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mitch96

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18. And now the corporate backed wall streeters

Reply to Blue_Tires (Reply #13)

Tue Feb 28, 2017, 05:45 PM

Feb 2017

want to take apart Dodd-Frank.. Screw the middle class, these swine can't make a lot of money now..
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How Did We The People Lose Control Over Corporations? [View all] eniwetok Feb 2017 OP

The big shift happened in the "greed is good" 80s. AJT Feb 2017 #1

When they painted Unions as the enemy of the employee SticksnStones Feb 2017 #2

One word: Unions Glitterati Feb 2017 #3

$$$$$ Iggo Feb 2017 #4

$$$$$$ mitch96 Feb 2017 #9

We never had it. alarimer Feb 2017 #5

once corporations were under tight civic control eniwetok Feb 2017 #8

When "the bottom line" became all that mattered Phoenix61 Feb 2017 #6

We let money vote. Orsino Feb 2017 #7

I believe it started here... PoiBoy Feb 2017 #10

that's where corporate personhood got it's legal start... eniwetok Feb 2017 #11

I totally agree... PoiBoy Feb 2017 #14

I should note... I believe it was Thom Hartmann who discovered this... eniwetok Feb 2017 #12

Yes... in the Hightower article that I linked to.. PoiBoy Feb 2017 #15

1. deregulation 2. corporate personhood Blue_Tires Feb 2017 #13

another and a reorder: 1) corporate personhood, 2) greed, 3) deregulation salin Feb 2017 #17

And now the corporate backed wall streeters mitch96 Feb 2017 #18

Because people buy their crap? hunter Feb 2017 #16

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