave labor. But they have everything and it’s cheap. Atleast places like Bj’s and Costco’s pays their employees decent.

    Look. Supporting the little guy is great. And I do it whenever I can. But to say Covid and our counties response to it is somehow a conspiracy against small business is just waaaaayyy to Tin Hat man. You guys need to sell off your shit and move to some homestead out in Montana.


    You can’t have it both ways. You can’t want “fair business practices for everyone “ and want Capitalism. Wall St won’t allow it. Period. We’re all gonna be good little citizens and buy our stuff from the stores Wall St says. It’s like an old coal mining town. You all buy from the company store because that’s all that’s there. And they own your ass.


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    I would totally buy property in Montana and live off the grid.


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    Re: They're all laughing at you

    Quote Originally Posted by Vlad the lad View Post
    Just curious. You use the term “slave labor”. I don’t think you know what that means. Walmart pays between 10-15 per hour.
    Well, a lot of the crap Walmart sells comes from China and shit...which we know indeed is totally cool with slave labor.


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    Re: They're all laughing at you

    Quote Originally Posted by Vlad the lad View Post
    Just curious. You use the term “slave labor”. I don’t think you know what that means. Walmart pays between 10-15 per hour.
    Right. Same as Mickey D’s. Same as Wendy’s. People work at Wally World as a career. They normally work people 31 or less than 40 hrs so they don’t have to offer benefits.

    By comparison: Any Union Groc store cashier starts at $13 hr. Starts.

    Costco pays between $15-25 hr. Same for BJs. Hell Home Depot pays $12-24 ! Wally World is Def taking advantage of the situation


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    Re: They're all laughing at you

    Quote Originally Posted by wickedsolo View Post
    I would totally buy property in Montana and live off the grid.


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    Yes. This we’ve discussed before. And I believe you would.


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    Re: They're all laughing at you

    Quote Originally Posted by wickedsolo View Post
    Well, a lot of the crap Walmart sells comes from China and shit...which we know indeed is totally cool with slave labor.


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    This is true.


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  7. Re: They're all laughing at you

    Quote Originally Posted by wickedsolo View Post
    Well, a lot of the crap Walmart sells comes from China and shit...which we know indeed is totally cool with slave labor.


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    You do realize that at 10/hr a single mom with kids qualifies for government assistance dont you?





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    Re: They're all laughing at you

    Quote Originally Posted by FloridaBasedFan View Post
    You do realize that at 10/hr a single mom with kids qualifies for government assistance dont you?
    And? What’s your point?


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    Re: They're all laughing at you

    Quote Originally Posted by jonboy79 View Post
    Or by Jeff Bezos and The Walton family...

    If the market were left to fend for itself and small businesses were failing while the big box stores made people feel more comfortable and this profited I would have nonissue, but that is NOT what is happening.

    The big box stores are some of the least safe places to be but no one else was allowed to be open during the pandemic...


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    Take from the rich, and give to the poor?

    Sounds a lot like socialism, I thought that was a big no-no down here...





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    Re: They're all laughing at you

    Quote Originally Posted by NCRAVEN View Post
    https://twitter.com/greg_price11/sta...28535069888517

    When you see an ad from Amazon or some other big corporation talking about how "we are all in this together", keep in mind that they are literally laughing at you.

    Amazon: profit up 100%
    Walmart: profit up 80%
    Target: profit up 80%
    Lowe's: profit up 74%
    Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, Google: stock at record high

    Small businesses: 21% closed; revenue for rest down 30%. They're gonna go extinct in the lockdown without help.
    Biden said yesterday that he isn't locking down. People just got wear masks.

    The big corporation talk is right down the alley of what Bernie Sanders has been saying for years. Most of Trumps/GOP policies benefits these big corporations. Remember corporations are people talk.

    I agree they are laughing at us. Insurance companies, health companies, banks all need to be added to your list.





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    Re: They're all laughing at you

    Quote Originally Posted by ddr_jr View Post
    Biden said yesterday that he isn't locking down. People just got wear masks.

    The big corporation talk is right down the alley of what Bernie Sanders has been saying for years. Most of Trumps/GOP policies benefits these big corporations. Remember corporations are people talk.

    I agree they are laughing at us. Insurance companies, health companies, banks all need to be added to your list.





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    This isn't about Biden. It's the Governors that are doing more restrictions.

    But I feel everyone is missing the point.

    The point is all the companies saying "we're in this together" aren't in this, they're getting richer off the lockdowns/restrictions. Governors and politicians are saying "we're in this together" but they go out to private dinners with friends while telling us we need to do take out or limit our gatherings to 10 or less people and send their kids to private school while shutting down public schools and telling our kids to remote learn.

    They're saying wear a mask everywhere you go even in YOUR OWN HOME but they don't wear them in public.

    We're supposedly doing all this in the name of safety for a virus that is a little more deadly than the flu. What a bunch of scared wimps our society has become.





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    Re: They're all laughing at you

    Quote Originally Posted by NCRAVEN View Post
    This isn't about Biden. It's the Governors that are doing more restrictions.

    But I feel everyone is missing the point.

    The point is all the companies saying "we're in this together" aren't in this, they're getting richer off the lockdowns/restrictions. Governors and politicians are saying "we're in this together" but they go out to private dinners with friends while telling us we need to do take out or limit our gatherings to 10 or less people and send their kids to private school while shutting down public schools and telling our kids to remote learn.

    They're saying wear a mask everywhere you go even in YOUR OWN HOME but they don't wear them in public.

    We're supposedly doing all this in the name of safety for a virus that is a little more deadly than the flu. What a bunch of scared wimps our society has become.
    I get the ire at govt officials. But what exactly do you want big corp to do??? Not sell stuff? Not come up with touchy feely ads?





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