From A.T. --- Author, Re: "This "corporations run the government" meme has been around since the 1970s, and it's no more true now than it was then. As Rick Moran points out, if corporations really ran the government would we have an EPA, OSHA, SEC, the EEOC, the FHA, the Department of Labor, or any of the other number of state and federal agencies regulate corporate behavior?"
Oh please. Where did Obama get most of his campaign finance support? It's obvious corporatists don't RUN government efficiently (or like a corporation). But internationalists among them do milk, cannibalize, and RUIN governments. Indeed, who is calling, financing, and hedging with the Wall Street Occupiers and flash mobs? Isn't that precious ... look what our protesters have advocated: More regulations we can use to increase control and pull the ladder up.
What's RUINING us is not the corporate form or corporations, per se, but international crony corporatist speculators whose entire faith lies in materialism. So long as nothing checks them from cannibalizing the American middle class, they need not give a damn about preserving meaningful influence or freedom for ordinary strivers against a purely materialistic alliance of elite apologists and useful dupes. Forget ownership. Ask what small percentage of people CONTROL most of the world's politicians and productivity? What tends to be their political philosophy?
Re: "The problem isn't corporations, the problem is that we have a government that has its fingers in nearly every aspect of the economy." Agree. But what's the nature of the political alliance and materialistic philosophy that has fostered this? If the problem is middle class indolence rather than a philosophy of materialism run amuck, then ask what are the foundations and institutions that have fostered this indolence? What? The American middle class deserves to be impoverished for not bowing down to rotting internationalists? What kind of wormwood is this?
Oh please. Where did Obama get most of his campaign finance support? It's obvious corporatists don't RUN government efficiently (or like a corporation). But internationalists among them do milk, cannibalize, and RUIN governments. Indeed, who is calling, financing, and hedging with the Wall Street Occupiers and flash mobs? Isn't that precious ... look what our protesters have advocated: More regulations we can use to increase control and pull the ladder up.
What's RUINING us is not the corporate form or corporations, per se, but international crony corporatist speculators whose entire faith lies in materialism. So long as nothing checks them from cannibalizing the American middle class, they need not give a damn about preserving meaningful influence or freedom for ordinary strivers against a purely materialistic alliance of elite apologists and useful dupes. Forget ownership. Ask what small percentage of people CONTROL most of the world's politicians and productivity? What tends to be their political philosophy?
Re: "The problem isn't corporations, the problem is that we have a government that has its fingers in nearly every aspect of the economy." Agree. But what's the nature of the political alliance and materialistic philosophy that has fostered this? If the problem is middle class indolence rather than a philosophy of materialism run amuck, then ask what are the foundations and institutions that have fostered this indolence? What? The American middle class deserves to be impoverished for not bowing down to rotting internationalists? What kind of wormwood is this?
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The "non-bigoted Left" (sarc) is going to tar the Republican candidate, regardless. It's gathering its voo doo to go after Romney's Mormonism, Perry's rock, or Cain's "non-authenticity." The best candidate would seem to be the one most adept at taking away the Left's voo doo dolls and giving it a well deserved thrashing behind the woodpile. (I don't think Perry's got that in him.) Christianity is the bulwark of America, but for goodness sakes, Americans need to get less bigoted about Mormons. Look beyond the literalism of the faith and get to know some Mormons (not the media fringe types). By all rights, the coming election should be a walk. But it won't. Why? Not because of governing substance. Obama will remain a threat because the Left is going to play the bigot card, and hard. Even though the Left is the biggest bigot going. No one will ever out-bigot a Leftist. Proof: Obama celebrates Islam, an unsane blight that devalues more than half its population, yet is still celebrated as being "brilliant" (per the Left, he's failing only because he isn't forceful enough with his brilliance).
The Left is all about howling rights for a rainbow coalition: robbers, anarchists, insurrectionists, nefarians, blockheads, and wombats. Every full moon should be dedicated to letting them run about howling. That way, it would be less ambiguous who they are, and they could get it out of their system. Set out free dope in the parks, so they can cogulate in some safe place where they aren't likely to do too much harm.
Along with Oprahland, The View, NPR, men having babies, and countless other phonies, the Left has long lived in a parallel, virtual world. Until Obama began cutting the last lines of connection to reality, he had plenty of company in that world. The other residents knew all along that their air and food had to be piped in from the real world. Obama thinks otherwise. Now he's wrapped himself off as Mr. Cellophane Man and wondering why it's getting harder to breathe. They were poseurs. He's a believer in his own precious bodily fluids, and now he can't understand why everything's shutting down.
Re: "The existing tax code is horrendous, and custom made for cheating and creating loopholes."
Not to mention the attraction it has for political abuse. The more complex, the more ad hoc, the more the realities point to needing easy examples ... the more the abuse of those who are least able to defend themselves or who have the fewest corrupt insider friends. The Income Tax is tailor made to support despotism over the fearful and law abiding, while inviting cornyism for corrupt insider friends. Eventually, our law becomes what it rewards. Who would thrive in that milieu better than Screwtape? Indeed, under the system as it is, is the enormity not yet obvious that Screwtape has been gathering ever more power against ordinary Americans every day?
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