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I drink your milkshake! a metaphor for capitalism
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<blockquote data-quote="BrownArmy" data-source="post: 1977593" data-attributes="member: 18225"><p>What are the corporations risking?</p><p></p><p>Subsidies? Tax breaks? </p><p></p><p>Don't you wonder when corporations spend Millions lobbying, and then cry poor?</p><p></p><p>'<em>Well, we didn't do very well this quarter, etc, so we need to cut wages, blah, blah'...</em></p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, the CEO got a fifty percent pay rise, the share price went up, investors were happy...(pay and benefits for workers got cut, the company downsized, et.al).</p><p></p><p>There's this fantasy among the 'right' that hard work will allow you to pull your bootstraps up, but that's not real for Citizens. But, buying government (lobbying, donating to candidates, - - -) is all you really need to make it as a Corporation.</p><p></p><p>In this case, corporations are the welfare queens, and the common Man (or Woman), just doesn't stand a chance.</p><p></p><p>But, yah, you just need to pull yourself up by your bootstraps.</p><p></p><p>Lulz.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrownArmy, post: 1977593, member: 18225"] What are the corporations risking? Subsidies? Tax breaks? Don't you wonder when corporations spend Millions lobbying, and then cry poor? '[I]Well, we didn't do very well this quarter, etc, so we need to cut wages, blah, blah'...[/I] Meanwhile, the CEO got a fifty percent pay rise, the share price went up, investors were happy...(pay and benefits for workers got cut, the company downsized, et.al). There's this fantasy among the 'right' that hard work will allow you to pull your bootstraps up, but that's not real for Citizens. But, buying government (lobbying, donating to candidates, - - -) is all you really need to make it as a Corporation. In this case, corporations are the welfare queens, and the common Man (or Woman), just doesn't stand a chance. But, yah, you just need to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Lulz. [/QUOTE]
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