Posted on 06/16/2014 1:48:12 PM PDT by Kaslin
The progressive Nation, offers up an interesting analysis of the Cantor defeat on Tuesday. They rightly recognize that Dave Brat is a different type of small government candidate and that he may be part of a group coming up in politics right now which is legitimately anti-crony capitalist.
We’ll see how Brat does, but at this moment the American political calculus has changed fundamentally for the better.
(From The Nation)In his new book, Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State (Nation Books), Ralph Nader argues that there are many issues on which an anti-corporate left and an anti-corporate right could achieve “convergence” in opposition to policies advanced by “corporate conservatives and corporate liberals.” Nader’s point is not to suggest that the left and the right will be in specific agreement on issues ranging from fair trade to restricting domestic surveillance to whittling down the military-industrial complex. He suggeststhat “they [can] come at it for different reasons, but they [can] have the same conclusion.”
That’s an intriguing notion, especially after one of the most powerful corporate Republicans in Washington just lost to a guy who decries “large corporations seeking insider deals” and “crony bailouts.”
Read More at: Against Crony Capitalism.org.
I’d prefer the end of crony capitalist deals that benefit anyone.
I don’t know a whole lot about Brat yet but I have liked what I am hearing so far.
I am not a form of any welfare .... that includes corporate welfare.
Crony capitalism is killing the free market.
It taxes free marketeers to prop up their competition and the politically connected influence lawmakers in favor of regulations and laws that smaller guys can’t afford to overcome.
Ending Crony Capitalism appears to be a pet issue of Mike Lee as well.
The guy in the middle looks like Kramer.
Maybe he’s the Latino Kramer?
One huge problem in this country is that most big businesses are convinced that we will be ruled by libs forever and are scrambling to cut deals and buy protection.
Look at the long list of big companies donating to Podesta:
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
The Albright Stonebridge Group
American Beverage Association
American Iron and Steel Institute
America’s Health Insurance Plans, or AHIP
Anglo American
Apple Inc.
AT&T
Bank of America
Blackstone
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Blue Engine Message & Media
Blue Shield of California*
BMW of North America
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
Citigroup
The Coca-Cola Company
Comcast NBCUniversal
Covanta Energy
CVS Caremark Inc.
Daimler
DeVry Education Group
Dewey Square Group
Discovery
DISH Network
Downey McGrath Group, Inc.
DRS Technologies
Eli Lilly and Company
Facebook
Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas
GE
Genworth Financial
The Glover Park Group LLC
Goldman Sachs
Google*
Health Care Service Corporation
The Ickes and Enright Group
Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
McLarty Associates
Microsoft Corporation
Monitor Deloitte
Motion Picture Association of America, or MPAA*
MyWireless.Org
Northrop Grumman
Pearson
PepsiCo
PG&E Corporation
Quest Diagnostics
Samsung Electronics America
Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States, or TECRO
Tata Group of Companies
Time Warner Inc.
T-Mobile
Toyota Motor North America
Visa Inc.
Walmart
Wells Fargo
Ending Crony Capitalism appears to be a pet issue of Mike Lee as well..
Seems most of the beneficiaries of Crony Capitalism are left leaning organizations.
Wall Street, The Chamber of Commerce and others will do all they can to defeat Brat.
Ending corporate taxes would be a great place to start. Not only would small companies be on and even footing with uber wealthy companies like GE (who have billions in profits yet pay zero income tax), there would be an explosion of new jobs in the US.
In the early 70s I learned the ugly truth about giant corporations as they lost their patriotic connection to America, and as I watched them support the destruction of business and freedom by supporting all the massive programs like affirmative action, daycare in the work place and so.
I learned that they have one God, money, and that they have no connection to what I see as capitalism and free markets, and competition, and all while still being a patriotic Americans. They would kill anything good, as long as they get to takeover the market.
it’s not really capitalism at all. It’s more like fascism. Or oligarchy. Even nepotism.
Capitalism as a theory isn’t warped or tainted by innate unfairness or incredibly regulated to the point you can’t fart without a license.
Not that it matters (since skin color is, at bottom, meaningless) but that picture sure shatters the leftist lie that the TEA party grassroots movement is just a bunch of old, gray-haired white guys like me.
I must be behind the times. When did Brat make the statement in quotes in the headline?
All conservatives should be against this. The question is, will the left be against big business, now that it is 100% pushing the left agenda?
It sometime makes me reluctantly think Lenin was right when he said, “We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us.”
BUMP
I’m not especially fond of the term capitalism anyway. I believe it was a term coined as a derogatory by Marx. I prefer “Free Market”.
Wait a minute... the left hates the rich, now we’re spose’ta hate ‘em too? Gets confusing.
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