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Saturday, April 17, 2021
On Amazon and Jeff Bezos
You're the CEO of one of America's largest & most successful corporations.
You are worth nearly 200 billion dollars.
You've made it. By any measurement, you're a success.
Wouldn't you be proud to offer ALL employees FULL BENEFITS?
Wouldn't you be happy to support a Union for your employees?
On America's Corporate Taxes
"Don't listen to Republicans in Congress when they say corporate taxes are too high.
The United States collects less corporate taxes as a percentage of economic output than any other industrialized country."
--Robert Reich @RBReich
Support the Aemrican Jobs Plan. #Taxtherich
Thursday, March 18, 2021
Know This About Amazon and Jeff Bezos and Union Organization
Amazon:
--World's 4th biggest company
--$21 billion a year in profit
--Owner Jeff Bezos is worth $184B, up $70B in a year
--Sends workers 5 anti-union messages a day
--36,000+ employees are on food stamps and Medicaid
--Cost to lift them from poverty? 2% of annual profit
--Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle
Thursday, March 4, 2021
The Insanity of What We Let Corporations Get Away With
Examples of How and Why Jeff Bezos Is Now Worth About 200 Billion?
Check these out as just two examples.
Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle
Dec 22, 2020
1. A small business began selling camera tripods on Amazon
2. It reached $3.5 million in sales, 0.001% of Amazon's revenue
3. Amazon copied the tripods exactly and sold them as AmazonBasics tripods
4. Amazon banned the tripod company from Amazon
And number two--
Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle
·
Dec 22, 2020
1. A small business began selling camera tripods on Amazon
2. It reached $3.5 million in sales, 0.001% of Amazon's revenue
3. Amazon copied the tripods exactly and sold them as AmazonBasics tripods
4. Amazon banned the tripod company from Amazon
These two examples came from articles in the Wall Street Journal and then CNBC, too, to be clear.
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
What a Fine Company, That Amazon!
Yessirree, Bob! That Amazon! What a fantastic, upstanding company, eh? Just doing great work out there for us all. So what if it's owner, Jeff Bezos is worth somewhere closely around 200 billion dollars! So what if, one day last year, his net worth went UP 13 billion dollars in one day! Forget all that! They're doing great work for us and for their employees both. Why, just look at the latest news!
For starters, this broke today:
Amazon Inc. agreed to pay more than $61.7 million to settle allegations it cheated Amazon Flex drivers out of nearly one-third of tips from customers for more than two years. The money paid to the Federal Trade Commission will be used to compensate drivers. The FTC said Amazon in 2015 advertised that a program called Flex would pay drivers $18 to $25 an hour to make deliveries and that they would receive 100% of any tips. But in late 2016 Amazon “secretly reduced its own contribution to drivers’ pay,” according to the FTC complaint.
And Unions? Why, of course with all the money the company and Mr. Bezos are making, they have no problem whatever that Amazon employees have great employment representation! Right??
And with all that money Mr. Bezos makes, why, of course he gives his employees the best, fullest benefits!
Amazon warehouse workers say they struggle to get paid
And working conditions for the employees?? Why, don't even ask! They're the best! The best!
SO WHAT if they also pay ZERO TAXES!
I'm just SO VERY GLAD we've gotten FAR BEYOND the sweat shops and robber barons of 100 years ago, aren't you? Further proof, of course, that, as the Republicans and Right Wingers and Libertarians say, we no way need government regulations over business and industry! Why, everything's working just as it ought! To EVERYONE'S BENEFIT!
So, sure! That Amazon! What a great, great company! So who cares if Mr. Bezos is a multi- multi-billionaire 200 times over! Everything is great at that company!
Other Amazon news breaking this week:
I guess maybe 200 billion dollars is "enough"??
With all the money they're making and the taxes they're not paying, they had to do SOMETHING with all that money! Right??
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
You've Got to Love Even the Title of the Book by Trump's Niece
Oh, yeah. What a title.
“Too Much and Never Enough:
How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man”
From the New York Times today:
The book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” depicts a multigenerational saga of greed, betrayal and internecine tension and seeks to explain how President Trump’s position in one of New York’s wealthiest and most infamous real-estate empires helped him acquire what Ms. Trump has referred to as “twisted behaviors” — attributes like seeing other people in “monetary terms” and practicing “cheating as a way of life.”
How fantastic. The truth outs. Thank you, Mary Trump, for putting out this truth, these truths, from the bottom of our collective hearts.
It so reminds me of the quote from Maya Angelou.
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
To be helpful, you can get it here, too.
Side note: A tell-all book on Trump's wife Melania will be out soon too, written by a former confidante. You can order it here:
Giddyup.
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
This President Seems to be Coming Unglued
To children. To an audience of mostly children and again, at an Easter event. And nothing like trying to be the President, the leader, of all of us, eh? This, during the event, is how he described, or tried to describe, the White House.
“I also want to thank the White House Historical Association, and everybody who works to keep this incredible house, or building, or whatever you want to call it — because there really is no name for it. It’s special. And we keep it in tip-top shape. We call it sometimes 'tippy-top shape,' and it’s a great, great place."
And that's the adult speaking. The man who is supposed to be leading the nation.
Then there is this, just breaking.
“Trump Is Like, 'How Can I F--k with Him?'”:
Trump's War
with Amazon Gets Personal
This is the way he conducts the highest level White House meetings, apparently.
