Comments on: Thursday briefs https://www.yourish.com/2013/04/11/17801 Cutting straight to the point Fri, 12 Apr 2013 03:30:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Michael Lonie https://www.yourish.com/2013/04/11/17801/comment-page-1#comment-49909 Fri, 12 Apr 2013 03:30:01 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=17801#comment-49909 “The Syrian rebels are all in with al Qaeda. The American response? We’re going to give them more weapons. Awesome foreign policy, Obama.”

It’s almost like the administration was waiting until the rebels threw in with Al Qaida before deciding to send arms as well as “non-lethal” aid.

Really, I see no need for the US to send arms. The rebels are getting lots of weapons, including late-model MANPAD missiles for shooting down aircraft, from Libya on Qatar’s and the Wahhabis’ dime.

]]> By: Mark James https://www.yourish.com/2013/04/11/17801/comment-page-1#comment-49908 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:46:47 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=17801#comment-49908 The last part about unions was in response to your Thatcher comments, who busted the unions down to size and lowered taxes, and that program was copied by Reagan. Thatcher and Reagan were both Calvinists to the core on economics.

]]> By: Mark James https://www.yourish.com/2013/04/11/17801/comment-page-1#comment-49907 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:46:29 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=17801#comment-49907 The last part about unions was in response to your Thatcher comments, who busted the unions down to size and lowered taxes, and that program was copied by Reagan. Thatcher and Reagan were both Calvinists.

]]> By: Mark James https://www.yourish.com/2013/04/11/17801/comment-page-1#comment-49906 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:44:42 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=17801#comment-49906 I see we have more in agreement than I would have suspected, like on abortion. While the left goes too far, I no longer find fault with unions demanding too high pay, but only because instead of part of the largesse going to union members, now thanks to legislating most unions out of existence, the largesse ALL goes to the company brass with their huge compensation packages. Then it goes overseas to tax havens and building factories overseas, and much less of it goes to taxes due to the all the loopholes the rich can take advantage of but blue collar workers can’t. At least by giving it to union members, it trapped wealth in the US and in local communities where the factories were, and didn’t build factories in foreign countries.

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