Affleck and Damon Team for Anti-Corporate SyFy Project
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Larry Gude
Strung Out
I really don't understand why anyone, in this day and age, who loves freedom and liberty doesn't see our 'too big to fail' culture as a direct threat to both of those.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation_(film)
http://politicalloudmouth.com/why-publicly-traded-corporations-behave-like-sociopaths/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation_(film)
http://politicalloudmouth.com/why-publicly-traded-corporations-behave-like-sociopaths/
Larry Gude
Strung Out
No. It is the point I have to make.
ok then .... Socializing Loss, bad
.... if you get the profits you get the risk .... end of discussion .....
I am currently slogging my way through this Socialism
Queue ..
... LB to opine I am too stupid to understand or TJ to pontificate how Austrian Economics have been disproven in the last 80 yrs
ok then .... Socializing Loss, bad
.... if you get the profits you get the risk .... end of discussion .....
I am currently slogging my way through this Socialism
Queue ..
... LB to opine I am too stupid to understand or TJ to pontificate how Austrian Economics have been disproven in the last 80 yrs
Actually I will take both and offer the standard correction...
You are too stupid or blinded by ideology (you choose which) and NO ONE...no one...is pushing Mises anymore. Not because of the last 80 (you moron) but because of the last 5. All the AE nutjobs out there have been disproven by the financial crisis. We have had an unfortunately wonderful opportunity to witness the divergent theories played out over the past 6 years. There is a REALLY, REALLY good reason why no one, no one, is talking about AE any longer.
But you go ahead, read the conspiracy theory, lunatic fringe crap...it's the only thing that fits your mentality. You'll believe everything you read because you only read things that confirm what you already believe. You look for the negative, that which makes this country look bad. You see nothing but the negative or the things that already confirm your opinion that was created by places like Zerohedge and Brietbart. Which is what makes you too stupid to understand.
Larry Gude
Strung Out
ok then .... Socializing Loss, bad
.... if you get the profits you get the risk .... end of discussion .....
Socializing loss isn't in and of itself bad nor is privatizing gain. It's HOW we do it. Privatizing loss and socializing gain, again, it's not the principle, it's the balance.
If we start with a core belief in individual freedom and liberty, property rights, pursuit of happiness, limited government, all that core stuff, that the goal is to form a more perfect union of WE, the people, then everything will, should, have a social component as well as private.
Affleck, Damon, they're like Occupy Wall Street, they're on to something but, they don't really see it. I think of them as canaries in the coal mine; they're suffering but, they don't know, or understand, why. And this was my great disappointment with the TEA party types. We KNOW how this works, how big business goes about it's interests at the expense of everything that is important, the individual, the more perfect union. Too Big is too big. However, we've created all these incentives and roadblocks and distortions that put the nations welfare at such enormous risk that we end up unable to see a way out, a way AWAY from Too Big and...it gets bigger. People tend to do much better, because they matter more, in small groups rather than enormous ones. It is better to have 4 US car makers than 3 and better to have 5 than 4 and that applies to most of our national welfare. Better to have more smaller banks. Better to have more food options, more computer, software, TV, service provider options.
There are very few things where BIGGER is truly better for the general welfare; military, big infrastructure, space program, energy policies, stuff like that.
And one of the key, core problems is corporate person-hood. Companies MUST be answerable to their communities and, when they get too big, they are too big for that to matter anymore.
This is a poignant read given it was written in 1952; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_Piano_(novel)
We've lost our way as a nation and, unless and until we can regain some common values, there is no more 'perfect' union. There is only corporations. Much is going on to work the other way and maybe things are better than I fear. My new business model is revealing widespread interest in small, local and that can be nothing but good. Frankly, it's a symptom of the weakness of Too Big; When Too Big gets too big, all the efficiencies and gains an improvements of growth get lost and it becomes about NOTHING but profit and quality and service and the intangible 'goodness' of small are lost. Ideally, something too big WILL fail because it is too big, like a giant, fat, slovenly, all consuming monster. It just fails of it's own weight. TARP prevented that very thing. Those banks NEEDED to pay for their anti freedom, anti liberty, anti community and anti people ways and means. But, they didn't, Not yet, because they're big enough to buy us off. For now.
well sweetie, you never fail to show what an elitists condescending #### gobbler you are ....
..... so besides your arrogant attitude, what 'proof' do you offer on this AE has been disproved in the last 5 yrs .... because all I see is more gov. meddling
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