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Old 02-03-2016, 07:59 AM
 
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Are you so sure?
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Old 02-03-2016, 08:12 AM
 
Location: Texas
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I want to know when anti capitalism became american ideas? I remember when we were at huge odds with nations like the Soviet Union for their governmental controls.. Looks like we've flip flopped with them..
I want to know when "we the people" became "we the wealthy".

I think we need a constitutional amendment to reign in corporate oppression.
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Old 02-03-2016, 11:13 AM
 
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Being against crony capitalism and for free enterprise and small businesses is the right approach and that's why Sanders is so popular. People do not like the rigged system currently in place.
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Old 02-03-2016, 11:19 AM
 
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I want to know when "we the people" became "we the wealthy".

I think we need a constitutional amendment to reign in corporate oppression.
We the wealthy became as a result of GOVERNMENT mandating legislation which limited competition, ie UNAMERICAN...
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Old 02-03-2016, 11:20 AM
 
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Being against crony capitalism and for free enterprise and small businesses is the right approach and that's why Sanders is so popular. People do not like the rigged system currently in place.
Except Sanders INCREASES crony capitalism and does not at all support free enterprise nor small businesses.
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Old 02-03-2016, 11:23 AM
 
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Except Sanders INCREASES crony capitalism and does not at all support free enterprise nor small businesses.
His track record in Vermont shows he does. One of his biggest supporters are precisely small businesses as he has a more than 40 year track record of standing up for the little guy against the onslaught of monopolistic vested interests.
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Old 02-03-2016, 11:25 AM
 
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His track record in Vermont shows he does. One of his biggest supporters are precisely small businesses as he has a more than 40 year track record of standing up for the little guy against the onslaught of monopolistic vested interests.
he moves his mouth in all the right direction, but the results are the complete opposite..

its like telling people not to run from a rabid dog chasing you, and just stand there to get bitten..
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Old 02-03-2016, 11:26 AM
 
Location: Home, Home on the Front Range
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The grassroots revolution continues! Taking back the government from the hands of the special interest campaign donors is a work in progress as we speak. Among both conservatives, independents and progressives people have had enough.

Small donors and ordinary Americans are funding the biggest grassroots revolution in US political history. Bernie Sanders has raised about $3 million in the past 24 hours post-Iowa caucuses. It's the biggest 1-day money haul of the Sanders campaign.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ion-aides-say/
Very impressive.

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Old 02-03-2016, 11:29 AM
 
Location: By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea
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Except Sanders INCREASES crony capitalism and does not at all support free enterprise nor small businesses.
And just how 'free' should enterprise be?

Should someone be allowed to send jobs to China in order to produce a product sold in the US more cheaply, or should we legislate against that happening?

Perhaps we should ask Trump as he's sat on both sides of that fence?
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Old 02-03-2016, 11:31 AM
 
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And just how 'free' should enterprise be?

Should someone be allowed to send jobs to China in order to produce a product sold in the US more cheaply, or should we legislate against that happening?

Perhaps we should ask Trump as he's sat on both sides of that fence?
If a business offshores a job to another country, under what jurisdiction does the country have to legislate a business who DOES NOT STAY HERE?

Maybe the better solution is to stop creating an environment to encourage them to leave!!

i'm not sure if Trump actually sat on both sides, licensing your name out to another business, isnt really the same as doing business, but even if it is, wouldnt someone who's actually done it, know why it was done, and be in a better position to stop encouraging it in the future rather than just some politician who runs around talking about the notion it needs to stop while they support policies which would increase it?
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