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edhopper

(33,576 posts)
Mon Mar 30, 2015, 10:56 PM Mar 2015

Is Corporate America waking up to the beast the made?

Did they not think that all that red meat politics the paid for so the could get their tax breaks and deregulation would fuck up the country.
To bad the also don't realize the always do so much better under Democrats. Even if the have to pay a penny or two in more taxes,

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Is Corporate America waking up to the beast the made? (Original Post) edhopper Mar 2015 OP
I don't think the beast bothers them all that much yet. BillZBubb Mar 2015 #1
Non-discrimination is good for business, what's there to wake up to? bbgrunt Mar 2015 #2
The religious crazies edhopper Mar 2015 #5
Corporations (specifically, the people who run them) certainly love screwing ppl Nay Mar 2015 #3
Only if it gets in the way of profits. octoberlib Mar 2015 #4

BillZBubb

(10,650 posts)
1. I don't think the beast bothers them all that much yet.
Mon Mar 30, 2015, 11:33 PM
Mar 2015

They may be slightly embarrassed by their creation but it still gives them their #1 priority--mammoth tax breaks for the wealthy.

edhopper

(33,576 posts)
5. The religious crazies
Tue Mar 31, 2015, 02:32 PM
Mar 2015

who dominate the Republican Party are only in power because of the massive amounts of money Corporate America provides.

They created the political situation that results in these laws.

Nay

(12,051 posts)
3. Corporations (specifically, the people who run them) certainly love screwing ppl
Tue Mar 31, 2015, 09:40 AM
Mar 2015

out of their money, but they love exerting arbitrary power just as much. Sometimes those two cruel pastimes conflict, so you see corporations destroying part of their customer base, or doing something else that seems destructive to their own interests. When you see that happening, just realize that the corporation simply may be indulging itself in a different cruelty for the sake of variety.

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