I have WHAT in my yard? :
OK Let's let Warren Buffett chime on one this issue.
http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/warren-buffett-read-lips-raise-taxes/story?id=12199889
"People like me should be paying more taxes. "
"Trickle down economics does not work."
Pretty clear language.
As some one who does teach college I clearly have opinions about colleges uses and its uselessness. I also have opinions about students who come to college home schooled versus not. Some of my homeschooled students really suffered in college. If they had been homes schooled due to a strict ideology, then they had often not gotten the ability to critically interpret conflicting data or to make up their own minds. (Had a student who had been homeschooled by a very strict parent team who maintained total control over all input including a very strict vegan macrobiotic diet. The kid had never even had pizza or ice cream. He got to college and went berserk. He eventually evened out, but it was a painful and expensive journey.)
But, I have had others who have been taught classical critical thinking. Logic in its truest form. They are a joy to teach, challenging and a great deal of fun.
So I question. How is it that people are struggling to grasp the difference between success and illegal behavior??
Much of what
Wal-Mart does is unethical and abhorrent, but it is rarely illegal.
What Microsoft did on many occasions was illegal. There is winning out over competition on your merits and then there is illegally preventing any competition from having access to the free market. That is a monopoly. It really is not that hard to understand, but if you want the finer points then do read the judgment. It is laid out clearly as legality can be in there.
Most of America works for small business actually. Major corporations are a serious contender, don't get me wrong. And, we should not paint them all as evil doers or some such silliness. Just recognize that a corporation as a bureaucratic institution exists to create profit. It is immortal. It is amoral (I did NOT say immoral) It is similar to a shark. Sharks are not evil, they are simply trying to survive and they are very good at it. But, they do not make note of long term planning. They don't worry about their environment, they don't think, "Gee if I eat the guy who feeds me maybe I won't get fed." People within them who try to buck the trends end up replaced by those who will go along...
And multi=national corporations are beholden to no one. No shareholders really have enough clout since they are not so much owners anymore but funds, no country can hold them accountable since they can threaten too much..... Just a thought.
Yep. You can't really blame the actual corporations. It's the people in government that are not protecting us from the sharks, that are to blame. We're in the water whether we want to be or not. It doesn't mean you can't hate the sharks though.
On the schooling issue. We just keep falling farther and farther behind and a brain washed public keeps blaming the teachers. Glad to hear you teach.
