Bogus! PHIL KNIGHT'S PLANTATION

[MarAzul]

Your going to lecture about opression and injustice. Hahahaha. You could give less a shit about those women working for 80 cents an hour. Yeah Nike is hypocritical. You aren't far behind.

Aw come on! I would vote to give these gals a 20% raise and CK nothing but the boot.

 

[Chris Craig]

I know and I don't like, it but I think he will cut more wasted federal bureaucratic high cost of government.

He will cut funding for education, health care for children, public aid sending more families to the streets, etc.

 

[MARIS61]

Your going to lecture about opression and injustice. Hahahaha. You could give less a shit about those women working for 80 cents an hour. Yeah Nike is hypocritical. You aren't far behind.

Look in the mirror, that's were the hypocrisy lives.

Nike is a business that profits from slavery, would not even exist without slavery.

You defend them and deflect for them, and most likely buy their products.

I have called them out publicly since their inception and have never bought their products, nor defended them.

Phil Knight is a sociopath.

What's your excuse?

 

[MARIS61]

https://abc7news.com/sports/some-say-turlocks-hometown-hero-kaepernick-is-no-longer-welcome/4146338/

 

[Chris Craig]

Look in the mirror, that's were the hypocrisy lives.

Nike is a business that profits from slavery, would not even exist without slavery.

You defend them and deflect for them, and most likely buy their products.

I have called them out publicly since their inception and have never bought their products, nor defended them.

Phil Knight is a sociopath.

What's your excuse?

I am not defending them. I defending the message of the kaepernick compaign. I believe it stands for unity.

 

[Hoopguru]

He will cut funding for education, health care for children, public aid sending more families to the streets, etc.

I would hope not. Im not sure that will happen but we will see.

 

[MarAzul]

I believe it stands for unity.

Unity?

How can you crap on the flag one day and then call for it to Fly at Half mast to honor a passing hero the next day.

Unity?

When @dviss1 says fuck your flag and your traditions too!

This is anarchy while using any tool readily at hand.

 

[MARIS61]

I am not defending them. I defending the message of the kaepernick compaign. I believe it stands for unity.

Pretty sure it stands for money.

 

[MARIS61]

He will cut funding for education, health care for children, public aid sending more families to the streets, etc.

Every post you make proves you have no idea what Trump has already done, and who really hurt the most needy Americans as President.

 

[Chris Craig]

I would hope not. Im not sure that will happen but we will see.

It already has

 

[MARIS61]

It already has

This post is a lie.

 

[Chris Craig]

This post is a lie.

Your post is a lie

 

[yankeesince59]

Every post you make proves you have no idea what Trump has already done...

OK< what exactly has he done...be advised that another know nothing has already been proven wrong on this topic.

...but I'll wait... and please, try not to screw this up too.

 

[Chris Craig]

Unity?

How can you crap on the flag one day and then call for it to Fly at Half mast to honor a passing hero the next day.

Unity?

When @dviss1 says fuck your flag and your traditions too!

This is anarchy while using any tool readily at hand.

Crap on the flag? No. I love my country. I don't love some of the devisiveness and closed minded things that are going on it. Our country is a melting pot of many races, cultures, and beliefs. I embrace such diversity. Kaepernick knelt for his belief. He saw an injustice and inequality. I see the same injustice and inequality. His kneeling was not shit on this country but use his position as a platform to remind us there is more work to be done. I can support that and the flag being at half mast for a hero who gave his life to this country.

Call me unamerican? You who shits on an American hero.

 

[dviss1]

Unity?

How can you crap on the flag one day and then call for it to Fly at Half mast to honor a passing hero the next day.

Unity?

When @dviss1 says fuck your flag and your traditions too!

This is anarchy while using any tool readily at hand.

Please don't tag me on your posts anymore. I don't wish to converse with you.

 

[dviss1]

Imagine if it were Tim Tebow saying the exact same words Kaepernick is saying.

The response would be completely different.

 

[MarAzul]

I don't wish to converse with you.

 

[dviss1]

 

[Chris Craig]

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Love it!

 

[dviss1]

Love it!

 

[barfo]

I agree with you about Phil Knight, but whether his taxes go up or down has zero effect on anyone else's taxes.

