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This has been floating around for a while, but since i just saw it, I thought maybe others had missed it as well.....
Initech
(100,155 posts)grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)They need to be busted up as any monopoly would be.
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Anti Trust laws are so not "freedom of the markets to regulate themselves." Or so say the propagandists that brought us these policies, and all their puppets (including leadership in both parties.)
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)with a failed capitalistic system morphed into a corpocracy, hoping it will get better, it won't.
Initech
(100,155 posts)grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)Initech
(100,155 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)financial system has favored and allowed sociopaths to rise to the top of the heap. These people, most of them, could give a F about the majority of the citizens or the country. They are only interested, most of them, in extracting the wealth of the country for themselves, and greed rules for them.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)JHB
(37,166 posts)RadiationTherapy
(5,818 posts)ladjf
(17,320 posts)SalviaBlue
(2,918 posts)Its been used against us for a long time and gets more and more sophisticated.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)That is, socialism for the rich.
Trickle down capitalism for the rest of us.
indepat
(20,899 posts)at all levels as do those Walmart employees who are on food stamps. Additionally, those creating public policy don't want Alice's heirs to ever be burdened with estate taxes. The enemies within are those who foster and promote such national policies.
MindMover
(5,016 posts)clang1
(884 posts)No such thing as 'the job creators', we know that. Saying it again anyway. It's just propaganda. NOTHING MORE NOTHING LESS. Designed to delude people. That is what propaganda of deception does. Call it what it is.
lib2DaBone
(8,124 posts)The Corporate Lobbyists write the laws.. and Congress rubber stamps them.
NO ONE in Washington is concerned about what is best for the American people.
We do not live in a democracy.. its only political theater....
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)Selatius
(20,441 posts)Who is in the best position to fund the campaign expenses of a politician running for office? Rich people. Alice Walton could subsidize thirty or forty congressional races at the same time if she wishes and still walk away with more money on interest alone.
A rich person who could subsidize thirty or forty races has the advantage of unanimity of purpose and short decision-making time. Tens of thousands of working class/working poor voters could never agree to a platform or choose a course of action as quickly as one person who could fund the same amount of politicians.
Our problem is our privately funded election system. If that is addressed, we'll see long-lasting change. Other than that, it's just addressing the symptoms and not the causes.
clang1
(884 posts)I agree to an extent, but there are other problems.
Taking the money out of all this would solve a LOT. Both in elections and deal with the lobbyists money as well. If you don't get both, less money in the elections is just sticking fingers in a leaking dike. Now it is even more crazy with Citizens United as everyone knows. It's like a fire. Good luck trying to put it out, though it has to be done.
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)JHB
(37,166 posts)...the progressive tax system.
If you were up in the economic stratosphere, you could build your wealth in ways that help build everyone else's, or you could take it as liquid cash, in which case Uncle Sam would take a nice big chunk so that you would ask yourself "is this extra wad of cash really necessary?" It changed the economic decisions the wealthy made in order to NOT pay that huge chunk.
But these days it's communism to suggest that jaaahb creeaters merely slow down how fast they get more wealthy by upping salaries a little. Just ask FOX.
Bryn
(3,621 posts)She looks it in that picture.
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)"free-trade" agreements.
1994 - North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
2001 - Jordan United States Free Trade Agreement
2004 - Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement
2004 - Chile - United States Free Trade Agreement
2004 - Singapore United States Free Trade Agreement
2006 - Bahrain United States Free Trade Agreement
2006 - Morocco - United States Free Trade Agreement
2006 - Oman United States Free Trade Agreement
2007 - Peru United States Trade Promotion Agreement
2005 - Dominican RepublicCentral America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA; incl. Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic)
2011 - Panama - United States Trade Promotion Agreement
2011 - Colombia - United States Trade Promotion Agreement
2011 - Republic of Korea (South Korea) - United States Free Trade Agreement
The super-rich and their politicians are also working on:
Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)
Middle East Free Trade Area (MEFTA)
Transatlantic Free Trade Area (TAFTA)
Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific Region (FTAAP)
Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (TPP)
The Administration and eight Pacific Rim nations are working on adopting another wage-lowering, let's-send-even-more-jobs-to-foreign countries "free-trade" agreement which, when signed will be known as the Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement. Some are calling it NAFTA on steroids.
If you haven't heard about the ongoing work re the Trans-Pac FTA, it may because it's not going to be good for you.
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)progressoid
(50,030 posts)BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)She wants it all and the guilt of her wrongness can't be covered up. Probably why she built the museum, but it still doesn't change the misery she causes.
GeorgeGist
(25,327 posts)We need to ask ourselves: Are we willing to Act?