Interview w/Thomas Ferguson 1 of 3 (on recent Supreme Court ruling)

Supreme Court OKs unlimited corporate spending on elections http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35011959/ns/business-businessweekcom/
For more info on the investment theory read http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Rule-Investment-Competition-Money-Driven/dp/0226... or watch http://goldenruledocumentary.blogspot.com/

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[beta447]

I like that he refers to libertarians as the new fascists, it is true in so many ways. Libertarians think that regulation almost as a rule is somehow with out value and just gets in the way of how things are supposed to be happening. If they got their way today, tomorrow we'd all be homeless/slaves to debt and inflation. Corporations behave as stereotypical sociopaths and need to be locked behind glass. Libertarians want to do away with the glass but want you handcuffed to boot. Damn.

[Xenu]

Uh.... yes. That's why he was the number 1 Republic recipient of donations from the financial industry. But finance is NOT the only type of capitalist. Finance donates far more to Democrats than Republicans (since finance is capital intensive & can co-exist with organized labor; labor-intensive capitalists cannot; that is why Republicans are far more anti-working class). Just because McCain was the Rep finance liked the most doesn't mean that Romney wasn't corporate America's favorite Repub.

[enkelin32]

Mc Cain was as corporate as you can get. Learn a little about his history and the Savings and Loan crisis. Do you think he didnt still have those ties and MORE.

[enkelin32]

You have No idea how corporate Mc Cain was as well. He had ties WAY back to the financial industry. Heck his Economic Advisor was PHIL GRAMM, The man who deregulated the banks and wrote the CFMA act of 2000 which enabled this whole credit crisis to blow up the world while he worked for a Swiss Bank. The people who voted for Huckabee (a TV evangelist) just showed how stupid many republicans can be.

[Xenu]

.. to wedge himself in. I think McCain's win of the nomination was historic since it is an example of an organized mass being able to press again the will of corporate investors. Neither the corporate candidate or the organized religious right movement candidate won the battle but it allowed a third to win the candidacy. It merits a chapter in Ferguson's book.

[Xenu]

The same way an ignorant war-monger like McCain would have played to the American public. No campaign commercial played about McCain's ignorance about the surge policy, alleged Iran support for Sunni insurgents, etc. No campaign ran about Obama's senate record of being a tool to finance. I agree with the dude below - Romney lost because the religious base was organized well enough to split the Republican vote with Huckabee in opposite to the corporate candidate, allowing a third figure, McCain

[enkelin32]

Duh, because he was (1) a mormon and (2) his company was a investment management comp which would Buy American companies take them apart, sell the equipment and move the jobs overseas or just out right sell it to a foreign corporation. How do you think that would have played in a campaign commercial?

[mrtyles]

if corporations are people, maybe they need to be emancipated from the stock holders who own them.

[mrtyles]

the corporate equivalent of a marriage is a merger. now corporations will be able to marry people. lol.

[KhmerD0g]

damn. foreign companies are now ready to buy american politicians.