With no response from local office manager to my questions and, finding a good alternative with lower rates and which had left ALEC, I acted to switch my auto policy. My family before me and myself for decades had used State Farm. I will not give my business to elite interests secretly stacking the deck against public interest and smaller players in the market.
PBS is strongly influenced as well. Even if not intentional, consolidated media means that everyone is hearing the same broadcasts. Including those who write for or speak on PBS. Independent journalists are jailed.
Your comments are absolutely contrary to fact. I'm a 65 year old small business owner, not a Union member. Unions are the reason America became the greatest economic power on Earth following Republican Teddy Roosevelt standing up for the right to organize in 1912, when he left the Republican Party and formed the PROGRESSIVE PARTY. As the Kochs, WAL MART, the US Chamber, the NAM, and a few other Anti worker Right Wingnuts have succeeded in crippling labor unions, our standard of living has fallen compared to Europe, for example. Germany has a strong middle class because 27% of Germany's work force is Unionized. In America, we have fallen from 27% to 11%, mostly since Reagan busted the air traffic controllers Union. The "Right to Work" (for less) states are the POOREST, sickest, most violent crime ridden lowest average IQ and POOREST educated in the nation. In Oklahoma, then Gov. Frank Keating promised the state there were "dozens of companies" which would provide " thousands of good jobs" LINED UP ON OUR BORDER and would open plants here if we would approve "Right to Work." The Republican Senate leader who spearheaded the Right to work law is now CEO of the state Chamber, a Republican propaganda Lobby. He was asked about 3 years ago specifically which companies moved to Oklahoma and how many jobs they created. He COULD NOT NAME ONE SINGLE COMPANY OR JOB which moved here after Right to Work was passed. Governor Keating, it seems, was a big fat liar Our economy is still based on agriculture and oil and gas. Tens of thousands of jobs are being lost because of low energy prices and two of our largest employers are on the edge of Bankruptcy. . Costco wanted to open 20 stores in Oklahoma if only our arcane liqour laws were changed, since Wine Sales are illegal in anything other than Liqour Stores here. Costco would employ thousands at a starting wage of over $14 per hour plus full benefits, but bass backwards Republican legislature and Governor evidently don't want Costco here, because they would force other retailers to also pay a living wage.
All factories are run the same way. Crowed them in and make money. Everyone, I'm sure, have seen videos of factory farms.
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