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In recent years, we have stepped up our efforts to deal with the enormous threats to the future well-being of the people of this country. This has prompted some extreme criticism. From the White House to fringe bloggers, we are now being vilified, mischaracterized and threatened.
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Unfair programs that favor certain companies — such as the current well-intentioned but misguided suggestion that the natural-gas industry should receive enormous new subsidies — don't just happen. They are promoted, in large part, by those seeking to profit politically, rather than by competing in a market where consumers vote with their wallets.
By contrast, we lobby against regulations or policies that would increase our profits at the expense of consumers. We believe in satisfying customers by competing on equal terms, rather than the government picking winners and losers.
In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan and his supporters started exporting basic industry offshore, where wages were lower. This was a staggering blow to the middle class in the American rust belt. The same corporate CEOs likewise used globalization to sell goods and services abroad, rather than in the US. Ominously, among them arose a new breed of multi-billionaires who were rightwing extremists and completely without scruple. These super-rich individuals, such as Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers, began to use their wealth to attack American democracy and disenfranchise the middle class, because their income no longer depended on American workers and consumers Southern California InFocus - How we got here
An Opinion piece, but more truthful than the Koch Brothers article.
In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan and his supporters started exporting basic industry offshore, where wages were lower. This was a staggering blow to the middle class in the American rust belt. The same corporate CEOs likewise used globalization to sell goods and services abroad, rather than in the US. Ominously, among them arose a new breed of multi-billionaires who were rightwing extremists and completely without scruple. These super-rich individuals, such as Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers, began to use their wealth to attack American democracy and disenfranchise the middle class, because their income no longer depended on American workers and consumers Southern California InFocus - How we got here
An Opinion piece, but more truthful than the Koch Brothers article.
IF companies moved employment offshore, it may have been due to Carter's high taxes - and before Reagan reduced taxes.
Are multi-billionaires only right wing?
Do you have an example of how Koch attacked American democracy?
This editorial is laughable - except that is seems to come from a Muslim source - from your link...
American civil society must protect American freedoms, defend religious liberty and effectively fight Islamophobia. The crisis America is now entering puts pressure on affluent Muslims to fund organizations to protect Muslim civil rights in America. Above all, there should be thoughtful alliances with all who support democracy and the rule of law.
Muslim civil rights - that's a real crisis, right?
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