Reason #26: The Business of Government is the Business of Business
Most Americans vaguely understand that big corporations influence our political system. But few people know just how powerful those companies are. Executives switch from corporate boardrooms to government gigs and back again. Presidents seed their administrations with pro-industry appointees. And lawmakers buck for top salary jobs when they “retire” from public office by helping their corporate donors skirt regulations and land major public contracts.
Big government and big business are so intertwined now it’s hard to see where one starts and the other ends. Corporations and their lobbyists write legislation, dictate how and when it is debated and kill regulations they don’t like. Worst of all, they own most of the major media companies in this country, so they even control the news coverage (or lack thereof) of their own deeds.
If you think one party is better than the other when it comes to whoring itself out to the highest bidders, you’re wrong. We’ve had Democratic Presidents and Republican Presidents over the past few decades, and Democratic Congresses and Republican Congresses. No matter who’s been in control, corporate America has gotten fatter and more entrenched in Washington’s everyday workings while the country’s long term problems have festered.
Hi Boys and Girls,
Did you have a nice weekend ? Kill a Freespeecher or ten?Oh I wish and pray.
Wanna go play over at Obama’s House? Thank goodness he was only kidding during the Primaries, that he would end the Pro Qud Pro, that goes on in the wars we have in, Afgan-Pak-is I-Rock. They behead Little Miss Muffin and we pointlessly render their people. Only to play ring Around the Waterboardy.
Today should be really fun. First we get to drop a few tons of Depleted Uranium bombs on them. Thats really cool. We can actually see through the Presidential Microscope. The cells of non- combatents mutate in real time. Kinda like the Andromeda Strain. But much more wicked.Neat!!!
After that we go to lunch on Monsanto and have a Strawberry Milkshake. That has no strawberrys or milk.And a hamburger made of top shelf rat poison. Neat!!! Courtesy of the Carlyle Group.
After lunch we meet up with a nice group of Christians. Who, God Bless Them are almost out of jail for Bisexual rape, assualt, and battery. We are going to help them turn their lives around, by showimg them how to send eletrical charges through the Islamic captives genitals.guilty or not. Neat !!! Join the CIA, I say and mutilate the world.
Some people may be a case of mistaken identity. But hey, it will put hair on their chests. And give creedance to the argument that we need more nuke plants generating eletrical energy. For terrorists to blow up and waste that can’t be cleaned for 200,000 years.Cool beans. I mean, cool fried beans.
Oh!!! Isn’t it far out, how Obama went back on his pledge about the State Secrets Act. Found no where in the Constiution or Bill of Rights. Why on gods green earth would we want to protect individual rights over corporate rights. What a dumb idea.Phooey on youeee.
And why in hell would we expect Obama or Congress to read the 1100 page Bailout Bill. What, this is not college. Why should paid executives indulge, their constituencies and actually read that Bill. How dumb. Like DUH!!!. Talk to the hand..Not my money pal. Just you voting suckers.What losers.
Anyhow kids, after we are done electrocuting mens balls into creme puffs. Which are a delght to eat.
We will take these new Christians back to The Big House,where they live.We will all take communal showers together. Just like summer camp Funny though, Ramrod asked me to bring alot of soap along. I will of course. I wonder why they need so much soap? I guess to be really clean. Ya think ? Ya, thats it. To wash their sins away.
I was watching the evening news on the Absolute Bullshit Channel (ABC) last night. After saying my prayers to our Lord God Lucifer. They had on a really, really smart woman. Not that most women are smart. But she was .When the news anchor asked her how Wall Strreet was going to get through this nasty economic crisis. I paraphrase now. ” Like they always do, having the best and the brightest work on the problem, until solved. ” She also pointed out how pesky consumer and SEC laws get in their way of bribes What nerve.. If they had left Wall Street alone. None of this would have happened. And then Bernie Madoff could be out sailing in the Bahamas.
And King George could have nuked Iran with Isreal and would still be President.
Best President our nation ever had. Although, I must admit Obama seems like he will give him a run for his money.Neat!!!
Imagine that, regulating Wall Street. How absurd.I think tonight I will watch Faux News. They show more female mamalian nipple, through the womens blouses.
Now that is hard news.He,He,He.