BS: A Moral Fable From Ed Asner

Subject: RE: BS: A Moral Fable From Ed Asner
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 11 Jan 13 - 08:28 PM

I like your nickname, Futwick. Are you related to Chuck U. Farley?

Subject: RE: BS: A Moral Fable From Ed Asner
From: Elmore
Date: 11 Jan 13 - 04:27 PM

Well said,Futwick.

Subject: RE: BS: A Moral Fable From Ed Asner
From: GUEST,Futwick
Date: 11 Jan 13 - 03:23 PM

This makes me think about that turd in Florida--rich fatcat--who sent an email to every employee in his company that said that if Obama gets reelected, kiss your jobs goodbye because he'll close his company down before he pays that bastard one red cent in extra taxes.

Then he said he wasn't trying to tell his employees how to vote (as opposed to telling them they'll be unemployed if they vote for the wrong candidate). He cried alligator tears about what Obama's taxes on the rich will do to poor, little him. Then he goes off on a bragging spree about how well off he is and how much money he has and that he can afford to shut his company down and still live extremely well for the rest of his life.

The worst part is that even if his employees knuckle under and voted against Obama, they'll still lose their jobs because they can't control the election. And if he has no real intention of folding his company (as I strongly suspect) what excuse has he to terrorize his employees this way? Because he can.

He needs a good kick in the balls to bring him back to reality. If that doesn't work, at least he got kicked in the balls.

Subject: RE: BS: A Moral Fable From Ed Asner
From: gnu
Date: 11 Jan 13 - 02:31 PM

Enough truth in there to make a grown man tear up.

Subject: RE: BS: A Moral Fable From Ed Asner
From: GUEST,Mrr whose computer RsIP
Date: 11 Jan 13 - 01:02 PM

I knew I liked him, back to the Mary Tyler Moore days.

Subject: RE: BS: A Moral Fable From Ed Asner
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 11 Jan 13 - 11:14 AM

I wouldn't call it "Crisis in Capitalism". I'd call it "Crisis in Taxation". It makes valid points, of course.

Subject: RE: BS: A Moral Fable From Ed Asner
From: GUEST,Fred McCormick
Date: 11 Jan 13 - 10:54 AM

Rapparee. What the 'Enry Meville are you on about?

Subject: RE: BS: A Moral Fable From Ed Asner
From: Elmore
Date: 11 Jan 13 - 08:42 AM

Thanks, Fred. Enjoyed the "fable."

Subject: RE: BS: A Moral Fable From Ed Asner
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jan 13 - 08:21 AM

Go down to your local Elks Lodge, American Legion, VFW, bar or other place where "real people" gather and talk. Just listen. Do this for some weeks, until they talk about what they REALLY think around you. Don't shoot off your mouth, don't express your own opinions. Just listen and sometimes agree. You'll learn a lot.

Why do you think that bars and restaurants have twenty large-screen televisions in them, all tuned to old football games? Why is there music turned up to the point where you can't hear others? Could it be that we've become so used to noise that we no longer pay attention to each other? That we no longer talk, really talk, with each other? Could it be that we no longer listen as well? And could it be that if no one is really talking, listening and discussing things people will mouth platitudes instead of actual, well-founded, ideas?

Subject: BS: A Moral Fable From Ed Asner
From: GUEST,Fred McCormick
Date: 11 Jan 13 - 05:59 AM

Just come across this animated short from Ed Asner on the Crisis of Capitalism . Watch it. You might even agree with what he says.