But then, being a commie pinko with syphilis you probably haven't the basic education to understand how taxation works.

I think you understood what I meant. The plan is, you cut rich people's taxes today. Then you notice that the deficit is out of control. So then you hike taxes on the middle class (and cut services to the poor).

barfo

 

[barfo]

Me too?

You too!

barfo

 

[MarAzul]

You too!

barfo

Golly.

 

[barfo]

And with a rate of growth we are now experiencing it get payed down much faster.
Couple that with a lean and mean government cuts and we are on our way. To you realize how inefficient the government has been over the last couple 16 years?
Its pretty simple, higher taxes impeded growth, but vibrant growth with fiscal responsibility will pay of debt much more productive like versus, increasing tax's.

Growth is about the same as it has been for the past several years. People who say otherwise are lying to you, including the President.

The debt is increasing, not decreasing. We are not paying it down faster, we are borrowing faster.

The federal government hasn't been cut. Spending is up, not down.

Maybe the government will raise a lot more money via Trump's tariffs, which are new taxes. More likely, they'll either be scaled back or cause an economic catastrophe.

barfo

 

[calvin natt]

Maris = Alex Jones. Twinkies.

 

[Lanny]

I agree with you about Phil Knight, but whether his taxes go up or down has zero effect on anyone else's taxes.

But then, being a commie pinko with syphilis you probably haven't the basic education to understand how taxation works.

Geez Louise.

 

[Lanny]

Look in the mirror, that's were the hypocrisy lives.

Nike is a business that profits from slavery, would not even exist without slavery.

You defend them and deflect for them, and most likely buy their products.

I have called them out publicly since their inception and have never bought their products, nor defended them.

Phil Knight is a sociopath.

What's your excuse?

Look, I told you before, Nike has rules on the minimum wages and working conditions for people building their products and it's not 80 cents/hr. The wages of emplyees in Vietnam had to be increased quite a bit.

 

[Lanny]

Growth is about the same as it has been for the past several years. People who say otherwise are lying to you, including the President.

The debt is increasing, not decreasing. We are not paying it down faster, we are borrowing faster.

The federal government hasn't been cut. Spending is up, not down.

Maybe the government will raise a lot more money via Trump's tariffs, which are new taxes. More likely, they'll either be scaled back or cause an economic catastrophe.

barfo

But, according to Trump, the deficit will be zero by the end of year 8. Hell, he isn't even gonna make it to year five.

 

[Hoopguru]

Crap on the flag? No. I love my country. I don't love some of the decisiveness and closed minded things that are going on it. Our country is a melting pot of many races, cultures, and beliefs. I embrace such diversity. Kaepernick knelt for his belief. He saw an injustice and inequality. I see the same injustice and inequality. His kneeling was not shit on this country but use his position as a platform to remind us there is more work to be done. I can support that and the flag being at half mast for a hero who gave his life to this country.

Call me unamerican? You who shits on an American hero.

CC...Im for freedom of speech and if someone wants to protest anything that ok by me as long as they are civil.
When Kap wore socks that depict police as pigs do you really see that as wanting to have a sincere discussion? I see it as someone you wants to grandstand and say fuck you to all police, which is no way to bring to different sides together to have a constructive conversation. If he wants to be a mediator to bring parties together for change, why that behavior? If he wants to be a conciliator and offer constructive ideas to help bring about change, why the where pigs depicting police on his socks. If he is promoting and concerned about social injustice why would he where at shirt with Castro on it, one whom suppressed his people for years.
To me if someone advocates change they shouldn't be counter productive.

To be honest I agree with some of his concerns but I have enough backbone to say his approach wasn't totally correct and mostly inflammatory by his apparel statements.

 

[Hoopguru]

Growth is about the same as it has been for the past several years. People who say otherwise are lying to you, including the President.

The debt is increasing, not decreasing. We are not paying it down faster, we are borrowing faster.

The federal government hasn't been cut. Spending is up, not down.

Maybe the government will raise a lot more money via Trump's tariffs, which are new taxes. More likely, they'll either be scaled back or cause an economic catastrophe.

barfo

Growth is about the same as it has been for the past several years. People who say otherwise are lying to you, including the President.

