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Yep, which is why I am all for regulations on where they get their donations from and who has access to our politicians.
Better to take the power away from the politicians by eliminating ecessive regulations. If the politicians have the power, the powerful in society will find a way to influence that power to their advantage.
Better to take the power away from the politicians by eliminating ecessive regulations. If the politicians have the power, the powerful in society will find a way to influence that power to their advantage.
So making it easier for politicians to be bought by billionaires and corporations is your idea.....yeah, that sounds like a great idea.
Well that is what happens when we have politicians sitting in the pockets of billionaires and wealthy corporations.
No, that's what you get when you keep re-electing legislators to represent you and ignore their ethics and base a vote on ethnicity, race, party, gender or whatever the hell else and top that with selfish one issue voters.
You don't like what you created and tolerated ??????????
If there’s anything that’s done more to prevent poor people improving their lot in life it’s the red tape of licensing boards instilled by government bureaucrats that prevent people from opening small businesses. Six months of training to become a manicurist? monopolies to buy a medallion for taxi drivers? I could provide dozens of examples of how government truncates opportunities for poor people to earn a living.
The purpose of government, these days, is to protect the friends of those in power! Only the stupid don't see that, truly.
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The bottom line is that our Government is largely controlled by nationless corporations and banks (often propped up/bailed out by the Federal Reserve) that don't care about the future of our country-they are only interested in short term profit. Long term-they don't need us.
They are like modern day pirates and can find new consumers in India/China and a new workforce in Bangladesh, all while ignoring US laws they don't like and bribing politicians to create ones they do. Americans are stuck in this country looking for jobs that pay less and less as our purchasing power vanishes and our "leaders" continue to sell the country off to the highest (or most connected) bidder.
While 90% of Americans are becoming poorer and poorer, our wealth and resources are being shipped out the country. National borders mean little to these corporate parasites today. Of the 100 largest economies in the World there are now more nationless pirate corporations than entire nations of people.
Basically-they don't care that they are destroying the future of our country, as the intent is to destroy the sovereignty of all nations and create economic hegemony across the World.
The Middle Class in this country is intentionally being killed via wage stagnation and massive inflation in the cost of education, housing, healthcare, food.
What is good for nationless corporations (who are seeing record profits) is not always what is good for The United States and Americans (who now receive Food Stamps at record levels and 1/3 children are in poverty). That needs to be realized. Stock prices go up when there are massive lay-offs in this country. Stock prices go up on certain health stocks when there is a threat of disease in this country (like ebola last year).
Please separate The United States from multi-national corporations, as there is a conflict of interest there.
"“…the American worker is also getting 'screwed' …boards and CEOS have allowed property, plants and equipment of our companies to become the oldest on record and, as a result, the growth rate in productivity per hour of our workers has also become the worst on record and has actually decreased compared to last year. The average age of corporate property, plants and equipment is an astounding 22.3 years, the oldest it has reached since 1941. But I do not believe that most boards and CEOs really give a damn. With many exceptions, CEOs only care about short term results. Perhaps you can’t really blame them because unfortunately, Wall Street judges them based on quarter to quarter results and CEOs receive their egregious compensation based on those short-term results.”
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