Corporate Primacy Causes People Poverty

[ClosedCaption]

What a fucking load of horseshit.

HuffPo strikes again.

Really?

It was nothing short of a miracle that Romney was elected Gov of MA.

MA is and always has been a Dem stronghold..

Your opinion assumes that everyone want to assume the burden of caring for the poor and downtrodden.
I'm one fiscal conservative who thinks the poor and the downtrodden need to get off their asses and start taking care of themselves.

Most of the social programs should be cut. Once they are cut then the poor and downtroddent WILL HAVE TO get off their asses and take care of themselves.
If you want to assume the burden of taking care of the many freeloaders in America then have at it. I'm sure they will gladly take every dime you have.

No comment needed

Her contradiction is noted, she accuses someone of assumptions and busts out with her own idiotic assumption of all poor and downtrodden, casting them all as freeloaders, what a dingbat.

She makes the exact assumptions noted in the article but came in screaming at the top of her lungs how its a Huff Po hit piece. Now what does that say about her own words?

 

[Mr. Peepers]

You are obviously unaware of Monsanto's tactics. When pollen from a GMO crop is blown into a neighboring farm, it tends to render that crop infertile for the following season. Rather than apologize for this, they sue the neighboring farm if traces of their GMO genes are found in that crop.

Not only that, they are actively seeking to make regenerating "heirloom" seeds illegal, as well as farmer's markets. Then they want to unleash the holy hell that would be terminator seeds on nature, which could be catastrophic. They want to control every seed to every food grown, whether you want to admit it or not.

Monsanto Stomps Down Budding Seed Competitors | Common Dreams

 

[Bass v 2.0]

The progressive ignorance to economy and business in general is laughable..

I love how the idiots believe that corporations are going to run their lives unless we have a gigantic government - THAT IS ULTIMATELY RUNNING YOUR LIFE.

The government FORCES you do do shit - corporations don't FORCE YOU TO DO A FUCKING THING....

Corporations/businesses aren't bad - they provide people with jobs and create products. The government on the other hand just steals your money and dictates your life by telling you what you can and cant do, what products you can and cant buy, what you can and cant ingest as an individual..

There are millions of businesses and corporations in the United States, guess what??? you have a choice where to work, where to shop, what industries to support. You don't have that opportunity when the big ass government is banning shit left and right and writing laws that dictate peoples lives and outcomes...

Corporations want your business so they will compete with other corporations to get your business -- the government has no fucking competition to balance its self out - they can do what they want and you have no other choice but to submit to their batshit crazy demands....

BS, every heard of Defense Capital Working Fund? As a federal worker I'm paid out of that fund and guess what? We do have to compete just like a private business, oh how I laugh at the lack of knowledge that right wing trash has.

DCWF is an ACCOUNTING gimmick. It's not competition. It's not accountibility to customers. Not even clear that YOU understand the difference..

What RISK is your department taking when it accounts thru DCWF? Can you sell me a battleship???

You are out of your retarded mind, we get paid by the DoD customers who awards us contracts, what do you mean there is no accountability? We earn based on performance, if our job isn't done right someone else will get that contract, such a retard. Customers come to us stating what they want, we see if we can provide the services and the customer funds us to do the job, if we do anything at a lose or do not provide customer satisfaction we can lose our contract and if we do that we have to cut the work force.

 

[JoeNormal]

Government passing a law and shutting down their competition with force is "really not that much different" then corporations doing it by producing better products then their competition and being chosen by their customers? Too funny...



"Underhanded" ... so descriptive ...

Why don't you set aside your corporate jingoism long enough to read my reply to flacalten.

Pull the stick out, the post I hadn't read was two posts AFTER this one asking the question. But as to that situation, that's what civil courts are for. If it's true, they have a heck of a case. That some priests were evil and molested boys doesn't make the priesthood evil. Yes, some "corporations" (just saying it again to give you chills) do bad things, and they should be held accountable. Even as a libertarian I totally support having civil courts for that reason.

So since your standard is that if one "corporation" does one bad thing, then they are all bad, can I conclude that if government does one bad thing then all of government is bad? Or are you the only one who gets to use that logic?

Not that my experience is exhaustive but I've been close enough to the top of several major corporations to see the machinations. It almost always gets real douchy, real quick at that level.

 

[Truthmatters]

profits or people.

which do yo think is more important to the US people?

 

[JoeNormal]

profits or people.

which do yo think is more important to the US people?

Depends on whether you ask a conservative or a liberal.

 

[California Girl]

Leo W. Gerard: Corporate Primacy Causes People Poverty

For all the fancy talk in Ohio on Thursday, it comes down to this: Do Americans want a government of the people by the people for the people, one conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal? Or do Americans want a government of the corporations by the corporations for the corporations, one dedicated to the proposition that the rich are better than everyone else?

For the rich, like Mitt Romney, the proposition that they are better than everyone else is a given. Romney believes that he, the son of a wealthy car company executive and governor, the youth who attended exclusive private schools and wallowed in every privilege, is a self-made man.

