Mercury Marine To Close And Move All Production From Fond du Lac, Wisconsin......

[T2x]

The top three groups that are proving to be our worst nightmare are

1) Polititians
2) Lawyers
3) Unions

You left out our biggest nightmare....Educators.

The sad truth is, IMHO, the agenda of the educational/political/financial complex is one that would shock the mainstream taxpayer. You now have a huge workforce of slick MBA's who have been schooled (brainwashed?) into believing a bunch of Marxist pap stuffed in their little stylish heads by the treasonous colleges they attended, funded by the carefully saved dollars of their baby boom (Woodstock generation)parents, and endowed by leftwing trust funds like the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations (which bear no resemblance to the principles of John D. or Henry).

The simple goal for the majority of institutions of higher learning is a new world order based on a gigantic socialist/communist agenda. The only way to accomplish this is to raise the third world....and bury the first (us). This gang has elected a series of presidents ( Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Clinton...and the uber child...Obama.... and you can probably throw the Bushes in there if only out of simple naivete') as well as a compliant congress of traitorous swine. These blowholes have basically played Robin Hood by stealing hard earned taxpayer money and giving it to the proletariat in silly cash flows that channel big bucks into government programs and inner city neighborhoods. The offshoot of this has led to a huge cash infusion for entertainment (Hollywood/record companies), a near religious worship of designer labels, drugs, a disdain for earning an honest living, and resultant criminal behaviour. All we have to show for the 50 year long massive cash redistribution into so called "poor" neighborhoods is a bloated and decadent hip hop industry, "def jam" comedy success, a profileration of NBA/NFL Jerseys, Air Jordans, "pimped" rides, and (in a truly ironic twist) Colombian drug cartels offering to pay off the U.S. National debt. Don't forget to add to that nonsense the ongoing war on utilizing anything remotely resembling a natural resource while allowing our enemies to steal oil from the Gulf and fish our waters to extinction.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that a half century of plundering our most precious resources and handcuffing our taxpaying citizenry in an ever expanding cycle will result in our ultimate (and planned) demise.

My generation is getting too old to do anything meaningful about this as the years go on, the media propaganda machine stengthens, and the memory of the cold war dims. I fear for my kids and grandkids because if the trend continues the stalags, purges and "political monitors" will be back sooner than you might think. To me, our only hope is to throw all of the bums out of office. However, I wonder if we will ever see another honest election.

T2x

[boatme]

Rich

I agree and i to fear for my son and for the future of our children and there children

Thank goodness i am only visiting this planet

[Audiofn]

Damn shame that people can be so short sighted

[Trim'd Up]

Well Said Rich!

[Ratickle]

Interesting Rich. I'll have to ponder all that. Then, if no over-load occurs, forward it to every person in my address book...... (with your permission, of course).

[Birdog]

You hit that nail on the head !

[T2x]

Interesting Rich. I'll have to ponder all that. Then, if no over-load occurs, forward it to every person in my address book...... (with your permission, of course).

Please don't. The last thing I need is to be the author of one of those things that goes world wide.

[Ratickle]

Please don't. The last thing I need is to be the author of one of those things that goes world wide.

Okay, I won't. But it sure is tempting. Maybe you need a secret alias.....

[Coach]

Rich,

You've said something there, that's more truthful and points to the real corruption, than anything ever written, on the problems we are all faced with. With your permission I would like to save it in word, and send it to my closest friends and family...

Coach

[Chris]

BTW China is in its last stage of development of a missile that can track a moving ship at 1000 miles away. We cant stop them.

Don't make the same mistake we did with the Soviets. We thought they had incredibly advanced hardware and we chased them with many billions in advanced weapons systems. We came to find out they were barely capable of making a functional coffee maker.

The Chinese are 25 to 40 years behind us in technology. That's not to say they won't catch up more rapidly than it took us to get here, but they'll never catch up. Knowing how to do something is many miles short of actually being able to do it.

Beyond all that, our worry with China isn't military, it's economic. And my biggest fear is China is peaking on the bell curve. It's beginning to cost way more for them to produce. As the nation furter industrializes, their needs change in so many ways- and their costs skyrocket. And that makes them no longer the low-price leader. So business begins to leave while their infrastructure costs leap upward. Pretty soon they're in the same boat we are.

[Geronimo36]

Speaking of taking manufacturing offshore.. From Scorpion, the company who bought Crane. I found this video enlightening.
http://scorpionperformance.com/newsite1/

[T2x]

Rich,

You've said something there, that's more truthful and points to the real corruption, than anything ever written, on the problems we are all faced with. With your permission I would like to save it in word, and send it to my closest friends and family...

