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Hugin

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26. Just like in 2008? A great company like those? The same companies the GOVERNMENT bailed out?

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Tue Mar 28, 2017, 08:19 AM

Mar 2017

To the tune of Trillions of Dollars?

No, instead this is PURE FASCISM. Idiot.

Jeebus H. Christ... Kurshner is way beyond stupider and entitled than I ever imagined.

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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