georgephillip
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What is it you think conservatives will win by lessening government control over Goldman Sachs?Our specie is a component of the societies in which we as individuals live. An individual trekking across the plains of Africa 100,000 years ago and a Housewife shopping for food in the frozen food aisle of the local mega mart today are as similar in activity and world view as a fish and a meteor.
Profits mean nothing to Lucy of Africa and without them, Lucy Ricardo dies. The modern world is based on profits earned and reinvested by corporations of every stripe. Corporations build the vehicles that use the fuel that move the vehicles to grow, transport and retrieve the food that we live on. Most of us work for corporations, if we are lucky enough to still have a job, and we use the incomes generated by the profits to contibute to the society, raise our children and build our homes, communities and lives.
Without profits, and this is absolutely literal, we are all dead. Period. Our society today is a symbiotic web of interrelationships of all people organized in a cooperative and interdependent confederation of corporations.
Today corporations bribe governments to get things done. Does this more about corporations or more about governments? One group is trying to accomplish something and the other is actively and arbitrarily standing in the way. Bribes clear the way.
Serve the rich? What does this mean? How does this differ between the two major parties? It seems to me that there is plenty of corruption to be found. Corporations donate plenty to all political powers.
A Conservative approach to government leans more toward a lessening of government control while a Liberal approach leans more toward increasing government control. Some control is needed and the amount is dictated by the times and the conditions.
The current strangulation of the economy may produce a tsunami of Conservative wins in 2012 and it may produce the panicked fear that makes otherwise able folks deny the possibility of success and trade it for government control of their lives.
If the collective spirit of the national voter is sufficiently shattered, there will be no hope and the Liberals with the promise of excessive control will win.
If there is an inner belief in enough left that hard work is what will win the day and we only need to be given the opportunity to make things better, the Conservatives will win.
We'll see what we see.
Do you think government should be investigating Goldman Sachs's current manipulation of oil and food prices?
Are conservatives even capable of understanding how the richest 5% of Americans working with Wall Street and Republicans AND Democrats in Congress have just affected the largest transfer of private debt into public debt in all history?
Unbridled debt is what is strangling our economy, and conservatives are among the least likely politicians to turn on the creditor class.
Should government investigate why the top 1% of American earners now control 25% of total US income?
If not government, who should?