Biden Wants Corporations to Compete: This is a Mistake

[Johny Joe Hold]

I wonder if Biden has any economic advisors. Everyone knows huge corporations crank out goods and services faster than mom and pop businesses. And, corporations need risk-free opportunities. Biden does not seem to understand this.

Biden signed as Executive Order this morning putting into place a series of mandates for competition. He also wants to scrap "non compete" clauses for people hired by companies. These non compete clauses keep workers from jumping from one job to a better one. Employees need to stay where they are and accept whatever wage their employer feels like paying them.

This country was built by the JP Morgans and Rockefellers. They forced our competitors and hammered down employee wages. This is want Jesus wants but Biden ignores.

Biden to Urge More Scrutiny of Big Business - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

[MitzaLizalor]

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I didn't click the link. How can anyone mandate competition? Say if I invent a widget \ market the thing \ get some sales \ "widgets are cool" \ etc., then all of a sudden Nisbert Leprosy comes up with a foofer valve that outperforms my widget

zingier looking

available in pastel shades

cheaper or just cheap

so who's going to buy what?

Can there really be laws equating my product with Nisbert's?
Forcing an equal playing field where no such thing exists?

[Johny Joe Hold]

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Forcing an equal playing field where no such thing exists?

Thank you for those good observations, Sister Mitza. This obsession Biden has with huge corporations is a big story here in the Heartland. It involves the corporation called Tyson Foods.

Tyson has chicken and pork butchering plants across Iowa. The corporation was such help during the recent pandemic it should not be singled out now for some kind of undeserved penalty.

Tyson employs hoards of Mexicans at its pork plants. During the pandemic the Mexicans were dying like flies. But, when one went down there were two begging to take the job. The press was on Tyson to shut down. It said nothing and kept the plants humming along. Iowa's Governor Kim Reynolds appreciated Tyson's donations to her campaign and agreed its plants needed to stay open.

Tyson stands for capitalism, keeping wages low and raising the price of pork to supermarkets. Biden should be praising Tyson and our other big corporations.

President Biden, USDA order probe of agricultural consolidation (desmoinesregister.com)

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

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I read a story about tomato pickers in central California today.

On several days this week, temperatures reached dangerous highs by 10am. “So on these hot days we’re only able to work five or six hours, before we’d start to get sick,” he said. “But then, we only get paid for five or six hours.” At $14 an hour that isn’t enough to pay his rent and soaring electricity bills, or to support his family. “By the end of the shift we are wet. Everything is wet with sweat. Sometimes my head starts to hurt, and I get dizzy,” he said.

Horrifying. I don't want this man's sweat on my fresh produce. Where are the leaders to inspire the workers to not drip their disgusting grease and body fluids on everything? Rockefeller, Morgan, Trump, etc. would never let this happen, just another sign of moral decline in America.

[Johny Joe Hold]

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I read a story about tomato pickers in central California today.

Horrifying. I don't want this man's sweat on my fresh produce. Where are the leaders to inspire the workers to not drip their disgusting grease and body fluids on everything? Rockefeller, Morgan, Trump, etc. would never let this happen, just another sign of moral decline in America.

Moral decline, that's what needs to stop. I heard workers at the Tyson hog butchering ("processing" is the politically correct word) worked so close to one another and the carcasses moved so fast worker's sweat, animal fluids and breath were exchanged so when one was infected others so would be as well. Workers need training in acceptable hygiene. Morally decadent societies, like Mexico, do not stress cleanliness.

[MitzaLizalor]

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To what extent is the pope involved here? There are societies based on false ideas that I have no wish to visit, although sometimes it's unavoidable, let alone migrate to. The primary tenets of their world view are abhorrent to me. For example the combination of enormous piles of rotting vegetables with frequent downing of tools to parade some idol around daubed all over with flowers and wailing or ululating and banging little drums and setting off firecrackers

it's inevitable that productivity tanks then a volcano explodes killing myriads of the wretches because they built their houses right on it for some unearthly reason. No, I would not want to live there. For them, it's their culture so you'd expect them to be happy with it. But no, they want to go somewhere else, somewhere an alien culture (ours) prevails. And from their comments it must be as disagreeable to them as theirs is to me. Not universally so, plenty of migrants adopt the host culture as indeed I should were I to live on the volcano. I don't want to do that so I don't go there.

