Obama Campaign Mourns the Loss of CRT Factory

[Jered]

What an imbecile.



How do people buy his crap?

[Erik]

He's feeding on peoples ignorance. That's what the left do. People on the left simply dont understand economics, and want someone else ("the rich", "the corporations", etc) to pay for everything, regardless if there's any economics in it. The want the power to decide what companies should make, and how many enployees they should have, but they dont want to pay for it themselfes.

The best counter to that sort of thing I've ever heard is the speech Danny DeVito makes to the shareholders in "Other peoples money":

This company is dead. I didn't kill it. Don't blame me. It was dead when I got here. It's too late for prayers. For even if the prayers were answered, and a miracle occurred, and the yen did this, and the dollar did that, and the infrastructure did the other thing, we would still be dead. You know why? Fiber optics. New technologies. Obsolescence. We're dead alright. We're just not broke. And you know the surest way to go broke? Keep getting an increasing share of a shrinking market. Down the tubes. Slow but sure. You know, at one time there must've been dozens of companies making buggy whips. And I'll bet the last company around was the one that made the best goddamn buggy whip you ever saw. Now how would you have liked to have been a stockholder in that company? You invested in a business and this business is dead. Let's have the intelligence, let's have the decency to sign the death certificate, collect the insurance, and invest in something with a future.

So I've taken to ask leftists that want to "keep the jobs" if they want to invest in a company making buggy whips...

[Bob K]

Obama is a jerk. I know. I'm from Chicago.

Last week, had a second Comcast cable installed in the kitchen.

Twenty year old installer. We're talking computers, and I mention the first one I ever worked on had vacuum tubes (a Sperry-Univac).

"What's a vacuum tube?" the kid asks.

Shit, I'm old.

[Erik]

"What's a vacuum tube?" the kid asks.

Shit, I'm old.

I know the feeling. I've had kids show up at work that don't even know what DOS is...

[HTRN]

"What's a vacuum tube?" the kid asks.

Vacuum tubes belong in amplifiers, not computers!



HTRN

[Bob K]

HTRN,

Are you old enough to remember when the corner drug store or dime store had a tube tester? Your TV or radio was acting up, you pulled the tubes, trundled down to the store, and tested them. When you found the bad one, you bought a replacement, and reinstalled everything.

[Bill Heinbach]

Heh, I'm old enough to remember when they had those at the local 7-11, and back then the owner and every employee even spoke english as their primary language

[Kommander]

Obama is a jerk. I know. I'm from Chicago.

Last week, had a second Comcast cable installed in the kitchen.

Twenty year old installer. We're talking computers, and I mention the first one I ever worked on had vacuum tubes (a Sperry-Univac).

"What's a vacuum tube?" the kid asks.

Shit, I'm old.

That does not mean that you are old (though you may well be). What it means is that the installer is uneducated. I am 24 and I know what a UNIVAC is. Age is no excuse for ignorance or stupidity.

[Joe ex PNG]

Of course, pretty much every musician knows and loves tube amps. Even if we can't afford one.

[MiddleAgedKen]

Of course, pretty much every musician knows and loves tube amps. Even if we can't afford one.

<=====Pats his Ampeg V-4B -- boughten for $225 used in 1988! -- and smirks in a way that would get him a thwack in the head if this weren't the Intertubes.