How about that Hostess Co? $1250 to every employee and free snakes for a year. Sounds like they are back on solid ground thanks to President Trump. Can't wait to see how the Libs spin this outrage.........BTW they went Bankrupt under Barry.
The reward that kills you. Is it a gift or secret murder mwa hahaha!!!!
You can't fix stupid but you can destroy ignorance. When you destroy ignorance you remove the justifications for evil. If you want to destroy evil then educate our people. Hate is a tool of the stupid to deal with what they can't understand.
I like to misspell words for Portland. It makes his head explode.
I don’t get after people for misspelling words. What makes my head explode is people that can’t get the difference between there, their, and they’re. Or figure out which ‘witch’ is which, or can’t grasp that you’re and your, are two different words. As are ‘are and our’. Misspellings happen, though with modern day spell checkers they should happen less. None the less it happens. Such grammatical errors on the other hand are laziness and/or a willful ignorance. For that I have less tolerance.
I don’t know enough about Hostess and their bankruptcy to speak to it. My guess is that it was more about financial protection than it was about closing shop for good. Either way, good for them for giving bonuses. Actually good for their employees. More companies should follow suite. Most companies should give bonuses. It’s often their employees that pay for their corporate greed the rest of the year through crappy benefits and low wages. Most of the companies that have now given bonuses could have done so, willingly, for years. They didn’t, even though those at the top were raking it in. As I’ve stated in the past, but you all misconstrue, I’m glad these companies are giving bonuses. However to think that MOST of these companies couldn’t have afforded to give them without their tax break is foolish. Look at Walmart’s profits over the past 5+ years. Can you honestly tell me they couldn’t have afforded bonuses in 2014? 2015? 2016?
As I’ve stated in the past, but you all misconstrue, I’m glad these companies are giving bonuses. However to think that MOST of these companies couldn’t have afforded to give them without their tax break is foolish. Look at Walmart’s profits over the past 5+ years. Can you honestly tell me they couldn’t have afforded bonuses in 2014? 2015? 2016?
They could have but the CEOs of these companies care 100x more about the shareholders than they do the employees.
And they now have corporate tax cuts plus less regulations holding them back, enabling them to compete again. They see a brighter future and have the confidence to spread those profits around without hurting the company's bottom line.
I would like for you to show me what regulations they cut for the cupcake industry. I hear a lot of BS from you but you haven't shown any evidence of it.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
I would like for you to show me what regulations they cut for the cupcake industry. I hear a lot of BS from you but you haven't shown any evidence of it.
You are the one who suggested they were not involved when the Government deregulated, when taxes were cut, and when optimism reached all time highs.
Since you have not been paying attention over the past year, I would suggest you look it up for yourself as I am already educated on how these things effected ALL American Corporations.
Just what I thought. You made claims you either won't or can't back up. Another day in Palus Politicus.
It pains me to take 40s side but go read the articles on deregulation... you aren't going to find the words "cupcake industry" in any of them.. but then you aren't going to find a lot of specific industries referenced... but they are all feeling pretty good for a number of reasons:
1. New regulations, that Obama was rolling out regularly have stopped. 2. Taxes are going down. 3. General regulations (red tape) are slowly going away which affects all industry. 4. Optimism that more deregulation is coming...
I have a good friend who owns a company that makes wire products (think medical grade baskets for autoclave machines) .. his industry has NEVER been mentioned but he is highly optimistic and is growing rapidly and investing a lot of money for future growth..
Their new success probably has more to do with their new owner getting rid of the unions and union workers. The previous hostess owner could only use twinkie drivers, twinkie trucks, and twinkie makers in their effort to get twinkies to consumers.
Ummm didn't hostess file bankruptcy then sell the brand and recipes of to another bakery? Pretty sure it went something like that. If so it would be hard to say they recovered or are doing better. Looks like the new owner sold some twinkies...
How about 'should of' when it should be 'should have'? That one gives me a slight headache.
There are a million of them.
Root cause: people post as they speak. And conversational English is very different from written composition, which usually follows stricter rules of spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
'Then' and 'than' get interposed, but mostly only in the Midwest. Why? Because when spoken, the two are virtually indistinguishable to the ear. Same is true with 'are' and 'our.' In essence, we 'Heartland Folks' have incorporated our dialect into the way we spell certain words in certain contexts. And that infiltration comes directly from the informal way we address each other in print- at this web address and places like it. Places like FB, Reddit, Twitter...
In this particular instance, it could be that we Heartland folks use 'should have' 'should've,' and 'shoulda' interchangeably, too. Most of the West Ohioans I've know make "should've (the contraction) sound like "should of" (two words that have no grammatical reason to ever be next-door neighbors in a sentence).
I have too much June Short (7th grade English, 8th grade Composition) in me. She sits on my shoulder every time I bang on a keyboard. I backhand her from that perch when I'm banging out a snarky one-liner or posting a meme, but she's rightfknthere if paragraphs are involved.
