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earthmansurfer
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11/22/2016  4:59 AM
holfresh wrote:
earthmansurfer wrote:Holfresh - https://www.mostdamagingwikileaks.com/
For links to the actual Wikileaks emails, just scroll down via the link above.

3. Hillary Clinton received money from and supported nations that she KNEW funded ISIS and terrorists

“...the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region.”
“Clintons should know better than to raise money from folks whose primary concern has been supporting the NIAC, a notorious supporter of the Radical Islamic Mullahs. "The Clinton’s have thrown principle out the window in exchange for cold hard cash...putting money ahead of principle.”

Hillary's Chief of Staff admits in the 2nd link that foreign interests sway Hillary to do what they want her to do (money for mandatory appearances). She also admits that the "Friend of Hillary" list is available and rentable to people who want to influence, but that it’s too sensitive to talk in email.
This leak shows Hillary knows Saudis and Qatar are funding ISIS, which is an enemy of the state. After knowing this, Hillary accepted tens of millions in donations from these terrorist-funding governments (of course they are getting something back in return). She also supported arms deals to them.
Saudi Arabia and Qatar commit horrible acts under Sharia law, including throwing gay people off of buildings, persecuting Christians, Jews, and atheists, and making it legal to rape and beat women. They are the leading funders of Hillary and her campaign through the Clinton Foundation.

9. Bribery: King of Morocco gave Clinton Foundation $12 million for a meeting with Hillary, 6 months later Morocco gets weapons

“condition upon which the Moroccans agreed to host the meeting was her participation. If hrc was not part if it, meeting was a non-starter. CGI also wasn't pushing for a meeting in Morocco and it wasn't their first choice. This was HRC's idea, our office approached the Moroccans and they 100 percent believe they are doing this at her request. The King has personally committed approx $12 million both for the endowment and to support the meeting.”
“She created this mess and she knows it… HRC said she’s still considering.”

This is AFTER her candidacy announcement!
Very important e-mail in that it demonstrates Hillary's poor judgement (her idea) in the face of influence money and foreshadows how a Clinton Administration would be indebted to bad actors and criminal regimes.
The "same issues we discussed" mentioned by Robbie Mook in this email is a veiled reference to Morocco's many human rights abuses.
Her campaign staff is rightly concerned about the optics of the Clinton Foundation/Clinton Global Initiative accepting huge sums of money from a regime that so frequently violates international law and acts in a way that you'd expect the Clinton Foundation to publicly rebuke.
It seems $12 million is just too much money to allow morals, ethics, and the best interests and values of American citizens to intervene.
The Intercept explores how Morocco is exploiting Hillary's weakness for huge donations, and her desire to be President, to support their own geopolitical interests.

15. Bill Clinton receives $1 million "birthday gift" from ISIS-funding Qatar while Hillary was SoS, Qatar receives arms flow increases of 1,482%

“Would like to see WJC "for five minutes" in NYC, to present $1 million check that Qatar promised for WJC's birthday in 2011.”

Just another examples of breaking the law. Also remember from earlier: Hillary KNEW that Qatar funds ISIS. Why is the country funding ISIS giving money to Bill and paying for Hillary’s campaign. What are they getting in return?
In accordance with the Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution, you may not accept anything of value from a foreign government, unless specifically authorized by Congress. This rule applies whether you are on or off duty. Any unit of a foreign government, whether it is national, state, local, or municipal level, is covered. It also applies to gifts from international or multinational organizations comprised of government representatives. It also may apply to gifts of honoraria, travel, or per diem from foreign universities, which are often considered as part of the foreign government. Spouses and dependent children of Federal employees are also banned from accepting gifts from foreign governments.

I'll just rebut one point because I know it's a waste of time and you don't believe facts..THE US HAS ALWAYS BEEN SELLING WEAPONS TO MOROCCO...The crazy thing is that I post evidence like this then you later say I think I'm never wrong without any proof to rebut the evidence I post..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco%E2%80%93United_States_relations

1975–2006

In the 1970s, the United States made an effort to modernize Morocco's military to help with its conflict over Western Sahara. The United States focused particularly on Morocco's Royal Moroccan Air Force. Help from the United States was especially important when the Polisario deployed Soviet-built SA-6 surface-to-air missiles to counter the growing effectiveness of the Royal Moroccan Air Force.[26] However, The Carter Administration shackled military support and weapons sales to Morocco with pre-conditions, stating the U.S. would only trade military supplies with Morocco for the purpose of modernizing Morocco’s military, but not to assist with the conflict over Western Sahara. On the other hand, the Reagan Administration dropped all conditions in supporting the Moroccans, as the need for staging bases in North Africa for the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force made access to Morocco's airfields strategically important.[26] Beginning with the George H. W. Bush Administration, the focus of the U.S. security assistance efforts in Morocco shifted to sustaining and maintaining U.S.-origin equipment in the Moroccan Armed Forces.[26]

In the 1980s and early 1990s, Morocco secured about 1 billion dollars annually from Saudi Arabia to purchase arms and supplies from the United States to fight the POLISARIO and defend its claim to Western Sahara.[32] In November 1986, the United States military conducted joint exercises with Morocco off Western Sahara’s Coast. In September 1987, the United States government sold Morocco 100 M-48A5 tanks, used for desert terrain.[33] During the late 1990s and early 2000s, the United States remained relatively silent on the issue, though it provided tacit support for Morocco.[34]

Do you mean no weapons were sold from 2007 till 2015 and then Hillary gets a $12,000,000 dollar donation from Morocco, and then we sell them a $157,000,000 Tomahawk weapons system?
Oh, I see your point. lol. If nothing else, we have a strong conflict of interests but probably corruption judging by her track record.
But the list goes on: Hillary Clinton Oversaw US Arms Deals to Clinton Foundation Donors http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/hillary-clinton-foundation-state-arms-deals

And what about receiving money from States funding terrorism? What about receiving money from States that kill and discriminate against women and gays, while pretending to be for them?
And what about her husband? It just don't end.

And here we are comparing war and death, corruption, etc. to a real estate school? Really?

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11/22/2016  5:15 AM
Update on White House Transition from yesterday. Pretty big changes...

Main Points:

Agenda based on a simple core principle: Putting America First.
Trade: Submit notification of intent to withdraw from TPP negotiations.
Energy: Cancel job-killing restrictions on the production and harvesting of American energy.
Regulations: Formulate a rule that says for every one new regulation, two old regulations must be eliminated.
National Security: Ask the DoD and the Joint Chiefs of Staff to come up with a comprehensive plan to protect against cyber attacks and conventional attacks.
Immigration: Investigate visa programs that undercut the American worker.
Ethics: Five year ban on executive officials that leave the administration, and lifetime ban on executive officials that lobby on behalf of a foreign government.

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11/22/2016  6:25 AM
arkrud wrote:
Bonn1997 wrote:
Welpee wrote:
arkrud wrote:
Welpee wrote:
arkrud wrote:
Bonn1997 wrote:
GoNyGoNyGo wrote:
arkrud wrote:
meloshouldgo wrote:His lack of conscience, tone deaf worship of wealth and accumulation and apparent lack of moral compass bother me. This is the exact thing Marx warned about. Greedy people letting their last for money go out of control and becoming enslaved by an inanimate object with no real value.

Marks is a Man... but Lenin, Mao, and Stalin enhanced his ideas even better.
Using his teaching they enslaved hundreds of millions to serve ideas which have great values on their own.
Sad this people rebel and screw them over. We need to try it in America... may be it will work this time?


I know you are kidding about trying it here but it is scary as it is exactly where the "progressive" movement will end up if its left to them. The progressive movement is lead by the communist radicals who think they can make it work with another try. I wonder how is Venezuela doing these days? Oh right it looks alot like the final days of the USSR. The policies are a death sentence for the people.

The saddest part is the failure of communism is not even taught in schools.
They do not learn about the millions murdered by Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Castro, Chavez and others. Instead these leaders are glorified! OMG!

Keep on telling about the things you have seen first hand. Perhaps one day, people will understand how damn good the American ideal was and still is.


What are some examples of proposals that progressives are making that are dangerously close to communism?

"The nation which forget its past has no future."
This is not me, its Winston Churchill...
We, Americans, are fortunate to have people emigrated from all over the world to tell the story of how the history went.
Not by the book and not by the propoganda but by personal experience.
This is a huge wealth of this nation.
A lot of brutal dictatorships emerged from innocent and humanitarian ideas when people forget one main thing -
No future prosperity can be build by taking anything from anybody by force.
No prosperity can be build by people who get wealth handed to them.
Wealth and success must be earned to stick and obtain value.
As per specific proposals we can discuss any one and some of them may be very well positive.
The main thing they should not be based on "take it from .... " or "give it to ..."
They should provide ways to increase the wealth of the society for all.

Even though "take it from..give it to" is essentially how most of these corporations are making insane amounts of profits? When Monsanto is allowed to patent an organic product and force farmers to not be able to reseed but have to purchase new seeds from them every season and they get the government to pass laws (via their powerful lobbyist) and have courts pass down rulings (with justices like Clarence Thomas who used to represent Monsanto) that grossly benefit their profit margin at the expense of the overall public good, that's not "take it from..give it to?"

Like I said previously (and nobody wants to address), why is it OK when corporations manipulate the system to line their pockets but conservatives have a fit if a poor person manipulates the system to get a extra $100 to feed their family?

Manipulation of the system by private party needs to be proven in court and handled by law.
If law is flowed public and media need to step up and compaign to improve it.
If the authoritarian government itself is manipulating with people lives and rights for whatever ideological reason there is nothing you can do.
And can you please be more specific what are that mystical "...their pockets"?
Can you name some specific person or group to get unlawful money and not being prosecuted?
And if yes lets bring it up.
Is no point to talk about some generic "corporations". Let talk about real once.

Did you not read "Monsanto" in my post? You're so focused on spitting out the talking points you're not even reading (or more importantly paying attention) anybody else's perspective. And how can it be proven in court or handled by law if both entities have strong ties to the corporations in question? Again MONSANTO.

Exactly. You can't say, "Well, the corporation didn't break the law" and these laws are written by and for the wealthy corporations.

Obviously corporations will break the law.
Then they will get prosecuted and will pay the penalties.
There are a bunch of idiots working in management so you can expect anything.
I mean what you want to do - put "corporation" in jail or close and fire all workers?
You make the "corporations" some kind of Dark Empire conquering the world.
This is pretty laughable.


Right but they're literally writing the laws and what the punishments will be. In many cases (violating EPA regulations or harming consumers), the punishment for breaking the law is pocket change that is covered by their daily profit margin.
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11/22/2016  6:48 AM    LAST EDITED: 11/22/2016  7:07 AM
arkrud wrote:
meloshouldgo wrote:
arkrud wrote:
meloshouldgo wrote:His lack of conscience, tone deaf worship of wealth and accumulation and apparent lack of moral compass bother me. This is the exact thing Marx warned about. Greedy people letting their last for money go out of control and becoming enslaved by an inanimate object with no real value.

Marks is a Man... but Lenin, Mao, and Stalin enhanced his ideas even better.
Using his teaching they enslaved hundreds of millions to serve ideas which have great values on their own.
Sad this people rebel and screw them over. We need to try it in America... may be it will work this time?

We have already established you have less than zero understanding of Marx, Orwell or socialism. The comment above wasn't about Trump, it was about you. You lust for wealth has created the type of mindset that is devoid of any morals and/or scruples. I find you truly repulsive and nauseating. I will not debate anything with you, I have no intention of legitimizing your drivel by doing so.

Truth is nauseating.
You are too personal.
I am not some celebrity to talk about me.
I never call you out by any means as it is not polite for the standards of modern civilization.
I know you are from some stone age place so I have no issues with you personally.
It takes time to adjust to the world were people can debate anything freely and all opinions are accepted.
Hopefully your children will adapt and became normal modern people.

Yes because calling me stone age and non adaptable is real polite. But you are right in that I am not trying to be polite with you either. And leave my children out if this.

This is not about me personally disliking you it's about me finding your stated position reprehensible and unconscionable. All I know about you is that you are an unverified self proclaimed Russian jew hiding behind a wall of anonymity and spewing propaganda. With nothing but your own personal "experience" to back it up.

Maybe your family was persecuted by the Russian Govt. I don't know your history, but you are the one who is being personal and it's about how you "feel" about socialism and Russia. You are incapable of coherent thought or articulation. And you cant stop conflating socialism with communist Russia because of your experience. This just shows that you take all mention of Russia personally and have no reasonable ability to have a discussion about it.

We did have a discussion about socialism or I tried to. But you didn't make a single point other than repeating the propaganda you were taught as a child. And you make it sound like you are speaking for how all Russians feel when I have provided far more trustworthy data that more than 55% would rather go back to the old ways. Yet we should just believe an anonymous poster on a message board as the ultimate representation of the Russian community.

Everyone is entitled to an informed opinion, ignorance and propaganda are not opinions worthy of consideration. Your inability to actually sort out the noise from the truth makes you unworthy of having an opinion.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only try to make them think - Socrates
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11/22/2016  7:03 AM    LAST EDITED: 11/22/2016  7:04 AM
earthmansurfer wrote:
holfresh wrote:
earthmansurfer wrote:Holfresh - https://www.mostdamagingwikileaks.com/
For links to the actual Wikileaks emails, just scroll down via the link above.

3. Hillary Clinton received money from and supported nations that she KNEW funded ISIS and terrorists

“...the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region.”
“Clintons should know better than to raise money from folks whose primary concern has been supporting the NIAC, a notorious supporter of the Radical Islamic Mullahs. "The Clinton’s have thrown principle out the window in exchange for cold hard cash...putting money ahead of principle.”

Hillary's Chief of Staff admits in the 2nd link that foreign interests sway Hillary to do what they want her to do (money for mandatory appearances). She also admits that the "Friend of Hillary" list is available and rentable to people who want to influence, but that it’s too sensitive to talk in email.
This leak shows Hillary knows Saudis and Qatar are funding ISIS, which is an enemy of the state. After knowing this, Hillary accepted tens of millions in donations from these terrorist-funding governments (of course they are getting something back in return). She also supported arms deals to them.
Saudi Arabia and Qatar commit horrible acts under Sharia law, including throwing gay people off of buildings, persecuting Christians, Jews, and atheists, and making it legal to rape and beat women. They are the leading funders of Hillary and her campaign through the Clinton Foundation.

9. Bribery: King of Morocco gave Clinton Foundation $12 million for a meeting with Hillary, 6 months later Morocco gets weapons

“condition upon which the Moroccans agreed to host the meeting was her participation. If hrc was not part if it, meeting was a non-starter. CGI also wasn't pushing for a meeting in Morocco and it wasn't their first choice. This was HRC's idea, our office approached the Moroccans and they 100 percent believe they are doing this at her request. The King has personally committed approx $12 million both for the endowment and to support the meeting.”
“She created this mess and she knows it… HRC said she’s still considering.”

This is AFTER her candidacy announcement!
Very important e-mail in that it demonstrates Hillary's poor judgement (her idea) in the face of influence money and foreshadows how a Clinton Administration would be indebted to bad actors and criminal regimes.
The "same issues we discussed" mentioned by Robbie Mook in this email is a veiled reference to Morocco's many human rights abuses.
Her campaign staff is rightly concerned about the optics of the Clinton Foundation/Clinton Global Initiative accepting huge sums of money from a regime that so frequently violates international law and acts in a way that you'd expect the Clinton Foundation to publicly rebuke.
It seems $12 million is just too much money to allow morals, ethics, and the best interests and values of American citizens to intervene.
The Intercept explores how Morocco is exploiting Hillary's weakness for huge donations, and her desire to be President, to support their own geopolitical interests.

15. Bill Clinton receives $1 million "birthday gift" from ISIS-funding Qatar while Hillary was SoS, Qatar receives arms flow increases of 1,482%

“Would like to see WJC "for five minutes" in NYC, to present $1 million check that Qatar promised for WJC's birthday in 2011.”

Just another examples of breaking the law. Also remember from earlier: Hillary KNEW that Qatar funds ISIS. Why is the country funding ISIS giving money to Bill and paying for Hillary’s campaign. What are they getting in return?
In accordance with the Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution, you may not accept anything of value from a foreign government, unless specifically authorized by Congress. This rule applies whether you are on or off duty. Any unit of a foreign government, whether it is national, state, local, or municipal level, is covered. It also applies to gifts from international or multinational organizations comprised of government representatives. It also may apply to gifts of honoraria, travel, or per diem from foreign universities, which are often considered as part of the foreign government. Spouses and dependent children of Federal employees are also banned from accepting gifts from foreign governments.

I'll just rebut one point because I know it's a waste of time and you don't believe facts..THE US HAS ALWAYS BEEN SELLING WEAPONS TO MOROCCO...The crazy thing is that I post evidence like this then you later say I think I'm never wrong without any proof to rebut the evidence I post..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco%E2%80%93United_States_relations

1975–2006

In the 1970s, the United States made an effort to modernize Morocco's military to help with its conflict over Western Sahara. The United States focused particularly on Morocco's Royal Moroccan Air Force. Help from the United States was especially important when the Polisario deployed Soviet-built SA-6 surface-to-air missiles to counter the growing effectiveness of the Royal Moroccan Air Force.[26] However, The Carter Administration shackled military support and weapons sales to Morocco with pre-conditions, stating the U.S. would only trade military supplies with Morocco for the purpose of modernizing Morocco’s military, but not to assist with the conflict over Western Sahara. On the other hand, the Reagan Administration dropped all conditions in supporting the Moroccans, as the need for staging bases in North Africa for the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force made access to Morocco's airfields strategically important.[26] Beginning with the George H. W. Bush Administration, the focus of the U.S. security assistance efforts in Morocco shifted to sustaining and maintaining U.S.-origin equipment in the Moroccan Armed Forces.[26]

In the 1980s and early 1990s, Morocco secured about 1 billion dollars annually from Saudi Arabia to purchase arms and supplies from the United States to fight the POLISARIO and defend its claim to Western Sahara.[32] In November 1986, the United States military conducted joint exercises with Morocco off Western Sahara’s Coast. In September 1987, the United States government sold Morocco 100 M-48A5 tanks, used for desert terrain.[33] During the late 1990s and early 2000s, the United States remained relatively silent on the issue, though it provided tacit support for Morocco.[34]

Do you mean no weapons were sold from 2007 till 2015 and then Hillary gets a $12,000,000 dollar donation from Morocco, and then we sell them a $157,000,000 Tomahawk weapons system?
Oh, I see your point. lol.
If nothing else, we have a strong conflict of interests but probably corruption judging by her track record.
But the list goes on: Hillary Clinton Oversaw US Arms Deals to Clinton Foundation Donors http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/hillary-clinton-foundation-state-arms-deals

And what about receiving money from States funding terrorism? What about receiving money from States that kill and discriminate against women and gays, while pretending to be for them?
And what about her husband? It just don't end.

