Which businesses would profit from progressive agenda?

[yurbud]

Apparently, some party hacks are belly-aching that Howard Dean is scaring some of the fat cats away from donating.

Rather than compromise our values to get their checks though, we ought to figure out who the big dogs are who would benefit from a progressive agenda, so we can get the bucks without selling our soul.

Some potential ones:


farmers and biofuels producers (GOP is supposedly into biofuels, but is slow-walking it the same way they are hydrogen. But biofuels could be done NOW--as could using farm land for solar and wind electricity generation in addition to crops).

high tech (needs educated workers and people with enough money to buy their products).

anybody who is sick of how much they have to pay for their employees health insurance.

Doctors and nurses who are sick of health insurance companies killing their patients with bureaucracy.

performers who are concerned about the lock a handful of media companies like Clear Channel have on broadcasting and concert venues.


tourism and service industries that depend on people having money to burn and a positive image of the US to attract foreign visitors.

small businesses being choked out by big box stores.

sole proprietorships and partnerships that don't enjoy the tax advantages corporations have, despite their greater assumption of personal responsibility and risk.

Anybody else you can think of?

[Wilms]

1. These come to mind

Prisons for corporate crooks and polluters

Cult-victim debriefers

Educators

E-Voting equipment scrap yards

[yurbud]

2. convert touch screen vote equipment to tablet computers for kids

[ProfessorGAC]

3. All Of Them

The correlation between financial profits and progressive governmental action is abundantly clear. Business, at least those that weren't merged in the crash and burn 80's, did not do particularly well on a marginal basis, except that they paid less in taxes. The GDP growth based upon consumption, which is 70% of the whole, wasn't very good.

During the late 60's and into the late 70's, Nixon's policies were disasterous for the economy and business tanked by the thousands. Major corporations ran losses for several years in a row.

Now, we have the Idiot Prince and those policies, and which companies, aside from oil and defense, are doing spectacularly well. Oh yeah; NONE OF THEM.

The causation between policies that reduce poverty, increase opportunity and stimulate the growth in size and robustness of the middle class have always resulted in an improved business climate. That goes all the way back to the 1870's!

The conservative fiscal policies simply provide no data that they work. None!
The Professor