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    Let us take a moment to recap what big corporations have done for us, shall we?

    I can think of a few examples. I'm sure you can add more.

    Basically, the decision-making is all about increasing profits; all else takes on far less priority. And how is that working out for us?

    PG&E, the same company that gave us drinking water laced with Hexavalent Chromium:


    "From 1952 to 1966, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) dumped about 370 million gallons of chromium-tainted wastewater into unlined wastewater spreading ponds around the town of Hinkley, California, located in the Mojave Desert (about 120 miles north-northeast of Los Angeles).[1][2]

    PG&E used chromium 6, or hexavalent chromium (a cheap and efficient rust suppressor), in its compressor station for natural-gas transmission pipelines.[1]:[3] Hexavalent-chromium compounds are genotoxic carcinogens.

    In 1993, legal clerk Erin Brockovich began an investigation into the health impacts of the contamination. A class-action lawsuit about the contamination was settled in 1996 for $333 million, the largest settlement of a direct-action lawsuit in U.S. history. In 2008, PG&E settled the last of the cases involved with the Hinkley claims. Since then, the town's population has dwindled to the point that in 2016 The New York Times described Hinkley as having slowly become a ghost town.[4][5] " (wiki)

    That same company is now in big trouble for PG&E wild fires being caused by it's equipment, which is not made to resist the normal winds of the dry season in the tinder-box of California.

    Boeing made decisions which resulted in two 737MAX airliner crashes which killed 300 people.
    This is the same company which narrowly averted loss of life due to 787 battery fires. The rush to profits prevented safe measures.

    Volkswagon decided emissions regulations were just too onerous
    to allow enough profits, so they cheated the entire world out of cleaner air for more money.

    Dupont killed more people than 911 in India with a gas leak from a pesticide plant. Safety regulations were bypassed to save money.

    Bayer-Monsanto decided to sell the same chemicals used in Agent Orange for domestic weed control. Who could possibly have predicted that would not end well? They just settled a huge lawsuit after a worker using their product got cancer. That was only one case, with others sure to follow. btw, they also use the same thing on our food crops. Yummy!

    Amazon placed ambulances outside it's warehouse
    because there was no air conditioning, and the inside temperatures soared as high as 115 degrees, but workers there were not allowed to slow down or take a break. Also, if any dropped and had to be stretchered off, more workers were on call and waiting to take their place. Anyone who refused lost their job. The owner of Amazon is the third richest man in the world.

    The Koch Brothers corporation knew there was lots of money to be made in the fossil fuel industry if only the public sentiment did not embrace a mass movement toward the green movement. So they embarked on a very effective mass PR effort to cloud the debate over climate change.

    Perdue Pharma decided to become a 'legal' drug pusher.
    They heavily marketed oxycontin and other pain medications, which resulted in getting a lot of people addicted, leading to destroyed lives, families and fortunes. But the Sackler family got incredibly rich.

    ENRON corporation, along with Arthur Anderson Accounting, pulled off a mass deception which made it's stock appear to be a really good deal. Many Americans bought in. They got ripped off, the books were cooked and most investors lost nearly everything.

    The Tobacco Industry marketed cigarettes to children. Get 'em hooked while they are young and you have a customer for life. Well, as long as that life lasts.

    The Auto Industry resisted installing seat belts and other safety related measures. Ralph Nader had to shame them into it. Safety improved.

    The White Star Line rushed the completion of the Titanic in a bid to have the fastest most luxurious 'unsinkable' ships on the seas. We know how that ended. Speaking of a mighty ship sinking,

    The Trump Organization
    defrauded 'students' of Trump University, promising them the secrets of wealth. The lesson they got instead was that the wealthy get that way by extracting wealth from the non-wealthy, any way they can. Lying is just as good a method as any. Trump settled for $25 Million to avoid the bad PR of a scandalous well publicized court trial. This was no one-time slip up. Instead, this was indicative of business as usual for that organization, with MANY such digressions having come to light since Trump took such a high-profile position as President of the USA.

