Comments on: i just sold

By: Great Lake Boy

Great Lake Boy — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:13:24 +0000

If you have liked the last 8 years of job losses vote for McContinuation ~

By: Grant

Grant — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:54:54 +0000

OK, after all these comments I’ve read, I’ve got something to say: These photos are meant for political HUMOR! Stop taking them so damn seriously.

By: Steve S

Steve S — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:15:23 +0000

Might as well …. GM Ford and Chrysler are going bankrupt.

By: Tara

Tara — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:03:35 +0000

OMG, DOWN WIFF FREE TRADE, AMIRITE?

By: EF-AH-GEE

EF-AH-GEE — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:49:46 +0000

Last I checked Obama was a senator too.

By: EF-AH-GEE

EF-AH-GEE — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:26:51 +0000

Forgive me if I’m wrong but isn’t it Obama who supports NAFTA. and not McCain. And isn’t it NAFTA that’s giving away our jobs. So wouldn’t it be funnier if it was a picture of Obama.

By: EF-AH-GEE (formerly Tom)

EF-AH-GEE (formerly Tom) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:16:41 +0000

Oh the Horror!

By: Kaitlin

Kaitlin — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:16:19 +0000

I dream of infallibility like that… Bless you, Prophet! Bless you!

By: TheLarrikin

TheLarrikin — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:10:33 +0000

There’s no humour in Hillary Clinton giving blowjobs, either. *shudder*

By: steve

steve — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:19:13 +0000

So you are suggesting we make laws that make it illegal to ship jobs overseas? Are you suggesting that Mr. Hobama has proposed such laws? That is rediculous. No candidate is suggesting anything of the sort. Companies have always been allowed to send work overseas. It has never been illegal and likely never will be. The only thing Senators can do is to create legislation that incentivises the keeping of jobs here. That would be a labor subsidy. Which, in many ways is necessary to allow many industries to compete if they keep the jobs here. Labor subsidies is just a government job program using the companies as a middle man. Foreign companies from China, Mexico, etc. have an advantage over our companies (in the global market) in that one of the main resources needed for production (labor) is much cheaper there than it is here. Our companies need to compete in the global marketplace. The minute that the cost of shipping product back to the US and paying foreign labor rates is less than the cost of paying US workers, we send the jobs overseas. Labor subsidies merely change the numbers of the equation. So come on Seth, see the big picture. Once again, you are oversimplifying something so that it fits into your utopian wishes. I am starting to question whether I give you too much credit.

By: fillerbunny

fillerbunny — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:00:26 +0000

But your political leaning carries no bearing on your actual correctness. You claiming your pronouncements are true and factual would be like me claiming my left big toe is the Emperor of China and all affiliated suburbs of Schenectady.

By: Evil Pundit

Evil Pundit — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:01:13 +0000

Only if it’s actually funny.

There isn’t any humor in this caption.

By: Evil Pundit

Evil Pundit — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:00:25 +0000

Drama queen.

By: Evil Pundit

Evil Pundit — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:59:52 +0000

Of course I’m right.

By: Kaitlin

Kaitlin — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:27:13 +0000

You realize we can say the same about you guys, don’t you? Oh, but you’re the one who’s right. You have to be. No… you HAVE to be. Sure.

By: Kaitlin

Kaitlin — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:25:59 +0000

I’m sorry that I’m so blue collar, but with the principles of free (with no boundaries) trade, how can you prevent something like Enron from happening again? When you answer that question, you’ll also answer our fuel crisis problems.

By: GenXCub

GenXCub — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:54:17 +0000

OMG, not everything has to ACTUALLY be happening what the caption
describes. John McCain didn’t actually outsource jobs to China.
Barack Obama is not a Muslim. Hilary Clinton does not give blowjobs.

Using any of those as a joke for a lolcaption IS fair game though.

By: Seth

Seth — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:40:19 +0000

Apparently, repugs are too thick headed to see the meaning here, so I will explain in small words. Companies must follow US laws. Senators make laws. John McCain supports making laws that will allow US companies to send jobs overseas. See how simple that is?

By: Seth

Seth — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:34:52 +0000

Unfortunately, “EVIL COPORATE BUSINESS MURDERING BASTARDS” is now quite a mainstream, middle of the road type of thought. Businesses have screwed over the average American one too many times, and the average person no longer trusts large corporations at all.
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Big business can make a profit despite the tax rate. In fact, taxes are a minor consideration when situating a business. Availability and price of resources including labor are much more important than taxes. Which is the real reason companies are moving to China: cheaper labor and no environmental protections.
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I can’t even parse that first paragraph. Did you finish high school? All I can tell is that it has something to do with Al Gore, New Orleans, markets, and houses, but seriously, it’s just a jumble of words strung together in a meaningless pattern.

By: Evil Pundit

Evil Pundit — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:23:03 +0000

Liberals are pretty far removed from reality. They have to be.

By: Evil Pundit

Evil Pundit — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:21:37 +0000

But Republican senators can’t, because Democrats are in the majority.

So it’s still fail.

By: fillerbunny

fillerbunny — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:35:55 +0000

To Thailand, I hear….

By: jellybeans

jellybeans — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:08:40 +0000

All the best drag queen jobs were outsourced anyway.

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:59:41 +0000

Well, only when he can’t get a job because the drag queen market is flooded.

