It's the Corporations, guys.

[tavalon]

Not the Republicans, not the conservatives, not the teabaggers or libertarians or Freepers or any of the other lower to middle class groups you can come up with.

Yeah, it's fun to beat up on them. Hell, it's like shooting fish in a barrel.

But guess what, we're in that same barrel and the giant Corporations are killing us off in droves. And they love when we blame each other because we stay occupied and weak.

[Scuba]

1. The only things the corporations like more than cheap labor...

is slave labor. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8428272

Why do you think smoking pot is illegal?

[OJones]

32. Too right.

Drug War = modernized slave patrols.

Instances of severe exploitation, abuse, and slavery are not uncommon in agribusiness, as well. Publix (for example) and others in the food production chain profit greatly from low/non-extant farmworker wages.

Coalition of Immokalee Workers Anti-Slavery Campaign

All this has the added "benefit" of creating a kind of Untouchable caste-- the existence of which can be rationalized into banality by the idea that the Untouchables have broken laws, and are therefore deserving of whatever treatment they receive.

[CanonRay]

2. + 1000

Right on the money. :thumbsup:

[The_Commonist]

3. I say that all the time.

Their game is Divide and Conquer.
Keep us at each other's throats, so that we don't take the time to turn on them.
It's a very old and simple game, and We the People fall for it every fucking time.

[glowing]

34. That and to control education... Why is it that in some area.. like Texas,

the school board is such a heavily sought after seat to hold.. If you control the message at the beginning, then you control generations of workers/ slaves for the corporate machine.. AND it doesn't matter what party or what God they must use to convince people to work against their own best interests..

[AnArmyVeteran]

4. We need to declare war on corrupt corporations...

I have described corporations as small armies all assaulting the American people without any resistance. They have overcome and own our government. And they are assaulting Americans in almost every area of our lives.

Corporations are the most dangerous threat to our existence as a country.

[Echo In Light]

6. .

+1000

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MbXVixbidDQ/Srn5cvtWgdI/AAAAAAAAAfg/KYimbvnjTYU/s320/Corporate+Slave.jpg

[laughingliberal]

14. +1000 nt

[TransitJohn]

5. K&R for truth.

:kick: :patriot: :hi:

[Donnachaidh]

7. the corporations AND the ENABLERS in Washington

BOTH parties are guilty of it. Sold the country out for 30 pieces of silver, literally.

[laughingliberal]

9. +1 nt

[glitch]

23. +4,000,000gal/day nt

[laughingliberal]

8. Yep. And the divide and conquer operations are working very well for them. nt

[tavalon]

12. But we can stop it in it's tracks

They don't want us to know that, but we can.

[laughingliberal]

13. I'm open to ideas. All I got is pointing it out when I see it. nt

[rudy23]

10. Thank you. Watch how BP controls this disaster even with a Democrat in office.

It really makes no difference. Same "blame the victim and government bureaucracy" talking points.

[proudohioan]

11. K&R!!!!!

Glad you OP'd this one!

:kick:

[newtothegame]

15. A corporation is not a person, regardless of what the SC says.

In fact, all you're doing by railing on corporations is agreeing with the Supreme Court, which is exactly what they want you to do. They want you to go after "corporations." They want you to wail and holler and get even with "corporations."

Just one problem..."corporations" don't have feelings. They don't get their feelings hurt. They don't feel bad. The "evil corporations" meme is an ineffective and outdated tool. You want more tax money? Tax the OWNERS of the corporation. A corporation is not alive; it doesn't make money.

[tavalon]

17. I don't want to hurt Big Corporations feelings

I want to help destroy them.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

16. K&R

[amborin]

18. they own both parties

[tavalon]

19. Yes, they do and that makes our job of destroying these corporations

who are destroying us all the harder, but there it is.

[Individualist]

20. Correct

When any administration aids and abets corporations, they're just as guilty as criminal corporations. This aiding and abetting has been continuous since the Reagan administration.

