We know that a handful of rightwing corporate moguls and gazillionaires, like the Koch brothers, are funding all kinds of phony front groups created for specific and often single campaigns against Democratic candidates in various Senate and Congressional races this election season.
That the Supreme Court ruling that corporate money is equal to free speech and corporations to persons has fueled the growth of these focused attacks on Democrats, and we also know that funding from Wall Street firms is pouring into these rightwing Republican campaigns while those who identify as Democrats in the upper echelons of Wall Street are sitting on their money this year to punish Obama and the Dems in Congress for the Wall Street regulations they managed to pass, as limited as they were in terms of control of Wall Street.
And we also know that officially the recession ended last year and that corporate profits are higher than ever, yet the job market, though improving, is still hurting.
So there's an idea going around that says that corporations are deliberately not adding jobs before the election to keep the job rate artificially low in order to benefit Republicans vs. Democrats. It wouldn't be the first time corporate interests hurt the common good in order to benefit their bottom line and promote political decisions that put corporations first.
The sad thing is that so many working people think these same corporate controlled rightwingers are pushing policies that will benefit them more than Democratic policies, and as always the media doesn't do its job of in depth investigating and analyses but just offers "both sides" on the issues with watered down commentary or avoids the subject all together, understandably, since the media is corporate controlled as well.
What we need is a revolt against all and any corporate entities that put their own short term profits above the common welfare. But in order to bring that about, the media would have to be exposed as controlled by almost exclusively Republican-siding if not outright rightwing corporate interests, and that's a conundrum since those interests control most of the media!
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Profits are the reason business and corporations exist. Contrary to what socialists say, profit is not a dirty word. Millions of people independently seeking to increase their wealth has resulted in most prosperous and freest country in the world. Adam Smith's "Invisable Hand" is alive and well, if allowed to work by government. As for those evil gazilionaires, has no one heard of Soros, Burkle,Bloomberg and the Hollywood and Wall Street Crowd who supported and still somewhat support Obama and the socialist agenda?
Newt said it well; "Democrats are the party of food stamps and Republicans are the party of paychecks".
the parrot squawks. Unfortunately, what he's parroting is better framing than what Dems say individually, all nuanced and based on reality, even if the rightwing wordsmiths are pedaling lies (i.e. paychecks and real income increased under Democrat Bill Clinton and decreased under Bush/Cheney, et-endlessly-cetera)..
There you go with the "Lies" again. I am continually amazed by how liberals are unable to carry on a civil conversation wihtout resorting to insults.
Um...Jim, really? You have insulted democrats and our president and my father countless times so let's not go there today ok? It's us vs. them regardless so sit back and watch the show but don't say you're amazed, Rush results to insults constantly and he is not a liberal last time I checked.
Caitlin
Caitlin,
I apologize for any slights I may be guilty of. Do you have any particularlly offensive ones in mind?
The disrespectful comment about my dad's look in the photo taken on the boardwalk comes to mind first, then calling names like Obamanomics, and so on and on. I've got a child who wants me to read to her now, so I'm not going to scroll through all your comments to find more examples, feel free to browse all by your self, I'm sure you'll find something.
Caitlin
wait, one more, telling someone who commented that he had gone off his meds, that's another insult, really these just fly to the front of my mind, there are loads more where these come from, just look back at your own words.
caitlin
Cait, your the best.
Well done Caitlan. You are a loyal daughter. As to the meds comment to Robert, it was preceeded by comments of homophobic racist butthead by Robert. But maybe I should be more tolerant of liberal logic and debate customs.
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