And to think all this commentary for a joke, me like. =d>

hensed wrote:

There is a huge difference between a person in a wheelchair receiving disability payments and a corporation that does business with the government. The person in a wheelchair receiving disability payments does not provide any products or services in return for their money received. The corporation no matter how large or small provides goods and/or services that the government needs. It may be through any number of contractual arangements including a no-bid contract based on whatever Federal law allows/requires.

Your definition of corporate welfare is any company that does business with the government and that simply is incorrect. Corporations are not the enemy. Corporations employ people. Small business owners are also corporations.

HockeyDad wrote:

... I mentioned a month or two back I missed Jimmy. I ment Jimmynconnet or whatever his screen name was.....

ZRX1200 wrote:

I never said that corporate welfare is any company that does business with the government. I never said that corporations were the enemy either. What I did say was that there are corporations that are on the public dole, charging $600.00 for a hammer and $900.00 for a toilet,for example. What I did say is that there are corporations that screw the taxpayers on a regular basis, ala Enron. These corporations are the enemy, not all corporations, so please don't misquote me or twist my words. Sure ther are mega-corporations that employ a huge number of people. And many of those same corporations employ a huge number of people overseas. For every IPhone that is sold, $11.00 goes to American workers, the rest goes overseas. This is what I am talking about. As for small businesses are concerned, don't think for a minute that any of our Republican representatives, as well as many of our Democratic representatives, consider small businesses a priority. The success of small business means a stronger middle class. Clearly this doen't fit the Republican agenda. Otherwise, they would not have held extending unemployment benefits hostage in order to protect tax breaks for those making over $1,000,000.00 a year. Now if they had not voted for extending the unemployment benefits on philosophical grounds, I still wouldn't have agreed with them, but I least I would have respected the fact that they had the balls to take a position based on their own principles.

octavup wrote:

Again with the wheelchairs????:-s

DrMaddVibe wrote:

hesed,

Reigion
Politics
Corporate/Government Contracts
Disability
Wheelchairs

Bad combination of too many topics to bring into one conversation. Leave Religion, Disability and People in Whelchairs, out of the stew. They have zero to do with the direction you sent this thread. Some of us happen to be in wheelchairs or have family members who are. Others are disabled and receive disability benefits orhave family members who are. Some find the reference to Jesus, as a character in your story, utterly tatsteless.My self included.

rfenst

rfenst wrote:

The wheelchair was a "Rascal" and advertised on Glen Beck's TV program. It was manufactured by an evil corporation.

HockeyDad wrote:

Laughter is food for the soul.

fishinguitarman wrote:

..but hemp is the world's premier food source.

HockeyDad wrote:

I never said that corporate welfare is any company that does business with the government. I never said that corporations were the enemy either. What I did say was that there are corporations that are on the public dole, charging $600.00 for a hammer and $900.00 for a toilet,for example.

octavup wrote: