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Skwmom

(12,685 posts)
Wed Jan 6, 2016, 06:34 AM Jan 2016

Know your history: A Corporate President GETS PLENTY ACCOMPLISHED for the Corporations AND 1%.

How do you think we got NAFTA, the "anything but fair to the American Public" trade deals, etc? That is what the big money contributors are paying for via political contributions, "speech" fees, jobs for family members and numerous other ways you can bribe a politician.

And to add insult to injury, the corporate owned media and corporate owned politicians sell it as great examples of bi-partisanship.

Of course, anything that is really good for the people (without being a huge giveaway to the corporations and 1% - for example the prescription drug program which did not allow for drug prices to be negotiated and the affordable care act which should have been called the health insurance act) won't pass because the two sides refuse to work together. What a heck of a racket.

Clinton will be able to deliver for the corporations and 1%. To argue otherwise is ignoring history and reality.

The type of Democrat the DNC and Clinton machine will work to get elected - Corporate Democrats. Of course they need their token "for the people Democrats" so they can use them to try to sell the illusion that we are still a party that works on behalf of the people and not the corporations and 1%.


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Know your history: A Corporate President GETS PLENTY ACCOMPLISHED for the Corporations AND 1%. (Original Post) Skwmom Jan 2016 OP
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