tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post1859471504292965657..comments2023-10-30T09:23:42.803-05:00Comments on Some Assembly Required: SAR #15265Charles Kingsley Michaelson, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04364694465614330540noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-63134785833608764752015-09-22T16:43:51.879-05:002015-09-22T16:43:51.879-05:00RE "The Company Store": At the rate we&#...RE "The Company Store": At the rate we're going the question is who will have any money left for the Big Boyz to control? I already trade/barter for a fair portion of our fresh food budget and I'm not really trying. Barter and grey market labor exchanges exist because so many have fallen off the truck in our "booming economy"(TM). Our country's race to the economic/labor cellar seems likely to induce ever more grey and black market maneuvering even as the technocrats and their corporate handlers push for ever more control. <br /><br />RE "The Price Is Right": Yet more evidence, as if we needed any, that way too many of our revered corporate "job creators" are seriously twisted sociopaths. Watching this character being interviewed was truly creepy. As he attempted to justify the price hike plus his comments about his responsibility as a businessman he reminded me of Joseph Goebbels discussing the "Jewish problem". kwarknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-59539943208193967812015-09-22T08:35:08.221-05:002015-09-22T08:35:08.221-05:00Why not both? China's silkworms are probably e...Why not both? China's silkworms are probably eating a bit of Caterpillars breakfast as well, though mostly in the low end equipment. Just like China is taking large swaths of rail, military and other equipment markets.<br /><br />Chairmen of large corporations sold China the rope with which they will hand their successors; but what do they care as long as the short term sugar high lasts till they collect their retirement bonus?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com