And here we are comparing war and death, corruption, etc. to a real estate school? Really?

It seems like you engage in a game of I'll find a statement on the internet, so prove it wrong..You don't care whether or not its fact..I presented you a historical timeline of the US relationship with Morroco and because I didn't post the engagement beyond 2007, you then say no weapons were traded..That is the game I said I had no interest in..You aren't interested in facts, just a way to play got ya and prove it's not so, game...

Economically, the United States and Morocco ratified a free trade agreement in 2005 which went into effect on January 1, 2006 and eliminates most tariffs. U.S. direct investment is about 7%, and U.S. aid to Morocco is about 4% of total aid given to Morocco.[22]

On December 22, 2009 the United States government awarded Lockheed Martin an $841.9 million contract to complete the production of 24 F-16 aircraft for Morocco. The contract added to an initial $233 million awarded to Lockheed Martin in June 2008 to begin production of the aircraft.[26]

Morocco and the United States coordinated efforts to minimize threats and expand cooperation on nuclear incident response in January 2010. The United States’ National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) partnered with Morocco’s National Center for Nuclear Energy, Science and Technologies for four days of training and demonstrations in Rabat, Morocco.

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11/22/2016  7:09 AM
Steve Bannon, mouthpiece for the Alt-Right, second most powerful man in the White House to be:

Steve Bannon: 'Darkness is good'

Washington (CNN)Steve Bannon has no regrets.
The ex-Breitbart executive, who serves as Trump's chief strategist for the new administration, told The Hollywood Reporter that "darkness is good."

"Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power. It only helps us when they (liberals) get it wrong. When they're blind to who we are and what we're doing," he said in an interview published Friday, his first outside of Breitbart since the election.

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11/22/2016  7:16 AM    LAST EDITED: 11/22/2016  7:19 AM
arkrud wrote:
Bonn1997 wrote:
Welpee wrote:
arkrud wrote:
Welpee wrote:
arkrud wrote:
Bonn1997 wrote:
GoNyGoNyGo wrote:
arkrud wrote:
meloshouldgo wrote:His lack of conscience, tone deaf worship of wealth and accumulation and apparent lack of moral compass bother me. This is the exact thing Marx warned about. Greedy people letting their last for money go out of control and becoming enslaved by an inanimate object with no real value.

Marks is a Man... but Lenin, Mao, and Stalin enhanced his ideas even better.
Using his teaching they enslaved hundreds of millions to serve ideas which have great values on their own.
Sad this people rebel and screw them over. We need to try it in America... may be it will work this time?


I know you are kidding about trying it here but it is scary as it is exactly where the "progressive" movement will end up if its left to them. The progressive movement is lead by the communist radicals who think they can make it work with another try. I wonder how is Venezuela doing these days? Oh right it looks alot like the final days of the USSR. The policies are a death sentence for the people.

The saddest part is the failure of communism is not even taught in schools.
They do not learn about the millions murdered by Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Castro, Chavez and others. Instead these leaders are glorified! OMG!

Keep on telling about the things you have seen first hand. Perhaps one day, people will understand how damn good the American ideal was and still is.


What are some examples of proposals that progressives are making that are dangerously close to communism?

"The nation which forget its past has no future."
This is not me, its Winston Churchill...
We, Americans, are fortunate to have people emigrated from all over the world to tell the story of how the history went.
Not by the book and not by the propoganda but by personal experience.
This is a huge wealth of this nation.
A lot of brutal dictatorships emerged from innocent and humanitarian ideas when people forget one main thing -
No future prosperity can be build by taking anything from anybody by force.
No prosperity can be build by people who get wealth handed to them.
Wealth and success must be earned to stick and obtain value.
As per specific proposals we can discuss any one and some of them may be very well positive.
The main thing they should not be based on "take it from .... " or "give it to ..."
They should provide ways to increase the wealth of the society for all.

Even though "take it from..give it to" is essentially how most of these corporations are making insane amounts of profits? When Monsanto is allowed to patent an organic product and force farmers to not be able to reseed but have to purchase new seeds from them every season and they get the government to pass laws (via their powerful lobbyist) and have courts pass down rulings (with justices like Clarence Thomas who used to represent Monsanto) that grossly benefit their profit margin at the expense of the overall public good, that's not "take it from..give it to?"

Like I said previously (and nobody wants to address), why is it OK when corporations manipulate the system to line their pockets but conservatives have a fit if a poor person manipulates the system to get a extra $100 to feed their family?

Manipulation of the system by private party needs to be proven in court and handled by law.
If law is flowed public and media need to step up and compaign to improve it.
If the authoritarian government itself is manipulating with people lives and rights for whatever ideological reason there is nothing you can do.
And can you please be more specific what are that mystical "...their pockets"?
Can you name some specific person or group to get unlawful money and not being prosecuted?
And if yes lets bring it up.
Is no point to talk about some generic "corporations". Let talk about real once.

Did you not read "Monsanto" in my post? You're so focused on spitting out the talking points you're not even reading (or more importantly paying attention) anybody else's perspective. And how can it be proven in court or handled by law if both entities have strong ties to the corporations in question? Again MONSANTO.

Exactly. You can't say, "Well, the corporation didn't break the law" and these laws are written by and for the wealthy corporations.