Coach

just leave my name off of it and use "author anonymous".

[Matt Trulio]

Umm, Rich,

Every MBA I know, and trust me, I know a lot of them, is to a man or woman a diehard, conservative capitalist. They are anything but Marxist (ala communistic) or socialist (ala Lennon). It ain't even close.

Now, maybe Obama has found a lot of left-leaning MBAs to form his economic "braintrust," but they are in no way representative of the average "slick" MBA. I would be willing to bet dollars to donuts, if you will, that the overwhelming majority of MBAs vote Republican.

I'm not defending MBAs. Heck, I don't even like most of them. So often, they're just too clever for their own good and they have a lovely way of sucking the spirit out of a company. But it seems that you're painting them to be a bunchy of liberal whack-jobs, and that's just not the case.

As for the rest of your rant ... agree with some, disagree with some, but as always, it's well-considered and fun to read.

[T2x]

Umm, Rich,

Every MBA I know, and trust me, I know a lot of them, is to a man or woman a diehard, conservative capitalist. They are anything but Marxist (ala communistic) or socialist (ala Lennon). It ain't even close.

Now, maybe Obama has found a lot of left-leaning MBAs to form his economic "braintrust," but they are in no way representative of the average "slick" MBA. I would be willing to bet dollars to donuts, if you will, that the overwhelming majority of MBAs vote Republican.

I'm not defending MBAs. Heck, I don't even like most of them. So often, they're just too clever for their own good and they have a lovely way of sucking the spirit out of a company. But it seems that you're painting them to be a bunchy of liberal whack-jobs, and that's just not the case.

As for the rest of your rant ... agree with some, disagree with some, but as always, it's well-considered and fun to read.

Let's just say I know enough MBA's in the investment banking community with political points of view that would curl your hair. Sure they love their BMW's, designer haircuts, and 3 star restaurant experiences, but when you listen to their political logic it is straight out of the "revised history of the west". If you examine their business tactics and ethics...... propaganda, political networking and "The ends justify the means" reigns supreme. Like lambs being fattened for the slaughter many of them are willing participants who boldly back every new social reform in the semi conscious belief that releasing half the prison population and giving constitutional legal protection to foreign terrorists will somehow not affect their upper Eastside Condo life style. Does'nt the term "Limousine Liberal" have the same meaning in Arnold-ornia as it does elsewhere in the U.S.?

[Matt Trulio]

In the end, my friend, they choose limo over liberal. It's just a pose ... and you know it. Limo liberals talk about funding social programs, as long as you don't raise THEIR taxes.

It's a fashionable stance, nothing more. When push comes to shove, they're more interested in profit (and there's nothing wrong with that) that propaganda.

My hair is already quite curled. And for some reason, all the MBAs I know are in the banking community. And all are quite conservative.

And the "ends justifies the means" has been used by Democrats and Republicans alike since day one.

[Matt Trulio]

And I'll say it again, most MBAs are not limo liberals. They're limo conservatives. And now I'm on a mission to back that with fact rather than the few dozen MBAs I actually know.

[Ratickle]

I'll be watching that mission......


I'm gonna say:

MBA's within education are more left leaning (falling over leaning) than right leaning. (Which makes Rich's premise correct).

MBA's in Banking, (I'll PM Charlie), are more right leaning than left.

MBA's in Business are "Me First" leaning, not much consideration for the future and right or left.

MBA's in Law, way left.

MBA's in Politics, are also way left (too many are lawyers).


So, at least there is a slight variation in my mind.

[Chris]

The issue we have right now in the country is grassroots facism. Capitalism is small potatoes. To truly get the big paycheck you have to collude with the government. The big banks like Goldman, combined with the interests of our politicians are undermining the basics of capitalism.

I was listening last night to a description of how Star Kist Tuna received significant stimulus money as well as American Samoa (where they're located) was exempted from this recent increase in the minimum wage. Nancy Pelosi's husband owns a significant interest in Star Kist's parent, Dole. Interestingly, Heinz owns a big chunk of Dole. Mrs. John Kerry, Theresa Heinz.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/pelosi/americansamoa.asp

[T2x]

To truly get the big paycheck you have to collude with the government. The big banks like Goldman, combined with the interests of our politicians are undermining the basics of capitalism.

Absolutely........ and, for the record, my point was about our educational system and not the letters after the names of its graduates.

T2x

[Airpacker]

True Chris. The politics of profit has always been the power of corruption.