American culture is NOT greed and individualism - it is communalism.

UdoKier

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Thu Jan-20-05 12:18 PM
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American culture is NOT greed and individualism - it is communalism.

and neighbors helping neighbors. The values corporate America have been foisting on us for 50+ years are not American values.

American values can best be summed up by the grand old tradition of barnraising.

http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?BarnRaising

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Union Thug

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Thu Jan-20-05 12:21 PM
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1. You pinko, radical commie bastard

How dare you suggest that we have an obligation to community? ;-)

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GreenPartyVoter

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Thu Jan-20-05 12:30 PM
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4. *lol*

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K-W

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Thu Jan-20-05 12:22 PM
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2. And the American dream isnt to get rich,

It is to make a better life for our children. It was poor people getting some land to grow food, not middle class people buying new ipods.

America has become something entirely foriegn to the ideas it was founded upon. Private power is the antithesis of democracy, and right now almost all of our power is in the hands of private individuals and organizations.

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bryant69

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Thu Jan-20-05 12:29 PM
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3. Diffused power might be better

The Founders were concerned about a concentration of power in the hands of the few, be those few a tyranically central government, or tyrannical merchants (they could hardly imagine the growth of the Corporation, but if they had they would presumably have classed them as troubling also).

The Republican Party is in favor of concentrated power in the hands of the few (the corps and the executive branch of the government).

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K-W

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Thu Jan-20-05 12:42 PM
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5. Private corporations are an end run around democracy.

Edited on Thu Jan-20-05 12:47 PM by K-W

At the founding of our nation the people were given the power that once belonged to a king. That power included economic control, surprise surprise, it suddenly becomes taboo to control the economy.

We must, as Americans, insist that all of our societal organizations be accountable to the people.

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JanMichael

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Thu Jan-20-05 07:49 PM
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7. What? They knew about unfettered Corpo Power, even then.

http://www.liberalslant.com/mpb052403.htm

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UdoKier

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Thu Jan-20-05 07:45 PM
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6. Kick.

One of my favorite posts of the day...

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