Obviously corporations will break the law.
Then they will get prosecuted and will pay the penalties.
There are a bunch of idiots working in management so you can expect anything.
I mean what you want to do - put "corporation" in jail or close and fire all workers?
You make the "corporations" some kind of Dark Empire conquering the world.
This is pretty laughable.

What's laughable is that you are apparently very naive.

How are they going to get prosecuted and pay penalties if they actively invest money to lobby the law makers to tailor laws that benefit them and have people sitting on the courts who will rule in their favor? You want to talk about a rigged system. So basically what you're advocating is let corporations continue to both rip-off our citizens and negatively affect the public good just because they hire people? And this isn't just "a bunch of idiots working in management," this all starts at the top.

Again, more conservative irony. They complain about too many regulations and regulatory agencies, but these regulations and agencies exist because of corporate misdeeds. The FDA was created because food corporations were putting garbage in our foods making people sick and killing folks. The number of cases of food poisoning now versus before the FDA arrived is staggering. You really don't think corporations knew what they were doing? Read up on some of things the tobacco industry was doing. Same with environmental issues.

Corporations exist to make money and maximize profits and have proven over, and over, and over again that they don't care who or what suffers if it means making an extra dollar. And now we have one of them leading the free world.

You are obviously just trolling because there's no way you can truly be this uninformed.

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11/22/2016  7:17 AM
holfresh wrote:Steve Bannon, mouthpiece for the Alt-Right, second most powerful man in the White House to be:

Steve Bannon: 'Darkness is good'

Washington (CNN)Steve Bannon has no regrets.
The ex-Breitbart executive, who serves as Trump's chief strategist for the new administration, told The Hollywood Reporter that "darkness is good."

"Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power. It only helps us when they (liberals) get it wrong. When they're blind to who we are and what we're doing," he said in an interview published Friday, his first outside of Breitbart since the election.

Yep, good times are ahead.
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11/22/2016  7:55 AM    LAST EDITED: 11/22/2016  7:55 AM
Welpee wrote:
arkrud wrote:
Bonn1997 wrote:
Welpee wrote:
arkrud wrote:
Welpee wrote:
arkrud wrote:
Bonn1997 wrote:
GoNyGoNyGo wrote:
arkrud wrote:
meloshouldgo wrote:His lack of conscience, tone deaf worship of wealth and accumulation and apparent lack of moral compass bother me. This is the exact thing Marx warned about. Greedy people letting their last for money go out of control and becoming enslaved by an inanimate object with no real value.

Marks is a Man... but Lenin, Mao, and Stalin enhanced his ideas even better.
Using his teaching they enslaved hundreds of millions to serve ideas which have great values on their own.
Sad this people rebel and screw them over. We need to try it in America... may be it will work this time?


I know you are kidding about trying it here but it is scary as it is exactly where the "progressive" movement will end up if its left to them. The progressive movement is lead by the communist radicals who think they can make it work with another try. I wonder how is Venezuela doing these days? Oh right it looks alot like the final days of the USSR. The policies are a death sentence for the people.

The saddest part is the failure of communism is not even taught in schools.
They do not learn about the millions murdered by Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Castro, Chavez and others. Instead these leaders are glorified! OMG!

Keep on telling about the things you have seen first hand. Perhaps one day, people will understand how damn good the American ideal was and still is.


What are some examples of proposals that progressives are making that are dangerously close to communism?

"The nation which forget its past has no future."
This is not me, its Winston Churchill...
We, Americans, are fortunate to have people emigrated from all over the world to tell the story of how the history went.
Not by the book and not by the propoganda but by personal experience.
This is a huge wealth of this nation.
A lot of brutal dictatorships emerged from innocent and humanitarian ideas when people forget one main thing -
No future prosperity can be build by taking anything from anybody by force.
No prosperity can be build by people who get wealth handed to them.
Wealth and success must be earned to stick and obtain value.
As per specific proposals we can discuss any one and some of them may be very well positive.
The main thing they should not be based on "take it from .... " or "give it to ..."
They should provide ways to increase the wealth of the society for all.

Even though "take it from..give it to" is essentially how most of these corporations are making insane amounts of profits? When Monsanto is allowed to patent an organic product and force farmers to not be able to reseed but have to purchase new seeds from them every season and they get the government to pass laws (via their powerful lobbyist) and have courts pass down rulings (with justices like Clarence Thomas who used to represent Monsanto) that grossly benefit their profit margin at the expense of the overall public good, that's not "take it from..give it to?"

Like I said previously (and nobody wants to address), why is it OK when corporations manipulate the system to line their pockets but conservatives have a fit if a poor person manipulates the system to get a extra $100 to feed their family?

Manipulation of the system by private party needs to be proven in court and handled by law.
If law is flowed public and media need to step up and compaign to improve it.
If the authoritarian government itself is manipulating with people lives and rights for whatever ideological reason there is nothing you can do.
And can you please be more specific what are that mystical "...their pockets"?
Can you name some specific person or group to get unlawful money and not being prosecuted?
And if yes lets bring it up.
Is no point to talk about some generic "corporations". Let talk about real once.

Did you not read "Monsanto" in my post? You're so focused on spitting out the talking points you're not even reading (or more importantly paying attention) anybody else's perspective. And how can it be proven in court or handled by law if both entities have strong ties to the corporations in question? Again MONSANTO.

Exactly. You can't say, "Well, the corporation didn't break the law" and these laws are written by and for the wealthy corporations.

Obviously corporations will break the law.
Then they will get prosecuted and will pay the penalties.
There are a bunch of idiots working in management so you can expect anything.
I mean what you want to do - put "corporation" in jail or close and fire all workers?
You make the "corporations" some kind of Dark Empire conquering the world.
This is pretty laughable.

What's laughable is that you are apparently very naive.

How are they going to get prosecuted and pay penalties if they actively invest money to lobby the law makers to tailor laws that benefit them and have people sitting on the courts who will rule in their favor?
You want to talk about a rigged system. So basically what you're advocating is let corporations continue to both rip-off our citizens and negatively affect the public good just because they hire people? And this isn't just "a bunch of idiots working in management," this all starts at the top.

