I understand it fully, and I live it. However, I DON'T exploit my assistant; in fact, I overpay her purposefully. And I still make a decent profit. Could I profit more if I underpaid her? Of course I could.

#61 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2019-08-19 05:31 PM | FLAG: Glad that you are so 'woke' that you overpay employees. Must business owners do not have the luxury of having such a great business income as you obviously have.

BTW: I am not condoning hiring illegals as if I had my way none would be hired, but that being said, since my family established and owned a small business for three generations [where there were no illegals], I do understand how a family run business is their sole source of income that the family lives on, and unlike you, there was not 'giveaway money' {extra money to hand to employees beyond paying them what their labor was worth}. Not faulting you, as obviously your business is fiscally extremely successful, whereas our family business had to sustain both my family and our uncle's family.

Translation: I found folks who I could exploit, and put the money into MY pocket instead of THEIRS.

#29 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2019-08-18 11:17 AM | FLAG: Isn't that why someone starts a business? OR, do you think people start a business for the purpose of paying others at the 'expense' of themselves. Considering your indicated background one would think that you understood how a small business owner lives and feeds his family from the business profits after expenses.

Why do people make vegetables taste like meat? I would never try to make a T-bone taste like a carrot.

Eat as your body evolved to eat.

#1 | POSTED BY GOATMAN AT 2019-08-19 12:22 AM | FLAG: My question is why do they need to make their veggie product look like a meat product if they are anti meat.

#6 | POSTED BY JEFFJ AT 2019-08-19 12:00 PM | FLAG: Just typical libbie behavior [just like their typical foul mouths], nothing to see there so just move on.....

Not true, as polls show that obviously Joe will beat Trump at the polls.

Maybe all those kids just setting around playing games on line need a reminder since they are getting little exercise.

Of course they were outnumbered as they are in the libbie bastion of Portlandia.

Good thing no one can find anyone on the left making threats .....

Pretty much a standard for anyone who has been in office for many term -- just consiider why AOC won with very few votes.

Like, Epstein, I wonder how many of the abusers are dem supporters.

#13 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER AT 2019-08-16 07:59 PM | FLAG: True. Last year a neighbor down the street has his house and garage reroofed and I walked down and talked to the owner of the small company when he dropped by to check on the progress. I asked and he admitted that all his roofers were illegals as being a small company he needed them to allow a 'decent profit'.

google and facebook are already 'policing' conservatives in an effort to influence future elections, so.......

#18 | POSTED BY PINCHALOAF AT 2019-08-17 02:33 PM | FLAG: There are always some people who are 'hurting' in even the best economy, and that is why your govt 'safety' nets exist.

Yet Moscow Mitch McConnell remains steadfast in his refusal to even consider elections security legislation.

Hm. Now, why would that be?

#1 | POSTED BY AMERICANUNITY AT 2019-08-16 02:31 AM | FLAG: Back at the dems/libs/progs for their stance against Voter ID for election security..

This is what passes for news now days?

Log cabins are cool and I built one with my Lincoln Logs when I was young. [the younger ones here may have to look that up as I doubt that they had Lincoln Logs in their youth]

Guess no one on the left will acknowledge that Talaib is the one who used her grandmother 'to make a statement', so in reality, seeing her grandmother must mean very little to her.

Some years it is above 'normal' and others it is below - not news.

My only question is, 'did bill pose for it'?

They had a 'good' landing.

#9 | POSTED BY CHIEFTUTMOSES AT 2019-08-15 05:14 PM | FLAG: No, what is known, now days, as 'the squad' have made a number of anti-israel remarks [publicly] since taking office - apparently you do not stay on top of the news or you would have known that.

I wish they would do it so that we can all say that Trump 'Towers' over obama. Guess they have not considered that ; )

For that reason alone, I would sign the petition if I lived there.

The stock market does not CREATE wealth. It just moves it around. It is an EXCHANGE.

#68 | POSTED BY HATTER5183 AT 2019-08-15 10:24 AM | FLAG: Yes, and NO. It does not 'create' wealth in one sense, but for the little guy, like me, it allowed me to make small amounts of investments over time which grew to eventually increase my wealth. What really does not create wealth is government which can only take from the economy [we the people].

Let's see what this country really stands for.

#9 | POSTED BY JOE AT 2019-08-15 04:45 PM | FLAG: Agree, as I'm 'keen' to see if our populace wants, under socialism, to have a government so big that it will eventually rule every aspect of their lives.

Voters, be careful what you ask for as you just may get it.....