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Those little glitches I've learned to expect. I've even caught myself dropping a few of them from time to time. That said.... [insert 'Doom Chords' here]:
This one makesme want to smack a B#ch: "For all intensive purposes." [wipes bloody knife on pants leg]
I love that each of us has his/her own pet peeve examples. All of us are justified.
I'll help you hide your bodies if you help me hide mine. Deal?
How about 'should of' when it should be 'should have'? That one gives me a slight headache.
There are a million of them.
Root cause: people post as they speak. And conversational English is very different from written composition, which usually follows stricter rules of spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
Yinz=You all Yunz=You all Y'all=You all Still Mills=Steel Mills Pisburg Stillers=Pittsburgh Steelers arahnd= Around dahn taun=Down Town Wes End=West End Sah side=South Side Doo Hicky= Doo Hicky Ders=There's Rilly=Really Ahrn City=Iron City Crick=Creek Haus=House Maus=Mouse Sammich=Sandwich Y'eat yet=Did you eat yet Worse=Wash
Hoopie is fluently spoken by those of us who grew up in the Pennsylvania-West Virginia-Ohio tri-state region.
[quote=PitDAWG]So there hasn't been anything actually done to deregulate the cupcake industry but they have hope. That's exactly what I thought. [/quot
Didn't Trump drop the corporate tax rate by 40% . Barry never gave business a break. In fact he never gave anybody a break.
Delta Airlines gave 1% of their profits to charity BEFORE the tax cuts.
Long before.
All businesses are not evil greedy profit driven entities.
Delta has a long history of giving raises and bonuses to employees when they do well.
The airlines industry is a boom/bust industry that lives on the edge of many variables.
I worked there for 15 years and despite all the bad times, every time they did well, they always gave back to their employees.
In fact, when they came out of bankrupcy, they gave tons of (worthless at the time) stock to the employees for hanging in there.
A few years back I sold that worthless stock for 30K. The worthless stock was totally an investment into the future. "Let's build this company and make it worth something. We are all in this together." A philosophy they totally live by.
So yenno. Not all companies are evil.
I can give so many more examples of how Delta is a total liberal progressive bleeding heart company.
This is only one company. Pretty sure there are others out there who are good hearted.
Some companies are evil because the people running them are evil. But most are not. The big problem with corps is that the are inherently profit driven and not motivated by any outside force to treat their employees better than the job pool demands. CEOs make there bonuses by delivering profits, period. The board of directors and upper management have a fiduciary responsibility to their stockholder to deliver the highest possible profit! They have nothing like that making them treat employees fairly.
So it's not always the corporations or the people running them but the system itself that is not necessarily evil, but heartless towards employees. If the system put people on the same level as profits the world would be a much better place.
Companies used to be run by men who knew the story of every employee, and the would often make a little less so their employees could have a little more. Some mom and pops are like that but they usually struggle to compete when competing with a big corp for this very reason. Add to the the buying power of big corps, the armies of legal help, vast financial resources... Mom and Pops struggle to survive.
I've always believed that corporations are killing America. They do it in so many ways you can't even count them. But that's the world we live in and unless we bust them up like monopolies, limit the size somehow or end public offerings and speculation (another form of gambling that sucks money from the middle and lower class); then you can do nothing. I can't imagine that stuff happening.
'Then' and 'than' get interposed, but mostly only in the Midwest. Why? Because when spoken, the two are virtually indistinguishable to the ear. Same is true with 'are' and 'our.' In essence, we 'Heartland Folks' have incorporated our dialect into the way we spell certain words in certain contexts
LOL.........Midwestern folks have lazy tongues. We combine words and even contract our contractions, such as kinda and sorta. We seemingly have a strong dislike for the letter "g." We invent new words to keep the cursed "g" away. Words like losin, nuttin, goin, watchin, etc. We have a very difficult time w/words that have too many vowels in the middle of the word. It becomes even tougher if the letter "r" is close by. Words like aurora, rural, particularly.
With that said, I think there is art to speaking to your audience. For example, I spoke very differently when addressing university administrators while trying to sell them on allowing them to write their handbooks for them than I did when hanging out in a local pub which was frequented by avid hunters. I spoke completely different when speaking to administrators than I did while speaking to my class that was 85-95% black.
Writing is different. However, I write differently on my web-sites and blogs while trying to sell my products than I do on here. I even write differently depending on the subject. Typically, I will use a more extensive vocabulary and proper grammar if I am addressing a political or social issue. On the other hand, I try to write in a more down-to-earth style so I don't come across as being an elitist.
One of the strategies I emphasized to my writing students is that one should always know one's audience. It might not be fair, but the inherent perceptions of your listener influence on how well your message is received. For example, one person might find your writing/speaking style articulate while another thinks you are "uppity." One person might think you are down to earth while another believes that you are common and uneducated.
Just my two cents...
Oh, and I am not going to take the time to preview and edit this post, so I hope my spelling, grammatical, and syntax errors are not overtly egregious.
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