Again, more conservative irony. They complain about too many regulations and regulatory agencies, but these regulations and agencies exist because of corporate misdeeds. The FDA was created because food corporations were putting garbage in our foods making people sick and killing folks. The number of cases of food poisoning now versus before the FDA arrived is staggering. You really don't think corporations knew what they were doing? Read up on some of things the tobacco industry was doing. Same with environmental issues.

Corporations exist to make money and maximize profits and have proven over, and over, and over again that they don't care who or what suffers if it means making an extra dollar. And now we have one of them leading the free world.

You are obviously just trolling because there's no way you can truly be this uninformed.


Exactly
And often they can just pay their accusers a couple of mil in pocket change to get out of anything serious.
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11/22/2016  8:01 AM
smackeddog wrote:
Bonn1997 wrote:
GoNyGoNyGo wrote:
arkrud wrote:
meloshouldgo wrote:His lack of conscience, tone deaf worship of wealth and accumulation and apparent lack of moral compass bother me. This is the exact thing Marx warned about. Greedy people letting their last for money go out of control and becoming enslaved by an inanimate object with no real value.

Marks is a Man... but Lenin, Mao, and Stalin enhanced his ideas even better.
Using his teaching they enslaved hundreds of millions to serve ideas which have great values on their own.
Sad this people rebel and screw them over. We need to try it in America... may be it will work this time?


I know you are kidding about trying it here but it is scary as it is exactly where the "progressive" movement will end up if its left to them. The progressive movement is lead by the communist radicals who think they can make it work with another try. I wonder how is Venezuela doing these days? Oh right it looks alot like the final days of the USSR. The policies are a death sentence for the people.

The saddest part is the failure of communism is not even taught in schools.
They do not learn about the millions murdered by Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Castro, Chavez and others. Instead these leaders are glorified! OMG!

Keep on telling about the things you have seen first hand. Perhaps one day, people will understand how damn good the American ideal was and still is.


What are some examples of proposals that progressives are making that are dangerously close to communism?

Horrors such as free universal health care! I hope we all never have to not worry about not being able to afford health care if we get ill- fear of death due to lack of money is the founding, cherished value that America was built on!


YEah sure it is free. Keep thinking that.
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11/22/2016  8:07 AM    LAST EDITED: 11/22/2016  8:08 AM
GoNyGoNyGo wrote:
smackeddog wrote:
Bonn1997 wrote:
GoNyGoNyGo wrote:
arkrud wrote:
meloshouldgo wrote:His lack of conscience, tone deaf worship of wealth and accumulation and apparent lack of moral compass bother me. This is the exact thing Marx warned about. Greedy people letting their last for money go out of control and becoming enslaved by an inanimate object with no real value.

Marks is a Man... but Lenin, Mao, and Stalin enhanced his ideas even better.
Using his teaching they enslaved hundreds of millions to serve ideas which have great values on their own.
Sad this people rebel and screw them over. We need to try it in America... may be it will work this time?


I know you are kidding about trying it here but it is scary as it is exactly where the "progressive" movement will end up if its left to them. The progressive movement is lead by the communist radicals who think they can make it work with another try. I wonder how is Venezuela doing these days? Oh right it looks alot like the final days of the USSR. The policies are a death sentence for the people.

The saddest part is the failure of communism is not even taught in schools.
They do not learn about the millions murdered by Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Castro, Chavez and others. Instead these leaders are glorified! OMG!

Keep on telling about the things you have seen first hand. Perhaps one day, people will understand how damn good the American ideal was and still is.


What are some examples of proposals that progressives are making that are dangerously close to communism?

Horrors such as free universal health care! I hope we all never have to not worry about not being able to afford health care if we get ill- fear of death due to lack of money is the founding, cherished value that America was built on!


YEah sure it is free. Keep thinking that.

Obviously, it takes tax payer money but some public investments like infrastructure, education, and health care (i.e., a healthy workforce with good preventative medicine) pay for themselves. Other western democracies have figured this out already. Others (like spending more on the military than the next 8 countries combined) don't.
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11/22/2016  8:49 AM
Bonn1997 wrote:
GoNyGoNyGo wrote:
smackeddog wrote:
Bonn1997 wrote:
GoNyGoNyGo wrote:
arkrud wrote:
meloshouldgo wrote:His lack of conscience, tone deaf worship of wealth and accumulation and apparent lack of moral compass bother me. This is the exact thing Marx warned about. Greedy people letting their last for money go out of control and becoming enslaved by an inanimate object with no real value.

Marks is a Man... but Lenin, Mao, and Stalin enhanced his ideas even better.
Using his teaching they enslaved hundreds of millions to serve ideas which have great values on their own.
Sad this people rebel and screw them over. We need to try it in America... may be it will work this time?


I know you are kidding about trying it here but it is scary as it is exactly where the "progressive" movement will end up if its left to them. The progressive movement is lead by the communist radicals who think they can make it work with another try. I wonder how is Venezuela doing these days? Oh right it looks alot like the final days of the USSR. The policies are a death sentence for the people.

The saddest part is the failure of communism is not even taught in schools.
They do not learn about the millions murdered by Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Castro, Chavez and others. Instead these leaders are glorified! OMG!

Keep on telling about the things you have seen first hand. Perhaps one day, people will understand how damn good the American ideal was and still is.


What are some examples of proposals that progressives are making that are dangerously close to communism?

Horrors such as free universal health care! I hope we all never have to not worry about not being able to afford health care if we get ill- fear of death due to lack of money is the founding, cherished value that America was built on!


YEah sure it is free. Keep thinking that.

Obviously, it takes tax payer money but some public investments like infrastructure, education, and health care (i.e., a healthy workforce with good preventative medicine) pay for themselves. Other western democracies have figured this out already. Others (like spending more on the military than the next 8 countries combined) don't.

Hey, we need to upgrade our nuclear arsenal, it's at least 20 years old...
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Over the summer, Popovich reached out to youth from disadvantaged backgrounds. On Sunday, the coach invited West to speak in San Antonio to approximately 350 kids at the Jo Long Theatre of Performing Arts at the Carver Community Cultural Center. The event lasted "3 or 4 hours," Popovich said, and included the entire Spurs team and basketball staff, as well as owners Peter and Julianna Holt.

Zirin served as the moderator for the event, which covered "the gamut," Popovich said.

