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Both the tea party and OWS have railed against corporate welfare. IMO only the conservative tea partiers have a solution to the problem. By limiting the scope and size of gov't we can limit the ability of gov't to dole out largess. Generally OWS does not wish to make government smaller. As long as government is as big and powerful as it is now, people will find ways to channel it to their benefit.
You would be wrong
I support OWS and also support shrinking government in order to end Corporate welfare.
I know many personally that support shrinking government and support OWS
Perhaps one needs to meet up with people personally as well as OWS sites rather than what the corporate owned media, who have an agenda obviously wish to put out that is in their own best interest.
Right. Elected officials just can't say "no", can they?
They make the laws, what have they been doing on our behalf on our dime?
We can't fire employees of corporations but we can certainly fire elected officaials who screw us.
Problem is, many of the voting public seem to be quite content with who's in office if you look at re-election stats.
Since you agree that the problem is the "elected officials"? then you must also agree that controlling whom is elected is also the problem. It is who and how the people are voted in is the problem as you surmise.
What happens when the elected officials are also heads of Major Banks and Corporations that are bought by same said people.
The majority of the country no longer has a say, nor holds in responsibility on who gets put in office, and the bad decisions and crimes get laid on those buying our politicians.
With the logos of Goldman Sachs, Citibank, Fannie Mae, Bank of America, and AIG on display behind him, Colbert applauded Domino's "for joining the great American corporate tradition of screwing your customers and then having the balls to ask them to come back for more."
Turns out that Domino's had something else in common with these ethically challenged entities, aside from the dubious products they dumped on unwitting dupes.
As Sunday's New York Times revealed, Domino's effort to rebrand itself and thereby revive its flagging fortunes was partly financed by a government handout, or, if you prefer, corporate welfare. According to the Times' Michael Moss, Domino's $12 million marketing campaign was created and financed by a USDA-funded organization called Dairy Management.
Since you agree that the problem is the "elected officials"? then you must also agree that controlling whom is elected is also the problem. It is who and how the people are voted in is the problem as you surmise.
What happens when the elected officials are also heads of Major Banks and Corporations that are bought by same said people.
The majority of the country no longer has a say, nor holds in responsibility on who gets put in office, and the bad decisions and crimes get laid on those buying our politicians.
This is exactly why I can't understand the Tea Party. This government didn't just appear out of nowhere. We will have a small corrupt government like Mexico. This simplistic idea that simply reducing something without looking at the real world is somewhere between naive and stupid.
I am asking why YOU posted the article and made no reference to any other of the thousands of businesses that did the same.
I am posting the article because it is pertinent and was a direct article about domino's pizza. If you have other threads that are similar, by all means post them, there are many here who would be interested. No one is discounting the fact that corporate welfare is rampant.
Doesn't everyone!! Why work if there's no benefit!!
FYI...corporate welfare is not "work".
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