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 ******* said!
Always the liberal line. Evil corporations are bad!!! All Rich people got rich off of dead people's backs!
This author needs to do some investigative reporting on Romney's life after college. They struggled bigtime, living in a basement apartment costing $75 a month, when they had their first son in 1970 and second in 1971!!! Third son in 1975 and fourth in 1978.
They struggled at first for Mitt to make a name for himself, but he got break in 1977 in Bain Capital, then he worked his way up the ladder in Bain, but only to middle and upper middle class. He then broke off and started his own private equity co in 1983! Like all new businesses they struggled bigtime. It took 3 years to show a profit. Finally by the end of 1986 they started turning profits and never looked back. This enable Romney to make his fortune!
Mitt Romney, as a student at a chaotic time for BYU, focused on family, church - The Washington Post
By then, the couple had married and moved into a shabby, $62-a-month basement apartment, with cracked tiles in the kitchen floor.
See the liberals will collectivel IGNORE, that Romney struggled, worked hard, scarificed and eventually made it! They instead preach the narrative that Romney was rich his entire life and never had to work for a thing. It's utter bullshit and insulting!
Small Business (which can be as big as 500 employees) hire 60% of Americans! They are HURT the most by the over-regulation on business, they pay State and Federal taxation (see Corps always get back door tax breaks to) and always get the brunt of the liberal antibusiness charge/assault on Corporations/"Big Business!"
Nevertheless, Corporations still employ 40% of Americans (like myself)! They spend a TON of dollars in the economy, in the form of taxes (including payroll taxes and income taxes from their employees), from other companies in goods and services, in charitable contributions, business travel, hotels, convention etc.
Some corporation, like individuals and governments, do bad things, but the majority are forces of good, that employee Americans, provide Americans healthcare, provide goods and services the public needs, contributes a lot to charity and funds government!
I would say Fagyo, you should quite blaming the white man and instead get some fire in your belly, work hard and try to better your situation on your own! Blame people all you want for your own failure it will get you no where!