"It was big time. Cornel West is amazing," Spurs guard Manu Ginobili said. "He's been fighting that fight for a long time. He's very clear, very well-spoken, had a lot of examples and names. He was right there. I had listened to a few of his interviews, and it's just mesmerizing to listen to him. So it was good to get to meet him and to listen to him face to face. And if you add that to the fact that there were 350 kids from Sam Houston High School learning and listening, I think it was very powerful. It was a great, great move."

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/18109715/gregg-popovich-convenes-san-antonio-town-hall-scholar-cornel-west-spurs-local-youth

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11/22/2016  11:07 AM
GoNyGoNyGo wrote:
smackeddog wrote:
Bonn1997 wrote:
GoNyGoNyGo wrote:
arkrud wrote:
meloshouldgo wrote:His lack of conscience, tone deaf worship of wealth and accumulation and apparent lack of moral compass bother me. This is the exact thing Marx warned about. Greedy people letting their last for money go out of control and becoming enslaved by an inanimate object with no real value.

Marks is a Man... but Lenin, Mao, and Stalin enhanced his ideas even better.
Using his teaching they enslaved hundreds of millions to serve ideas which have great values on their own.
Sad this people rebel and screw them over. We need to try it in America... may be it will work this time?


I know you are kidding about trying it here but it is scary as it is exactly where the "progressive" movement will end up if its left to them. The progressive movement is lead by the communist radicals who think they can make it work with another try. I wonder how is Venezuela doing these days? Oh right it looks alot like the final days of the USSR. The policies are a death sentence for the people.

The saddest part is the failure of communism is not even taught in schools.
They do not learn about the millions murdered by Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Castro, Chavez and others. Instead these leaders are glorified! OMG!

Keep on telling about the things you have seen first hand. Perhaps one day, people will understand how damn good the American ideal was and still is.


What are some examples of proposals that progressives are making that are dangerously close to communism?

Horrors such as free universal health care! I hope we all never have to not worry about not being able to afford health care if we get ill- fear of death due to lack of money is the founding, cherished value that America was built on!


YEah sure it is free. Keep thinking that.

Free at the point of delivery. I honestly don't get why people are so opposed to it.

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11/22/2016  11:40 AM
http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trumps-foundation-engaged-in-self-dealing-irs-filing-shows-1479829984

Donald Trump’s Foundation Engaged in Self-Dealing, IRS Filing Shows

President-elect Donald Trump’s charitable foundation engaged in self-dealing in 2015 and prior years, the foundation said in an Internal Revenue Service filing.
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holfresh wrote:http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trumps-foundation-engaged-in-self-dealing-irs-filing-shows-1479829984

Donald Trump’s Foundation Engaged in Self-Dealing, IRS Filing Shows

President-elect Donald Trump’s charitable foundation engaged in self-dealing in 2015 and prior years, the foundation said in an Internal Revenue Service filing.

And he managed to convince people that Hillary was the one who was corrupt. It's unbelievable.
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11/22/2016  12:29 PM    LAST EDITED: 11/22/2016  12:31 PM
Bonn1997 wrote:
holfresh wrote:http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trumps-foundation-engaged-in-self-dealing-irs-filing-shows-1479829984

Donald Trump’s Foundation Engaged in Self-Dealing, IRS Filing Shows

President-elect Donald Trump’s charitable foundation engaged in self-dealing in 2015 and prior years, the foundation said in an Internal Revenue Service filing.

And he managed to convince people that Hillary was the one who was corrupt. It's unbelievable.

Well let's see how he wiggles out of the Dec. 16th child rape case...He will probably settle on a Friday and EMS will say we can't talk about it because it's settled and he didn't admit guilt..But I think the plaintiff wants 100 million dollars...That's too much coin for the media to ignore..How does President Pence sound to you??..I'm more afraid of Pence..

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meloshouldgo wrote:
arkrud wrote:
meloshouldgo wrote:
arkrud wrote:
meloshouldgo wrote:His lack of conscience, tone deaf worship of wealth and accumulation and apparent lack of moral compass bother me. This is the exact thing Marx warned about. Greedy people letting their last for money go out of control and becoming enslaved by an inanimate object with no real value.

Marks is a Man... but Lenin, Mao, and Stalin enhanced his ideas even better.
Using his teaching they enslaved hundreds of millions to serve ideas which have great values on their own.
Sad this people rebel and screw them over. We need to try it in America... may be it will work this time?

We have already established you have less than zero understanding of Marx, Orwell or socialism. The comment above wasn't about Trump, it was about you. You lust for wealth has created the type of mindset that is devoid of any morals and/or scruples. I find you truly repulsive and nauseating. I will not debate anything with you, I have no intention of legitimizing your drivel by doing so.

Truth is nauseating.
You are too personal.
I am not some celebrity to talk about me.
I never call you out by any means as it is not polite for the standards of modern civilization.
I know you are from some stone age place so I have no issues with you personally.
It takes time to adjust to the world were people can debate anything freely and all opinions are accepted.
Hopefully your children will adapt and became normal modern people.

Yes because calling me stone age and non adaptable is real polite. But you are right in that I am not trying to be polite with you either. And leave my children out if this.

This is not about me personally disliking you it's about me finding your stated position reprehensible and unconscionable. All I know about you is that you are an unverified self proclaimed Russian jew hiding behind a wall of anonymity and spewing propaganda. With nothing but your own personal "experience" to back it up.

Maybe your family was persecuted by the Russian Govt. I don't know your history, but you are the one who is being personal and it's about how you "feel" about socialism and Russia. You are incapable of coherent thought or articulation. And you cant stop conflating socialism with communist Russia because of your experience. This just shows that you take all mention of Russia personally and have no reasonable ability to have a discussion about it.

We did have a discussion about socialism or I tried to. But you didn't make a single point other than repeating the propaganda you were taught as a child. And you make it sound like you are speaking for how all Russians feel when I have provided far more trustworthy data that more than 55% would rather go back to the old ways. Yet we should just believe an anonymous poster on a message board as the ultimate representation of the Russian community.

Everyone is entitled to an informed opinion, ignorance and propaganda are not opinions worthy of consideration. Your inability to actually sort out the noise from the truth makes you unworthy of having an opinion.

