Government doesn't help business?
(This is insane. Is Mark Levine this powerful)
Where do you think the computer and the technology that fueled the 80s consumer electronic boom came from? It came from the Space Program and the Cold War Pentagon. It was subsidized by the public and directed by government. The costs were socialized, then the technology and profits were privatized.
Or what about the military apparatus which, by "stabilizing" dangerous regions, ensures that American transnationals have access to 3rd world labor and resources? The public pays for this, but the benefits are narrowly distributed. The oil industry gets tax breaks in exchange for the billions the public pays to control the middle east. The oil industry gets endless help from Washington, which was paid to destroy the first electronic car movement in California, as well as the conservation movement, thus limiting competition and artificially lifting energy prices.
Or what about Reagan protecting the American auto industry from Japan. Big business craves big government help -- and it pays endlessly for it. Nothing likes big government more than big business. The two are one.
The Free Market: Ronald Reagan: Protectionist
Or what about Eli Lilly paying the government to protect them from foreign competition, so drug prices could remain artificially high and choke the middle class (whose jobs were not protected by Washington).
Big business is not only helped by Washington, it can't live with out big government subsidies, bailouts, protections, regulatory rigging, and legislative favors.
(wow, I cannot believe what the right wing information system has done to this country)