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  And the winner is?

  By election day, there will not be a candidate in the race who is not fully owned by the corporations that are taking us all straight to hell.  If you think that doesn't include Clinton and Obama, well then you are a bigger damned fool than most.  In addition, the final vote will be determined by who runs the biggest, best financed slander blitz against their opponent.  And the corporations won't really care by then who wins because it will be business as usual for them after the election in any case.

          DanOn Whom will Gore endorse? posted 1 year, 10 months ago 21 Responses

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  Strategy and tactics

  I think I agree with some of the comments above by ce1907 and Patrick (Beijing) but I still don't hear much that would salve the burning feeling I have in my gut about the nature of the public debate on these issues.  What struck me as radically wrong with Joe Brewer's alternatives is that they are the same old tired solutions that are always offered as correctives to antisocial business practices.  Firstly, the idea of taxing corporations that are destructive to the community or the environment always produces the same result.  The corporation starts its balance sheet by determining the profit it wants to make and then rolls everything else into the costs.  If they produce an essential product or one that is related to a human vice (or if they simply have enough money to buy Congress), they are virtually guaranteed their profit, no matter what.   Look at the history of taxing products like cigarettes, alcohol, gambling etc. as the best examples.  Demand has never flagged no matter how much was imposed in the way of punitive taxes, and all the taxes usually wind up doing is enriching bureaucrats, lobbyists, and corporate executives who jump on the bandwagon like Pinocchio's pals on the way to Pleasure Island.  And any giveback plan that proposes benefiting the victims always seems to get lost in the shuffle.  Remember how gambling was supposed to be the goldmine that would fund the best public education system ever conceived in the mind of man?  Ultimately, any solution that does not directly attack the problem is worthless.  We need to start looking at how to promote the alternatives like electric railroads (and lawnmowers?), reinvigorate local economies, etc., etc.  

  And while we are at it we need to answer the #1 question and figure out how to replace a corrupt government with one not in the pay of corporate polluters.  It doesn't matter whether we vote Democrat or Republican as long as corporations keep pumping in enough money to buy the votes of both parties on any bill that will allow them to continue to rip off the rest of us.  All we'll get is the same ol' packaged in Newspeak.  And the misguided (?) `liberals' will go back to sleep until they are needed to do another dance to convinced the public that someone has their interests at heart.

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  On A look at the framing behind the last climate policy proposal posted 1 year, 10 months ago 18 Responses