Q&A: Do you find it more humorous or sad when some on the left think Reps. are the ONLY party of big biz?
January 7, 2011
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Q&A: Do you find it more humorous or sad when some on the left think Reps. are the ONLY party of big biz?
The ones that think Bush was in the pocket of big business and the Democrats would NEVER do that. (obviously that sentiment is ridiculous when BOTH conventions had lots of corporate sponsors)
More humorous or sad??
To be clear: BOTH major parties protect corporate interests. Hence the reason we are currently living in a corporate welfare state.
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Answer by me
humorous. silly liberals. when will you learn?
Answer by David C
One sided media???? NO!!!!
Palin did more for Alaska as a whole than Obama ever did for Chicago…. and yet she is painted like an idiot.
Answer by TEA.TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY!
You are right. But you must know the media only tells one side of the story,and if your party starts with an R,its not your side.
Answer by Spud
I find it to be both humorous and sad. It’s incredibly funny that people think that big business some how considers the general welfare to be in their best interest and sad that 99% of the population think either party isn’t catering to their major financial supporters.
Answer by The Amazing Obama
But democrats help the working class like passing credit card reform.
Conservatives like ron paul voted against the do-not-call list.
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Both sad and funny it’s so stupid and misinformed. Republicans are not the rich, democrats have much more on average and make much more on average. Almost all big business is run by democrat CEOs, and almost all of the wall street billionaires are democrats.
Republicans are the party of small business and individual rights, which is why most small business is run by Republicans.
Democrats are the party of corrupt big business, mob like Unions, and mob rule lawless ugly corrupted controlling for their own personal gain style government.
The only person I have ever seen making such a ridiculous statement is you.
More sad. I don’t look down on people and regret if they are misdirected, more so if I happen to generally like them, which is the case with most American liberals.
Both corporate parties are political instruments of the financial aristocracy, but the Republicans are the open advocates of big business. The Democrats pretend to defend the interests of the working people, while in practice serving the same corporate elite. This double-dealing role of the Democrats is expressed in their habitual spinelessness and insincerity.
In an opposition role, the Republicans conduct themselves intransigently, while the Democrats bow and scrape, beg for “bipartisanship,” and end up looking like the weaker party even when possessed, as now, of a sizeable majority.
With a Democrat in the White House, the Republican minority in Congress today attacks and blocks administration legislation, using every available parliamentary device, like the filibuster. When they were a majority in Congress, the Republicans even impeached a twice-elected president, Democrat Bill Clinton, on trumped-up charges.
The Democrats, by contrast, never availed themselves of the full powers of the legislature when, against their own expectations, they won a congressional majority in 2006. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ruled out impeachment hearings over Bush’s illegal wars, spying on Americans, and countless violations of the Constitution. The Democrats would neither vote down nor filibuster the stream of “emergency” bills to continue the funding of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Tens of millions voted for Obama and the Democrats last November in the hope that the Democratic Party would reverse the policies of the Republican Party and the Bush administration: militarism, attacks on democratic rights and the destruction of the living standards of working people. But the promises of “hope” and “change” have proven to be illusions.
Trillions have been turned over to Wall Street in the form of loans, guarantees and cash handouts from the Treasury and Federal Reserve. But what have the first four months of the Obama administration brought for the working class? Economic figures published this week suggest the answer:
• Some 13.5 million people are unemployed, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In addition, another 6.7 million people were working fewer that 35 hours a week in April because of “slack work or business conditions,” and more than 2.1 million are classified as “discouraged” and not seeking work. That brings the total unemployed or underemployed to more than 22 million people.
• A recent survey of 518 large companies by Hewitt Associates, a human resources consulting firm, reported in the New York Times Friday, found that 16 percent of employers had cut pay and 20 percent had cut hours or imposed furloughs, far higher figures than in previous recessions.
• The Mortgage Bankers Association reported that 5.4 million of the 45 million US home loans were either delinquent or in foreclosure in the first quarter of this year. The 12.07 percent delinquency and foreclosure rate is expected to rise sharply under the impact of rising unemployment.
• Subprime and adjustable-rate mortgages are no longer the principal driving force of the foreclosure crisis. In the first quarter of 2009, the foreclosure rate for prime fixed-rate mortgages doubled compared to a year before, to 6.06 percent, and these loans for the first time make up the largest share of new foreclosures.
It is critical for working people to understand the political meaning of these figures. Obama has summed up his economic philosophy as putting an end to unsustainable levels of consumption spending. It is clear whose consumption is to be cut: Not the luxuries and perquisites of the super-rich, but food, shelter, clothing, transportation, education and other basic necessities of the broad masses of working people.
Working people must recognize the Obama administration for what it is—the spearhead of an assault by the financial aristocracy. Obama’s policies are not the result of inadequate understanding or bad advice. He is a conscious and willing political servant of the multimillionaires, doing what is necessary to defend their class interests both at home and abroad.
I think I feel more sad than amused, as this is serious.
I live in Britain and we have the same problem – except here it is Tories, Lib Dems and Labour. All the parties have their snouts in the same trough. if you look at donations to Labour, these have gone down dramatically recently as companies switch in the hope that the Tories will get in. The reverse happened when the Tories were last in power, brought down by sleaze scandals. Anyone get a sense of de ja vu?
I am sure the same thing must happen in America. We need new parties that will stand up for the needs of ordinary people, not big business and not take any sleaze.
Those on the true left, not “centrists,” know exactly why an overwhelming Democratic majority has led to little change in anything, especially healthcare. Single-payer is the overwhelming choice of the people, but with few exceptions, Congress is looking out for the interests of the insurance racket. So is that so-called “liberal, socialistic” Obama.