I heard Ralph Nader speak this morning on NPR

[TheWizardOfMudd]

You know, he's right. Pure greed motivates corporations to not pay good, hardworking Americans a living wage and they are the recipients of very generous corporate welfare. Sixty percent of domestic corporations pay no income tax, and seventy percent of foreign corporations doing business in the U.S. pay no income tax.

Unless you are one of them, you could be fucked.

Too bad it is dangerous to vote for Ralph this time around.

[Droopy]

1. It was dangerous to vote for Ralph last time. n/t

[bryant69]

2. I mean that's the problem

I wish Nader had a chance on some of these issues.

You know what, though, I think Nader would be better off in the senate; where a lot of the issues he cares most about are decided. I mean, fixing tax loopholes is more of a legislative problem rather than a presidential one.

On the other hand, working in the senate means working with 99 other persons, and working in the house a lot more than that. I get the impression Nader is more comfortable declaiming rather than negotiating.

Bryant
Check it out- -> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Nlighten1]

3. Watch him again.

Right here

http://gnn.tv/countdown


If the site isn't up, give it a couple of days.

[seabeyond]

4. 90 percent of corporations

pay less than 5%

[union_maid]

5. With all due respect...

big deal. This is daily kitchen table talk for most of the regulars here. Anyone can come up with this stuff. What can he actually do about it?

[Eric J in MN]

8. Nader could run for Congress and win and write bills, or

Nader could run for Congress and win and write bills,

or

he can screw over the Democrats by running for President and losing.

So far, he chooses the latter.

[mzmolly]

11. Damn right. Makes ya wonder...

:hi:

[NNadir]

6. What a surprise. Repuke Nader on National Propaganda Republican

radio.

It is disgusting that people would even think that Ralph Nader, who now holds the nomination of neo-nazi Pat Buchanan's party, is promoted by CNN, is for real. He is a cheap Republican millionaire liar. He and Cheney and Bush are of exactly the same cloth, doublespeakers.

[TheWizardOfMudd]

9. Funny

I've never heard Bush speak out against corporate welfare, low wages, and corporations that don't pay income taxes.

[NNadir]

13. It's a good thing Bush didn't speak out; he'd have to confront Nader

who violated labor laws with impunity for years. I mean have you forgotten how Nader broke the strike at the Monitor, and fired his entire staff when they complained about 60-80 hour workweeks at minimum wage? What about corporate fraud? Did you ever hear of PIRGS being audited when Nader ran them, and when he forced college students to contribute to them?

Nader is a Repuke fraud. He pays lip service to issues of corporate welfare, but the fact is that the only corporate matter that troubled him in the last 4 years, was Microsoft's refusal to pay dividends. (I guess ultimately Ralph dumped his shares and gave up on the matter.) When the Iraq war was going down, and millions of us were getting in the street, Ralph was waxing poetic on how unfair NBA officiating was.

Ralph is a CNN Corporate Shill Republican whore. He lies and he lies. His role for Rove, for which he is paid, is to attack Democrats. It is nothing less prosaic than that.

He doesn't give a fuck about humanity any more than his buddy Buchanan or his colleagues Cheney and Rove.

Fuck 'em.

The Repukes have dragged out Reagan's corpse, and soon will have nothing left. Both Republican parties, Nader's and Cheney's, will be lucky to get 40% between them.

It's pretty depressing that people can't see through such blatant nonsense. It shows goes to show how dependent the Repukes are on stupidity.

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. Keep fighting for election reform

[John_H]

10. Ralph knows all about greed.

Ralph profiteers from the corporate welfare he rails against while providing capital to companies that do not pay a living wage--Wal-Mart, Occidental, Merk, and viacom.

Ralph is not one of them--he's worse than that. He's one of them while he pretends not to be.

[mzmolly]

12. I agree.

:(