L.A.'s the Bait; NFL Still Hasn't Switched (LAT)

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In city's 10 years without pro football, teams have threatened to move here to get better deals at home. Some say the league likes it this way.

By Scott Gold, Times Staff Writer

Since 1995, after the Rams and Raiders left, the National Football League has not had a team in Los Angeles. Some say that empty nest — though it would seem, at first glance, a deficiency in the league lineup — has actually reaped enormous dividends for the league and team owners.

In cities across the nation — Phoenix, Seattle, Indianapolis — owners have used the absence of a Los Angeles franchise as leverage. They have extracted concessions worth hundreds of millions of dollars from taxpayers while threatening — though it is rarely said explicitly, and doesn't have to be — to move to L.A.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-nfl30jan30,0,4254986.story?coll=la-home-headlines

I hope everyone here catches the double standard, when a union threatens to strike to get better benefits or a long due raise, they're being greedy, but when a private NFL team threatens to leave town, city officials roll over and scruonge all the money they can find to beg them to stay. Un-fucking-believable, welcome to the NFL indeed.

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1. Of Course!!

Because WORKERS...well, we're just supposed to work and shut up, right?

We're supposed to LIKE being exploited, crapped on, taken advantage of, given the shaft, walked on, abused...and we're NEVER supposed to want what should be ours by right.

If WE threaten to, or actually DO, strike, it is NEVER because we feel unfairly and unjustly treated...OH, NO...here it comes, folks....IT IS BECAUSE WE ARE LAZY!!!

Don't you KNOW this yet?? Didn't they give you the crash course, Amerika, Love It Or Leave It 101??

In Amerika....corporations can do no wrong...workers pull teeth to get unemployment benefits, the corporation is always good, righteous, justified...in putting profits over people (well, except for the CEO-type of people) I GUESS they qualify as people...

In Amerika, the workers who ask to be fairly compensated...to recieve an honest day's pay and benefits for an honest day's work...that is not virtuous, THAT IS GREEDY, SELFISH, LAZY!! HEY!! DON'T YOU KNOW THOSE THINGS COST THE COMPANY BOTTOM LINE?? DON'T YOU KNOW THE ELITE WHITE-COLLAR FOLK DON'T WANT YOU TO HAVE THAT STUFF, BECAUSE THE STOCK WILL GO DOWN A QUARTER TO A HALF-POINT IF THEY GIVE IT TO THE WORKERS, AND THEN THE "GOOD" PEOPLE WILL SUFFER MONETARY LOSS?

Didn't you know that ONLY WORKERS are supposed to take it on the chin?? NEVER the white-collar folks or the CEO-types?

And don't even TALK about Social Security....it won't be there for you when you are ready to retire!! Retire?? What's that?? LAZY OLD FOGEY!! Get your ass back to work!! We are gonna work you for a pittance until we have sucked evey last thing you have left in you, and then we will take you to the curb in a fucking Glad Bag!!

Didn't you know that's Amerika??

Didn't you KNOW they repealed the Thirteenth Amendment against slavery?? We are ALL supposed to be slaves to the corporations, and the white-collar moguls and CEO-types, who, of course, everyone KNOWS, are "better" than us common folk!

Didn't you know we're supposed to be slaves and LIKE it??

Oh, shit...that's right...I forgot...most of us can't SEE our chains and our cages...most of us don't recognize the slavemasters for what they are, because MOST of us have such a short attention span.

So they give us reality TV, Jerry Springer, a war in Iraq...HEY, LOOK!!! SHINEY THING OVER THERE!! To distract us, so that we never even NOTICE our chains....and of course, they use the "American Dream," which is unattainable to most in this country as a little carrot-on-a-stick to keep us in line!

Haven't you figured this all out yet??

WAKE THE FUCK UP, WORKERS OF AMERICA...THEY HAVE DECLARED FUCKING WAR ON US!!