By: cincinatus

cincinatus — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:15:00 +0000

Apparently, some people think that the government controls jobs, senators directly perform that function AND that China exports cars to the US.

By: Ozzie Mandius

Ozzie Mandius — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:02:59 +0000

Or eliminate regulations that keep jobs here.

By: Seth

Seth — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:55:03 +0000

But you can’t disprove them, so you resort to ad hominem. Which is cool and all, I’ve got nothing against personal attacks unsupported by evidence, especially when laced with sarcasm. But you’re wrong, of course. Clinton said tthat signing NAFTA was his big mistake.
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Why do the rich invest in outsourcing? Because the labor is cheaper. What happens when they all invest in the same place? Wages go up. What do they do then? Invest in some place else and wait for the first place to get poor again. It’s happening that way in India right now, people are outsourcing their outsourcing to China.
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The problem is that national borders amount to an unnatural barrier to entry into the labor market, and a restraint of real free trade. Do you not see how that works? Goods and capital do not face that same unnatural barrier. Therefore, jobs will always chase poverty around the globe in a never ending cycle, as long as the rich do not face the same restrictions as the rest of us do.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:51:16 +0000

Oh, That explains it. I get it now. Why did I go to school and read all of those books when I could have just had Seth explain it to me in a few sentences. Your points reek of ignorance of a global economy.

By: Seth

Seth — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:46:07 +0000

When there are no borders for goods and capital, but there are for people, then the wealthy will only invest in poor areas. As soon as an area becomes wealthy, they will move their money to the next poor area and wait for the first country (say, America) to become poor again before reinvesting in it.
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This is par for the course for cheap labor conservatives. All their policies have the thinly veiled purpose of making workers poorer and more desperate, the better to enrich their corporate masters.

By: jellybeans

jellybeans — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:29:25 +0000

They can approve tax cuts for companies that outsource though.

By: Trackwreck Chaser

Trackwreck Chaser — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:10:27 +0000

I see the connections, but this is like saying this fact

Al Gore and many demorcats who have complained about the market house closings in New Orleans with poor families have stocks and stuff in the companies that are closing these houses. They are making profit off of this.

OMG WTF (SCARY MUSIC)

Basically the connections are far from each other and not as close as people think. Just cause Jon McCain supports a type of economy style doesn´t mean its his fault the companies are moving. Maybe its…….TOO MUCH TAXES ON BIG BUSINESS and now they want to move to a place they know they cna make profit, which is why Chinas economy is sky rocketing.

A lot more then just EVIL COPORATE BUSINESS MURDERING BASTARDS, which while isn´t a douchnozzle mantra, i´m sure is the though of many who are extreme left.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:05:57 +0000

So, I take it you are opposed to free trade?

By: Kaitlin

Kaitlin — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:04:02 +0000

Or, yknow, maybe because it actually DOES make sense (i.e. McCain’s support of free trade) or perhaps it’s on the front page because *gasp* lots of people voted for it! No, no… that would make too much sense.

By: Evil Pundit

Evil Pundit — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:47:25 +0000

Nobody else in this comment thread so far thinks it’s funny. It doesn’t even make sense, as some have pointed out. It isn’t clever, it isn’t relevant and it isn’t humorous.

The only reason it got to the front page is because it slams McCain.

By: Kaitlin

Kaitlin — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:27:55 +0000

Oh you’re so right. We’re so lucky that “funny” is not an abstract, opinion-based concept. Well done.

By: Nekopawed

Nekopawed — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:45:46 +0000

I don’t see how your only son being a flaming drag queen is a problem but *Shrugs*

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:31:06 +0000

Doesn’t make sense.

By: Evil Pundit

Evil Pundit — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:02:09 +0000

And you still find occasion to whine about my comments.

At least this picture clearly shows that being funny has nothing to do with getting on the front page.

By: Kaitlin

Kaitlin — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:43:25 +0000

Yet you still find occasion to whine about it…

By: Duke

Duke — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:42:09 +0000

If it was President Bush in that pic I would have laughed…with this…not so much

By: Evil Pundit

Evil Pundit — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:40:13 +0000

Well, it isn’t funny. But at least it isn’t a “McCain is old” joke.

By: Herr Kub

Herr Kub — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:29:59 +0000

You lost your job. Your house was foreclosed. You only son is a flaming drag queen.

Shit happens. Period.

Grow up, move on, and stop looking to government to solve your damn problems for you.

Phil Gramm was right. We are a nation of whiners.

By: Lolnathan

Lolnathan — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:09:04 +0000

Actually, the people in charge of your company just sold your job to China, not this guy.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:39:33 +0000

THANK YOU!

Especially not Senators!

By: flingdecow

flingdecow — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:26:59 +0000

Nut so funny achully.

By: guess

guess — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:11:22 +0000

Lame. Politicians can’t outsource private companies jobs. Anyone who thinks this is funny should be locked up.

By: hueydoc

hueydoc — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:57:33 +0000

It was Hawaii based- thought it would go Japanese- or San Francisco…..

By: cheezburger

cheezburger — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:57:19 +0000

Sorry for the image problems. Our images on Amazon’s S3 service are being affected by Amazon’s outages today.

By: Jackie PAncake

Jackie PAncake — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:37:34 +0000

Well, it just got sold to China, so….

By: DaftPyramid

DaftPyramid — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:09:16 +0000

I think this site has some issues today.