[tranche]

21. They've got a great system because it's been working for 30 years.

[Catherina]

22. Capital. Corporations. Capitalism.

[Hydra]

28. I'm surprised nobody flamed you yet

:evilgrin:

[jotsy]

24. And no one is watching them if everybody is busy arguing

The flow of money to them must stop!

[immune]

27. The flow of money to them must stop!

Its their money (another private corporation). We only borrow it. Well, at least that's what we do when they decide to loan some of it to us.

[jotsy]

31. What I'm recommending is that people keep what they earn

and stop supplying these vampires for their 'interest'. The fleecing will not stop until the masses are sucked completely dry. I contend the wealth of any nation is dependent on the viability of its public, which is deliberately being kept out of reach through the cost of living as established by the corporatocracy, who see both you and I as useless eaters. Maybe that works for you. I've raised my children not to lie, cheat or steal; I will not be made to believe that was wrong because the world around them has abandoned integrity. As I see my choices at this point, they are to tell my children to disregard everything I ever taught them, or try to change what is observed as valuable. I choose the latter.

Welcome to DU?

[Greyhound]

25. K&R. More accurately, it's the people that control the corporations.

[FiveGoodMen]

26. ...AND the people whom the corporations are controlling.

[femrap]

29. Let me rec this a zillion times!

The politicians simply take orders from the Corporate dudes. And then there is a layer above that which I call TPTB...the uber rich who will soon face their greatest fear.

[RandomThoughts]

30. I would say it is the ideologies that is part of many corporate concepts.

It is difficult to say who is at fault, but it is easy to see ways to make things better.


The thing I think on is I have a perspective and have expressed that perspective

Although I know that people with far more then they need are disingenuous and not trying to make things better, from my perspective of what is better. That does not include people in moderation, but by having set up a certain paradigm, I can say a few things without question.

People that have more then they need, either have not heard and thought on concepts, or they think what I think is wrong. And I could be wrong. But I know they think what I am saying is wrong, or they are not hearing it.

I don't have to see and think on it by media, but by personal experience makes it easy to see that they think people with my ideas are not what they think is correct, and I have been able to prove that either someone is responsible for not letting them think and feel on it, or they refuse to think and feel on it, or I am incorrect.

One of those three must be accurate. So if I am incorrect then there would be no effect, since if I was incorrect there should be no effect from those ideas, but if I am correct and a person is being blocked, then that thing blocking them should be by just thought, treated with the fullest forms of severity for acting in that way, and if a person has chosen to think I am wrong, and I am correct, then they should have the severest of action taken on them, to help them understand. And that can be argued within concepts of justice.

I think that is a logical conclusion, and matches best thoughts on topics, and is how I think on groups that have far more then they need and do certain things that in my view are incorrect on a large scale.

That does not mean that I could or would do anything, but as a logic problem it sets up a situation that within a just system has to happen, if systems are just. If they are not just then that would have to be acknowledged by any lack of effect of one of those things happening.

So by laying the groundwork, an equation is created to create proof in a form or another. I find that interesting.


Although I just like to play music, and consider those thoughts interesting thought topics on things like consolidations of power, or areas outside of moderation.


So you almost have to think
Maggie May There is irony in this song.
http://videolog.uol.com.br/video.php?id=351482


Phil Collins Don't Lose My Number.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Z-eUmR2bM


And a personal thought, and a great song.
Johnny Cash - I Won't Back Down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-niro6p2x4o

Well I won't back down, no I won't back down
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
But I won't back down


Gonna stand my ground, won't be turned around
And I'll keep this world from draggin' me down
Gonna stand my ground and I won't back down


Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
Hey I will stand my ground and I won't back down


Well I know what's right, I got just one life
In a world that keeps on pushin' me around
But I stand my ground and I won't back down


Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
Hey I will stand my ground and I won't back down
No I won't back down.



Might as well add another song.
Olivia Newton John - Physical.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWz9VN40nCA



Hot legs
http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/hot-legs-by-rod-stewart/5qvycvn


There is a comment, for some that freak out by interpretation, it specifically says 'of a man', so think on that.

[marmar]

33. Indeed.

nt