That is basic Republican philosophy: Every wealthy person and every successful corporation achieved that all by themselves. They didn't inherit; they didn't benefit from taxpayer-funded infrastructure like roads, schools and patent enforcement; there was no luck involved. They achieved it alone by virtue of their own grit, hard work and dedication.
Anyone can do it, the GOP believes, if they would just buckle down, work hard and follow all the rules. As a result, in Republican world, anyone who isn't rich has only himself to blame.

Therefore, in GOP-logic, the poor and middle class are inferior beings. Government should not serve them. The government, Republicans think, should bow to the successful, who earned service. The government must not, according to the GOP, reward shiftlessness by providing benefits to middle class scallywags who have failed to do what it takes to get rich.This doctrine of primacy for corporations and the 1 percent has set back the middle class. And the nation's economy. Middle class income has stagnated. Meanwhile, the wealth of the top 1 percent and corporations has skyrocketed, so that now as much wealth is concentrated at the top as was during the robber-baron age immediately before the Great Depression.

Well fucking said!

What a load of total shite. The left are in the pocket of unions - and those unions are only interested in power and money, not their workers. You're like a fucking Turkey that looks forward to Christmas. Moron.

 

[flacaltenn]

You are obviously unaware of Monsanto's tactics. When pollen from a GMO crop is blown into a neighboring farm, it tends to render that crop infertile for the following season. Rather than apologize for this, they sue the neighboring farm if traces of their GMO genes are found in that crop.

Not only that, they are actively seeking to make regenerating "heirloom" seeds illegal, as well as farmer's markets. Then they want to unleash the holy hell that would be terminator seeds on nature, which could be catastrophic. They want to control every seed to every food grown, whether you want to admit it or not.

Monsanto Stomps Down Budding Seed Competitors | Common Dreams

Common Dreams eh?? Is this all ya got???

Monsanto's methods are spelled out in a series of confidential commercial licensing agreements obtained by the AP. The contracts, as long as 30 pages, include basic terms for the selling of engineered crops resistant to Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, along with shorter supplementary agreements that address new Monsanto traits or other contract amendments.

Imagine that -- asking customers and suppliers to sign an AGREEMENT.... How tyrannical is that? OR

The company has used the agreements to spread its technology - giving some 200 smaller companies the right to insert Monsanto's genes in their separate strains of corn and soybean plants. But, the AP found, access to Monsanto's genes comes at a cost, and with plenty of strings attached.

For example, one contract provision bans independent companies from breeding plants that contain both Monsanto's genes and the genes of any of its competitors, unless Monsanto gives prior written permission - giving Monsanto the ability to effectively lock out competitors from inserting their patented traits into the vast share of U.S. crops that already contain Monsanto's genes.

So they are SHARING their technology with 200 companies -- BUT TRYING TO PUT THEM OUT OF BUSINESS??? Which the fuck is it lefty? And I can see why they don't want people putting a mix of technology into a 3rd party product and giving Monsanto a bad name..

Turns out -- As usual--- that leftists just don't understand the first thing about business and the markets.. Especially not at "common wet dreams"....

 

[Truthmatters]

Leo W. Gerard: Corporate Primacy Causes People Poverty

For all the fancy talk in Ohio on Thursday, it comes down to this: Do Americans want a government of the people by the people for the people, one conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal? Or do Americans want a government of the corporations by the corporations for the corporations, one dedicated to the proposition that the rich are better than everyone else?

For the rich, like Mitt Romney, the proposition that they are better than everyone else is a given. Romney believes that he, the son of a wealthy car company executive and governor, the youth who attended exclusive private schools and wallowed in every privilege, is a self-made man.

That is basic Republican philosophy: Every wealthy person and every successful corporation achieved that all by themselves. They didn't inherit; they didn't benefit from taxpayer-funded infrastructure like roads, schools and patent enforcement; there was no luck involved. They achieved it alone by virtue of their own grit, hard work and dedication.
Anyone can do it, the GOP believes, if they would just buckle down, work hard and follow all the rules. As a result, in Republican world, anyone who isn't rich has only himself to blame.

Therefore, in GOP-logic, the poor and middle class are inferior beings. Government should not serve them. The government, Republicans think, should bow to the successful, who earned service. The government must not, according to the GOP, reward shiftlessness by providing benefits to middle class scallywags who have failed to do what it takes to get rich.This doctrine of primacy for corporations and the 1 percent has set back the middle class. And the nation's economy. Middle class income has stagnated. Meanwhile, the wealth of the top 1 percent and corporations has skyrocketed, so that now as much wealth is concentrated at the top as was during the robber-baron age immediately before the Great Depression.

Well fucking said!

What a load of total shite. The left are in the pocket of unions - and those unions are only interested in power and money, not their workers. You're like a fucking Turkey that looks forward to Christmas. Moron.

yeh and corporations are the heros huh?


jesus your a brain washed spoiled rich child

 

[flacaltenn]

BS, every heard of Defense Capital Working Fund? As a federal worker I'm paid out of that fund and guess what? We do have to compete just like a private business, oh how I laugh at the lack of knowledge that right wing trash has.

DCWF is an ACCOUNTING gimmick. It's not competition. It's not accountibility to customers. Not even clear that YOU understand the difference..

