wkmac
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Reading the above IMO piggybacks well onto this video at Corbett Report from a couple of days ago. The title is "We are (still) winning."
We Are (Still) Winning - YouTube
Shhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! The inventor of "crony capitalism" dies without hardly a blip on the lame stream media radar.....No change here either!
"But in 1983, while he was in Switzerland, Rich was indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury on more than 50 counts of fraud, racketeering, trading with Iran during the U.S. Embassy hostage crisis and evading more than $48 million in income taxes."
Old Slick Willie gives the single finger salute with his last presidential pardon before leaving office!
Financier Marc Rich dies at 78; last-day pardon by Clinton provoked a flood of criticism
UPSMule, Here is a start of reading about the father of crony capitalism. This was written Oct. 2008' as the gov't was resurrecting the ghost of Hamilton as an answer to an economic crisis created by the fact they followed Hamilton in the first place.
Hey we totally agree there! I should have phrase it as "CC in our time." My point is still valid.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to the one who is striking the root.
Ok? Whatever.... I wonder how many of the OWS ilk gave a rats' @ss when Clinton pardoned this criminal, or shed a tear at his death.
Well you can make assumptions or you can begin by asking some of them and see where the conversation goes. On some levels I supported OWS but 804 has been the biggest advocate here of OWS so why not ask 804 what his opinion is. My guess is you and he will agree when it comes to Rich and if this is true, where would you go from there?
I'm not really qualified to respond but I was glued to everyone's thoughts.
America is complicated to say the least,but I see what you see here.
Corporate greed and mismanagement in government.
Something has to give,and it's not us.
Exactly wkmac. OWS was not a tool of the dem party. They were just as complicit as the repubs. But so many on here enjoy "hacking at the branches" and are blind to the "root". Anyway, OWS focused on that root. AS for mark rich, I had already left the corporate dems by then. It took the 97 Teamster strike at UPS and the reading of Howard Zinn's "A People' History of the United States" that radicalized me. Been voting third party ever since!!
standards of living improved under slavery... im assuming thats whats ur referring toThere will always be economic cycles but name any other system that has a better track record than capitalism.
its a hot summer...Look, it's summer. We go no time for no stinkin' revolutions. We will be at the beach house!
Not pool side.its a hot summer...