Carrier Air Conditioner Betrays Employees: Moving 1,400 Jobs to Mexico

Dang it! The first thing this morning I find something that pisses me off. Check out this video of the announcement of the betrayal of our people. It is the shutting down of the Carrier Air Conditioner factory in Indianapolis Indiana. He said it was purely a "Business decision". I'm sure as these people start to feel the squeeze of unemployment, and no decent job prospects, they can comfort themselves that it wasn't their own fault. I think the man in the video said it best. "F*** You!"

Carrier Air Conditioner (part of United Technologies) Moving 1,400 Jobs to Mexico

I went to high school in Indianapolis in the early 1970's. After I got out of the Navy I went back to Indianapolis and got my first industrial job. Back in those days, if you wanted a job in manufacturing, Indianapolis was a good place to go.

Now look at it. You can't turn on the news in the evening without hearing about another murder. I could go on and on about the problems Indianapolis faces. I also wouldn't live in Indianapolis for love or money. IMHO Indianapolis has been ruined. This is part of the problem. The flight of manufacturing jobs to foreign lands and people who are willing to work for pennies. The owners, board members and CEO's who are willing to throw fellow Americans under the bus because they want to have 10 cents more on their dividends payment.

This a betrayal of the people of Indiana, and of America. They were all cosy with Indianapolis and happy until they started getting the glimmer of that extra 10 cents into their eye. Then they became blinded to any sense of loyalty to the people of the community. The sense of loyalty only is supposed to go one way, then the worker is supposed to understand it is for the "good of the company", and screw you.

My thought is to say to Carrier Air Conditioner, "F*** YOU!"! I urge the total boycott of Carrier Air Conditioner until they abandon their plan to stab their workers in the back. SAY HELL NO TO A MEXICO GO! Keep American manufacturing in America.

I bet all of this is facilitated by one of them crappy trade deals. This should make you angry that your fellows are being treated in such a manner. This is video proof of the corporate betrayal of the American citizen.

Vote for Bernie Sanders, and other progressives so we can put a stop to this outrage once and for all.

Here is a link to the 6ABC site story;

Employees react to news that Carrier is moving from Indy to Mexico

TheIndyChannel.com Staff

12:30 PM, Feb 10, 2016

11:42 PM, Feb 10, 2016

All ___ Caused the Problems We Have.

Hey fellow Humans. I'm getting pretty annoyed at a portion of you. It seems like some Humans are trying to make out like the race between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton is a war between men and women. I also see some Humans trying to make out like our struggle with things like Black Lives Matter is a struggle between the races. I see them do this, and attempting to give that power by demonizing another portion of the population.

This is unacceptable. This is a misunderstanding of the problems facing us with racism and sexism. It is not the gender of the person or the race of the person that caused the problem. It is the thoughts and actions that caused the problems. We can demonize people, blaming them all for the actions of a portion. We can unthinkingly punish them all for the actions of people who have a resemblance to them. We can do all of those primitive things and never get anywhere. Infact, those things will only cause the problems to get worse.

The reason why the problems will get worse if we blame an entire segment of society for the actions of a few is, some Humans use that as a tool to divide us so they can profit monetarily from a misdirected conflict.

I think Humans better drop all that mess and start to think in terms more advanced. Humans need to stop the notion of "All ___ are ___." when talking about the Human race. "All ___ caused the problems we have." is not of reason or logical.

From now on please only consider the thoughts and actions, not the package. The package means nothing, and can even fool you. It is the thought and action that must be confronted.

Rubio Spins Hillary: Says Would Abort Full Term Fetus

This starts off with "abortion" in the headline, but Rubio says something that caused me to have a thought about same sex marriages. So I address that here and now. I'll get to abortion, I promise you.

Rubio: Democrats are Extremists on Abortion 1:33

Marriage is "...one of the cornerstones of our society...". Rudio and other people who say stuff like that have a very narrow view of society. Anything that falls out of that view is a danger to their vision. Their failure comes when they try to make the rules for society to be written in stone, and canonized by religious faith. They fail to recognise that society and faith are plastic, and change through time. As we advance in knowledge and understanding, our species learn what is truly a danger to our civilization, and what is not. The members of the Republican party rail against things that are not a danger, like same sex marriages, and ignore things that are a real danger, like human caused global warming. It seems like insanity.