Then, finally, at least for now, for today, there is this.
Trump touts Rasmussen poll results:
'Higher than Cheatin' Obama
Somebody, someone at the White House and/or in the Republican Party needs to get a handle on this guy.
Thursday, March 29, 2018
Trumpian Hypocrisy On Paying Taxes
Have you seen where President Trump is attacking Amazon, the company, for not paying enough taxes?
Trump Attacks Amazon,
Saying It Does Not Pay Enough Taxes
What chuzpah.
Remember this, remember what he said during the campaign for the Presidency?
Trump brags about not paying taxes:
'That makes me smart'
And did he ever release his taxes to us, to the American public, showing how much he pays?
Of course the answer is no, he certainly did not and has not, in spite of his promise. Excuse me, promises, because he said he'd do it repeatedly.
Besides being a hypocrite, he's not that bright, I say again, and he's a pitiful and repeated liar. He means virtually nothing he says and will say anything, at the moment, to get himself out of a situation. Heck, he'll say anything to get out of a conversation.
We must make Republicans pay for this Presidency and all its obscenities.
Monday, September 11, 2017
Maybe We Don't Want That Amazon Headquarters Anyway
For a different viewpoint on that Amazon headquarters:
Amazon's New Headquarters
Should Be in Hell
"Amazon is one of America’s largest and most successful corporations. It is worth nearly $500 billion. Its stock is booming. Its CEO is one of the world’s richest men. It has the wherewithal, in other words, to do whatever it wants. If Amazon wanted to purchase five square blocks of midtown Manhattan tomorrow and build skyscrapers on it, it could, just by writing a check. More to the point, if Amazon wanted to help revitalize an American city by investing $5 billion in it to build a new headquarters there, bringing 50,000 new jobs to town, it could. Just by writing a check.
Instead, Amazon is holding a multinational audition, asking for cities to submit proposals to win the exciting opportunity to host tens of thousands of tech (people). Amazon wants to know that cities have an educated work force and good transportation networks, sure, but they don’t need the cities themselves to tell them that. What they are asking cities to submit are economic incentives. They are asking for tax breaks. They are in essence conducting a giant beauty pageant in which desperate municipal governments attempt to offer them the most lucrative possible package of public resources. This is not unlike a rich man standing up in the midst of a crowd of beggars and yelling, “Who will massage my feet for the lowest price?”
Do we really want to give away possible supporting tax money for our schools and infrastructure?
Can we afford that?
It's as I said a long time ago and have said since, our city, county and state governments need to stop letting themselves be used like this. They need to stop allowing themselves to be manipulated to give the lowest and best tax package, just to land possible new business and companies to come into their jurisdictions.
They won't stop but they should.
They won't stop but they should.
Sunday, September 10, 2017
Kansas City and That Amazon Headquarters?
Fuggedaboudit.
Dear Amazon,
We Picked Your New Headquarters for You
Your dislike, if not disdain, for mass transportation alone makes sure we're not getting this, Kansas City.
Congratulations.
Congratulations.
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Sh*t Republicans Say
Forgive the suggestion of the expletive in the title today. It's taken from a theme, a meme, if you will, people have been using for the last year or two at least.
But I saw yet another nearly unbelievable thing a, you guessed it, Republican said and it inspired the post. Here it is.
Trump White House Says Diabetics Don't Deserve Health Care
Really. They did.
They said because of the way some diabetics get the disease---I guess with poor eating habits?---they didn't deserve health care.
It comes on the heals of this one. The person who said it is running for office in Georgia for a seat in the House of Representatives.
And then there was this recent beauty.
To make it worse, the above, that sick people don't deserve health care, was said by Alabama Representative Mo Brooks as well as President Trump's Budget Director Mick Mulvaney so we got a national "two-fer" on that one. They doubled-down.
Then, we all remember our infamous, wonderful Republican Representative Todd Akin and his quote about women and rape.
How these people are even elected to their government offices but then, how they keep them, is beyond me.
Links:
About Planned parenthood
Saturday, June 17, 2017
Huge Changes Coming To Us All
Have you read about these mergers and purchases lately?
Amazon to Buy Whole Foods
for $13.4 Billion
It seems Amazon is going to control a great deal of our otherwise retail purchases and purchasing. Up to now, it's been hard goods. Now they look to be getting extremely serious about the food markets, too.
It had a huge, nearly immediate effect on markets and companies, too.
With this one purchase, suddenly they're huge, nationally, in the food business.
Here's a good share of the reason for it all.
Meanwhile, retail and retail stores and retail buying all over the nation are getting also hammered, along with their stock prices.
What this means is that no one really knows where we're headed Well, except that we're headed online, more and yet more all the time.
And it's all kinds of stores right down to the dollar stores.
Besides reshaping retail and how and why we buy, it also means what our communities and cities look like and how they're built.
Shopping centers look to entertainment,
recreation to fill empty
anchors
Of course there's money--lots of big money--in health care so why wouldn't this happen, right?
The fact is, stores and business and retail and so, our cities and our lives are changing and the changes are coming and will be coming at us fast. Very, very fast.
It's a lot like the current Presidential Administration.
Completely unpredictable.
Hold onto your hats, ladies and gentlemen. It's going to be a bumpy ride.
Links:
Not done there, there was also this, just this week. Not as big but still significant.
And for a bit of fun:
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