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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 718251" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>Union and Lue,</p><p> </p><p>One blames gov't and the other blames business and the truth is you are both right. Not that you will agree with all points but consider <a href="http://aaeblog.com/2007/02/06/remembering-corporate-liberalism/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">Remembering Corporate Liberalism</span></a>. Auburn University Professor Roderick Long made IMO some good points and later in a Cato Unbound piece <a href="http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/11/10/roderick-long/corporations-versus-the-market-or-whip-conflation-now/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">Corporations verses the Market; or, Whip Conflation Now</span></a> along similar lines.</p><p> </p><p>And when you thought big business is opposed to big gov't and big gov't welfare, well maybe <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Swope" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">Gerard Swope</span></a>, former head of GE and the <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=WnSA0MhW-qgC&pg=PA51&lpg=PA51&dq=swope+plan&source=bl&ots=UpOWZlf5Q5&sig=K1jmxLopF8_9lG4IjsdNE-xeWD4&hl=en&ei=CYvOS7KeMpK89QTNhsGiAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CBoQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=swope%20plan&friend=false" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">Swope Plan</span></a> might make you both reconsider what you've believed about capitalism and the state. If you read down through about page 54, some of this might jump off the page in the recent healthcare deal but more important, all these ideas are going to need gov't to rubber stamp these cartelizations in order to get a compliant public to go along. Medicare came ino being via the Social Security Act of 1965' and thus the Swope legacy again. </p><p> </p><p>And are we naive to think that big business isn't licking it's profit chops from Obama's sans Romney's healthcare plan not only from the direct business interest but then as it's able to shave off employer healthcare plans and free up those monies to it's profit side while the employee has to pay out of pocket and then big bidness plays the innocent and points us to gov't as the big bad wolf. You don't think that campaign and lobby money is for something good for us do you?</p><p><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/wink.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":wink2:" title="Wink :wink2:" data-shortname=":wink2:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 718251, member: 2189"] Union and Lue, One blames gov't and the other blames business and the truth is you are both right. Not that you will agree with all points but consider [URL="http://aaeblog.com/2007/02/06/remembering-corporate-liberalism/"][COLOR=red]Remembering Corporate Liberalism[/COLOR][/URL]. Auburn University Professor Roderick Long made IMO some good points and later in a Cato Unbound piece [URL="http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/11/10/roderick-long/corporations-versus-the-market-or-whip-conflation-now/"][COLOR=red]Corporations verses the Market; or, Whip Conflation Now[/COLOR][/URL] along similar lines. And when you thought big business is opposed to big gov't and big gov't welfare, well maybe [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Swope"][COLOR=red]Gerard Swope[/COLOR][/URL], former head of GE and the [URL="http://books.google.com/books?id=WnSA0MhW-qgC&pg=PA51&lpg=PA51&dq=swope+plan&source=bl&ots=UpOWZlf5Q5&sig=K1jmxLopF8_9lG4IjsdNE-xeWD4&hl=en&ei=CYvOS7KeMpK89QTNhsGiAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CBoQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=swope%20plan&friend=false"][COLOR=red]Swope Plan[/COLOR][/URL] might make you both reconsider what you've believed about capitalism and the state. If you read down through about page 54, some of this might jump off the page in the recent healthcare deal but more important, all these ideas are going to need gov't to rubber stamp these cartelizations in order to get a compliant public to go along. Medicare came ino being via the Social Security Act of 1965' and thus the Swope legacy again. And are we naive to think that big business isn't licking it's profit chops from Obama's sans Romney's healthcare plan not only from the direct business interest but then as it's able to shave off employer healthcare plans and free up those monies to it's profit side while the employee has to pay out of pocket and then big bidness plays the innocent and points us to gov't as the big bad wolf. You don't think that campaign and lobby money is for something good for us do you? :wink2: [/QUOTE]
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