The people who prefer to have a partner that are the same sex as themselves are not a threat to our society. People like Rubio and his cohort who wish to cram their religion down the throats of the American people are a threat to our society, a serious threat. If they are allowed to dictate to you who you may have an intimate relationship with, the next task they would take on is to disallow interracial marriages. They would not base their desire for such laws on reason and logic, neither science nor study of the facts! They would base their desire to restrict your freedom on written words from the tome of the Christian faith, the Bible.

That in itself is anti-American. We are not supposed to make laws that respect any religion. Neither did our forefathers advise us to promote religion in the halls of government. They warned us against such actions. So when people like Rubio say the despicable words he says, they are talking treason. They are talking talk that is unConstitutional in essence.

Our society looks and functions nothing like it did 250 years ago. Religion, and especially the Christian religion as practised in the U.S., looks nothing like it did 250 years ago. Both of those things of which I speak, 250 years ago looked nothing like they did 2000 years ago. So the primitive thinkers in the far Right think they will freeze time, society and religion through the legislative process? They are doomed to failure. If they were smart, and advanced thinkers of the 21st Century, they would not be trying to swim against the current of human advancement.

On the issue of abortion he is taking things out of context for political showmanship. He is taking Mrs. Clinton's words out of context, and he knows it. He is spinning Hillary's words to give the most gruesome mental image possible hoping for an unthinking knee-jerk reaction! Rubio, with his robotic manner, programmed speech and condescending approach is annoying.

He thinks he is smart enough to spoon feed us a bunch of crap, and that we are all dumb enough to eat it up. Homey don't play that. Rubio and all the other ones who think they can use mental tricks on us to fool us into making bad decisions are now on notice. That shit no longer flies.

I would urge all persons of reason to abandon the primitives who populate the Republican party. Let us not let them hold our civilization back.

Bernie Sanders Has as Much Foreign Policy Experience as Ronald Reagan & Franklin D. Roosevelt

Hillary Clinton and her backers are making so much of her experience as Secretary of State, saying that makes her ready day one, and that because of it she is a better choice for President than Sanders. History disagrees.

Ronald Reagan, FDR and Obama had virtually the same Foreign Policy Experience before Attaining the Presidency. That makes Hillary's "ready day one" argument not valid even though she has more experience. The last Secretary of State to become President of the United States was James Buchanan, a century and a half ago, and we've not disintegrated yet.

Check it out. This is the response for them who wish to spread the Hillary experience myth.

Foreign-Policy “Experience”
by THOMAS SOWELL
September 4, 2008 12:00 AM

Sharing second thoughts on the talking points over experience.
"That all depends on what the definition of “experience” is.

Before getting into that, however, a plain fact should be noted: No governor ever had foreign-policy experience before becoming president — not Ronald Reagan, not Franklin D. Roosevelt, nor any other governor.

It is hard to know how many people could possibly have had foreign-policy experience before reaching the White House besides a Secretary of State or a Secretary of Defense.

The last Secretary of War (the old title of Secretaries of Defense) to later become President of the United States was William Howard Taft, a hundred years ago. The last Secretary of State to become President of the United States was James Buchanan, a century and a half ago."
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"As for Senator Obama, his various pronouncements on foreign policy have been as immature as they have been presumptuous.

He talked publicly about taking military action against Pakistan, one of our few Islamic allies and a nation with nuclear weapons.

Barack Obama’s first response to the Russian invasion of Georgia was to urge “all sides” to negotiate a cease-fire and take their issues to the United Nations.

That is standard liberal talk, which even Obama had second thoughts about, after Senator John McCain gave a more grown-up response."

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/225527/foreign-policy-experience-thomas-sowell

Hillary's Biggest Weakness Makes Her Unelectable

I have an idea that I have found a big flaw in the Hillary armor. It is on the issue of electability. I have been pounding on this issue of a Hillary presidency being a lame duck proposition. When I did I got some initial resistance to the idea, but it faded. This is what I posted on the official Hillary FB wall. It quickly got 13 "Likes"

"If Hillary Clinton is elected President she will not get anything except for a hard time from the Republican party. If she is elected, you can be assured of 4 more years of gridlock, as our nation slips even further into oligarchy. As the hateful Republican party opposes her on everything, nothing will get accomplished for women's rights, racial inequality, or a whole host of progressive issues we want addressed. NOTHING!

