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SHRED

(28,136 posts)
Sat Dec 24, 2016, 01:13 PM Dec 2016

With capitalism soon installed in the Whitehouse...

...job one will be removing regulations. Especially those that protect consumers and the public at large.

Job two will be to raid the public safety nets of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the ACA and turn them over for Wall St management to the banksters.

Donald doesn't think in terms of public service and neither do his cabinet appointees.
Private sector capital enrichment is the goal of these Oligarchs and people like the Koch Brothers are sharpening their knives and licking their chops.

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With capitalism soon installed in the Whitehouse... (Original Post) SHRED Dec 2016 OP
While you are correct that Trump will enrich them and himself BainsBane Dec 2016 #1
I'm not saying it's new SHRED Dec 2016 #4
Extreme "Free Market" Capitalism democratisphere Dec 2016 #2
Capitalism has always ruled the WH. LWolf Dec 2016 #3
That's what I was pointing to SHRED Dec 2016 #5
It's going to be a tough four years, LWolf Dec 2016 #6
They probably already got their playbook scripts ready for the upcoming year kimbutgar Dec 2016 #7
It'll be a year round Christmas for the Kochs SHRED Dec 2016 #8
crapitalism. losers do not die. wall street is a casino. pansypoo53219 Dec 2016 #9
Whats coming in J_William_Ryan Dec 2016 #10

BainsBane

(53,010 posts)
1. While you are correct that Trump will enrich them and himself
Sat Dec 24, 2016, 01:17 PM
Dec 2016

Capitalism is not new to the White House or America. Fascism and this degree of cleptocracy, however, is new.

 

SHRED

(28,136 posts)
4. I'm not saying it's new
Sat Dec 24, 2016, 01:37 PM
Dec 2016

I'm saying they won't even pretend social concern anymore.
Unfettered on steroids.

LWolf

(46,179 posts)
3. Capitalism has always ruled the WH.
Sat Dec 24, 2016, 01:33 PM
Dec 2016

Our founders were capitalists.

The last two, at least, Democratic presidents were neo-liberals, which is about unregulated, or less regulated, commerce. Reagan would have been proud of them.

What's coming in, as far as capitalism/free trade/economic darwinism goes, is the same goal: de-regulate and feed the rich, without the need to pretend or make faux concessions.

LWolf

(46,179 posts)
6. It's going to be a tough four years,
Sat Dec 24, 2016, 02:00 PM
Dec 2016

to be sure, and many changes may extend further into the century even if he is removed in 2020.

kimbutgar

(21,027 posts)
7. They probably already got their playbook scripts ready for the upcoming year
Sat Dec 24, 2016, 02:06 PM
Dec 2016

I hope somebody gets a hold of the playbook scripts and publishes them.

Just like the kochs recruited and trained their "owned" legislators you know they got their roadmap prepared for a month by month assault on breaking up the US safety nets, institutions and lands they want to sell off.

 

SHRED

(28,136 posts)
8. It'll be a year round Christmas for the Kochs
Sat Dec 24, 2016, 02:09 PM
Dec 2016

Unless they are stopped.
Unfortunately they've been laying the foundation for this for decades.

J_William_Ryan

(1,746 posts)
10. Whats coming in
Sat Dec 24, 2016, 04:48 PM
Dec 2016

Are the purveyors of failed, reckless, and irresponsible conservative economic dogma, seeking to end necessary, proper, and Constitutional regulatory case law, and return the country to a pre-Lochner economic paradigm that will endanger the health and well-being of workers and consumers, and foment environmental degradation.

It’s important to note that this has little to do with Trump, as any Republican president with a Republican Congressional majority would result in the same likely economic disaster.

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