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kentuck

(111,103 posts)
Fri Apr 27, 2012, 05:29 PM Apr 2012

What have business leaders done for America lately? [View all]


Say, since about the time they "persuaded" Congress to repeal the Glass-Steagal Act or since they persuaded the Supreme Court to pass the Citizens United ruling?

Or since they crashed Wall Street with their clever financing and almost destroyed the banking system of America, if not for George W Bush and Barack Obama bailing them out, with the assistance of the Fed?

Or since last year, when they created more jobs overseas than they created in America?

Or since they have kept almost all the profits from all the productivity since 1978 and gave very little to the workers that produced the profits?

Or since they have decided to buy their own politicians to get their low tax rates as the country declines before our eyes?

Now, we are asked to put a CEO into the White House, because he knows how to "create jobs". When, in fact, he has more experience at destroying jobs than creating them.

Can you name a few positive things that business leaders have done for America in the last dozen years??

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