Catholicism is rampant in many societies I have no wish to live in. Almost without exception, it's Romish dogma that has produced the calamity even they themselves cannot abide. By hook or by crook they'll get out. And when they do, do they give up the primum mobile of their misery? Or do they fawn and grovel before the idols and priests wherever they can be found. What is the result? Misery identical to the world (you'd think they'd be clad to have) left behind.

[Isabella White]

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I read a story about tomato pickers in central California today.

Horrifying. I don't want this man's sweat on my fresh produce. Where are the leaders to inspire the workers to not drip their disgusting grease and body fluids on everything? Rockefeller, Morgan, Trump, etc. would never let this happen, just another sign of moral decline in America.

Exactly so, dear Brother Dr. Toole! I mean, we have very high standards to be maintained, here in . Really, though; can you imagine having infected produce accidentally served at one of dear President Trump's lovely dinner parties?



And, most of those tomato pickers have come over the border illegally. Ship them back to Mexico, I say! Or, better yet, send them up to that -bound nation north of us, and let their pansy-faced Prime Minister Justin take care of them. They're a socialist country up there, so they will be glad to have them. Goodbye to bad rubbish!

[MitzaLizalor]

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Canada grows tomatoes? But more to the point, hasn't anyone invented a tomato picking machine yet? Atmospheric pollution from horses was immense, not to mention the amount they needed to eat. Prime agricultural land wasted that could have been producing beef. Or red lentils which must be pretty good (better with bacon hocks though)

Genesis 25:29-34 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint: and Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.

Similarly for 3rd world harvesting (or any other) methods. Never employ one person to do a job when you can take on thirty. There's still the same amount of land but thirty times the mouths to feed and thirty times the pollution.

Except they're often still in the cow dung phase of technology so it's more like 300x plus put-putting around in ludicrous tricycles belching visible fumes asphyxia central. Corporations offer an opportunity for them to learn there's a better way. Whether they take it is another matter.

[WilliamJenningsBryan]

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While we're praising Biden, I'd like to thank him for lowering the costs for Big Corporations. It was always expensive to hire those high priced K-Streed lawyers and lobbyists to influence legislation that benefited my businesses. Now all we have to do is buy one of Hunter Biden's paintings and the job is done. I can even take a tax deduction for donating the painting to some museum.

We also have to thank Biden for once again cancelling that Keystone pipeline. Sure, it was done to "save the planet" from Globull Warming, but it sure helps out my good buddy Warren Buffett over at Berkshire Hathaway. When Obama cancelled it the first time he bought a railroad to carry all that oil, and now he can continue to profit from it.

Speaking of the Keystone pipeline, how about all those thousands of workers that are now out of a job. They were all highly paid union workers that now are desperate, and I bet we can pick them off at half the wage. It also puts those pesky unions out of business as well. Unions were never good for big business.

[MitzaLizalor]

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Perhaps my Bible knowledge is lacking and of course I defer to The Pastoral Team on such matters, somewhere though there must be a precedent for making sure employees get enough to eat, a roof over their heads, enough work so they're not standing around idle, etc.

Matthew 20:1-7 [Jesus speaking] The kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way. Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise. And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.

Scoffers tell us that Jesus had an atrocious view of employment and workers in general. His advice (they insinuate) constitutes criminal negligence and grossly immoral exploitation of the worst kind. Quite often employment opportunities mean leaving loved ones behind to work in another country: agriculture, haulage, mining, for example. Short or long term contracts enable a better standard of living for family members back home; they'd rather you were there with them but they know you have not forsaken them altogether. Jesus had already discussed this before His vineyard analogy.

Matthew 19:29 [Jesus said] every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

Jesus was not describing mining contracts enabling a house purchase for cash after a few years (so worth the inconvenience) but complete abandonment. The "penny" in Roman times was worth a little more than now——three or four dollars perhaps——but prices were lower and you could feed yourself on the wages described. Even if you took it to mean minimum wage, the equivalent of 100X is well into legal profession rates or even plastic surgeons. Alternatively, by "an hundredfold" Jesus could mean the reward (in the world to come) for absconding from your family (in this world) is worth a hundred times the value of your children.

Satan has a wicked agenda. By any means the words of Salvation will be opposed. Whatever is explained for us by Jesus will be mocked and in this case declared to be illegal, should anyone actually do what He said. Here, that challenges two outcomes.

1st - the hundredfold compensation for abandoning family
2nd - the inheritance of everlasting life

Satan doesn't care about anyone's welfare, all he wants is to ruin God's plan. Employment is so important and Jesus sets out priorities so clearly but when employers' aspirations are attacked——by communism or popes——I wonder if a solution already exists in The Bible?

In Christ