Comments by "michael" (@michaeld4861) on "More Perfect Union" channel.

  1. "We're focused on affordable energy in FL. That's why we signed this bill to triple the price of electricity so that only the rich can afford it. If you are of the deplorables class, please leave the state peacefully and surrender your money on your way out." - Ron
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  2.  @ttopero  It's really the same argument though. No means no and it's their land they shouldn't be forced to sell it to some billionaire. And you cannot collude to keep your own stuff. This is pure bully/lawfare. It's oligarchy rule.
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  3. Sounds more like literally than metaphorically. lol
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  4. Howard Schultz should be in prison. It's insane that there are no laws to hold these criminals accountable for breaking the law and blatantly lying when saying they didn't think they were legally allowed to give their employees a raise.
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  5. This whole twitter debacle has been hilarious. These drug companies are pure evil.
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  6. I work for one of these monster health insurance companies and I see cancer patients denied claims all the time citing "not medically necessary" for radiation treatment. $100,000 bills for 8 months of treatments denied so the doctor/facility is just screwed. It's sickening. These companies are purposefully as inefficient as possible too cause it helps their bottom line if nobody can figure out how to appeal and if all the rules for every plan are as different and indecipherable as possible. And the appeal timeframe for the plans I see is only 6 months from the date of service and our timeframe for responding is literally 2 months and we go over that all the time, sometimes just never responding.
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  7. Cartels need to be put in prison! These people are committing crimes against humanity!
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  8. Everything that bastard ceo says sounds straight out of some dystopian nightmare movie. "And remember my dear workers, work will set you free!"
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  9. Dude is a literal supervillain! Actually... most supervillains are good people compared to Theil.
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  10. "Our purpose is to cut costs, and we do that by paying ourselves a billion dollars every year for just existing." Capitalism at it's finest. But of course it's the workers fault, how dare they demand things like wages and family time and health care, don't they realize they are my slaves?
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  11. "Only profits matter, people are more disposable than napkins." - Jeff Bezos
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  12. How many euphemisms can you fit into one corporate policy. You're a Partner, we are Separating... it's not you it's me.. wonder what the deal is for partners? Do they all split the profit from the store? Or does the CEO get 10,000 times what the workers do for less work? Regardless of why this person is being fired, they should NOT be doing it in a lobby in front of everyone while claiming to be protecting the privacy of other "partners".
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  13.  @kevlar7669  yeah how dare we pay less for better healthcare like every other country on earth! Damn government should leave giant corporations and billionaires alone, they have our best interests at heart!
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  14. How can you be a "temp" employee for 5+ years?! This should be illegal. All workers should get the same pay and benefits regardless of being temp or not and temp employment should be no more than like 2% of the workforce and for no longer than like 3 months.
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  15. My god this was a fantastic video! Also horrifying! Every time I hear anything about Theil it's absolutely horrific.
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  16. Dang! What a good colab. Second Thought and More Perfect Union are both great channels.
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  17. Threatening people with death or dispair and homelessness if they don't enslave themselves to billionaires for minimum wage is disgusting!
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  18. "This is not about cat videos" 🤣🤣that line killed me. Hope she gets in, good luck Washington!
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  19.  @ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr  Can't really be homeless in the countryside even if you could find a job. Where you going to stay? You'd be arrested immediately if you tried to pitch a tent in someones yard. How are you going to get to work? How are you going to get food if your job is 10 miles this way but all the food places are 10 miles that way? You've clearly given this zero thought. How are you going to take a shower? The countryside doesn't have gyms or shelters.
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  20. How is he not in prison? Our system is more than broken.
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  21. I guarantee this is going on in every industry. As we've already seen with rent and now food prices.
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  22. How dare working people have rights and representation! Those things are only for billionaires!
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  23.  @jamiestrang-guzman9174  He's made the post offices throw out perfectly functional equipment. His job is to self destruct the postal service. There were lots of clips and pics of this going around during covid where workers would be forced to throw away sorting machines and others under the guise of some nonsensical premise.
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  24. You should do a video on how to unionize. It kinda seems like an esoteric concept at this stage of capitalism.
