so the assumption is that the underserved and poor Iranians who make up the vast majority of the 90 million and want to change the government will be the first or most likely to be able to arm themselves? I guess we still do not have any idea what real poverty and poor people struggle with on a daily basis.

Bryce

Just wondering when the might become available?

Tom Brady might play for the Raiders...it's floating around...

Like a George Foreman come back

So by omission, you are agreeing that Boco is headed South, to join up, dressed like Uncle Sam, astride an orange snow machine.

Keith

I pray that all goes well. We do not need another national embarrassment.

Alberta is NOT becoming a state!

The rebound relationship never works out

as long as you only view a company as an investment on a balance sheet , the people behind that product and service are worker drones without names or faces to be used or disposed of as line items.

the president of company should be looking the majority of his employees in the face daily seeing they are people whom he/she has the responsibility of doing right by.

making corporate decisions that are in the best interest of the company which includes the well being of the families that make up that company.


so yes I work for a smaller company , yes I know the names and families of all senior management.
yes I talk with them at company events or in the hall way or brake room.

yes it is a privately held company

we take care of the customer and production and that makes it a good place for all of us.

we have a lot of multi generational family names where I work.

parents who's kids and even grandkids are now working here.

it's a special place and there are not a lot of businesses like it around

our customers see the difference and they have a huge level of trust in us and clearly our employees see the difference , we have an almost unheard of employee retention rate. I am in year 28 with the company myself.

so sure I am a socialist or whatever you want to call me , I am Family , Company , Wisconsinites and Americans' first. We build strong family , company , state and country , we all thrive.

earnings / profits , the problem is the definitions get abused.

I mean 50% of what is brought in after the liabilities of building , energy , property taxes , materials , and other production costs are covered.
get reinvested in the employees under vice president.

you can take that other 50% and split it 25% to top employees and 25% at building updates and expansion.

everyone walks away from that well paid , business thrives

it's not going to happen because taking care of employees and building them as your biggest resource isn't valued

you can call me a socialist or whatever

I hate government getting into regulating business but it also won't take care of it's employees if it isn't required to in some way.

share holders should get value from the safety of the companies standing and growth when they sell their shares.
they are there to earn profit by lending money as stock and getting paid back in interest when the stocks are sold or repurchased by the company.

Start and run a successful business. You will do more for America than any other activity, especially anything connected to government...

I wish I could be up there now.

Corporate conscience?!?! Now you're really doubling down on the socialist nonsense. Corporations do not, literally cannot, have a "conscience". A corporation consists of many individuals that have chosen to invest their wealth into that company by purchasing shares of the company on the open market. Those individuals are the owners of that company. When you purchase stock, you are purchasing a share of the company, and you become a partial owner of that company, commonly referred to as a shareholder.

The term corporate conscience is defined as being the idea that a corporation has moral responsibilities beyond making money — such as acting ethically, protecting stakeholders, or contributing to society. That's insanity. Only people have moral obligations, and corporations are not people. The only obligation a corporation can have is to maximize shareholder value. CEOs of major corporations do not own the corporations, they are representatives working for us shareholders. If a CEO were to spend company money on social, political, or environmental causes (that do not increase the value of the company), that would be a grievous misuse of the money I invested in the company. I did not invest money to become a social justice warrior, I invested money to make money, and that, and ONLY that, is the corporation's duty... to maximize the return on the money I chose to invest in it. Why should someone with no skin in the game, someone who has no money invested in the corporation, have any say whatsoever regarding what that corporation does with MY money?? If you want a say, put your money where your mouth is and invest, then you'll have a vote on the issues and the people running the corporation the same as I do.

We shareholders choose executives that will run the company to maximize shareholder returns. When a company is ran this way, profits naturally flow towards uses that will maximize production, increasing revenue, which in turn leads to innovation and growth, resulting in job creation and a wealthier society as a whole.

What right does an executive of a corporation have to spend MY money on issues that I very well may not agree with? I couldn't care less what his personal, political, or social views are, that's not what he was hired for. Would you be okay if you invested money in a corporation only to have the CEO of that company come out in support of gun control for "the greater good of society"? Or would you prefer, no DEMAND, that he do what he was hired to do, which is maximize the return on your investment????

As a side note... a shareholder and a stakeholder are NOT the same thing. A shareholder is an owner of the company due to having purchased shares of the company. A stakeholder is someone that has NOT purchased shares of the company, has absolutely nothing invested in the company, yet for some inexplicable reason feels they have a right to have a say in how the company operates.......

Hey Moose!!!!
How many trappers of the younger generations googled "Turok and Andar" ? Lol