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Old 09-05-2006, 04:55 PM   #8
Nutpoode

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I mean the whole way how this works is funny.

Owners keep creating these threats, that if consumer wants stuff cheaper, it means that they are driven out of business (so what?), and that's a bad thing because it lowers our domestic productivity, and also it lowers our tax money too, because most who can drive with volume are foreign businesses.

It is as if it is our fault that they do bad business and can't handle competition. It is as if the customer will lose at the end, if they have options and competition. Weird logic but I know my kid isn't going to be admitted to that school where these things are taught.

It is as if economy works exactly how someone says if their own interests are facing competition. It's basically threats without back up.

Just like the farmers do, they need subsidies worth of .. it's useless to say how many millions, we should talk about shares of budget here. In the whole EU as well. First, we need to support developing nations so that they can compete with us, help their business, and hope that they enter our markets and make money. After that, we give HUGE subsidies to our own producers, because they are all *****ing how they don't have a chance now and are drive out. This makes no sense to me. SO that's giving hand-outs to all parties, and the status remains exactly the same, even if we just didn't give any money at all. That's money wasted in my world.

And farmers say that ooh, if we can't dominate, which is different that 'we can't compete', which should be THEIR problem to work out, customers will lose. How do we lose? Because we can't be guaranteed safe food? And they guarantee that safe food exactly how? They poison the stuff even more, the only thing they can do is provide the most expensive tomatoes. Is that like an achievement?

Then they sell them forward, make a small profit, everyone wants to cut them a small slice, and we slap in taxes after every single act, it's no wonder the owners are like ****, how come this people come with their weird accents and can lower their prices so low??

They never had to worry about it, because everyone used the same way of doing business, but now when someone actually takes charge, they are all crying and trying to keep the prices high.

People of lower income will benefit getting necessities cheaper. We might lose some tax money, but hey, it gives us more consuming power, us lower income folks, so if they can consume more, they will consume more. It's not like they're going to sit on the extra 10 euros.

The overall problem is that lower to middle income households are not spending and/or investing. It's too risky, they'd rather sit on it. Keep the money on bank and we can guarantee there won't be much development anyway. And there are not many investors around, that's quite obvious. If people have more consuming power, they might be able to buy services, that will create more markets for service industry, which now is totally beyond ****ed, because there's not enough consuming power.

And what do we do? We blame the rich, because they sit on the money so we can't get it. No... the rich are actually owning stuff, they are investing, they're keeping it coming in, that's not sitting on it. Sure, they can afford to lose some, and poor people can't afford it so they are too afraid to even try out. But that's because everything goes to necessities, that are priced high.

So, why is it bad that few fat bastards are turned belly up because they can't do business with the rest of them? The way I see it, since if I put on a business and can't compete, I won't get subsidies, why should they? That's right, they shouldn't and they should die for it.

We'll make a bet.. I promise to be sad and taught a lesson if I like the situation less if we just let these bastards rot. And I lose. I'm willing to accept the risk. But if the situation has no effect on us, or it benefits us, they not only promise to die, we get to kill them.
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