[lit-ideas] Re: FW: Corporate Welfare
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 23:48:53 -0500
Lou Dobbs? Hell, Noam Chomsky's been screaming about this for at least 15
years. And Ralph Nader for 40 years. Even Eisenhower warned us 50 years ago.
Lou Dobbs?????? Get real -- or "for real" as we say in the South. What do you
think the 60's was all about anyway? Well, yeah, OK, drugs, sure, and fucking,
yes, and being obnoxious and outlandish and unreliable and unavailable for
cognitive research, true, but also it was a rejection of corporatism -- though
few knew it. Most thought it was about Grace Slick and Jerry Garcia and how
cool they were when on acid -- God bless 'em. Still and all, it was a naive
attempt to start a new life free from Monsanto. (Tee-hee, I hear you
snickering) Fine. They won, the Corporates. Jerry Rubin is a bond daddy.
Tom Hayden gives opportunism a bad name. Eldrige Cleaver is a born-again
Christian -- his soul on fire with Jesus, Inc. -- and the most scientifically
advanced nation in the world has as it's leader a man who doesn't believe in
science. So? Do you really think that anything matters in America besides
money? Like, maybe -- what?
Mike Geary
Memphis
----- Original Message -----
From: Andy Amago
To: lit-ideas
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 8:28 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] FW: Corporate Welfare
I hope people read this link, I should have done a preamble to it last night.
It's a critical issue. In the meantime, Bush is appeasing China, on whose
life support we exist on $2 billion borrowed dollars per day. There has to be
something in group psychology or some explanation where an entire population
(Congress and the corporate world) can blind itself to the damage it's doing to
the country it exists in. Unless they're all planning on moving to China, I
don't get it. The line between the corporate world and the government has been
all but erased, and yet the media still perpetuates the myth that N.O. was
about race, that he wouldn't allow it to happen to white people. It wouldn't
happen to white people only if they had lots and lots of money to give to
Congress. In the meantime, Congress is borrowing $2 billion a day from China
to keep itself going. Other than Lou Dobbs, where's the outcry? How many even
know this is happening?
"When the Speaker's gavel comes down, it's intended to open the People's
House, and lately it's looking like the Auction House," says Rep. Emanuel,
"Whether it's an energy bill that gives more $8 billion to the oil and gas
interests while oil's at $64 a barrel, whether it's a corporate tax bill
solving a $5 billion problem with a $150 billion solution, whether it's a
pharmaceutical, prescription drug bill where the industry gave $132 million and
walked away with $135 billion in additional profits."
The corporate lobby has become more effective recently because it's hiring
more experienced players, in effect creating a "revolving door" between Capitol
Hill and K Street. In fact, 43 percent of the eligible congressional members
who departed government during that time have become lobbyists, while half of
all eligible departing senators have become lobbyists. Nearly 250 former
members of Congress and federal agency chiefs have become lobbyists since 1998,
while more than 2,200 former federal employees have registered as federal
lobbyists.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/11/lobby.america/index.html
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