Hilarious- republicans calling corporate raiders vultures! There must be a primary going on,

[AlinPA]

otherwise, they would be praising corporate raiding at Bain.

clip......Mr. Perry doubled down on his tough language about Mr. Romney.
“They’re just vultures,” Mr. Perry said, explaining later that he was
referring to Bain, Mr. Romney’s former company. “They’re vultures that are sitting out there on the tree limb waiting for the company to get sick, and then they swoop in, they eat the carcass, they leave with that, and they leave the skeleton.”
Mr. Perry also said that “ethics kind of get thrown out the door, and it’s all too often just about, ‘How can we make as much money as we can make in a hurry,’ and walk away from the rubble that’s left and let these small towns....end clip

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/us/politics/new-hampshire-vote-seen-as-gauge-as-rivals-try-to-slow-romney.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&exprod=myyahoo

[arcane1]

1. He's describing free market capitalism quite accurately

I wonder how many people listening to him will make that extrapolation.

[Moonwalk]

2. People listening to Perry aren't going to extrapolate. That takes too much brain power.

[SharonAnn]

6. Actually, they make companies sick. Then they swoop in.

[EOTE]

3. You'd think this kind of talk would be less likely to occur during a GOP primary.

As most republicans are about as pro-corporate raiding as one could get. This makes me think that OWS is having a great effect. That even during primary season, GOP candidates are willing to slam the corporatocracy.

[malaise]

4. Occupy has surely changed the meme

[quaker bill]

5. Greenmail, the story of the last 30+ years

It got running under Reagan with his non-existent "trustbusting" enforcement. He de-regulated this stuff, busted unions, and pushed free trade, our economic decline was the predictable result.