The Political Entrepreneurs And The Stimulus


Never assume that merely because a group of businessmen ally themselves with the Obama Administration, it means that the Administration’s policy wants and desires are consistent with free market principles.

Tad DeHaven explains.


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political entrepreneurs and corporate welfare - great link Pez-nt

Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Saturday, January 31st at 3:57AM EST (link)

Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

 

Two terms come to mind

1SGinTN (Diary) Saturday, January 31st at 4:10AM EST (link)

Oligarchy and corporatism.

Quite ironic that the old dig against the Republican Party being all for ‘Big Business’ at the expense of ‘the little guy’ can now be said about the Democrats (well, if you look at the donor lists for the past few elections, you could have been saying that for a while now).

If only Andrew Jackson were here to take them to the woodshed!

Tu Ne Cede Malis
-Virgil

 

Bravo 5^5^5

phxg (Diary) Saturday, January 31st at 4:13AM EST (link)

I was at a loss about that faux display and couldn;t quite put a finger on what was behind the meaning for the business guys there. This nailed it.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. –Aristotle

 

Obviously, businessmen are the direct recipient of all these stimulus+bailout (aka spending) package.

Rod_Patrick (Diary) Saturday, January 31st at 4:23AM EST (link)

They love the money. They will grab it of course. But at the back of their hand, they know the repercussions. The line of thinking is something like this:

Grab the money. It is a hedge against the future calamity that is about to come because of this incompetent Obammunist government.

Many find the aftermath too frightening to ponder upon.

 

I'm so glad you explained this, because

Praying (Diary) Saturday, January 31st at 12:25PM EST (link)

I was one of those who was confused. I would have thought business, big and small, would be opposed to the stimulus (and Obama in general) because
1. Taxes will go up
2. Unions will be given a free pass to spread their filth to any corporation, and
3. Any government “stimulus” takes money directly from the private sector.
That said, I have co-workers (I work for a company that does a lot of defense and other contract work for the gov’t) who are calling me a hypocrite for being against the stimulus (yes, they are also whining liberals.) But first I am an American, and then I am an employee. I don’t think borrowing printing that much money is a good idea, nor do I think it will stimulate a damn thing except the liberals radical social policy. I have children who will graduate from college before Obama is likely to be out of college – I hate the horrible effect all this will have on their lives – their innovation, their dreams, their patriotism, if this should come to pass. So if a bunch of corporate CEOs want to sell their souls to Satan, well, then they have done that. But that does not mean the rest of us have to!

No!!!11!1!!1!1! The Bilderbergers are coming

 

With billions of dollars at stake

izoneguy (Diary) Saturday, January 31st at 12:44PM EST (link)

it will be like pirates going after the treasure chest. The corruption will run rampant and in the end we will all pay. I will not support any business that takes “stimulus” money. But who am I? Obama does not care about the little guy or small business. It’s all about destroying small business & competition. Small business employs more people than big business. Wait until the unemployment level reaches 15%. The big business will take the cash like the banks took TARP money and it will disappear down a black hole.

The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.

 

If they think they can buy protection they're wrong.

itrytobenice (Diary) Saturday, January 31st at 11:00PM EST (link)

Obama’s economic earthquake will shake them loose, just like all the rest of us. They can forget any ideas they have that Uncle Obama will save them. He may eat them later, but they will be devoured.

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.


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