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Originally Posted by Samoht
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But since Capitalists run the government, your just shifting blame so that they're allowed to skirt the responsibility. Any time such a tariff is proposed, republicans, lobbyists, and corporations cry fowl and pump enough money into the pockets of elected officials to get it overturned.
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Since when do "Capitalists" run the government? When has the US ever made a profit from any of its wars, charity giveaways, or foreign aid? The US government takes the product of Capitalism, i.e. Capital, and spends it. It produces nothing. Many in government steal, take bribes, or create policy that leads to them profiting, but to say the government is run by Capitalists is like saying dogs are run by fleas. Just because the government takes from the producer doesn't mean it is a producer or has any meaningful connection to the producer other than the act of taking. The current US government does little to provide for the future of the country or the current prosperity and opposes any change that threatens its hegemony on power.
You mention Republicans, lobbyists, and corporations as if Democrats don't own and run and profit from corporations and you exclude Democrats from those that block any viable legislation that will decrease the flow of wealth out of the country. Apparently you know noting of the legislation that's been approved overwhelmingly by Democrats in the past four years, let alone the laws and policies of the past ten decades. They give money to competitors and enemies to replace US interests. Specifics would be one billion given to Mexico to do deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico at the same time that such drilling was banned in US waters: as if our water isn't touched by the water Mexico drills in. Another billion given to Brazil for the same purpose. Those were "stimulus" bill components.
If you go back to TARP, which was overwhelmingly passed by a Democratic congress and strongly backed by then nominee Barack Obama, you have money being given to multinational and foreign banks.
All of this in just the past three years: none of it benefiting the US in a Capitalist sense, all of it with overwhelming Democratic backing. It would seem you are a football team fan, routing for your Democrat home team that loses over and over again, while railing against the Republican football team that you perceive as the enemy. Try dealing with facts instead of emotion and propaganda.
10-14-2011, 11:13 AM
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