tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post1209732546320696617..comments2024-03-10T23:44:30.359-05:00Comments on Racine Post: SC Johnson cancels profit-sharingDustin http://www.blogger.com/profile/10717778498642473701noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-78537695300119979932011-07-28T20:28:47.666-05:002011-07-28T20:28:47.666-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Alexis Preatorihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18134888357615546354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-86769428188505860472009-07-16T15:45:55.729-05:002009-07-16T15:45:55.729-05:00Times are tough - no profit sharing is better than...Times are tough - no profit sharing is better than what many people are facing. And Racine needs to be thankful Johnson Wax remains headquartered here.Harry Michaelsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-3246800391284496122009-06-24T09:43:12.833-05:002009-06-24T09:43:12.833-05:00Amen! Tax the Wax!Amen! Tax the Wax!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-66002395636756924562009-06-24T05:54:31.425-05:002009-06-24T05:54:31.425-05:00That anonymous Babblin' Babe was too nice to t...That anonymous Babblin' Babe was too nice to the arrogant snob who dissed her. She ought to ask God to blast him, not bless him. I wouldn't be surprised if he turns out to be a J-Wax hack. Those creeps are big on telling everyone to "excel" at "the company" just as they yap about "excellence" at their snotty school. Hope he and his masters lose it all. Maybe he'll wind up delivering Babblin' Babe's morning paper.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-58488474287008395802009-06-24T04:22:58.961-05:002009-06-24T04:22:58.961-05:00If Obama seizes J-Wax, what will happen to Sam'...If Obama seizes J-Wax, what will happen to Sam's silly Sick-orsky seaplane? Maybe the government will sell it to an oil sheik and use the dough to fund Social Security. Seriously, the only profit-sharing program ordinary folks can rely on is socialism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-15662970364693530162009-06-24T04:12:57.282-05:002009-06-24T04:12:57.282-05:00The only liberty worth having is freedom from pove...The only liberty worth having is freedom from poverty. All the other "freedoms" we brag about here are a sick joke and absolutely useless to a poor person. Hope President Obama nationalizes J-Wax. Then we'll have some real profit-sharing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-88474302330652317812009-06-24T04:01:41.466-05:002009-06-24T04:01:41.466-05:00The right-wing Rich-Pig-Lican told the poor woman ...The right-wing Rich-Pig-Lican told the poor woman that we live in a free society. Ha! The only ones who get any freebies are the opportunists from J-Wax. They rob everybody blind but no one puts them in jail. They gyp the city out of property tax revenue and pass the burden on to little people, but nobody punishes them.They con municipal officials into buying ugly scrap yard art so Nic Noblique can afford the down payment on a studio here. (By the way, Noblique was no fool. He took the money but he didn't invest in Racine real estate as planned by J-Wax.) If you or I did any of this sleazy stuff, we'd be fined or sent to the pokey. But because the J-Wax scum are rich, they're free as can be and nobody punishes them. If a society in which privileged people are free to hurt the rest of the community is a free society, we don't need it. That kind of so-called liberty can go and we won't miss it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-4629926076206138762009-06-23T19:06:55.338-05:002009-06-23T19:06:55.338-05:00Dear Anonymous Believer in the Money-Mutts' Me...Dear Anonymous Believer in the Money-Mutts' Meritocratic Myths, Whether we like it or not,Rat-Scene is ripe for an urban insurrection. Many of the same indicators which heralded the Detroit Riots of July, 1967 are here in The Rodent City. For starters, we have record unemployment, poverty and foreclosure rates. Then there's our out-of-control gang situation coupled with inter-racial animosity. Like Motown in the sixties, Rat-Scene has an underpaid and under-staffed police force, a once-comfortable middle class sinking into penury, a tarted-up downtown which contrasts strangely with a decaying inner core, empty stores galore and an arty oligarchy which doesn't care a fig about the misery of the ordinary people. (Right before Detroit exploded in blood and fire, the high-and-mighty elite had blown a bundle on the Institute of Fine Arts and a theater affiliated with Wayne State University. Look at all the Poobah toys in this town--every time my nurse drives me through our Lakeside Business District, I experience a sense of deja vu. When this sorry city sizzles, please don't say that I didn't warn you and other well-intentioned but hyper-privileged people who didn't think that it could happen here.) Add the hot, muggy weather--always a trial to the poor-- plus the loss of the June Waxtrash profit-sharing checks from the local economy and we've got a perfect recipe for an urban upheaval. Please be careful. God bless you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-60582960825397651972009-06-23T15:01:51.365-05:002009-06-23T15:01:51.365-05:00Dear Anonymous, Although I babble, I know whereof ...Dear Anonymous, Although I babble, I know whereof I write--this evil little town is getting ready to blow its lid to smithereens. Callous privileged twits, smug middle-class creeps endowed with zero compassion and a corrupt municipal machine will unwittingly light the fuse. All I hope and pray is that God's poor don't harm you--you seem to be a sincere if misguided believer in supply-side bosh rather than a sadist who delights in the misery of the less-fortunate. Please wake up. There is no such thing as wealth creation by sinful humanity. Only God can make something from nothing. We imperfect humans just play with