CommentsDisplaying phillip taheny II's 10 most recent comments.

• Flashback: F. A. Hayek explains how unions foster unemployment

  September 5, 2011 at 11:08am

  businesses want to crush unions so they can save on labor.there will be no more middle class.there will only be the haves and they have nots.what ever it takes for the rich to make more.the only way to compete with china and others is to lower our wages,cut our benefits,and deregulate our EPA laws.of course that means we will have to lower our standard of living.But as long as the rich are making money thats all that counts.

• Bank of America Plagued by Financial Woes

  September 5, 2011 at 10:04am

  In reply to PoliticalJunkieToo.

  I am part of that law suit for the way they handled their overdraft thing.they cost me a lot of money and aggravation.

• Bank of America Plagued by Financial Woes

  September 5, 2011 at 10:02am

  I hope they go bankrupt.I started out painting and wall papering all fleet banks to make them all uniform.only fleet hired Turner construction who sub it to Willey bros,who sub to Atlantic,who sub to C&E,who sub to me.I did over 300 branches in the N.E.area(Ma,RI,CT,NH,and ME)I got burned for a lot of money.My workers comp company(USFG) needed to get paid but I didn’t have it cause I was waiting to get paid from C&E property management.(who claimed they were waiting to get paid too)They cancelled my policy.Four day after policy was cancelled a worker fell of a ladder and broke his arm.he tried to sue me.I filed bankrupt.Then the state of mass dept of industrial accidents to me to court found me guilty of Employer failure to carry workers comp.I lost everything.My house My business.at the same time the wife said she couldnt take the stress no more and left me as well.as the bank grew,I was losing everything.So now i hope it happens to them.Now I work for the university of maine on their maintenance crew.From a proud business owner to maintenance worker

• AP: GOP May Allow Tax Increase That Obama Seeks to Block

  August 22, 2011 at 4:39pm

  this is why I think a flat tax would serve us better.everyone pays the same percentage and all is fair.of course we should get rid of all deductions ie child tax credit ,and all the loop holes the rich uses as well.I am still not understanding how S.S. is an entitlement where as I pay into it every week.I know S.S.D.I.is very abused by a lot of people.I see it everyday.One of my family members cant work cause she so overwhelmed so she get a check,section 8 housing,food stamps and health care.Then she works under the table for a business person.I on the other hand works for someone 50-60 hours a week to pay my bills and i dont have any deductions at all,So I am thinking that after everything I read I pay the most taxes percentage wise.No business,No children,No mortgage.

• ‘Mayberry’ Town Plans ‘Bring it Beck!’ Rally to Attract 1791 Clothing Line Business

  August 20, 2011 at 1:22pm

  one of the thing I love about Glen beck is that he is neither Dem or Repub.He is an individual thinker.A free thinker.He is all for flat tax.I love the idea of a flat tax.He says there are progressives on both sides.I can see that too.All looking for more power and more control.He will be like Henry Ford and pay his workers a decent wage and then they will have money to buy his things.He is brilliant.Too bad other business owners cant see that.they just want to squeeze thee employees wages.then who will buy their product or services.GOD BLESS GLEN BECK

• Verizon Union Workers Bused To CEO’s Home For Protest

  August 20, 2011 at 12:30pm

  In reply to mr. james.

  same reason the CEO’s think they deserve million dollar bonuses.most people have this entitlement mentality.its always the same”do as i say not as i do,whats good for me is not for you”CEO are worth great money but the working class is not worth a decent wage?asking to pay a fair wage is not sharing the wealth.lets start with a flat tax,no deductions everyone pays the same percent.let pay people a fair wage so the can afford to buy the things you are trying to sell.pretty soon everyone will make minimum wage.How is that going to help the economy?

• Verizon Union Workers Bused To CEO’s Home For Protest

  August 20, 2011 at 10:47am

  In reply to lizziemo1.

  that kind of behavior is not acceptable.But lets not forget once big business is done crushing their wages yours will be next.

• Verizon Union Workers Bused To CEO’s Home For Protest

  August 20, 2011 at 10:44am

  In reply to paulhtulsa.

  yep keep crushing wages,first theirs then yours.who will be left to buy anything?that should be real good for the consumer base.lets see what that will do for the stocks holder.so much for your pension,never mind theirs.all will be lost.then we get rid of S.S. and open soup kitchens.bet you guys could get some real cheap labor then to make the thing s you cant sell.sounds like paradise.I cant wait.

• Verizon Union Workers Bused To CEO’s Home For Protest

  August 20, 2011 at 9:53am

  In reply to phillip taheny II.

  and the richest 1 percent of americans are getting a higher percent of total income since just before the great depression.get it?it was only a matter of time before the boom on wall street turned into a bust. this article is courtesy of the business insider.

• Verizon Union Workers Bused To CEO’s Home For Protest

  August 20, 2011 at 9:47am

  Repeat after me: Workers are consumers. Consumers are workers.

  We’re slouching toward a double dip, and Wall Street is imploding, because consumers – whose spending is 70 percent of the economy – have reached their limit.

  It’s not just the jobless who can’t spend. It’s mainly people with jobs. Median wages continue to fall. Weekly wages in July for Americans with jobs were 1.3 percent lower than eight months before.

  America’s median earners are now earning less (adjusted for inflation) than they earned ten years ago.

  Every CEO of every company that continues to squeeze payrolls (Verizon, are you listening? Ford?) needs to understand they’re shooting themselves in the feet. Where do they expect demand for their products and services to come from?

  They’re doing the reverse of what Henry Ford did back in 1914 – paying his workers three times what the typical factory employee earned at the time. The Wall Street Journal called his action “an economic crime” but Ford knew it was a cunning business move. With higher wages, his workers became his customers, snapping up Model-Ts and generating huge profits.

  Many on Wall Street are scratching their heads, trying to understand why the stock market plummeting. After all, corporate earnings are still high.

  But it’s becoming clear those earnings can’t be sustained. Corporate earnings are the highest they’ve been relative to worker wages and benefits since just before the Great Depression