Wisconsin (R) State Senators Get Subsidies!

Cenk explains how some Republican State Senators in Wisconsin take taxpayer money in the form of subsidies for their farms. Since they're asking public employees (teachers, etc.) to 'sacrifice' will they give up these subsidies?

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[Try2MakeSenseOrSTFU]

@Try2MakeSenseOrSTFU I blame middleclass conservatives for voting into public office lawmakers who use language to distort the perception of "human rights" (read: corporate personhood) in favor of big business. What was sold to the American public as "trickle down" economics has ironically trickled upward. It should be unanimously agreed upon by now that the only redistribution of wealth that has occurred over the past 30 years has been to corporations and their shareholders.

[TheEvolver311]

@jpav0923 actually the wealthy use more infrastructure,courts,etc... and should pay more for them. Adam Smith wealth of nations advocates a progressive style tax policy.

[justcallmeassinine]

@drumheadcircle The problem is those GOP creeps have no shame at all.

[drumheadcircle]

Shame on those creeps. I can see if the gov. offers money to plant trees- they don't. Here we live in the most polluted state in the US...we are all choking from a lack of oxygen...while they leave fields as open dirt to pour more Radon into the air...That subsidy crap needs to end. It is un-American.

[onstageagain]

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even when there is no river. They are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even when there is no river .

Power is more addictive than heroin. You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

[onstageagain]

Well at least Hopper wasn't trying to "know" his young male paiges in the biblical sense of the word like Mark Foley or soliciting gay sex in an airport bathroom from a cop like Larry Craig or getting to "know" himself in the biblical sense of the word while parked in a van watching little kids at a play ground like rev. Storm.

As far as scummy moves, this is pretty mild. Still scummy.

She is infact a hooker. Shes a lobbyist? If someone is paid to have sex thats a prostitute.

[jpav0923]

@TheEvolver311 Are you even famliar with Austrianism?  Have you read von Mises, von Hayek, Friedman, Rothbard, etc? I think your conclusions are flawed.

[jpav0923]

@TheEvolver311 Precisely! Why should we not sell out federal lands, national parks, to private concerns? Why not sell ANWR to Exxon? This could put a big chunk in the national debt?

The sheer size of the government as it is subverts democracy. The market can regulate corporations better than politicians can statutorily. Slew of gains in SCOTUS? There is CItizens Utd (thank God, but not much else).

Only sociology majors use the term oligarchy. Sociology majors are always liberal.

[jpav0923]

@TheEvolver311 Your differentiation of the real economy and the financial economy is reasonable and well taken. However,I still don't believe in intervention.

The largest cause of the lack of liquidity were the mark-to-market accounting rules in Sarbannes Oxley. Were it not for this, banks would have been able to meet liquidity requirements. Sarbanes Oxley was an overreaction to Enron. Were it not for government intervention the crisis would not have occurred (or would have been less severe)

[jaylaine74]

cool video's...

[TheEvolver311]

@jpav0923 the US military for over a half a century has considered assets owned by a citizen(i.e. a coproation underlaw) to be protected. that is the military will go to protect the assets. already this underlying mission has driven us into many wars. i think under a american austrian economic model it would simply increase. it would take radical change to

[TheEvolver311]

@jpav0923 also i would not be excited by push for the austrian system. the most likely out come will be that public institutions will be sold off to the very same corporatist who subvert our democracy, in sweet heart deal. with the slew of resent corporatist gains in the supreme court we would likey subjected to a defacto corporatist oligarchy. we would likely go to more wars because wars a generally fought over resources and it is the capitalist class that generally advocates for them.