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mmonk

(52,589 posts)
Fri Oct 26, 2012, 08:26 PM Oct 2012

I've been a business person most of my life.

But I have to say the following. American business people for the most part today have no soul, no ethics, and no class. I remember when a business person saw his or her best employees as an asset and not a balance sheet cost. When I hear people like John Schnatter of Papa John's complain about the Affordable Care Act and throw a fit about how he will have to charge people 10 to 15 cents more a pizza, I think of my two sons with pre-existing conditions, autism and crohn's disease respectively, and I think, "what a dick". When I think of American business leaders today, I do not think of some sort of "provider" and god like the right, but I think of what comes out of my rear when I sit on a toilet seat. I remember when America was better than this. I hope to leave and find the country I lost one day.

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I've been a business person most of my life. (Original Post) mmonk Oct 2012 OP
Henry had a couple of good ideas. safeinOhio Oct 2012 #1
big corporations show open contempt for American workers Skittles Oct 2012 #2
Do you remember when we didn't require such huge margins? Egalitarian Thug Oct 2012 #3
Sado-masochism has become normalized in American culture. Think Decline and Fall coalition_unwilling Oct 2012 #4

Skittles

(153,174 posts)
2. big corporations show open contempt for American workers
Fri Oct 26, 2012, 11:40 PM
Oct 2012

always under threat of jobs being pimped off to the lowest overseas bidders

 

Egalitarian Thug

(12,448 posts)
3. Do you remember when we didn't require such huge margins?
Fri Oct 26, 2012, 11:48 PM
Oct 2012

Hell, I'm such a dinosaur I would probably just eat the $.15 personally, and drive the old Mercedes another six months.

 

coalition_unwilling

(14,180 posts)
4. Sado-masochism has become normalized in American culture. Think Decline and Fall
Fri Oct 26, 2012, 11:55 PM
Oct 2012

of the Roman Empire, v. 2.0 (or 2.1, if you include the British Empire).

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