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I have been one of the consistent critics of the DLC here, but I also see a crucial function these buttlicks of corporate America could serve besides as organ donors and door to door salesmen in Iraq:
Divide and conquer corporate America.
Right now, two very big industries are screwing not only the average American, but other corporations and small businesses: health insurance and the energy industry (especially OIL).
the cost of health insurance is mostly going into advertising, profits, and executive salaries, and small employers especially can't keep up with the extortion. And if a small business can't offer health insurance, they can't compete with a large corporation that can to attract employees.
A pitch to BUSINESSES on single payer OR at the very least, tight regulation of health insurance, possibly to the point of requiring it to be a non-profit operation could work.
Likewise, deregulated electricity and our forced dependence on oil, with alternatives, especially those difficult to monopolize, kept off the market exacts a steep price not only in running their business, keeping the lights on, and the cost of getting stuff shipped to them, it costs them in TAXES that pay for the military in the Middle East--essentially, along with the rest of us, small businesses and non-energy corporations are paying for the hostile take over of an asset, oil fields. And we get nothing in return for the investment.
Energy should be pitched in terms of savings to business in operating costs and taxes, with the environmental effects as a nice bonus, but not the main course.
Additionally, wind, solar, and biodiesel have the added benefit of giving income to farmers, and a use for crop surpluses.
If we switched to that in a big way, it would even help the developing world that grow crops cheap enough to compete with the surpluses we dump. If an African farmer can turn a profit, we don't have to send relief over there and save money.
And of course if we switch away from oil, we piss off less people in oil countries, get less terrorism, and save on the military again.
The big problem with my proposal is it requires the DLC to have some scruples and agenda beyond who can write them the biggest check, and it requires them to take a risk.
I honestly don't know if they are capable of either of those.
If any of you whores the DLC pays to post stuff here are reading this (and you should be to earn your paycheck), could you pass this up the pipe to your employers?
Has anybody seen any evidence that the DLC types are or aren't capable of this, or are they just truly cowardly opportunists?
Today's broadband proposal shows some risk taking, but I don't know if the DLC branch was on board for that.
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