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| Tea Party organizer FreedomWorks urges boycotts of corporations supporting socialist agenda |
| 2010-11-26 |
| Their initial focus will be on consumer firms that lobbied for passage of Obama's agenda items that helped their firms. "We are going after the rent-seeking corporations feeding at the public trough," said FreedomWorks' spokesman Adam Brandon. e.g.: General Electric and Johnson & Johnson Is there anybody out there who can expand on who FreedomWorks and the National Center for Public Policy Research (and its Enterprise Project) are? |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #7 The Tea Party movement seems blissfully unaware of the meaning behind the catch-phrase "Socialize losses, but privatize the gains." Very few, Tea Partiers or otherwise, are interested in grasping what it means to have limited liability organizations with special privileges not available to real human beings, huge purses for lobbying and progandizing, a Supreme-Court granted right to influence elections, and immortality to boot. Even Noam Chomsky recently said, in a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in it all the time. And they understand. They’re instinctive Marxists; they don't have to read [about] it. Urging boycotts is a fool's errand. The electorate continues to be robbed by the greatest theft from the public purse in world history. From "Econnned:" Only when we, the public, are able to call the underlying realities by their proper names — extortion, capture, looting, propaganda — can we begin to root them out. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-11-26 19:42 |
| #6 It's not that these corporations engaged in socialism per se. But they supported(or were bribed into supporting) the implementation of 0bama's socialistic laws and policies like 0bamacare. I already try and boycott GE and well as Siemens, Fiat, Hyundai and a few others for supplying the technology to Iran and teh Norks, that allowed them to build facilities capable attaining uranium enrichment, and control dissent. |
| Posted by: Mike Hunt 2010-11-26 12:50 |
| #5 Marxism and Corporatism They're just 2 different forms of rent-seeking Marxism: Rent-seeking direct from wages. Corporatism: Rent-Seeking from government created monopolies. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-11-26 11:51 |
| #4 Their initial focus will be on consumer firms that lobbied for passage of Obama's agenda items that helped their firms. If they're not socialist P2K, I don't think this is socialist but as far as I know it comports almost precisely with Benito's fascist model. Private ownership run by and for the government and fat-cats. |
| Posted by: Alan Cramer 2010-11-26 11:00 |
| #3 FreedomWorks Steve Forbes Dick Armey Boyden Gray Fiscal conservatives NCPPR .pdf David Ridenour & other conservatives I've never heard of. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-11-26 08:24 |
| #2 Their initial focus will be on consumer firms that lobbied for passage of Obama's agenda items that helped their firms. If they're not socialist they certainly are not for 'free markets' but rather they just as much want government to rig the market system in their favor to preclude real competition. Just as despicable. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-11-26 08:12 |
| #1 In all fairness, a lot of these businesses need education instead of punishment. They focus on short term economic goals and have no idea of the long term damage to themselves and the country. They wouldn't know a socialist idea unless it is clearly labeled for them. With just a brief write up, a concise description of the socialist agenda could be given to them, and how their business decisions have become part of this agenda. And then, most importantly, they need to have it explained to them how this is going to seriously hurt them in the future. Think about the coal industry. Even though the Democrats have been shouting from the rooftops that they want to utterly destroy the industry, the industry, and its workers still overwhelmingly support Democrats. This doesn't mean we should boycott West Virginia. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-11-26 07:38 |