I'm sick of all the corporatists in the Obama administration.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

Instead, I think the government should be staffed with people who believe that companies, which make our products, provide our services, and employ most of us, should be wholly owned by single ultra-rich billionaries, as opposed to many small investors.

Or, barring that, people who believe companies should be owned by covens of sugar plum fairies. And sugar plum fairies with alternative on-line educations. Not sugar plum fairies with MBAs from some fancy pants accredited institution.

I'm sick of all the collegeists in the Obama administration. Or should I say, the Obama adminiSatan?

[Ron Green]

1. I at least think the people in his administration ought to read David Korten's take on Wall Street

and do some soul-searching about where they really want to steer the ol' Ship of State.

[panader0]

2. One word

Monsanto

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. What do you think inspired my outrage?

[TahitiNut]

4. See...

http://www.amazon.com/Corporatism-Secret-Government-World-Order/dp/0930852702

http://www.amazon.com/Unequal-Protection-Corporate-Dominance-Rights/dp/1579549551/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_k2a_3_txt?pf_rd_p=304485601&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-2&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0930852702&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0GZ0NP0C84TY9TBZ86N5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism

http://www.publiceye.org/fascist/corporatism.html

http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=22594

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12017.htm


... instead of posturing with ignorant strawmen.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. "This article contains weasel words."

They ain't kidding.

:rofl:

[rucky]

5. I own some stock.

I'm going to give the board of directors of that company a piece of my mind!

:rofl:

[MGKrebs]

6. Only farmers should be politicians.

And only for 2 years. Then they quit. Like that Alaskan gal.

[emulatorloo]

8. Who the hell came up with this word "Corporatists"? Difficult to say and makes me sound like an

idiot when I try to say it.

Surely we can do better. Maybe "Pro-corporation" would work better.

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Sorry, carry on.

[ihavenobias]

16. I disagree.

Just pronounce it like "Corp-rah-tists". Not hard, and much better than the cumbersome "pro-corporation" (which also might suggest someone is anti-corporation generically rather than a more accurate nuanced position)IMO.

PS---Fascist is outdated and unfortunately turns most people off.

[nosmokes]

9. ahh, if only corporations were benign economic institutions and not

also major political players crossing boundaries at will and playing one government off against another then i might begin to listen, but it seems to me that corporations have entirely too much power, sway and influence with our government when compared to that of "we the PEOPLE."

[ihavenobias]

10. I'm sick of false dichotomies. n/t

[d_b]

12. /end thread

[msongs]

11. sorry, Obama is not gonna resign just to make you happy nt

[girl gone mad]

13. companies make our products, provide our services, and employ most of us?

Since when?

[readmoreoften]

15. I saw a certificate of incorporation in a neon vest fixing a traffic light the other day.

And then I saw a pile of stocks and the numbers of a CEO's Swiss bank account drawing up a blueprint for a new type of solar panel.

[readmoreoften]

14. Ah, no. Corporations don't make anything. Workers make our products and provide our services.

Workers make our products. Every last product. And if a machine makes it, it's because a worker that mined the materials and designed the machine itself.
Workers provide service. Last time I checked, the CEO of Aetna wasn't cleaning bedpans and the CEO of Sylvan Learning Center wasn't tutoring your kid.

Corporations are organization schemes to extract profit from labor and pass that profit on through inheritance. That's what they do. Period. End of question.

We don't need corporations to "employ" us thanks. Do we need corporations to employ public school teachers? No. Why is that? Well it ain't cuz sugar plum fairies built the buildings and teach the kids. It's because workers cut down trees with machines made by workers and poured concrete invented by workers into the shape of a building designed by a worker so that kids of workers could be taught by workers called "teachers".

Yes, you're right. Corporatist is a dumb work made up by people too timid to say the word imperialists. The only thing corporations make is deals with the state to keep their imaginary power. And financial "workers" make up banking formulas to bamboozle everyone else. That's what they "make." They are a totally unnecessary category of people.

[scheming daemons]

17. HFPS... by now you should know that a sarcasm tag is NECESSARY....

...

50% of DU is sarcasm-illiterate and didn't get your OP.