With a Hillary Presidency you can look forward to 4 years of congressional hearings and impeachment attempts against Hillary for anything, and everything, real and unreal, and nothing will ever get done."

The objections were in the form of...

"If you think Sanders will get anything done then you are totally delusional.",

"He would get less done than Hillary as he is incapable of compromise.",

"She has as much inner fortitude and graciousness as President Obama.",

"Hillary is so much more savvy in the political arena.",

"Sanders as independent has no support from the party",

"And they hate socialists more.",

"As long as there is a foothold of Tea Party-ers in the House and overt libertarians in the Senate, that argument will be for any President even slightly left of center. Both candidates apply.",

" you have no faith"

...and that was the end of the opposition comments for the last 2 hours.

I will place my rebuttals to their comments below. I tried to be respectful, and use only logic and reason. If you think this tactic is of value, feel free to spread it around. They really have no good defense against this chain of logic. The reason is because it is pretty much the case.

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" Take off the "blinders of bias" and any person of reason will know what I predict is true. If you think you seen gridlock with the Obama presidency, and just because the GOP are flaming bigots, you've seen nothing yet.

The hateful/sexists GOP will lay into her like no tomorrow. They will rabidly oppose her at every turn. Until we can get rid of the primitive minds in our government, there will be no cooperation with any president other than a white male.

Don't think a Bernie Presidency will make the things we want to have easier to get by much. It will still be a hard fight. It just won't be impossible, like with Hillary."

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"Hillary will not get anything done because the GOP hate her guts. They hate to have any president other than white males. They will not give her any cooperation, ever. People who think she can get the hateful/sexists/bigots in the GOP to cooperate with a woman, or a minority are seriously deluding themselves. The GOP is rife with sexists pigs. Look at their record of support for women's issues, which is non-existent.

If the Republicans don't have any respect for women in everyday life, what makes people think they will respect one as president? They will not."

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"What you're prescribing is another round of the same as we had with the GOP anti-Obama stance. The Congress in session during the Obama presidency was deemed the worst, do-nothing Congress in the history of our nation. It was caused by partisan infighting, spurred by the election of a black man. You are going for more of the same with a Hillary presidency. I hope you are not supporting Hillary just because she is a woman. That would be a serious error of judgement. An error just as grievous as voting for Clinton thinking she will get cooperation from the GOP."

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" I've laid out valid reasons why Hillary Clinton will not get the cooperation she, and some of you think she will. None of it has to do with what I think of her personally, but I am getting no counterpoints of reason here. Instead I get things like, "She has as much inner fortitude and graciousness as President Obama." or "Hillary is so much more savvy in the political arena." which are not very reassuring for a person of reason. I want real reasons why Hillary will get a far right GOP to do anything other than oppose her. None of you have put forth an argument for your candidate. Not one."

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In response to the charge of a GOP not working with a Socialist: "That is an issue, but their disdain of "Democratic Socialism" is a short sighted policy that will hurt them in the future. The reason is because of the Democratic Socialist programs we already have, like the Veterans Administration. As they attack the VA, Social Security, Medicare and other beloved "Socialist" programs, they will garner even more opposition from the general population.

In the meantime they will use Hillary as a whipping girl to divert attention away from their true agenda, the abolition of every socialist program enacted in the last 80 years.

A vote for Hillary would help to enable the Koch Brothers, and the other primitive thinkers i.e. Republicans, to roll back our accomplishments. Your assessment is flawed in the extreme.

There is no need for you to call on me to "wake up". I am fully awake, and have been studying this for a long time.

I will not ask you to wake up. I will just ask that you throw away all bias, and to use logic and reason."

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"The GOP has been digging into Hillary for years, not Sanders. The best they have come up with against Sanders is the old "Socialist" bogeyman, which doesn't seem to be bothering many people. I stand by my premise."

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"Even when I supported Hillary, this issue was my biggest concern. This isn't even about all the other questions with her background. It is about the sexists/bigots in the Republican party. It is about how no matter how sincere or well meaning Hillary is, it will not amount to a hill of beans against the current GOP power structure. We all know who control things, and what their mind set is on the GOP side. I'm here to tell you that the Republicans wish to preserve, or reinstate old primitive ideas of bigotry and sexism that we all fight so hard against.