what He brought into existence. There's only so much of any commodity in the world. When somebody's got more than his fair share, that means the rest have been cheated by him. God bless you! Babblin' BabeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-84935582869697980682009-06-23T14:24:07.874-05:002009-06-23T14:24:07.874-05:00Dear Anonymous 6/23/09 1;33, Alas, I'll have t...Dear Anonymous 6/23/09 1;33, Alas, I'll have to put an apostrophe after the word "fiends" in the final sentence of my last message. Just thinking about the misery in Detroit was enough to disorient me. If the rich were smart, they'd treat the poor better. What goes around comes around. Believe me, I saw "The Man with the Hoe" rise up and fry his oppressors' property during the Urban Insurrection of July, 1967. Government aid could have kept some of the Motor City's minimum-wage toilers from venting their rage on richie-poo's stores and warehouses. We should view the taxes we pay for anti-poverty programs as our annual premiums on our social stability insurance policies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-47124779164681383072009-06-23T14:21:57.736-05:002009-06-23T14:21:57.736-05:00Take your babble elsewhere.Take your babble elsewhere.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-71604490046768222722009-06-23T14:08:49.555-05:002009-06-23T14:08:49.555-05:00Dear Anonymous 6/23/09 , 1:33PM, How do you know t...Dear Anonymous 6/23/09 , 1:33PM, How do you know that I seek or receive government largesse? For your righteous, right-wing information, I won scholarships which enabled me to earn a triple doctorate. Although I possess credentials and have published three books sans the aid of a vanity press, I want the poor to benefit from government programs. While I worked on my doctorate at Wayne State University (Detroit, MI), I witnessed the cruelty of the rich toward the poor. Although the bloated plutocrats could support the Institute of Fine Arts, extracting cash from those cruds for free clinics and other facilities of interest to ordinary people was tantamount to pulling teeth. My volunteer work taught me more about the privileged strata of society and their heartless obsession with exquisite objects than I cared to know. Like our filthy Waxtrash, the Motor City's execu-pigs doted on paintings while scorning people. Trust me, I jumped through their silly hoops, acquired credentials and played their vicious competitive games in order to survive. All I learned was a visceral antipathy to moneyed degener-twits and the rest of the sadistic trash-rats who imposed such ordeals on their victims. Until the fiscal fiends' power is forever broken, government must be there as the common man's protector and provider of last resort.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-8442731294428429552009-06-23T13:33:31.064-05:002009-06-23T13:33:31.064-05:00I have no pity for you and those that do nothing t...I have no pity for you and those that do nothing to improve their lives. Government isn't a babysitter even though you seem to rely on it. I'll rely on the private sector over the government any day. You are definitely living in the wrong country - that is of course if we can get Obama out of office after one term. He certainly is trying to design the socialist country you yearn for.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-81236602480590220532009-06-23T13:21:27.283-05:002009-06-23T13:21:27.283-05:00Dear Anonymous 6/23/09 12:45, The almighty House o...Dear Anonymous 6/23/09 12:45, The almighty House of Wax and its pack of Ivy League opportunists must love you. Your callous corporate propaganda is part of a stream of antediluvian muck going back to Emerson which flowed into the twentieth century via Frank Lloyd Wright and Ayn Rand. From their ghastly gunk it meandered into our era disguised as Rhonda Byrne's The Secret and other big-buck blather. As I said, I wouldn't trust the private sector or my own feeble resources to shield anyone from indigence. When you least expect it, the system could fail you and you could wind up with nada. The oligarchs are all-too-good at reneging on their promises to their salary serfs--the recent Waxtrash refusal to issue profit-sharing checks to employees is no fluke. For heaven's sake, remember that you're not invincible. Please understand that government is the only protector ordinary people possess. For the poor, the vulnerable and the disabled, government is the sole source of security.Have pity on the least among us for in so doing you may obtain mercy for yourself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-82470585486158936182009-06-23T12:45:12.100-05:002009-06-23T12:45:12.100-05:00You are not a realist - you are an opportunist. Ge...You are not a realist - you are an opportunist. Get out there and make something of yourself. Don't rely on others taking care of you -Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-31689095452951836262009-06-23T12:06:39.964-05:002009-06-23T12:06:39.964-05:00Dear Anonymous 6/23/09 11:25, No, I'm not defe...Dear Anonymous 6/23/09 11:25, No, I'm not defeatest--just realistic about the manifold class-based cruelties of our me-enterprise grab-it-all-ist system. I sincerely pray that you may never end up where most of our wasted wage slaves end their existence--on the scrap heap. It's time that we joined the rest of the civilized world and protected our people from poverty cradle to grave.