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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-06-11 11:04 PM Original message |
Maybe the concentration of wealth is the end result of allowing too many mergers. |
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sadbear (799 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-06-11 11:05 PM Response to Original message |
1. It's the end result of 3 decades of Reaganomics. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-06-11 11:06 PM Response to Original message |
2. Or maybe it's the natural result of competition. |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-06-11 11:10 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. That is how unregulated capitalism works -- Its fatal flaw |
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Johonny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 10:14 AM Response to Reply #4 |
20. +1 |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-06-11 11:27 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. That's why the NFL wears helmets. |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-06-11 11:08 PM Response to Original message |
3. Some of have been saying that for about 30 years -- It IS the central issue |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-06-11 11:39 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. Good points. |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 12:54 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. It's not spoken of enough, but there is information about it |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 10:24 AM Response to Reply #10 |
22. One of the First Industries to Be Consolidated Was Broadcasting |
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shraby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-06-11 11:21 PM Response to Original message |
5. Not only mergers, but after merging the more powerful |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-06-11 11:31 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. It's geometric growth |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-06-11 11:35 PM Response to Original message |
8. It was deregulation. By forcing corporations to compete with each other in this deregulated |
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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-06-11 11:38 PM Response to Original message |
9. umm MAYBE? |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-06-11 11:41 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. When is the last time you heard someone discuss it though? |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 08:32 AM Response to Reply #11 |
17. That is a hiuge frustration -- and the Democratic leadeship is largely to blame |
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snot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 01:00 AM Response to Original message |
13. The oligarchs have work every possible angle at all times. That's one of many. |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 08:32 AM Response to Reply #13 |
18. That's how they become oligarchs. |
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KT2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 01:38 AM Response to Original message |
14. You are absolutely right |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 01:40 AM Response to Original message |
15. Way too late for that kind of thinking. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 07:21 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. We have the AT&T T-Mobile merger coming up. |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 09:59 AM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Was needed in the 80's -- needed even more now |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 10:19 AM Response to Reply #15 |
21. That Thinking Was Around In the 80s |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 10:25 AM Response to Original message |
23. Ever play Monopoly? |
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