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ChazInAz

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33. We need a cut-throat muckraker with a megaphone.

Sun Sep 23, 2012, 01:16 PM

Sep 2012

In the late 1800's, Ambrose Bierce spent years investigating and exposing Collis P. Huntington and the other "Railrogues" for their monopolistic, dishonest businesses. Bierce won the battle and got back all the funds that Huntington had misappropriated from the government.
Doesn't look like we have anyone of his stature or courage to face down the bully boys the way he did. When Huntington encountered him on the steps of the Capitol and asked what his price was, Bierce replied that it was the full sum owed to the government and the people. Let's see some of our current batch of "journalists" do that!

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BREAK UP THE MONOPOLIES: banking, pharma, insurance, media, food producers, political parties... [View all] elehhhhna Sep 2012 OP

You forgot one orpupilofnature57 Sep 2012 #1

Indeed. 99Forever Sep 2012 #4

Agreed ! orpupilofnature57 Sep 2012 #13

Also, big oil is too big. safeinOhio Sep 2012 #22

uh, monopolies will eventually reconstitute themselves in some other form BOG PERSON Sep 2012 #2

Just abolish capital gains entitlements altogether. n/t orpupilofnature57 Sep 2012 #7

come on, dude BOG PERSON Sep 2012 #17

And there's physically more of us than orpupilofnature57 Sep 2012 #25

Then you brush them back again... JHB Sep 2012 #26

beats me BOG PERSON Sep 2012 #48

What did technology look like 25 years ago? 1987? JHB Sep 2012 #60

Political parties requires a constitutional amendment nadinbrzezinski Sep 2012 #3

think of monopolies like T1000 in Terminator 2 BOG PERSON Sep 2012 #5

Yes ,mindless, heartless amoebas with one goal orpupilofnature57 Sep 2012 #8

wasn't that really john connor's goal though? BOG PERSON Sep 2012 #19

Only if production, efficiency, and subservience take priority orpupilofnature57 Sep 2012 #21

yes, john connor is what you might call BOG PERSON Sep 2012 #49

Did you see Terminator 2 ? orpupilofnature57 Sep 2012 #50

We're into the 5th successive administration that has refused to enforce the law. Egalitarian Thug Sep 2012 #6

Teddy Roosevelt was ostracized for it orpupilofnature57 Sep 2012 #9

teddy roosevelt was a racist cop BOG PERSON Sep 2012 #14

If that was the case only the rich would orpupilofnature57 Sep 2012 #27

...and Thomas Jefferson owned slaves. Cooley Hurd Sep 2012 #29

people knew slavery was wrong in jefferson's day BOG PERSON Sep 2012 #44

Only in Mass and NY orpupilofnature57 Sep 2012 #52

i wonder how the slaves felt about it (n/t) BOG PERSON Sep 2012 #53

Like militant supremacists oh yeah and Radical species orpupilofnature57 Sep 2012 #55

i didn't make that up! believe it or not. BOG PERSON Sep 2012 #56

And FDR interned the Japanese and forced them to give up their stuff. OnyxCollie Sep 2012 #30

My Avatar, and he was exiled from the world orpupilofnature57 Sep 2012 #57

Yes he was, at least in the Hearst owned press. But that was the OG GOP. n/t Egalitarian Thug Sep 2012 #37

Right, and this a major reason for many of our problems today. elleng Sep 2012 #38

One of the biggies, that's for sure. kick n/t Egalitarian Thug Sep 2012 #42

the media definately ought to be separated from iemitsu Sep 2012 #10

Walter Cronkite would say it, but Joe scar orpupilofnature57 Sep 2012 #11

joe Scarborough is a sleazy whore who was handed a house seat, iemitsu Sep 2012 #24

They got a pheonomenal boost & complicity under GW. K & R! mother earth Sep 2012 #12

I say we go ALL THE WAY back and make Corporations SHORT term.... they want to be people? Tigress DEM Sep 2012 #15

Now that's an idea. Lifespan, what about the ones that walk in front of a bus at age 2 or 3? lonestarnot Sep 2012 #16

I love this idea. At age 50 (or whatever), they get broken up into pieces, by law. reformist2 Sep 2012 #32

Original Founding Fathers Concept - not mine Tigress DEM Sep 2012 #36

thanks, hadn't seen that article - nt dreamnightwind Sep 2012 #54

Monopoly laundry_queen Sep 2012 #18

+1 Scuba Sep 2012 #20

+1 leftstreet Sep 2012 #23

+1 freshwest Sep 2012 #58

Not unregulated tama Sep 2012 #59

Not sure what you are getting at. laundry_queen Sep 2012 #61

Simply tama Sep 2012 #66

And that's the irony of a completely 'free' market. NYC Liberal Sep 2012 #67

I think we can put this in the "WELL FUCKING DUH!" department. HopeHoops Sep 2012 #28

Better yet RoccoR5955 Sep 2012 #31

Of course, then someone defacto7 Sep 2012 #46

We need a cut-throat muckraker with a megaphone. ChazInAz Sep 2012 #33

We've seen the buy-outs since the 80s socialindependocrat Sep 2012 #34

kr HiPointDem Sep 2012 #35

This message was self-deleted by its author guyton Sep 2012 #39

Stop the robber barons of this generation. n/t porphyrian Sep 2012 #40

I know a way to do that.... The Doctor. Sep 2012 #41

YES!!!! Rex Sep 2012 #43

Dame u WFB skeewee08 Sep 2012 #45

It's ethics... defacto7 Sep 2012 #47

I agree, but how if our elected reps and senators won't? Cleita Sep 2012 #51

The largest problem facing America - bar none. wtmusic Sep 2012 #62

NONE of these are monopolies for crying out loud. banned from Kos Sep 2012 #63

Heavens, is that all? wtmusic Sep 2012 #64

Great idea. Occupy has been working on this for over a year now. Zorra Sep 2012 #65