Comments on: Obama, the banks and crony capitalism

By: Mitchell

Mitchell — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:52:10 +0000

I meant Will not Greg. The label system is weird here.

By: Mitchell

Mitchell — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:51:28 +0000

Governments are always controlled by the rich.
Who do you think invented government? The very word implies that the “people” are too stupid to care for themselves when left to their own devices.
Note how the Catholic Church, a de facto government for centuries, behaved similarly to the corporations we have now.

Oh, and Greg, PARTS of the world looked up to us for about 60 years. Most of them either didn’t care, or didn’t like us before WW2, and they stopped liking us in the last 10.

By: bryan

bryan — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:37:32 +0000

Hope

Change

still waiting.

By: The Bell

The Bell — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:43:46 +0000

Let’s not mince words here. Obama’s relationship to liberalism mirrors that of Judas Iscariot to Christianity.

Insofar as the only entities to have gained anything by Obama’s election are mentally and fiscally unstable corporations, Obama is every bit as much of a corporatist as the regime of smug white-collar war crime and mismanagement preceding him.

By: Will DiJohnson

Will DiJohnson — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:44:48 +0000

I believe big government & big business have destroyed the USA. It started with corporations and organizations donating to politicians. Only citizens should be allowed to make campaign contributions. Democracy is established to govern individual people, not economic operations. Now everything government does revolves around making money. Courts and police hand out big fines, or require lawbreakers to pay big bucks to private companies for remedial classes. The quest for money has permeated everything. Our government concerns itself more with our currency overseas than with the impact of its fiscal policies on citizen’s households. Our government places more importance on corporate power & earnings than citizens’ quality of life. Our government is clearly owned by the corporations not the citizens.
The world has looked up to the USA for 200 years. Now it is time for our citizens to realize the world has been admiring “we the citizens”, not our government or our companies. Now is the time to shed the corporate chains of debt & disregard their false claims of happiness through their products. We the citizens must stand without our government’s aid, without insurance for every improbable catastrophe, and without bullying earth’s other members. We the citizens must define a new American culture which will put governments & companies in their place… beneath us.

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:37:43 +0000

“Personally, I don’t buy the line that Obama is a liberal. I consider him more a corporatist (i.e someone who coddles big business).”

You got it James! We will see this trend accelerate in the future. Eventually, governments will be merely another tool of the large corporations. Political affiliations will become less important. However, media conglomerates will continue to push increasingly narrow divides, so as to keep people angry, uninformed, and divisive.

Welcome to the corporatist state, where we are all slaves to the machine. “Fixing it” will become increasingly more difficult. There will be an enlargement in the domestic use of private security firms, who will answer only to their corporate parents. Our votes will become meaningless, since everyone who runs will be connected. Whats scary, is that this is already happening, and it will take far less time than people think.