Two days ago we had a big thunderstorm roll in. The kind that brought hail and confirmed tornado touchdowns with it. I guess either the surges that hit our stuff were packing too much of a jolt or some of our supposedly surge protected bars were elderly, because we lost a lot of shit. All three computers downstairs, our debit machine, our router, our modem, a fridge, and half the lights in the building are completely shot.

The only things that were spared was the upstairs computer, the tv and my beloved xbox alongside my labtop which wasn't plugged in at the time.(Thank fucking christ)

So now I have to figure out how to fix and replace all this broken shit, move it, dismantle it, and buy the new replacements for everything and then install everything. Gonna buy some brand sparkly fucking new surge protectors too. Put surge protectors on the surge protectors.

Fuck off

Do we all have a problem with our mothers?

You going to cry?

Okay this is bordering on harassment. Challenger I'd advise not posting pictures of other members without their permission.

Keep this about politics, no personal insults.

Have you ever been banned by Foman? Trust me you would dislike him for the reasons he banned people.

tfw ur hed is kartoffel :^(

No, free-trade agreements are bad. Here's why

For starters the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has shown to be an atrocity to not only the working class but to the environment as well. The U.S has seen a staggering drop of over 765,000 jobs in result to NAFTA and when these Americans do find new jobs, there wages are less than 23% than their previous wage. On top of that, from 1995-1999, Mexican manufacturing wages have dropped 21% and the number of Mexican citizens in poverty has increased. The U.S-Mexican border is also home to maquiladora zones where pollution and improper disposal of toxic waste results in birth defects

The NAFTA experience demonstrates how basic labor rights and the interests of working families are eroded by "free trade" agreements that lack enforceable labor protections. Corporations move high-paying jobs to countries with lower wages and bust unionization drives with threats to transfer production abroad. According to a Cornell University study, since NAFTA two-thirds of manufacturing and communications companies faced with union organizing campaigns threatened workers with moving their jobs abroad. This "race-to-the-bottom" will accelerate under the FTAA as corporations pit exploited workers in Mexico against even more desperate workers in countries such as Haiti and Guatemala. Already, Mexico is losing maquiladora jobs to countries with cheaper wages. In the last two years, some 280,000 jobs have vanished with the closure of more than 350 maquiladoras.

The export-driven growth model promoted by "free trade" agreements and the policies of the World Bank and the IMF have destroyed ecosystems around the world. Under this unsustainable model, many countries in the Global South cut down their forests, overfish their waters and exploit other natural resources to pay off foreign debts. Since NAFTA, 15 US wood product companies have set up operations in Mexico, and logging there has increased dramatically. In the Mexican state of Guerrero, 40 percent of the forests have been lost in the last eight years, and massive clear cutting has led to soil erosion and habitat destruction.

As I said yesterday, Corporate taxes are good. Corporate profits depend on tax-financed public goods: healthy and educated workforce; good infrastructure; publicly enforced respect for contracts and property rights, and so on. When corporations avoid or evade tax, legally or illegally, they free ride on the backs of the rest of us. Stop taxing them, and you savagely undermine political community.

 It's called giving back to what they were given.

The Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy has even stated the incidence of corporate tax fell mostly on capital owners, not employees. It added that corporate income tax was among the most progressive taxes, because stock ownership was heavily concentrated among the wealthiest taxpayers.

Oh, ever heard of corporate personhood? it's an American legal concept that a corporation may be recognized as an individual in the eyes of the law. This doctrine forms the basis for legal recognition that corporations, as groups of people, may hold and exercise certain rights under the common law and the U.S. Constitution
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