The debt is increasing, not decreasing. We are not paying it down faster, we are borrowing faster.

The federal government hasn't been cut. Spending is up, not down.

Maybe the government will raise a lot more money via Trump's tariffs, which are new taxes. More likely, they'll either be scaled back or cause an economic catastrophe.

barfo

Growth is about the same as it has been for the past several years. People who say otherwise are lying to you, including the President.

The debt is increasing, not decreasing. We are not paying it down faster, we are borrowing faster.

The federal government hasn't been cut. Spending is up, not down.

Maybe the government will raise a lot more money via Trump's tariffs, which are new taxes. More likely, they'll either be scaled back or cause an economic catastrophe.

barfo

Barfo..you are certainly entitled to your opinion as I am.
I do respect opinions of others as well:
It may be long and it was printed in April by Forbes. Like an electrical engineer unbiased economist know a schematic and can read it.

A Year Of 3 Percent Economic Growth Shows No Signs Of Stopping



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Critics claimed that the economy would collapse after the 2016 presidential election. Forecasters who used their politics and not their economic sense predicted woes for financial markets and job creation. But what developed post-election was entirely different. Instead, the stock market added trillions in value, and the economy produced over 2 million new jobs with the unemployment rate now at 4.1 percent. GDP growth has averaged 3 percent for the last three quarters, and the New York Federal Reserve anticipates a repeat for the first quarter. If achieved, that would mean that growth in the past 12 months was 50 percent better than the 2 percent rate that characterized the eight years prior to the election. Investors don’t invest in a dismal future which was clearly the view on Main Street for years up to the election. NFIB’s monthly Small Business Optimism Index only once reached its 45-year average between 2009 and 2016. Firms don’t grow beyond what is needed to replace depreciated equipment and accommodate population growth (more people require more haircuts and services), which is currently under 1 percent.

Central to an economic recovery is the small business sector, which includes over 5 million employer firms with fewer than 500 employees, 90 percent with fewer than 20, along with tens of millions of “one person” firms. Small businesses employ about half of the private sector workforce and produce about half of the private Gross Domestic Product.

The National Federation of Independent Business’s Index of Small Business Optimism clearly identified this abrupt change in economic activity. The 45-year average for the Index is 98. In October of 2016, the Index was 94.9, and in the November days preceding the election, it was 95.4. In the remaining days of November, the Index jumped to 102.4, then 105.8 in December 2016 with near record readings every month in 2017, and again this year. That makes 16 months of sustained record-level readings!

Clearly, the change in the management team in Washington D.C. was critically important to small business owners. It meant that a new team that ran on a “smaller government” platform would take control. As uncertain as the details of policy changes might have been, the direction was clear and that mattered. Whatever tax reform or health care reform or regulatory policy might look like in detail, it would be better than what they lived in under the previous administration. And the avalanche of new regulations would end, returning control of resources back to the private sector and markets. Without a single specific change in policy, the Main Street economy began to surge after the election according to the NFIB survey data. Small business owners increased hiring and spending, as confidence in a better future grew.


Investment in workers and plant and equipment is, for the most part, all about the future. Before the management change, small businesses were in a mode of only routine spending on maintenance and depreciation for years. A change in the outlook for economic policy, reducing government’s grip on private-sector actions, was sufficient to raise the expected rate of growth, and investment spending responded, with millions of firms doing “more.” In February, reports of spending on capital investments reached the highest level see since 2004. That added up to substantial growth in jobs and output as is now quite evident. Investment in the capacity of the economy and its workforce has been depressed since the Great Recession. Now it is ramping up with hiring and investment spending coming to life, boosted by more favorable tax rates that raise the return on new investment as well as on the existing capital stock. These rates allow existing machinery to earn more for the same amount of work. Although not the only player, small business has clearly performed a significant role in the dramatic improvement in economic growth and job creation.

I’m Chief Economist for the National Federation of Independent Business, where I focus on entrepreneurship, small business, consumer behavior and the economy. I’m also Professor Emeritus at Temple University. Please follow the NFIB Research Foundation on Twitter: @NFIBResear... [URL='https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamdunkelberg/']MORE


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