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Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Art Pope's North Carolina
Congratulations, corporations! You have said that making the rich richer will fix all in two years, that unleashing Big Business from regulation will mean The Second Coming, and that the poor can beg.
We are now counting down to that Brave New World.
4 comments:
Popcorn
said...
No, we, the people, are rewarding success, not laziness, incompetence, and failure. The free market system has a little breathing room now to bring our nation out of the serious freedom robbing, job killing crisis it is in. The proof is in the pudding ladies and gentlemen, and nowhere has a socialist society gone on to do great things, unless you consider oppressing the proletariat as a great thing (Uncle Joe style).
Deregulation actually hurts business in the long run. When companies can get away with cheating and purveying shoddy or tainted goods, consumers become suspicious and stop buying anything. The good businesses get hammered along with the bad ones because the public loses trust. Look at what happened to the spinach growers and strawberry growers when one company sold E.coli contaminated food. When banks are unregulated, people stop trusting them and hold their money under the mattress, which hurts banks and the rest of the economy. Deregulation brings short-term profits for a few at the cost of a long-term sustainable economy.
and nowhere has a socialist society gone on to do great things,*Popcorn
As usual Tea party republican, you have forgot that Hilter and his socialist fascist government put the German people to work just like your failed Corporate American Fascists are not doing.....
J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
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4 comments:
No, we, the people, are rewarding success, not laziness, incompetence, and failure. The free market system has a little breathing room now to bring our nation out of the serious freedom robbing, job killing crisis it is in. The proof is in the pudding ladies and gentlemen, and nowhere has a socialist society gone on to do great things, unless you consider oppressing the proletariat as a great thing (Uncle Joe style).
Deregulation actually hurts business in the long run. When companies can get away with cheating and purveying shoddy or tainted goods, consumers become suspicious and stop buying anything. The good businesses get hammered along with the bad ones because the public loses trust. Look at what happened to the spinach growers and strawberry growers when one company sold E.coli contaminated food. When banks are unregulated, people stop trusting them and hold their money under the mattress, which hurts banks and the rest of the economy.
Deregulation brings short-term profits for a few at the cost of a long-term sustainable economy.
and nowhere has a socialist society gone on to do great things,*Popcorn
As usual Tea party republican, you have forgot that Hilter and his socialist fascist government put the German people to work just like your failed Corporate American Fascists are not doing.....
Anonymous, what happened to the German people after their socialist government lost the war?
What happened to the free market citizens of the United Sates?
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