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procon

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14. If I recall my grade school history text book, we already tried that.

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Mon Mar 27, 2017, 12:22 PM

Mar 2017

The British East India Company was the world's first multinational corporation. They maintained their own private army to collect taxes and payments, installed colonial governments and ruled entire countries in the name of the British Crown. Their monopoly on American trade gave rise to the famous slogan "no taxation without representation" and sparked the American Revolution.

A hostile corporate takeover of our government is no different than fascism, an involuntary privatization that is intended to end democracy.

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The government should be run like a great American company" [View all] SHRED Mar 2017 OP

It's just the eradication of "the Commons" The Big Ragu Mar 2017 #1

No sense of a "more perfect union". SHRED Mar 2017 #2

sell off the Commons vlyons Mar 2017 #5

As I Said In A Related Thread. . . ProfessorGAC Mar 2017 #3

to run gov like an American corporation, vlyons Mar 2017 #4

if the government were run as a for-profit company, we would immediately jack up taxes on the rich. unblock Mar 2017 #6

Like a german company? DetlefK Mar 2017 #7

And what is that company producing and selling? DetlefK Mar 2017 #8

The product - our labors. The fruits - given to the rich leftstreet Mar 2017 #11

This notion that government has to be run like a business The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2017 #9

he's 150% wrong. spanone Mar 2017 #10

This Talking Point Has Been Doled Out To The Lapdogs ChoppinBroccoli Mar 2017 #12

NO. This is not America, Inc. And the President is a public servant, not the Boss. n/t pnwmom Mar 2017 #13

If I recall my grade school history text book, we already tried that. procon Mar 2017 #14

Good lord. No. Please. nt LWolf Mar 2017 #15

Sort of like this one? Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2017 #16

Even the NY Post is not calling Kushner's country great - "death trap" is not positive karynnj Mar 2017 #17

Does he mean we should bust the unions fire all the US workers and hollowdweller Mar 2017 #18

We had our example. The business knows everything mindset led to the crash of 1929. nt Blue_true Mar 2017 #19

Or more like a trump company: bankrupt in less than four years. nt Ilsa Mar 2017 #20

"OUR CUSTOMERS" is very telling. Trump, Inc., thinks they are our BOSSES. We can be FIRED. WinkyDink Mar 2017 #21

I retired from a city job SHRED Mar 2017 #23

And I retired from public education, where the students became known as "products." Grrrrrr..... WinkyDink Mar 2017 #24

Trumpcare was a great example. meadowlander Mar 2017 #22

Like Enron? ck4829 Mar 2017 #25

Just like in 2008? A great company like those? The same companies the GOVERNMENT bailed out? Hugin Mar 2017 #26

Like ENRON? Vogon_Glory Mar 2017 #27