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Glenn Kessler ‏@GlennKesslerWP 17h17 hours ago
Priebus today: "This man won in an electoral landslide." We have noted before this is false. Rank is 46 out of 58.

are you that stupid?

Trump called Germany a great car producer, saying Mercedes-Benz cars were a frequent sight in New York, but claimed there was not enough reciprocity. Germans were not buying Chevrolets at the same rate, he said, calling the business relationship an unfair one-way street.

Chevrolet sales have fallen sharply in Europe since parent company General Motors (GM.N) in 2013 said it would drop the Chevrolet brand in Europe by the end of 2015. Since then, GM has focused instead on promoting its Opel and Vauxhall marques.

Some labor secretary, this boy.

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At first, Andrew F. Puzder’s California story sounds like one of the state’s sunny dreams come true: Midwestern lawyer stumbles into burger business, nurses storied chain back to health, wins industry plaudits and record profits.

But Mr. Puzder became an outspoken critic of his adopted state because of its vigorous workplace regulations. The mandatory rest breaks required by California made no sense, he felt, leaving restaurants understaffed when a rush of customers came in. His company paid millions of dollars to settle class-action lawsuits that accused it of cheating workers.

He spoke out against labor laws intended to benefit hourly workers like the ones who serve shakes and mop floors at Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s, the chains he runs.

“California has gone really from being this golden state, the state of opportunity, to being a kind of nanny state,” he said in 2009. “You can’t be a capitalist in this state.”

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Yeah. Capitalism is dead in California. You just never see it there anymore. It's Karl Marx top to bottom.

Apparently, what this jerk means by "capitalism" is the totally-unfettered-by-government-regulations definition.

The key ugliness here (aside from the guy's greed and selfishness) is the presumption and ideology that "freedom" is to be found only where income-generating operations have over-arching control of government along with its laws and regulations.

But unions are instruments of freedom. They allow employees to organize and fight for their freedom from conditions of servitude.

Note to participants here:

Two or three individuals (frugal and layman are two) consistently give my posts thumbs down regardless of what I might post.

Feel free to counter their trolling with an up vote for my posts (where you deem that worthy) and a down vote for theirs (where you deem it deserved).

Note to participants here:

Two or three individuals (frugal and layman are two) consistently give my posts thumbs down regardless of what I might post.

Feel free to counter their trolling with an up vote for my posts (where you deem that worthy) and a down vote for theirs (where you deem it deserved).

How do you know who is doing it? I have grown accustomed to seeing negative scores on nearely all of my posts, as I expect also have Layman and Frugal. I simply assume it is way for some to strike back without the chore of thinking about the issues and move on.

Instead you complain. Why?

One is to tie your principal export market to your own currency, thereby distorting one aspect of the comparitive advantage model. It's called the Euro.

Or without the "chore" of making an illogical rebuttal which can easily be destroyed and cause embarrassment, eh? Better to stay in the woodwork, like a cockroach, and snipe, rather than risk confrontation, if you're a cheese-eating coward.

Other than children themselves, who bothers with these childish popularity contests, I wonder?

I guess one answer to that question is "Blathy cares," eh? But, then again, who says he isn't a child?