Businesses benefitting from right-wing agenda.

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Received by enail from The Progress Report

BUSINESS BENEFITING FROM RIGHT-WING AGENDA: The Washington Post reports, "Fortune 500 companies that invested millions of dollars in electing Republicans are emerging as the earliest beneficiaries - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3796-2005Mar26.html?nav=rss_politics - of a government controlled by President Bush and the largest GOP House and Senate majority in a half century." Some of the winners so far include MBNA Corp., the credit card behemoth and fifth-largest contributor to Bush's two presidential campaigns, which will benefit from the bankruptcy bill - http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/pp.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=408817 -, and Exxon Mobil Corp, which will reap big profits from legislation allowing drilling in Alaska's wildlife refuge. Wal-Mart, another big contributor to Bush and his GOP allies, "recently won long-sought protections from class-action lawsuits." - http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/212623_classaction18.html -

And don't worry, says conservative lobbyist Charles R. Black Jr., "there is more to come on that score." Bush and his congressional allies are "looking to pass legal protections for drug companies, doctors, gun manufacturers and asbestos makers, as well as tax breaks for all companies and energy-related assistance sought by the oil and gas industry."

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1. Even this needs to be reframed: "The *owners* of big businesses..."

"...are benefitting" blah blah blah.

In Reality World, businesses that are doing great are expanding and hiring folks and introducing innovative products and services and helping (either directly or indirectly) the surrounding community.

THIS IS NOT HAPPENING IN THIS SCENARIO.

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2. You are absolutely right.

The mom and pop shops are not the winners, it is the sprawl mart / multinationals. Touche.

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3. Ever since it has been suggested here, I try to reframe EVERYTHING

that the RW freaks throw out there (or the MSM, or my fundy freak family, or whoever).

I think of it as a sort of ideological judo, using the thrust of their argument or stance to their disadvantage.

I do agree with your original statement, btw, just the way we present things needs to change. I am still learning, but these numbnuts have been at it *proactively* for a couple of decades now.

We need to catch up!

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4. It's like arguing like a teenager! nt