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Response to fasttense (Reply #12)

Fri Mar 7, 2014, 10:00 AM

20. "The politicians were just going along with the highest bidder."

Nothing to blame politicians for there?



The capitalists did not get where they are without laws and changes in laws. It's a partnership. And both groups got rich and powerful that way.

I blame them both, but I blame the politicians more. Why? The job of a capitalist is to get rich. The job of an elected representative is to serve the best interests of all the voters--and if that is impossible, then a majority of them.


Also, blaming only the capitalists--and it's a mystery to me why you want to do that--disempowers most of us. Those of us who don't hold enough shares in a corporation to fire the board or the officers cannot do much about the behavior of corporatists. However, I do have a vote as to politicians.


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