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-50374933964753981132009-06-23T11:25:58.306-05:002009-06-23T11:25:58.306-05:00We have a level playing field - this is a free soc...We have a level playing field - this is a free society and eveyone has the same opportunities. The difference is some people take advantage of those opportunities, other elect not to do so. We all have choice in life. I chose to go to school, paid tuition from working from the time I had a paper route, through high school and during college. Then secured a job, worked hard and excelled within the company. I planned for the future so that if unemployment, illness or death would occur my family would be taken care of - not through the government. Your defeatest attitude sickens me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-88822836071590789122009-06-23T11:18:12.704-05:002009-06-23T11:18:12.704-05:00Dear Anonymous 6/23/09 10:18, Until we build a lev...Dear Anonymous 6/23/09 10:18, Until we build a level playing field in our sad land, telling paupers to "just do it" is cruel. Forcing disadvantaged people to compete against people who receive more in a year than they'll be allowed to earn in their entire life times is an obscenity. Equating demands for social equity with whining and malingering shows a singular lack of empathy. Too bad that you're afraid that taxes to fund entitlement programs will delay your triumphal march to the socio-economic winner's circle. Did it ever occur to you that events beyond your control could transform you into one of society's losers? Someday you could require assistance. How would you like it if some Poobah sneered at you and snickered "just do it"?Please think about it. In today's uncertain economy, your descent into penury, poverty and pounding pugnacious pain could be a distinct possibility.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-53442285026090799872009-06-23T10:18:30.582-05:002009-06-23T10:18:30.582-05:00How do you know I haven't walked in their shoe...How do you know I haven't walked in their shoes. Too many excuses, there's money available for education, there are evening courses. I don't want to hear that people have no choices. If they don't have a choice, they only have themselves to blame. As one company once said "Just Do It".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-85242018656717620342009-06-23T09:46:11.292-05:002009-06-23T09:46:11.292-05:00Dear Anonymous 6/23/09 7:59 AM, It's clear tha...Dear Anonymous 6/23/09 7:59 AM, It's clear that you've attended too many inspirational and motivational seminars or you'd never exhort exhausted paupers ground down by working multiple low-wage jobs to spend time and money which they lack acquiring job training which some corporate gatekeeper may declare obsolete even before they receive their diplomas. If forcing God's poor to strive and starve while attempting to perform impossible tasks is the American Way, we'd better change it fast. One good thing about the current economic crisis is its ability to knock the Horatio Alger nonsense out of bourgeois elitists who suddenly find themselves minus a steady income once bossie-poo or his flunkeys in the personnel office hand them their walking papers. I pray that you may develop some compassion for your disadvantaged fellow man without having to walk a mile in his worn-out shoes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-46847909328973473132009-06-23T07:59:17.035-05:002009-06-23T07:59:17.035-05:00So are the poor people you know doing something ab...So are the poor people you know doing something about it. Are they going to Gateway to learn a new skill, are they going to Parkside to get a degree - just working multiple substandard jobs is not going to help them. They need to fend for themselves - get out and do something positive to improve their standard of life. That is the American way. Stop whining and stop expecting entitlements.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-33268979212200428782009-06-22T18:26:50.860-05:002009-06-22T18:26:50.860-05:00Dear Anonymous 6/22/09 1:53 PM, The last thing we ...Dear Anonymous 6/22/09 1:53 PM, The last thing we need is more Emersonian self-reliance pep talks and Transcendentalist tripe. The laissez-faire capitalist cult of the triumphant individual got us into our current crisis and will only exacerbate it.The sooner we shelve the rags-to-riches stories in the fiction section, the better. As for the quaint notion that disadvantaged people are lazy, it's pure plutocratic propaganda. The poorest people I know work two or three atrocious minimum-wage jobs in order to survive in this filthy system. By contrast, the Waxies do little if anything useful with their time. Our treasure tyrants possess obscene fortunes because somebody died and left them a bundle which our government foolishly permits them to retain.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-63178067744124729702009-06-22T16:40:52.273-05:002009-06-22T16:40:52.273-05:00Midwest Airlines used to give profit sharing and t...Midwest Airlines used to give profit sharing and then that stopped too and that was prior to 2001 before they really went into the toilet. Look at them now! Not the same place it was when I started with them in 1989 and I can honestly say I wouldn't want to be there at all.yattayattayattanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-48631725674023569382009-06-22T13:53:18.863-05:002009-06-22T13:53:18.863-05:00Sure penalize those that succeed and give to those...Sure penalize those that succeed and give to those who don't try. Everyone has an opportunity to excel in life, but there are those that go for it and those that wait for it - entitlements. If you are one of those that wait you have only yourself to blame. Get out there and do something yourself and don't rely on others.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583157134881112619.post-67307373208166887902009-06-22T13:42:34.594-05:002009-06-22T13:42:34.594-05:00Lord willing,we'll build a just socio-economic...Lord willing,we'll build a just socio-economic system here in our good old USA. Once obscene fortunes are taxed down to sensible size, the rich won't be able to pit us against each other in their sickening rat race. When we no longer have to compete with our fellow man for survival, there'll be far less crime, cruelty and violence in our land.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com