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  25. Love Second Thought and More Perfect Union! What a great colab.
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  26.  @wirelessone2986  Both parties are right wing. Bill Clinton and Reagan were actually quite similar when you look at what they did in office.
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  27. Of course the minimum wage for kids (under 18) is only $4.25/hr.
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  28. Funny how they can keep increasing their dividend paying out billions to stockholders but heatlhcare for their own employees is not reasonable.
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  29. Great video! It's insane just how much control the Legion of Doom now has on our government.
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  30. This is horrific. An utterly dystopian nightmare. Medical care should not ever be for profit.
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  31. I knew this wasn't over, can always count on billionaires to treat people like expendable cogs.
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  32. Yeah and the turtleneck was bought at walmart too. Made in Cambodia by a child miner who had to pick up a third job to afford bread.
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  33.  @whazzat8015  Right cause there's definitely an extra 150 million good jobs just laying around in the US. 40% of all jobs pay less than $15/hr and many only offer part time work for the express purpose of not having to offer benefits.
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  34. Hell yeah! That's awesome! Hope more join in.
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  35. If corporations are people we need to start putting them in prison for criminal actions.
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  36.  @joefer5360  Sure but oil and sandwiches are of starkly different economic necessity. Oil is always destined to become a cartel if privately owned because the entire economy is reliant upon it. We need to diversify the energy sector, and preferably nationalize it, to reduce it's cartel-like influence upon society and our economy but at least with sandwiches we still have the option to eat something else. Although with all the consolidation and monopolies now workers don't really have much choice on where to work when 40% of all US jobs pay less than $15/hr and many are part-time.
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  37. If having healthcare isn't reasonable than certainly having villianaires isn't either. Nor CEO's that make $22 million for destroying a company and ruining lives.
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  38. Glad to hear the actors may strike too, I was just hoping for an update about the writers strike. We really just need a general strike, this entire country is unlivable.
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  39. How is it not illegal to require someone to work before their shift starts?! If you have to be there and be clocked in you should be getting paid. Period.
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  40.  @Tehnameless1  Because our tax dollars don't need to go to corporate executives, they already have almost ALL of the money.
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  41. Anybody still fooled by big oil propaganda is just a willful participant at this point.
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  42. It ain't just Dollar General, I've noticed this same thing at my local Kroger. If corporations are people than they can go to prison like people and the executives are the ones responsible! It's time to prosecute them and confiscate the executives shares to be sold to pay the communities and customers back the money that was stolen.
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  43. Yeah I'd bet my left leg that McCarthy is not going to pass it, probably won't even introduce it (unless of course he knows there's enough downvotes to kill it while making him look good).
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  44.  @Zero01k  But farmers can't fix their own problems if those problems are multinational corporations screwing everyone over and/or corrupting the farm bill aid. Telling everyone else to buzz off is only going to make it worse. (I'm not saying you need to do some specific type of farming like regen. agriculture or whatever, just that you aren't going to fix a problem that is much bigger than farming without cooperation from outside the farming community.) And it doesn't help that the west is entirely running out of water while the Saudis grow massive amounts of alfalfa in and around AZ sucking up what little water we have left and nobody stops them. That's impacting everyone farmer or not when there's not enough water to take a shower.
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  45. yes because 24k a year allows for such extravagant spending... If only everyone were as smart as you.
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  46.  @susanperry4177  No lol. Some of these drugs have 10,000% profit margins. (They are not all that high but still, there's a reason for big pharma's reputation and it is most certainly legitimate.)
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  47. This is horrifying. Obviously talking to an incomprehensible robot is going to hurt, not help, people experiencing a mental health crisis.
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  48. The existence of more money does not in itself cause inflation. Example: If I printed 10 trillion dollars and kept it all to myself or pumped it into some investment like the stock market or gold then that money is not actually in circulation and therefore has no ability to drive up prices of unrelated things.
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  49. Yeah well said! This is a huge issue!
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  50. They are already charging insane interest rates on credit card balances so charging another "late fee" on top is just a way to scam people. I mean most credit card interest rates are between 17-25% and if you have bad credit they can be even worse!
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