Of course.  But NB started the thread.  

xoxo - Ted

Thank you for the point.

Fascism: a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.

I look at this and try to find where Libs have seen, in their warped minds, Republicans in the fascist mirror they gaze into.  While The Dems have not yet arrived at the Fascist point yet, they are on the march.

Let me inject into the definition a bit........

Fascism: a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline (ObamaCare and Welfare), humiliation or victimhood (Common way for Democrats to pass legislation, i.e. Obamacare, Taxes, Abortion Rights, etc...) and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity (Environmentalist Movement, Pro-Abortion Movement, NOW, ACLU, etc....), in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants (ACORN, MoveOn.org, MSM, ACLU, etc...), working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites (Democrats, George Soros, Hollywood, etc....), abandons democratic liberties (Repeated attempts to dismantle the constitution and/or rewrite the constitution or misinterpret it as a "Living Document", i.e. freedoms of speech, religion and the right to keep and bear arms, etc......) and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion (Not there yet, but moving, I fear, in that direction). 

Just something to chew on.......... 

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Dodd's off the reservation and either has dirt on The One or is making a political push against him. So it's time to eliminate the threat within the ranks.

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Ahh yes, the one that attacks me after I've signed off for the day - I remember you.  If you would be so kind as to check up on your insults, you'll see that I did respond to your last little post.  And don't be afraid of people who don't agree with you - they're regular people just like you.  They aren't fairy tale creatures who live under bridges...

The market is indeed rigged ... by the unions.  The original minimum wage law was enacted at the behest of the union (textile workers, if I am not mistaken) in order to stop "their" jobs from moving from the heavily unionized north to the non-unionized south.  It didn't have a thing to do with a "living wage".  Compare and contrast the value of wages and benefits paid by auto companies that are unionized (Government Motors, Chrysler, Ford) and those that are not unionized (Toyota USA, etc).

If you don't think unions and the government can run companies out of business through unreasonable demands, consider there are currently no televsions made in the US.  How many other industries have completely, or nearly completely pulled up stakes and moved their operations off shore or over seas?  The textile industry comes to mind.

However, not all the time do the unions get their way.  Consider the strike against McDonnell Douglas Aircraft in St. Louis (1997, I think).  The union went on strike because McDonnell Douglas "did not pay a living wage".  MD hired a firm named STS Aviation Services to provide temporary workers for the duration of the strike.  STS paid the temps $15/hour.  Four weeks into the strike, with only 50% of the number of workers, MD was getting 80% of prestrike production with higher quality than the poor, underpaid, overworked union workers had been putting out.  MD told the union to take a hike, and the union caved on their demands.  Also, Smith and Wesson told their union to either improve the quality of their work, or they would move the factory to a southern right-to-work state; no ifs, ands, or buts.  The union must have figured S&W meant what they said.

You are partially right: no US manufacturer can compete with, say, China where wages are, what, a dollar a day (if that)?  It is up to the unions not to make their demands, and the government not to make their regulations, so onerous that, in order to make a profit that a business has to move manufacturing out of the country.  So far, neither the unions nor the government seem to have learned the lesson.  Instead, they demonize the corporation for wanting to stay in business.

"A communist is someone who reads Marx.  An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx."  Ronald Reagan