Who is the most evil corporation and why?

clusteringflux said:
Some more I just thought of that may get the blood pumping:

Lockhead Martin
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Lockheed Martin does its job perfectly, just cause they make awesome air autonomous vehicles does not mean their are evil.

Now Blackwater is evil.

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stateofmind said:
They outsource some of the production of their products to sweatshops. Would you knowingly buy a product from Walmart with child sweat on its hands? Or is that good and fair business practices in your opinion?
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It's evil, but the foreigners should do something about it. I'm all for non-lobbyist labor unions, since I feel that they can be good representation for the common worker. So those workers should employ unions and collective bargaining techniques to get fairer wages......or just quit and find another job.

I figure this method of buying and shipping things from foreign countries won't go on much longer. As natural gas runs out these commodities will get more and more expensive and locality will return.
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Companies are leaving for a reason.......we can get them to return, but what we need are lower corporate taxes, less regulations, and no minimum wage laws.
 
Companies are leaving for a reason.......we can get them to return

(4/6/2006) during the past four years America has lost over 3 million manufacturing jobs.

Most of these manufacturing jobs paid good hourly wages and had good benefits like health care, sick leave, and retirement plans.

It has been these type of high wage manufacturing jobs that have helped keep a middle class in America.

The Bush administration has tried to cover up these middle class job losses by getting fast-food workers reclassified as manufacturing workers.

http://fixco1.com/bushoutsourcing.html


So Ron Paul wants to cut and run away from the problems that Bush and Co. created.....
 
draqon said:
Blackwater does, it stops people from organizing with bullets, mines, and rockets.
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That would be murder and assault, and those are illegal.

PieAreSquared said:
Companies are leaving for a reason.......we can get them to return
So Ron Paul wants to cut and run away from the problems that Bush and Co. created.....
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Ron Paul wants to address the problem by giving them an incentive to stay. Why are they leaving? They're leaving because we are alienating businesses with these costly regulations, higher taxes, and stupid labor laws. We can get them to come back by resorting to the free market and becoming more business friendly.
 
minimum wage takes the American citizens away from jobs and brings in the illegal immigrants from Mexico.

Wow, thanks LaW.
 
The 2009 Poverty Guidelines for th e48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia Persons in family Poverty guideline
1 $10,830


For work performed on or after July 24, 2009, the federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour.


golly you can work 2000 hrs. and be $4k over poverty...
 
PieAreSquared said:
when was that put into place?
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The 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act provided eligible employees up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave for certain family and medical reasons. This was partly inspired by similar policies already in effect throughout most of Western Europe. The passage of this act was the fulfillment of a campaign promise made by Bill Clinton during the presidential campaign of 1992 and one of the first major bills passed during his term.

The 1996 FLSA Amendment increased the minimum wage to $5.15 an hour. However, the Small Business Job Protection Act (PL 104-188), which provided the minimum-wage increase, also detached tipped employees from future minimum-wage increases [7]. Prior to 1996, tipped employees received 50% of the prevailing minimum wage. The tipped employee minimum wage was frozen, under federal law at least, at $2.13 per hour(29 U.S.C. § 203). State laws that grant higher hourly wages remain in force.

On August 23, 2004, controversial changes to the FLSA's overtime regulations went into effect, making substantial modifications to the definition of an "exempt" employee. Low-level working supervisors throughout American industry were reclassified as “executives” and lost overtime rights. These changes were sought by business interests and the Bush administration, which claimed that the laws needed clarification and that few workers would be affected. The Bush administration called the new regulations "FairPay." But other organizations, such as the AFL-CIO, claimed the changes would make millions of additional workers ineligible to obtain relief under the FLSA for overtime pay. Attempts in Congress to overturn the new regulations were unsuccessful.

Conversely, some low-level employees (particularly administrative-support staff) that had previously been classified as exempt were now reclassified as non-exempt. Although such employees work in positions bearing titles previously used to determine exempt status (such as "executive assistant"), the 2004 amendment to the FLSA now requires that an exemption must be predicated upon actual job function and not job title. Those employees with job titles that previously allowed exemption whose job descriptions did not include managerial functions were now reclassified from exempt to non-exempt.

On May 25, 2007, President Bush signed into law a supplemental appropriation bill (H.R. 2206) which contains the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007. This provision amended the FLSA to provide for the increase of the federal minimum wage by an incremental plan, culminating in a minimum wage of $7.25 per hour by the summer of 2009.
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Bush...:shrug:
 
In the United States, statutory minimum wages were first introduced nationally in 1938

so yeah that's it...:rolleyes:

that's why we need another dumbass Texan in the White House.:shrug:
 
stateofmind said:
They hurt local business and make things uglier wherever they go. Centralization of economies is never good for people in my opinion. There are many hidden costs that pjdude pointed out.
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People don't get that every thing we do has a cost to it. just because we don't see the cost doesn't mean its not being paid and the cost tends to be high.
 
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