Posted on 11/26/2010 6:07:22 AM PST by eartotheground
On another note, there needs to be a more communicative term than “rent-seeking.” Most people just don't know what the terms means ... and it's a very important message.
I like and use the term “statism/statist” and have flown under the flag of “Making Statism Unpopular” for years.
However, “statism” suffers a similar problem that plagues “rent-seeking.” Mark Levin's wonderful book “Liberty and Tyranny” has helped educated millions as to the term “statism” but we still need to come up with another, more mass friendly way to get the point across.
The article above mentions “trough feeders” and while redundant, helps communicate.
Win the vocabulary, win the debate.
Any suggestions?
It is time that these crony-capitalist corporations get negative publicity. They are selling the rope to hang themselves and the rest of us.
TO: Jeffrey Immelt
April 21, 2009
My Dear Mr. Immelt,
My late father worked for GE for many years in the Apparatus Service Division out of Cleveland, Ohio (specialized in marine work) and was always proud of his relationship with a grand old American enterprise. You were growing up down there in Cincinnati at the time and, one could assume, were inculcated with those same traditional values my father developed growing up in Coshocton, Ohio.
My wife and I are longtime GE shareholders and have remained thus through the current tumultuous period.
But we have become concerned, indeed ALARMED, at recent events at GE, the most telling of which is your evident embrace of a man who is clearly hell bent on dragging America into some sort of fascist or socialist nightmare. And make no mistake — that is PRECISELY where he is headed.
My wife and I have both signed the “We Surround You” letter at the Free Enterpriser web site so I shant belabor the points already made therein.
I served in the USAF for four years between ‘62 and ‘66. One day in May of ‘62, I raised my hand and swore an oath to God to “...defend the Constitution of the United States.”
To the best of my knowledge, that oath had no expiration date and is still active.
I would respectfully ask you to reconsider your recent activities vis-a-vis what many out here in fly-over country consider to be aiding and abetting an enemy of that Constitution and the IDEA of America envisioned by the Founding Fathers.
If you do nothing else, pray about that and think about what your continued course of action portends for your kids, your grandkids and, more importantly to me, mine.
Dick Bachert
Since I sent this email — to which I received a polite and completely useless computer generated reply — things have only gotten worse as Obama has hoisted the flag of state/corporate socialism even higher up the pole. And the public outrage now bubbling over the top will, I fear, cost GE far more than Jeffery Immelt can know. I pray that America — THE IDEA — will somehow survive Obama. And I pray that an old and venerable firm like GE will somehow survive what I consider to be potentially death-dealing decisions by Jeff Immelt to throw in with the worst occupant of the White House in my 70 years.
Short video on what's REALLY at stake here:
NOWHERE TO HIDE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvqb_JcAK18
The new crop of “USEFUL IDIOTS.”
Only if one fully understands the One World/New World Order plan can one grasp WHY ostensibly free-enterprise/free market capitalists would climb into bed with a self-confessed progressive/Marxist. Even I had this guy figured out long before November of ‘08. How was it these bright “Captains of Industry/ Masters of the Universe” didn’t?
It helps to know that there are OTHER sorts of “capitalists:” The MONOPOLISTIC/GLOBALIST sort who, because they believe they will be the princes and nobility in the New World Order, are quick to suck up to the new “king.”
What they fail to remember is that all tyrants and would-be tyrants have used others for their evil purposes, only to discard/eliminate them once their usefulness has ended.
SA chief Ernst Rohm, who helped bring Hitler to power, got a bullet in the head in his jail cell when he became a “problem.”
The thugs who captured Russia in 1917 murdered thousands of fellow revolutionaries.
Mao’s history in this area is well known and his sinister legacy lives on in China.
Pol Pot marched thousands into the killing fields.
You get the idea.
Barack Obama has brought more power into DC than Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson altogether.
You think the MSM shilled for him in 2008? You haven’t seen nothing compared to whats coming.
If DC has ANY say whatsoever..the Rinocratic Oligarchy isn’t going to let their golden boy go anywhere. Neither will they willingly give back ANY power.
We the People have our work cut out. 2008 was a literal drop in the bucket if we intend to have our country back. It will be a multi-election cycle effort that will require well-delineated gains each time. It will start in each of the local election precincts in each state..because the fraud by which Blue-states keep electing Red candidates is rooted in the community.
Most on FreeRepublic can’t begin to imagine the kind of pre-election runup the powers that be are gonna give ‘Bammy...and what’ve you’ve seen dumped on Palin so far...is just a minimum of what’s to come.
Help me out here... This is from your list:
Dan Rosensweig, COO of Yahoo, 2002-2007
Howard Schultz, founder of Starbucks
Terry Semel, CEO of Yahoo, 2001-2007
James Sinegal, CEO of Costco
Why would I punish (i.e. boycott) a company where the Obama supporter is no longer associated with the company? You list two officers of Yahoo who left (forced out I believe) 4 years ago. Some of your listings have not been associated with the company listed for 15 or 16 years?
I don’t have a problem with the current CEOs, I really don’t have a problem with the actions of GE leading to a boycott of that company, but should I boycott Federated because Norman Matthews was associated with the company in 1988?
It’s time for “We the People” to urge GE’s Immelt to resign.
Sign our petition: www.bigbusinesswatch.org
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