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maxrandb

(17,446 posts)
50. I understand that you feel the need to defend your home
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 10:07 AM
Feb 2017

I'm from Cleveland for God's sake, but Garmin and other businesses need to get the hell out of Kansas.

Until these places start experiencing economic pain they won't change.

Sorry for what that might do to the "good" folks of Kansas, but simply saying; "we're not all crazy right-wingers" IS NOT WORKING.

It's the same for the ReTrumplicans, Hate Radio, racist, fascist, gun-toting nutbags and deplorables all over this country.

They never suffer any consequences, because we are too quick to say; "well, that's not representative of who we are".

One way to change their behavior and who they vote for is to hit them where it hurts...in their wallets and pocketbooks.

For example; until the city of Seattle, that went overwhelmingly "blue", shuts down their most powerful AM radio station that broadcasts nothing but hatred, racism, sexism, bigotry and greed, then that station will continue to poison our body politic without consequence.

Maybe when the Trump supporting nutjob that owns an auto-repair shop in Kansas loses his ass because Garmin pulls out thousands of employees that he depends on, he'll get the fucking message.

Time for niceties died when hate-filled talk radio got to about 1,000 AM stations. It's time to fight back.

Garmin must leave Kansas!

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Garmin should move KT2000 Feb 2017 #1
I agree! Plucketeer Feb 2017 #3
There is another lesson Lithos Feb 2017 #5
Many R's are anxious KT2000 Feb 2017 #6
Disagree Lithos Feb 2017 #8
Faith based navigation ThoughtCriminal Feb 2017 #13
you are on to something! KT2000 Feb 2017 #15
Duzy. ☆ littlemissmartypants Feb 2017 #18
Seattle has a high crime rate and a low quality of life HoneyBadger Feb 2017 #7
Thanks for a 4year old opinion piece Beaverhausen Feb 2017 #9
Downtown has always been that way KT2000 Feb 2017 #11
I suggest you revisit Seattle. 1st and Pike was never "Skid Row" pfitz59 Feb 2017 #22
Yes - it was many years ago KT2000 Feb 2017 #24
say what? pfitz59 Feb 2017 #21
and high housing prices pstokely Feb 2017 #26
But it's so cheap in kansas mdbl Feb 2017 #36
It shouldn't have to move. janx Feb 2017 #44
Garmin should stay. Good should not be driven out by evil. nt NCjack Feb 2017 #51
Zero percent State income tax on Corporations in Kansas.... Bengus81 Feb 2017 #54
We need more guns to keep us all safe!!! longship Feb 2017 #2
More gunz in barz! - nt KingCharlemagne Feb 2017 #53
This is so heartbreaking. Freedomofspeech Feb 2017 #4
I say it's also on Brownback's lastlib Feb 2017 #10
The reason companies like Garmin located in PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2017 #12
they might have trouble recruiting employees now from outside the midwest pstokely Feb 2017 #14
I've also read that when companies get employees to PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2017 #16
Recruit? Not after this: Grins Feb 2017 #46
My son works at Cerner and lives in Johnson county Shrek Feb 2017 #38
Yes. Most of Johnson County Kansas PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2017 #47
Agreed! n/t janx Feb 2017 #45
They don't want to move, but ProudLib72 Feb 2017 #17
I'd bet Garmin has a waiting list of prospective employees ... JustABozoOnThisBus Feb 2017 #29
Heartbreakingly sad. nt littlemissmartypants Feb 2017 #19
As an Olathe resident ... rustysgurl Feb 2017 #20
Well-written, and welcome to Democratic Underground, rustysgurl! NBachers Feb 2017 #23
isn't/wasn't Olathe a conservative hotbed? pstokely Feb 2017 #25
Johnson County, where Olathe is, isn't like rural kansas at all. leftyladyfrommo Feb 2017 #33
Agree 100% Shrek Feb 2017 #39
I have relatives in Overland Park. leftyladyfrommo Feb 2017 #40
it's typical suburbia pstokely Feb 2017 #49
I understand that you feel the need to defend your home maxrandb Feb 2017 #50
many of these areas are hostile to outsiders, especially non white and other minorities JI7 Feb 2017 #27
Red states beg for jobs get the red out Feb 2017 #28
a recent Filipino emigree, who voted for heaven05 Feb 2017 #30
There are a number of POC BumRushDaShow Feb 2017 #31
thank you nt heaven05 Feb 2017 #42
the Hindu Indian community is very anxious about this -- that Trump supporters' bigotry is too crude Fast Walker 52 Feb 2017 #32
KC STAR said over 1 million has been raised leftyladyfrommo Feb 2017 #34
Has Trump said anything about this? n/t delisen Feb 2017 #35
I don't know mdbl Feb 2017 #37
NO heaven05 Feb 2017 #43
Heatbreaking and infuriating. orangecrush Feb 2017 #41
Get the HELL OUT of KANSAS!! vkkv Feb 2017 #48
We lived in St. Joseph, MO--north of Kansas City, MO--and not far mnhtnbb Feb 2017 #52
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