Businesses do not exist to create jobs.

[Tennessee Gal]

60. Excellent. You said so much very well.

I strongly agree with these statements:

"Put differently, the government should of course support the business activities deemed beneficial for society but because they are beneficial to society, not because they enrich an individual who will in turn pay bribes to his political buddies."

"Does helping people automatically help business? I would suspect so - if the population is well-off, secure, content, will it not work hard in some business and spend its wealth as customers of some business? The problem, it seems to me, comes when people and business are set as adversaries: that is what Republican policies (e.g., low capital gains taxes, absence of regulation, stock options not connected to company performance) achieve."

Yes, that is exactly what Republican policies achieve. They know they are doing it. They know it is harmful to the average American, but they do not care. All they care about is control and power by whatever means necessary.

I do not believe that all pro-business politicians are anti-people. Admittedly they are few and far between, but I do believe they still exist.

"It really bothers me the way mistreating low-paid, hard-working wage earners is somehow construed in the US as patriotic and good for the economy. I know why the rich say such things, but for the life of me I cannot understand why anyone else would believe such propaganda."

That is very well stated. I cannot understand it either. It can only be lack of interest, lack of education on the issues, or laziness to the point of believing whatever Faux News spews. I think of it as a conundrum.