Its a long post about me... Thank you for the attention to my persona.
Obviously I have to hide because from my experience one and ones family can get in trouble with people like you even in US when just expressing some opinion you would not like.
I am not directing my arguments to you. It is lost course.
I am trying to keep others informed and aware about dire consequences of leftism and populism. Ignorance and propaganda are the main weapons used the spread this diseases.
The trademark for this pundits is simple - instead of factual argument they will always use personality attacks as this is best detraction from factual discussion.


"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Hamlet
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Welpee wrote:
arkrud wrote:
Bonn1997 wrote:
Welpee wrote:
arkrud wrote:
Welpee wrote:
arkrud wrote:
Bonn1997 wrote:
GoNyGoNyGo wrote:
arkrud wrote:
meloshouldgo wrote:His lack of conscience, tone deaf worship of wealth and accumulation and apparent lack of moral compass bother me. This is the exact thing Marx warned about. Greedy people letting their last for money go out of control and becoming enslaved by an inanimate object with no real value.

Marks is a Man... but Lenin, Mao, and Stalin enhanced his ideas even better.
Using his teaching they enslaved hundreds of millions to serve ideas which have great values on their own.
Sad this people rebel and screw them over. We need to try it in America... may be it will work this time?


I know you are kidding about trying it here but it is scary as it is exactly where the "progressive" movement will end up if its left to them. The progressive movement is lead by the communist radicals who think they can make it work with another try. I wonder how is Venezuela doing these days? Oh right it looks alot like the final days of the USSR. The policies are a death sentence for the people.

The saddest part is the failure of communism is not even taught in schools.
They do not learn about the millions murdered by Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Castro, Chavez and others. Instead these leaders are glorified! OMG!

Keep on telling about the things you have seen first hand. Perhaps one day, people will understand how damn good the American ideal was and still is.


What are some examples of proposals that progressives are making that are dangerously close to communism?

"The nation which forget its past has no future."
This is not me, its Winston Churchill...
We, Americans, are fortunate to have people emigrated from all over the world to tell the story of how the history went.
Not by the book and not by the propoganda but by personal experience.
This is a huge wealth of this nation.
A lot of brutal dictatorships emerged from innocent and humanitarian ideas when people forget one main thing -
No future prosperity can be build by taking anything from anybody by force.
No prosperity can be build by people who get wealth handed to them.
Wealth and success must be earned to stick and obtain value.
As per specific proposals we can discuss any one and some of them may be very well positive.
The main thing they should not be based on "take it from .... " or "give it to ..."
They should provide ways to increase the wealth of the society for all.

Even though "take it from..give it to" is essentially how most of these corporations are making insane amounts of profits? When Monsanto is allowed to patent an organic product and force farmers to not be able to reseed but have to purchase new seeds from them every season and they get the government to pass laws (via their powerful lobbyist) and have courts pass down rulings (with justices like Clarence Thomas who used to represent Monsanto) that grossly benefit their profit margin at the expense of the overall public good, that's not "take it from..give it to?"

Like I said previously (and nobody wants to address), why is it OK when corporations manipulate the system to line their pockets but conservatives have a fit if a poor person manipulates the system to get a extra $100 to feed their family?

Manipulation of the system by private party needs to be proven in court and handled by law.
If law is flowed public and media need to step up and compaign to improve it.
If the authoritarian government itself is manipulating with people lives and rights for whatever ideological reason there is nothing you can do.
And can you please be more specific what are that mystical "...their pockets"?
Can you name some specific person or group to get unlawful money and not being prosecuted?
And if yes lets bring it up.
Is no point to talk about some generic "corporations". Let talk about real once.

Did you not read "Monsanto" in my post? You're so focused on spitting out the talking points you're not even reading (or more importantly paying attention) anybody else's perspective. And how can it be proven in court or handled by law if both entities have strong ties to the corporations in question? Again MONSANTO.

Exactly. You can't say, "Well, the corporation didn't break the law" and these laws are written by and for the wealthy corporations.

Obviously corporations will break the law.
Then they will get prosecuted and will pay the penalties.
There are a bunch of idiots working in management so you can expect anything.
I mean what you want to do - put "corporation" in jail or close and fire all workers?
You make the "corporations" some kind of Dark Empire conquering the world.
This is pretty laughable.

What's laughable is that you are apparently very naive.

How are they going to get prosecuted and pay penalties if they actively invest money to lobby the law makers to tailor laws that benefit them and have people sitting on the courts who will rule in their favor? You want to talk about a rigged system. So basically what you're advocating is let corporations continue to both rip-off our citizens and negatively affect the public good just because they hire people? And this isn't just "a bunch of idiots working in management," this all starts at the top.

Again, more conservative irony. They complain about too many regulations and regulatory agencies, but these regulations and agencies exist because of corporate misdeeds. The FDA was created because food corporations were putting garbage in our foods making people sick and killing folks. The number of cases of food poisoning now versus before the FDA arrived is staggering. You really don't think corporations knew what they were doing? Read up on some of things the tobacco industry was doing. Same with environmental issues.

Corporations exist to make money and maximize profits and have proven over, and over, and over again that they don't care who or what suffers if it means making an extra dollar. And now we have one of them leading the free world.

You are obviously just trolling because there's no way you can truly be this uninformed.

Corporations do exist but they are just a form of organization to produce goods and services.
Some for profit and some not.
Some privately own, some public, some government owned.
Some big and some little.
Some may be predatory and some may be charitable.
It is not about the "corporation" but abut who own and run them.
If corporation is run by criminals and corrupt governments it will be criminal.
If corporation is run by innovators and humanitarians it is honorable.
Not sure how you can make some form of organization into evil.
I may be naive but your view is some extreme simplification and generalization.
And any simplification and generalization cannot help in identifying and solving any issues which are always very specific.

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Hamlet
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11/22/2016  3:14 PM    LAST EDITED: 11/22/2016  3:21 PM
earthmansurfer wrote:Depending on where you look, I see it ranging from 3 Billion to 10 Billion.


you have to do the digging since you are the one claiming some random number between 3 and 10 billion. has he shown you or any credible source his taxes?

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Where the heck is Hillary Clinton?

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