I'm Changing My Name to Chrysler (Arlo Guthrie)

I'm Changing My Name to Chrysler, performed by Arlo Guthrie, lyrics by Tom Paxton.

"Corporate welfare-the enormous and myriad subsidies, bailouts, giveaways, tax loopholes, debt revocations, loan guarantees, discounted insurance and other benefits conferred by government on business-is a function of political corruption. Corporate welfare programs siphon funds from appropriate public investments, subsidize companies ripping minerals from federal lands, enable pharmaceutical companies to gouge consumers, perpetuate anti-competitive oligopolistic markets, injure our national security, and weaken our democracy." - Ralph Nader in "Cutting Corporate Welfare."

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Nader/CutCorpWelfare_Nader.html

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Corperate
• Welfare
• Capitalism
• Coruption
• Government
• Taxes
• Rich
• Money
• poor
• Enron
• American
• Airlines
• Bailout

[bphendri]

Hey I'm unemployed due to the recession. How come I only get $480 a week, when the corporations that caused me to loose my job get billions?

Love you Arlo!

[socoolbob]

Since the first amphibians crawled out of the SLIME !!!

SoCô¿ôL !!!

[ilene510]

well done Arlo & Tom...I'm forwarding this to all my friends!

[541397964]

@bphendri How come I bust my ass for $350 a week while you are too lazy to find another job?

[canadastreetmedia]

stripping the wealth of these & other cocsuckers is what they all deserve.

If you cant take there wealth :Maybe we can all keep them from enjoying it...

Its not Rightfully theres to Enjoy is it ?

if you do not want to a nigger slave pawn your whole life do something to defend your rights to live better!

[101Aran]

vv I wrote that last comment forgetting that Arlo did not write the song. (Sorry, Only version of the song i've grown up with.)

[101Aran]

This brings back memories.

Mom and dad would play lots of Arlo music on trips to grandmas. Happy times.

I hafta say, While i know very little about Arlo himself (So i could be dead wrong) i do not think this song is anti-capitalist, Possibly but not neccessarily anti-corporation. I see this song as pointing out flaws in what was at the time (and still is) the nations brand of capitalism. As for communism, It in my oppinion can only work at a community level. Never State Level.

[375GTB]

THE BILL!!

ALWAYS ON THE BACKS OF THE POOR!!

Now THE MIDDLE CLASS OF AMERIKA

J.C.

[Kemruss]

I hate when people claim that what America is today is capitalism....when you can create a corporation or LLC that privatizes earnings and socializes losses....THIS IS NOT CAPITALISM!! Also, in a capitalist system, the state has NO control over the printing of money or the rate of interest. It also DOES NOT bail out failing companies. For any more info, I point you to the philosopher Stefan Molyneux

[mollyjeorgensen]

@KenMacMillan ... beside the fact that you're entirely ignoring that Bolshevism was only a factor in Russia until the early 1930s. Given the extreme changes in political status, the complete usurpation of the existing social order, a couple years of famine that would have occurred no matter who was in power, and the continuing fallout from WWI... It's no surprise everything fell apart. I don't think we can conclude it was "failure by design"; any system would struggle.

[mollyjeorgensen]

@KenMacMillan Not quite. Bolshevism had a number of problems that pulled it well out of the range of "pure communism". The problem with Bolshevism was the same as the problem with all state socialist plans; it relied upon the central authority of the state, and the common ownership of property via a mechanism of redistribution. Communism does not redistribute property; it is the elimination of property as such. This has never been realized.

[KenMacMillan]

@mollyjeorgensen The Bolsheviks tried it & the entire nation fell apart. People were foraging in the woods for food & burning parts of their houses to stay warm through the winter. The Soviet Union began experimenting with changes because of the failure of pure communism.