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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-18-09 07:13 PM
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What's the difference?
Edited on Wed Mar-18-09 07:15 PM by SoCalDem
Large corporation gives bonus campaign cash, and in exchange for that cash, gets "consideration" and loosie-goosie loopholes so they can get BILLIONS in exchange for hundreds & tens of thousands..

Large corporations give bonuses to their key people hired to pull on the invisible strings, held by the invisible hand .......


Description of business motivation in a free economy. Reference to the doctrine of Adam Smith that the pursuit of self-interest promotes the public good. Because ‘the annual revenue of every society is always precisely equal to the exchangeable value of the whole annual produce of its industry,' then each person, in ‘directing ]his< industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value,' is ‘led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. . . . By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it.' The invisible hand doctrine is one of the cornerstones of the free enterprise system.[/div>
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