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originally posted by: dfnj2015
The American people are a fiddle. And corporations ARE the government:
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." Benito Mussolini
To sum up, what is Free Trade under the present conditions of society? Freedom of Capital. When you have torn down the few national barriers which still restrict the free development of capital, you will merely have given it complete freedom of action. So long as you let the relation of wages-labor to capital exist, no matter how favorable the conditions under which you accomplish the exchange of commodities, there will always be a class which exploits and a class which is exploited. It is really difficult to understand the presumption of the Free traders who imagine that the more advantageous application of capital will abolish the antagonism between industrial capitalists and wage workers. On the contrary. The only result will be that the antagonism of these two classes will stand out more clearly. ...
originally posted by: infolurker
a reply to: dfnj2015
Theft is when you use the power of government to FORCE redistribution of property and prosperity.
originally posted by: Asktheanimals
I think corporations are the root of the problem due to their ability to monopolize markets, privatize the profits and socialize the losses. How do we fix it? Make all corporations publicly-owned so that corporate profits go back to the people. The other huge problem is the legal system which is another maze set up to benefit the wealthy. It is also in terrible need of reform and simplification.
originally posted by: ManBehindTheMask
Great thing about our system over socialism? If you don’t like your situation work to change it , w socialism , too bad resist and die
originally posted by: watchitburn
originally posted by: dfnj2015
a reply to: infolurker
I have no idea what you are talking about with your criticisms and your made up definitions. But unless you are talking about increasing purchasing power of the median worker's wage to me you are just a shill for the status quo.
Says the shill for Govt tyranny and theft. 8 years of Obama's leftists policies did nothing but accelerate the destruction of the middle class and make workers less well off with less jobs less purchasing power.
It must be killing you now that the economy is turning around.
originally posted by: NobodiesNormal
a reply to: dfnj2015
just make sure you are clutching your communist manifesto tightly when you see all the winning trump is going to be doing very soon, maybe even this weekend.
it might be alittle bit frightening!
originally posted by: Teikiatsu
Marx: Strike 1
FDR: Strike 2
Blaming the lobbyist instead of the corrupt politician: Strike 3
Seriously, you don't like bad/corrupt political decisions but the Left wants nothing but politicians deciding how we live our lives...
You're out.
originally posted by: Teikiatsu
Marx: Strike 1
FDR: Strike 2
Blaming the lobbyist instead of the corrupt politician: Strike 3
Seriously, you don't like bad/corrupt political decisions but the Left wants nothing but politicians deciding how we live our lives...
You're out.
originally posted by: jacobe001
originally posted by: Asktheanimals
I think corporations are the root of the problem due to their ability to monopolize markets, privatize the profits and socialize the losses. How do we fix it? Make all corporations publicly-owned so that corporate profits go back to the people. The other huge problem is the legal system which is another maze set up to benefit the wealthy. It is also in terrible need of reform and simplification.
The point that they privatize the profits and socializes the losses these days cannot be overstated.
Even back when slavery was legal, the slave owners were responsible for your housing, your medical care and your food.
I mean, your slave does you no good if you harm him where he cannot work the fields.
Of course I disagree with slavery, but what we have is worse today.
It is a rent a slave economy where the slave owners take all the profits and push all the costs onto everyone else.
Look how many corporations are going the contractor route in order to even take less responsibility over the ones that make them profits.
originally posted by: Teikiatsu
Marx: Strike 1
FDR: Strike 2
Blaming the lobbyist instead of the corrupt politician: Strike 3
Seriously, you don't like bad/corrupt political decisions but the Left wants nothing but politicians deciding how we live our lives...
You're out.