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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNine Words Sum Up America’s Corporate Welfare Queens
The beneficiaries of Republican corporate welfare get to keep their profits,
but we have to pay for their losses.
http://www.politicsplus.org/blog/2012/06/12/open-thread6122012/
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)tex-wyo-dem
(3,190 posts)Without all those enormous profits, how would the job creators create all those great jobs?
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)A company that's doing well generates profits for its private owners and officers. If the company starts doing badly, the government is supposed to step in (even though part of the justification for the private profits is that these investors were taking risks).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_socialism
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)I guess the opposition realized that this one does not fly, since it implies that some Democrat thinks of him or herself as a "welfare queen."
stlsaxman
(9,236 posts)in fact, it's a whole lot easier.
why give people all that power over you with something as silly as words?
nineteen50
(1,187 posts)kpete
(71,901 posts)i hate that part...
And then the public sector gets blamed and dismantled
peace, kpete
GETPLANING
(846 posts)Capitalism for Everyone Else
pansypoo53219
(20,908 posts)CEO Watson
(10 posts)a corporation that sucks resources out of the "host", then when it starts to die from lack of resources, it threatens the health of the "host" then the host has to keep the corporation alive because the corporation has integrated itself in to the hosts fundamental survival mechanisms and its death will result in the death of the host.
I'm trying to think if a single word that could be used to describe that type of behavior..
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)bet against them to profit. they deliberately took down the financial system to fill their own pockets.
they should be in chain gangs on 'lock-up'. that's the only time i'd watch that show.