PS: Your point on logic is well taken! (Reply #75)

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75. PS: Your point on logic is well taken!

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We don't have governments anymore, we have corporations. Corporations run [View all]	RKP5637	Dec 2012	OP
I don't think that the pure, unadulterated pursuit of money and profits ...	LisaLynne	Dec 2012	#1
It is a tremendous conflict of interest. Jefferson once said something to the	RKP5637	Dec 2012	#2
Well, I remember some billionaire tycoon,	tblue	Dec 2012	#51
to quote FDR:	marmar	Dec 2012	#3
That sure sounds like he is talking about today	newfie11	Dec 2012	#4
I was going to post this in reply to the OP	hootinholler	Dec 2012	#10
No man should be so rich he has nothing left to buy but his government.	aquart	Dec 2012	#16
Great Statement!	PoliticalBiker	Dec 2012	#22
Tremendous statement!!!	RKP5637	Dec 2012	#40
K&R !!! K&R !!! K&R !!! K&R !!! K&R !!! n/t	RKP5637	Dec 2012	#57
Where is today's FDR?	Octafish	Dec 2012	#62
But as corporations are people...	OldEurope	Dec 2012	#5
Absolutely, you need that sarcasm smilie.	RC	Dec 2012	#9
I can only add this quote from Abraham Lincoln on 11-21-1864....	ReRe	Dec 2012	#6
Excellent!	PoliticalBiker	Dec 2012	#23
The man was brilliant...	ReRe	Dec 2012	#33
Too Bad...	PoliticalBiker	Dec 2012	#34
Yeah, its' plain to see...	ReRe	Dec 2012	#46
Abe today would be kicked out of the R party as some F'en dirty ignorant backwoods hippie. n/t	RKP5637	Dec 2012	#56
No kidding...Lincoln and FDR were both...	tex-wyo-dem	Dec 2012	#47
All things considered....	ReRe	Dec 2012	#48
I think so too!	RKP5637	Dec 2012	#58
And we have sooo much evidence of that right now! "... until wealth is aggregated in a few	RKP5637	Dec 2012	#41
And the convenient facilitators	Le Taz Hot	Dec 2012	#7
Often I wonder, anymore, if there even is a dividing line between corporations and the two	RKP5637	Dec 2012	#59
i think we are heading into oligarchy governments	riverbendviewgal	Dec 2012	#8
Educate the masses	John2	Dec 2012	#17
We need politicians who represent our interests first n/t	leftstreet	Dec 2012	#38
Think RollerBall	riverbendviewgal	Dec 2012	#42
K&R !!! n/t	RKP5637	Dec 2012	#61
Exactly!!! "And for these vultures, the United States appears to be their grand prize to obtain."	RKP5637	Dec 2012	#60
That trilogy really opens up the mind to new economic models.	ieoeja	Dec 2012	#26
If the wealth was shared more we could all not have to work much	riverbendviewgal	Dec 2012	#43
In the long run humanity will become extinct, given the current plan, in humanity's own garbage as	RKP5637	Dec 2012	#63
"Headed into"??	Iggy	Dec 2012	#53
We the People MUST win! Corporate bosses hate democracy.	Maineman	Dec 2012	#11
As someone mention in this thread, basically ... their prize is now the whole United States	RKP5637	Dec 2012	#64
We are now The Corporate States of America.	99Forever	Dec 2012	#12
Is this going to be juvenile crap day?	aquart	Dec 2012	#15
Good bye.	99Forever	Dec 2012	#25
We don't have governments but they're subservient?	aquart	Dec 2012	#13
I think I already understand that quite well! n/t	RKP5637	Dec 2012	#65
PS: Your point on logic is well taken!	RKP5637	Dec 2012	#75
So... whaddaya gonna do about it?	RevStPatrick	Dec 2012	#14
Start with breaking them from our elected people	TheKentuckian	Dec 2012	#18
^	Le Taz Hot	Dec 2012	#32
I've often pondered and wondered the same, and realize I don't have the slightest idea how it	RKP5637	Dec 2012	#45
Yeah it would be an absolutely brilliant move to chase all the corporations to Asia and China.	dkf	Dec 2012	#19
Who is saying chase the corporations to Asia and China?	GitRDun	Dec 2012	#36
Does it sound like the OP wants corporations here?	dkf	Dec 2012	#49
The OP wants corporations here. There is no difficulty with the corporate model if	RKP5637	Dec 2012	#66
Do your "checks" enable a corporation to compete with corporations in other counties?	dkf	Dec 2012	#80
Of course, dfk. I'm not sure how you ever thought otherwise. In fact, I spent a	RKP5637	Dec 2012	#81
It sounds like he is looking for something along the lines of balance.	GitRDun	Dec 2012	#82
If only we could have an election	toby jo	Dec 2012	#20
Quite well said, it's a transitional model and hopefully the really good congressmen will	RKP5637	Dec 2012	#67
It has been a systematic	Liberal1975	Dec 2012	#21
Yes, these cycles have occurred over and over, as the one we are going through now. Hopefully the	RKP5637	Dec 2012	#68
Freedom Died	DaveJ	Dec 2012	#24
The only solution is that there need be SOME body / organization that can be powerful enough...	AZ Progressive	Dec 2012	#27
WAR against DEMOCRACY waged by the POLITICAL DONOR CLASS.	CarmanK	Dec 2012	#28
One good aspect is I do think more Americans are becoming more aware that they can not sit	RKP5637	Dec 2012	#69
...	progressoid	Dec 2012	#29
This is scary considering it is 30 or so years ago..........	Dyedinthewoolliberal	Dec 2012	#30
Yep!!! n/t	RKP5637	Dec 2012	#70
If America stopped playing the game of capitalism...	AZ Progressive	Dec 2012	#31
Yep, money is the leverage they employ. Money talks and has power, the rest of us mostly talk. If	RKP5637	Dec 2012	#71
As Earth has been become corporate. America has become it's middle managers.	raouldukelives	Dec 2012	#35
+++ 1,000 +++ n/t	RKP5637	Dec 2012	#72
United States (by Hasbro)	fozzieferocious	Dec 2012	#37
Sadly, I think your last sentence is unfortunately quite true ... they run not on facts but	RKP5637	Dec 2012	#73
Companies are making money hand over fist but we're suffering. What is wrong here?	Initech	Dec 2012	#39
I guess it's just the ultimate fulfillment of the American Dream (for some). ... but not	RKP5637	Dec 2012	#74
:Why not just skip the middlemen and elect boards of directors and CEOs.	Tierra_y_Libertad	Dec 2012	#44
damn good idea. cut the middlemen, let us give our graft directly!!	HiPointDem	Dec 2012	#50
What??!! you want to impoverish all those who	dixiegrrrrl	Dec 2012	#78
Errr, You Mean Ralph Nader	Iggy	Dec 2012	#52
It "plays" just fine "around here"	Le Taz Hot	Dec 2012	#54
...	RKP5637	Dec 2012	#55
Hah hah!	Iggy	Dec 2012	#79
We allowed ourselves to get distracted by shinny things	99th_Monkey	Dec 2012	#76
Definitely!!! So many have said it so well in the past, and so many lessons learned in	RKP5637	Dec 2012	#77

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