Comments on: American Middle Class Snobbery http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/09/american-middle.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Susana http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/09/american-middle.html/comment-page-1#comment-7260 Susana Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:53:12 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/09/american-middle.html#comment-7260 <p>I don't see anything strange in the fact that middle class care little about the environment. they have to many problems to think about the environment every minute. Besides, I think middle class do much more to save our planet than "limousine liberals". At this point I agree with Craig.</p> I don’t see anything strange in the fact that middle class care little about the environment. they have to many problems to think about the environment every minute. Besides, I think middle class do much more to save our planet than “limousine liberals”. At this point I agree with Craig.

]]> By: Susana http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/09/american-middle.html/comment-page-1#comment-7259 Susana Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:52:33 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/09/american-middle.html#comment-7259 <p>I don't see anything strange in the fact that middle class care little about the environment. they have to many problems to think about the environment every minute. Besides, I think middle class do much more to save our planet than "limousine liberals". At this point I agree with Craig.</p> I don’t see anything strange in the fact that middle class care little about the environment. they have to many problems to think about the environment every minute. Besides, I think middle class do much more to save our planet than “limousine liberals”. At this point I agree with Craig.

]]> By: Bearster http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/09/american-middle.html/comment-page-1#comment-7258 Bearster Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:44:24 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/09/american-middle.html#comment-7258 <p>I think that "exploitation" should be added to _The Devil's Dictionary_ by Ambrose Bierce.</p> <p>Exploitation. n. when someone accepts terms and conditions that I would not.</p> I think that “exploitation” should be added to _The Devil’s Dictionary_ by Ambrose Bierce.

Exploitation. n. when someone accepts terms and conditions that I would not.

]]> By: hanmeng http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/09/american-middle.html/comment-page-1#comment-7257 hanmeng Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:12:19 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/09/american-middle.html#comment-7257 <p>"Progressives"!!?? I guess "progress" is keeping brown and black people poor!</p> “Progressives”!!?? I guess “progress” is keeping brown and black people poor!

]]> By: happyjuggler0 http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/09/american-middle.html/comment-page-1#comment-7256 happyjuggler0 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:22:33 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/09/american-middle.html#comment-7256 <p>The logic of the antisweatshop (a.s.s.) brigade goes deeper than that, albeit not by much. Their thinking (or at least some of a.s.s.) isn't that Nike is doing them a favor, but that Nike could do them an even bigger favor by paying them $5+ per hour instead for example.</p> <p>What this overlooks is that if Nike has to (either via regulation or social "shame") pay them that much, it wouldn't hire them at all, it would pay someone much closer to market in a location with fabulous infrastructure instead of the boonies of a third world country with long lead times and high transportation costs.</p> <p>The US unions don't overlook this though, which is why they pretend to care about poor people, because if Nike is forced to pay those wages it wouldn't be overseas hiring truly needy people, it would hire unionizeable (or already unionized) Americans instead.</p> The logic of the antisweatshop (a.s.s.) brigade goes deeper than that, albeit not by much. Their thinking (or at least some of a.s.s.) isn’t that Nike is doing them a favor, but that Nike could do them an even bigger favor by paying them $5+ per hour instead for example.

What this overlooks is that if Nike has to (either via regulation or social “shame”) pay them that much, it wouldn’t hire them at all, it would pay someone much closer to market in a location with fabulous infrastructure instead of the boonies of a third world country with long lead times and high transportation costs.

The US unions don’t overlook this though, which is why they pretend to care about poor people, because if Nike is forced to pay those wages it wouldn’t be overseas hiring truly needy people, it would hire unionizeable (or already unionized) Americans instead.

]]> By: Craig http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/09/american-middle.html/comment-page-1#comment-7255 Craig Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:37:15 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/09/american-middle.html#comment-7255 <p>Why do you single out the middle class? I suspect much of this attitude comes from "limousine liberals."</p> Why do you single out the middle class? I suspect much of this attitude comes from “limousine liberals.”

]]> By: rob http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/09/american-middle.html/comment-page-1#comment-7254 rob Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:51:11 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/09/american-middle.html#comment-7254 <p>do you have anything to go on aside from "probably"? and where are the pages talking about getting rid of the immigrants that have been taken advantage of all us Americans for so long? Where is the section to discuss sending back all those irish, scottish, itlalian, french, german and all those northern europeans that've been mooching off of us for more than a century, if only we'd have closed the borders then....</p> do you have anything to go on aside from “probably”? and where are the pages talking about getting rid of the immigrants that have been taken advantage of all us Americans for so long? Where is the section to discuss sending back all those irish, scottish, itlalian, french, german and all those northern europeans that’ve been mooching off of us for more than a century, if only we’d have closed the borders then….

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