Just step back and look. First we have our 1st black President in US history, and the GOP state even before he swears oath that they will oppose him at every turn, then do it for 8 sluggish years of partisan gridlock.

Now let us project that into the future, and we get our 1st lady President. I think the Republicans will double down on the partisan gridlock if she is elected. It is what they do. They did it with our 1st black President, and they will do it with our first female president. That is what the sexists/bigots in the Republican party do.

Until that is fixed, you won't get cooperation from the GOP with any other than a white male President.

Note: Don't tell me "Look the GOP had persons of color as candidates.", because I would just have to say, "Oh please! Like any of them ever had the slightest chance of a Republican nomination. They were just window dressing."

Trump Told Crowd 'Knock the Crap' Out of Tomato Thrower

"...knock the crap out of them, would you, seriously...I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees..."

Trump said to hit tomato thrower.

These words should help people to understand the mental processes of a man like Trump. His words tell me that he would use his money to shirk the law. For him it is okay to use violence to get results, even if one has to break the law in the process. For him the law be damned because he has enough money to pay the fines, and to buy judges. The law means nothing to him. Only his agenda and goal mean anything to him, and he will do anything he thinks he can get away with to accomplish those goals.

Donald Trump and his ilk are very dangerous elements in our society. They think money can buy them out of trouble for any wrongdoings. That's one reason I advocate a sliding scale for fines, that would be tied to income.

For instance, some person gets fined for going 100 mph in a 65 mph zone. Say that same person is driving a Maserati and pulls in $1.5 million a year. For him the price of speeding is just the cost of having a little fun. The money spent on the fine means nothing to them, and has no effect on them what-so-ever.

Now turn that around and say the speeder is a person driving a 10 year old car, and they only make $35,000 a year. A fine is going to put the screws to their finances, and they will get the message. Don't speed.

This is the "inequality" in the income inequality. This example, and many others like exclusion, are the results of income inequality. Donald Trump is an extreme example of what can happen when income inequality goes amok. The deluded wealthy person thinks they can get away with anything they want because they have a lot of money.

The deluded wealthy person thinks they can tell their followers to beat people up, and they will pay the costs. Isn't that a bit like hiring a hitman? What next?

A Vote for Hillary is a Vote for 4 More Years of Gridlock

I was viewing the Hillary part of the Town Hall when they got to a question about how is she going to get the Republicans to work with her. She had all kinds of reasons why, and how she would cause that to happen. I'm here to tell you she is dead wrong on that.

All women should take note. Our civilization has serious problems concerning the raw treatment women and others get. We all know it isn't any fare to pay one person less just because they are a woman, and the other injustices. It's the result of greed, and justified by it. It doesn't matter that Hillary is a woman, and has personal experience with women's issues because of it. It doesn't matter if she has good ideas to fix the mess our nation is in when it comes to the inequalities. It wouldn't matter how passionate or ernest she is about women's issues either. The reason is, the Republican party hate her guts.

They will oppose her at every opportunity. Instead of the cooperation she thinks she will garner, she will get nothing but bitter opposition. Anyone who thinks otherwise is having fanciful dreams. Remember the way the GOP has been dogging her for years? Has everyone forgot that? You guys think you seen gridlock by a bigoted GOP in response to having a black man as president, you haven't seen anything yet! They are going to go double duty gridlock as they do nothing but try to impeach Hillary Clinton for the next 4 years. Let us not kid ourselves.

We all know how hateful the GOP has become nowadays. They just can't stand it that anyone other than a white male is in the white house. We all know how they regard women. Look at the legislation they so often try to pass which tramples on women's rights! They had no respect for Obama, and that was because they are bigots. Now they would do the same with the sexism with a Hillary Presidency.

I say that any woman who hopes to improve the lot for her gender had better cast a vote for Bernie Sanders. That's the only way you're going to see any progress on women's issues, and it still will be a tough row to hoe. We have got to remove all them bigots and sexists out of our government first so we can elect a president without a bunch of primitive thinkers messing everything up. It will not be easy in any case, but it will be impossible with Hillary at bat for women against a hateful Republican party.

Hillary = 4 more years of gridlock.