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yeah. "Turn the chart the other way-the taxpayers will come to the rescue"
Profits are down... We'll have to fire people harder (and lower salaries even harder)
The difference
Business hires people , puts them to work, pays them to be productive and provide value to society, and gets rewarded with profits.
Government makes it harder for business to make money, takes a huge chunk of everyones paycheck, provides little to no value in return to society, and the people running government get rewarded with 100 million dollar severances after essentially being fired for doing a horrible job.
The Federal Government actually adds ZERO net value to the country actually, scratch that, the net value the federal government adds to the country is probably . . . a NEGATIVE number.
What does the Federal Government give you? . . .? can you even list one thing that doesn't come with two negatives attached?????
The only thing I ever got from the federal government is a tax bill and nothing in return, its like ordering food, the food never comes, and the check comes with a gun pointed to your head lol . . .
You know why government hunts down people like Al capone?
Because people like Al capone actually do a better job than government. . . sure they rough up a few knees and such, but generally the money gangsters liek Al capone made through illegal enterprises went RIGHT BACK into the immediate community.... and provided value to his community and even "protection" ^^
Not true.
Govt. made sure you gave a half bil in weapons to Alqaida just this week.
The Govt. gave you donor status.
I think you almost have to go on a rampage and kill people before you can lose a govmnt job.... as for biz-they just get the taxpayers to bail them out when they fuck up
"Pennies for our Veterans, TRILLIONS for The Department of War"
More young people are coming into the system daily. They’ll vote for tax increases believing those that came before them under funded parts of society.
'The wheels on the bus…'
To which I present:
http://www.ibtimes.com/us-offshore-wind-energy-industry-inches-forward-v...
there's a Big difference between small business and BIZ. the cartoonist didnt recognize that obvious fact but ZHers did and they know BIZ and gubmint are sleeping together
BIZ = crony capitalism
small business = free market capitalism
There. I fixed it for you.
Obama will just sell more tripe on the necessity of a larger Government Stimulus Program, leaving out that it's taxpayer funded.
H Clinton and J Bush are slinging the same script.
Look around, we’re doomed.
Our best hope is an EMP followed by 90 days of Zombie Hunt.
The businesses, except for small to midsized ones, are owned by shareholders whose only goal is to plunder the company for cash regardless of the effect it may have on production and employment. Shareholders don't work and aren't compensated for their work but by their mere enforcemet of a claim on certain assets, unlike the vast majority of people.
So you have no wealth.
I do have significant wealth, in fact more than the overwhelming majority of American families. However, I recognize that:
1. All of it is based on a monetary system whose ultimate underpinnings are debt. Without liabilities there can be no assets; any assets existing independently of liabilities are merely denominated in dollars and have no intrinsic monetary value (unlike a bond which has a defined principal and interest).
2. The possession of wealth is nothing more than an exercising of property rights. It adds no value and does not directly produce any product or service. Although wealth does enable the use of labor and capital in order to produce goods and services, the people who own and invest this wealth (by definition, capitalists) are compensated with endless windfalls of money and in effect control corporations. Certainly investors should be returned their money's worth, but they should not control corporate boards in such a way that allows them to control the dividends they recieve. It is a clear conflict of interest as we are seeing with the endless buybacks and dividends catapaulting the S&P500 to new highs with little real production increase.
3. 70% of American households have no net worth whatsoever and most of the remaining 30% have few assets worth speaking of. About the top 5% have significant value in their homes but even they bear the cost of debt in their mortgages and interest/dividends passed on in the prices of goods and services. Thus wealth is shifted to the very top, to be invested in enterprises for which the rich produce no value at all.
So please, stop making assumptions.
While true we’ve read on ZH ‘Small Businesses Are Disappearing’.
Please remeber that people who own and run their own small business have no time to read and remark on ZH. That is the way it was with me when I was 20 years younger.
I don't think there was a ZH twenty years ago but clearly the right reading wasn't being done. Everybody was watching O.J. Don't tell me you didn't.
True.. But we did not live in a Police State back then.
Just bcs it's a cartoon doesn't make it funny. JMVHO.
the entrepreneur bills twice his
cost for labor(or so) and then must bare
the slings and advantages of those transaction.
if they become too expensive they are kicked
down the up chain to the authority,
word to blood law; powers of the state,
usually in the name of some people, somewhere.
.
all known systems do tend to, ultimately
decay and then fail.
You mean like a spineless chicken cowering in front of a shaky axe
wielding sociopath?
I didn't think so...
Biz: profits are down. Borrow money and add to bottom line.
More like "profits are down, let's just buy out or merge with the other guy to make a monopoly and raise prices".