Media Distort UC Davis Pepper Spray Incident?

Actually, since my clientele is mostly in Real Estate and Construction, I lost everything. Well except my intelligence and ability to think for myself. So I am poor.

If they want that, they are in the wrong place.

They should be in DC, Sacratomato and the various capitals. it is they that create the rules. the show protest the enslavement of the small business owners, killing jobs and prosperity.

They are clueless.

You can give this to them. As a gift.

Jobs are created by making things or providing a service here. They go elsewhere when it can be preformed for less.

The cost to do something here has several components:
1. What you take home
2. What you and your employer have to pay the state, local and federal agencies. (taxes)
3. What it costs your employer to follow the regulations. (SDI, Workman’s comp, OSHA, Health Care, etc.)
4. Cost of capital
5. Cost of energy, resources and supplies.
6. CHI (Currency Health Indicator)
7. Allowing a training system for employees in manufacturing like the apprentice system.
8. Stability

If Government laws raise any of those costs, you lose.
If Government laws lower any of those costs you win.

It is that simple.
Under the "Fair Tax":

1. YOU take home more. No tax, FICA or employment deductions.
2. Your employer has no employment taxes, unemployment, workmen's comp costs. They make more TOO!
3. No effect here but streamlining them and lowering the cost to comply would be very beneficial. Why does a business w/ 5 employees have to do everything a business with 50,000 employees does?
4. Joblessness would drop, businesses would move back here, tax revenues would increase, the deficit would drop, lowering the cost of capital.
5. Won't help here but would creating a responsible energy policy be TOO MUCH TO ASK?
6. The CHI would strengthen due to increased economic activity and an increase in foreign investment.
7. Since employees would cost less the businesses would be more willing to hire people less qualified and TRAIN THEM.

Second, nowhere in the accounts is there a description of what the police did to disperse the crowd before the pepper spray incident. Surely, they didn’t simply walk up and initiate the pepper spray action without first asking the protesters to disband and peacefully leave the area. But this is not recorded in the press accounts. It would be enlightening and perhaps even game changing if we knew exactly what happened in the minutes and hours before the pepper spray incident. But we don’t, thanks to incomplete, if not irresponsible reporting.

But in the absence of this information, let’s assume that the police made an effort to address the crowd and professionally and courteously asked them to disperse, or risk arrest. Any such effort clearly failed. This leaves the police with only a few options. They can retreat and leave the protesters alone, but that would be to deny their charged duty to clear the area. Alternately, they could forcibly attempt to arrest and remove the protesters. Many of the protesters were seated with arms interlocked. This means police would have had to physically engage them. The fact that the protesters were seated leaves police trying to disengage them from one another at a balance disadvantage. The cops have to bend over or crouch down to try to physically disengage any one individual, bring him or her to their feet and affect the arrest. The fact that the protesters had interlocked their arms was surely an effort to avoid any one individual being removed for arrest. There’s no way of knowing how strongly the protesters would have fought disengagement, but the fact is, they were inducing, baiting if you will, physical confrontation from the police. And this sort of situation doesn’t bode well for anyone.

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