    I could go on and on. I'm sure you can add more to this brief list. The bottom line is we cannot trust big corporations to have our better interest in mind as they pursue more profits. We must have a powerful government with strong regulations to protect ourselves and the planet from this institutionalized greed.

    Anybody who thinks government should just 'get out of the way' and let capitalism deliver for us? We should be asking them exactly WHAT they expect capitalism to deliver!

    Capitalism is a way for people with capital to get rich. That's it. Capitalism does not provide for our needs and does not have our backs. Instead, we have to WATCH our backs with capitalism around.

    Now, I am not saying we should get rid of capitalism. Conservatives should be sure to ignore my words here. We do not have to choose between capitalism and socialism. We need capitalism for all the good things it produces. Products, services, reasonable profits - these are good things! But capitalism has no reason to take care of people in need. That's why we have socialism. So we can 'Promote the General Welfare,' and 'Promote Domestic Tranquility.'

    Our challenge is not to choose between capitalism and socialism. It is to strike the correct balance between the two. (Conservatives should completely ignore that and continue to argue as if it is a choice and we can only have one system.) Admitting reality is not conservative's strong suit.
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    We live in a plutocracy, no doubt about it, with corporations being a major player, when Citizens United became law it pretty much cemented the reality

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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    We live in a plutocracy, no doubt about it, with corporations being a major player, when Citizens United became law it pretty much cemented the reality
    The plutocrats fund, operate, and own the GOP.

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    Hello Trumpet,

    Quote Originally Posted by Trumpet View Post
    The plutocrats fund, operate, and own the GOP.
    Yes, the GOP is the political arm of big money corporate greed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PoliTalker View Post
    Hello Trumpet,



    Yes, the GOP is the political arm of big money corporate greed.
    Of course that's why Wall Street supported Hillary Clinton with far greater donations of loot than they did Trump, huh? "Loving eyes never see!"
    "Government is force by definition and corruption by nature. The bigger the government, the greater the force and the greater the corruption."

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    Quote Originally Posted by PoliTalker View Post
    Hello Trumpet,



    Yes, the GOP is the political arm of big money corporate greed.
    Capitalism requires no government.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Into the Night View Post
    Capitalism requires no government.
    but internationalist fascism relies on it to buttress oligarch power.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trumpet View Post
    The plutocrats fund, operate, and own the GOP.
    And the dnc. They know how to hedge.
    "Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Joseph Stalin
    The USA has lost WWIV to China with no other weapons but China Virus and some cash to buy democrats.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trumpet View Post
    The plutocrats fund, operate, and own the GOP.
    There are far more uber wealthy Democrats than there are Republicans you clueless dullard.
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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    We live in a plutocracy, no doubt about it, with corporations being a major player, when Citizens United became law it pretty much cemented the reality
    That's an idiotic claim. What is stopping anyone in this nation from becoming wealthy? From voting?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Truth Detector View Post
    That's an idiotic claim. What is stopping anyone in this nation from becoming wealthy? From voting?
    but the better question is what stops unlimited corporate influence on politicians since citizens united?

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    Quote Originally Posted by AssHatZombie View Post
    but the better question is what stops unlimited corporate influence on politicians since citizens united?
    Corporations are people. Stocks are owned by people. People decide what politics they wish to fund. Money is part of politics. Hillary outspent Trump. Did that affect the outcome?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Truth Detector View Post
    Corporations are people. Stocks are owned by people. People decide what politics they wish to fund. Money is part of politics. Hillary outspent Trump. Did that affect the outcome?

    no. they're not people. that's retarded.

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    they're extremely disgusting.

    and they are the implementers of the banker agenda, the new world order.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AssHatZombie View Post
    they're extremely disgusting.

    and they are the implementers of the banker agenda, the new world order.
    Acute paranoia.

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