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In reply to the discussion: "I do not believe that people fought and died for democracy so that billionaires can buy elections." [View all]polynomial
(750 posts)They know who the billionaires are they know the good the bad and the ugly that is associated with these very successful people.
As an example one of the billionaires Bruce Rauner running as the Republican nominee for Governor against Pat Quinn in Illinois has an impressive record of philanthropy, and a huge list of awards not really detailed for what the achievements were.
For me the real curiosity is that list of two hundred business entities that are underscored as part of the Rauner investment strategies. From a theoretical theme most current Republican business plans are becoming very interesting to me.
Especially in Rauners family his father was the senior vice president of Motorola. This is a special curiosity because Motorola built the first most advance electronic manufactured portable telephone centered here in Illinois, Schaumburg which was an historical mile stone in current communication industry then with the Galvin family in Illinois Motorola eventually spun off a lot of the company.
Manufacturing job gone for better profits. In my opinion America also lost a lot of edge in technology since Motorola always had an insider view of research and development via connections to the huge military research that is always ongoing at the advantage by the American tax payer.
What is troubling is Rauner likely through investment management companies as listed in Wikipedia are Cayman accounts known for secret stuff. Now Google and Motorola are in a multibillion dollar technology deal. Little news about those types deals are talked about in the mainstream media. Is Rauner one of those who would like to capture and control Google Internet