Reply #100: Wrong [View All]

Every mainstream candidate who wants more than a snowball's chance in hell of winning HAS to whore themselves out to the corporattions. Bush has just proved unusually apt at the process. Look, in the '00 election cycle there were over forty major corporations who gave $100,000 plus to both candidates, including the winner Phillip Morris who gave $2,000,000 plus to each candidate. It is called hedging your bets. And just to further disabuse you of that notion that Dems are somehow "cleaner" when it comes to corporate money, do you know who it was who invented the whole soft money racket? That's right, that wonderful Dem, Bill Clinton. Actually, if you delve into it, soft money contributions are illegal, and should be banned, but since both sides are benefitting from it, do you actually thing they're going to call each other on it? LOL dream on.

And no, we wouldn't have been in the same place under Gore today as we are with Bush. But judging from the Dems' votes in Congress we probably would have had the Patriot Act, we still would have gone into Afghanistan, and help Gore's British Petroleum masters might have gone ahead and pushed him into Iraq, you never know(God knows, Dems don't want to look like wusses when it comes to war). The economy would still be tanking, for all that the '90s boom benefitted was the financial markets. The high tech sector boom would have gone ahead and deflated, jobs would still be fleeing overseas(thank you Clinton and NAFTA), and the surplus would have gone ahead and vanished(being a paper surplus in the first place). Granted, more than likely we wouldn't have had tax cuts for the wealthy, but with 911 we still would have had some deficit spending.

By the by, go study some business classes. There are very few issues that corporations and business don't give a damn about. In a capitalist society every move the consumer does is of concern. For every decision a consumer makes impacts at least one business either positively or negatively.