What RISK is your department taking when it accounts thru DCWF? Can you sell me a battleship???

You are out of your retarded mind, we get paid by the DoD customers who awards us contracts, what do you mean there is no accountability? We earn based on performance, if our job isn't done right someone else will get that contract, such a retard. Customers come to us stating what they want, we see if we can provide the services and the customer funds us to do the job, if we do anything at a lose or do not provide customer satisfaction we can lose our contract and if we do that we have to cut the work force.

What the heck is your PRODUCT? What do you MAKE? Or are just a "value added reseller" of bullets and gasoline? Does someone in the Marine Corps lose a job if you guys win?

 

[ClosedCaption]

^^wow that guy must have a monsanto poster above his bunk bed. He critised who wrote it, ridiculed the idea of unfair contracts and excused a takeover in one post.

 

[kaz]

profits or people.

which do yo think is more important to the US people?

Well, the Democrats/liberals want control of the money in our economy, all of it. So they are concerned with profits.

True conservatives and libertarians want to allow people to make their own choices over their own lives, so they are concerned with people.

There are also liberal Republicans who are just confused on the whole question.

 

[ItsjustmeIthink]

For all the fancy talk in Ohio on Thursday, it comes down to this: Do Americans want a government of the people by the people for the people, one conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal? Or do Americans want a government of the corporations by the corporations for the corporations, one dedicated to the proposition that the rich are better than everyone else?

For the rich, like Mitt Romney, the proposition that they are better than everyone else is a given. Romney believes that he, the son of a wealthy car company executive and governor, the youth who attended exclusive private schools and wallowed in every privilege, is a self-made man.

That is basic Republican philosophy: Every wealthy person and every successful corporation achieved that all by themselves. They didn't inherit; they didn't benefit from taxpayer-funded infrastructure like roads, schools and patent enforcement; there was no luck involved. They achieved it alone by virtue of their own grit, hard work and dedication.
Anyone can do it, the GOP believes, if they would just buckle down, work hard and follow all the rules. As a result, in Republican world, anyone who isn't rich has only himself to blame.

Therefore, in GOP-logic, the poor and middle class are inferior beings. Government should not serve them. The government, Republicans think, should bow to the successful, who earned service. The government must not, according to the GOP, reward shiftlessness by providing benefits to middle class scallywags who have failed to do what it takes to get rich.This doctrine of primacy for corporations and the 1 percent has set back the middle class. And the nation's economy. Middle class income has stagnated. Meanwhile, the wealth of the top 1 percent and corporations has skyrocketed, so that now as much wealth is concentrated at the top as was during the robber-baron age immediately before the Great Depression.

Well fucking said!

I could defintely see this as a description of TEA Party conservativism, but I wouldn't say it describes the GOP in general. Voters are just desperate for a quick out, and so the extreme left or right always seem to profit. People will eventually regain their senses...i think?

 

[kaz]

Not that my experience is exhaustive but I've been close enough to the top of several major corporations to see the machinations. It almost always gets real douchy, real quick at that level.

Spent my career in GE Management and Management Consulting, including Booz Allen Hamilton. It is douchy, but that doesn't contradict they don't have the power to shut down their competition with guns or force you to buy their product. And politicians are every bit as douchy if not more ... and they do have the power to shut down their competition with guns and force you to buy their product. So logic would dictate...

 

[bripat9643]

corporate

Liberals crack me up with the "corporate" bogey man. Businesses are people. But you put the word "corporate" and then it turns in your shallow minds into Nightmare on Elm Street. Businesses can't make you do business with them, government can. Businesses can't use the force of guns, government can. But government you trust, and business is the bogey man.

Common argument but it's not true. You use the product of countless corporations you've never even heard of because they produce items that are needed by the ones you're aware of.

Irrelevant. They still didn't use guns on anyone. Government, on the other hand, uses guns to collect money from you.

 

[Truthmatters]

profits or people?


pretty easy choice for me.

 

[Truthmatters]

which do you think Jesus would chose?

 

[flacaltenn]

^^wow that guy must have a monsanto poster above his bunk bed. He critised who wrote it, ridiculed the idea of unfair contracts and excused a takeover in one post.

But yet YOU couldn't even work the quote button OR show us an "unfair" contract, or tell us how Monsanto is trying to put others out of business when they have over 200 licensees of their "proprietary" technology.. It's just the sobbing of "common wet dreams", bitchin' about crap they don't have a prayer of understanding.. And wouldn't WANT to understand it..

 

[Truthmatters]

just more proof the whole christain conservative thing is nothing but a lie

 

[flacaltenn]

profits or people.

which do yo think is more important to the US people?

The fact that you believe it is an EITHER/OR choice just demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of the world around you..

That baker in your town.. Do you get bread if you DENY HER a profit? How do you serve others if you are denied a profit for your services??

Serving others (for profit) is the reason Every business person gets dressed in the morning..

But we digress.. Where the heck is FlayLo and can we just declare the OP a complete distraction and a crock now? Or does he/she/it want to discuss the REAL cause of "Corporate Primacy" and how the Dem party is so pure of criticism on this cause?