Gibson Guitars says "bite me" to the government

Posted by Non_mooching_artist 11 years, 2 months ago to Business
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I love these guys because they haven't just taken the crap the govt has dished out!

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  • Posted by MikeJoyous 11 years, 2 months ago
    The Gibson folks lost a third of a million bucks to the Feds. The big point for me, though, is that their competitors, who donated to a politician named Obama, received no citations, no fines, though they used the same exotic wood. Can't the government be sued for unequal application of the law?
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The problem with those statements is that the Constitution absolutely does allow, even promotes redistribution. It is called free commerce. Where one provides a valuable good or service to another in exchange for some in kind item of value. Since both parties feel that they have gotten a better result from the deal, overall wealth is increased. How difficult is it to understand?
    Not lecturing you, just venting.
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  • Posted by airfredd22 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Re: Robbie53024
    No need to wonder, here is what he believes about the Constitution.

    Seven years before Barack Obama’s “spread the wealth” comment to Joe the Plumber became a GOP campaign theme, the Democratic presidential candidate said in a radio interview the U.S. has suffered from a fundamentally flawed Constitution that does not mandate or allow for redistribution of wealth.

    In a newly unearthed tape, Obama is heard telling Chicago’s public station WBEZ-FM in 2001 that “redistributive change” is needed, pointing to what he regarded as a failure of the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren in its rulings on civil rights issues in the 1960s.

    For more on this go to:
    http://www.wnd.com/2008/10/79225/

    Fred Speckmann
    throwthebumsout2014@yahoo.com
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    Posted by Boborobdos 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I have to agree Robert. Just like with gun sales Gibson has taken advantage of a market niche of panic among wild claims. Hey... If folks buy willingly on the basis of politics instead of music quality who am I to argue?
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, we have a CinC who supposedly was a constitutional lecturer to college students. Makes one wonder just what it was they were being taught about the document.
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    Posted by Boborobdos 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Actually it's clear they were working to get around the law. Check out: "Participants on the trip, including the Gibson employee, were told that a law passed in 2006 in Madagascar banned the harvest of ebony and the export of any ebony products that were not in finished form. They were further told by trip organizers that instrument parts, such as fingerboard blanks, would be considered unfinished and therefore illegal to export under the 2006 law."

    For the rest of the story you can go to: http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2...

    You can see how Gibson dodged the bullet and settled by viewing an actual copy of the agreement at: http://www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Fe...
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  • Posted by airfredd22 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Re: Robbie53024
    We can be pretty sure that most of our elected politicians have never read the Constitution or they certainly don't understand it. We should require that all candidates publicly read the Constitution out loud so that we at least have some reassurance that they at least have seen the Constitution and know of its existence.

    Fred Speckmann
    throwthebumsout2014@yahoo.com
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  • Posted by $ blarman 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Government crap is about as fertilizing as dog turd. It kills everything it lands on. If it were fertilizer at least it would be good for something.
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 11 years, 2 months ago
    Just looked... seems all the retailers have sold out. Between the build options and the unique history, the price was a steal.

    Kudos to Gibson for standing true to their principles, and not folding to the looter's lack of same.
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  • Posted by airfredd22 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Re: Robbie53024
    You forgot, drive the car designed by Obama Motors, send your children to the Common Core Public School for indoctrination and last but not least, buy the inflated priced gasoline because, God forbid that we should use our own oil in the ground and under the sea that would free us from having to pay the inflated price of imported oil.

    Fred Speckmann
    commonsenseforamericans@yahoo.com
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  • Posted by DaveM49 11 years, 2 months ago
    I don't know if I would want a "government series" guitar. Chances are it would never stay in tune, would change keys without warning, would produce unpredictable feedback, and might buckle during tough times.

    Most likely, replacement parts will cost around one hundred times the fair market value, too. AND require 25 pages of specifications, submitted in triplicate, not to mention a bidding process.
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  • Posted by RonC 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It seems our benevolent leader has figured out how to weaponize government agencies to strike fear, or at lease temporarily paralyze the people.
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    And the dotgov will, of course, spin their discrimination of Conservatives into somehow taking credit for stimulating the economy. There is no end to the insidiousness of these people...
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