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Tadpole of HypnoToad
08-29-2006, 11:00 PM
Big corporations have their hands in just about everything and claim "lower prices are good for you!"

Of course, people go to these places and get piss-poor service then whine and complain.

The SMBs (small and mid-size businesses) who rely on what the big corporations are getting into cannot afford those lower prices and cease to be.

And you have to hope that the means to get into the big corporation is just; otherwise you won't have a job.

Meanwhile, people ask "Why don't you work for _____".

The worst part is, I had to explain reality to another Democrat.

The low-low cost factor. It's going to kill what made America great; the sense of entrepreneurialship.

So when are you going to sign up for that part time minimum-wage paying job at BigCo, now that they killed your company and your former clients are pissing and moaning about poor service but won't come back to you because a living wage is bad?

Meanwhile, expect the CEOs to get more of this:
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The rest of us are left to :party0051[1]: Booze and/or drugs (prescription or otherwise) because we've gone crazy from being raped bloody raw by the corporate elite.

So, if America is to survive, whoever is in power needs to say "enough is enough" to the large fellas and concentrate on the SMBs. No subsidiaries of the big mofos either...

Otherwise, no f...ella in congress should open their yap about helping people during campaign time. People aren't buying it anymore, nor should they be expected to. Anyone we vote for is going to earn our votes. Not get a free ride.

Trap
08-29-2006, 11:50 PM
I agree 100%

And the Democratic Leadership (don't even say council) is doing NOTHING about it.

The major Democrat candidates (Gore and Kerry) have said NOTHING.

Instead, these major corporations are trying to get the Government to pick up the tab on Health Care and Pensions.

We are headed for a major crackup.

Zebec
09-08-2006, 08:04 PM
If that's the case, we might as well dump the majority of Democrats in Congress too. There are too many of them who are corporatist and only in it for themselves. Many of us have been stating this country is going to end up being full of very wealthy people and very poor. The middle class is on the extinction list and there doesn't appear to be any help in sight.

Mr.Dude
09-11-2006, 09:09 PM
And the Democratic Leadership (don't even say council) is doing NOTHING about it.

The major Democrat candidates (Gore and Kerry) have said NOTHING.

Instead, these major corporations are trying to get the Government to pick up the tab on Health Care and Pensions.

They don't say anything and don't do anything because they want this just as much as the republicans. At the highest levels their are no differences between the sides.

BlueBerry Pick'n
09-12-2006, 12:58 AM
every New Year's, Moses Znaimer ([Only registered and activated users can see links])'s CityTV ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) plays BladeRunner ([Only registered and activated users can see links]).

People never talk about DNA ownership in terms of 'spin-off products' from 'research'. or of Corporatization of society... of the lack of society or cohesion... of memory & love & humanity ([Only registered and activated users can see links])... but how can you be a better human being if you never discuss the finer points of being who YOU WISH TO BECOME?

they also never say the obvious ([Only registered and activated users can see links]), But I think Moses ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) & I share Dick's Dystopic vision: Mankind's Future is a CyberCalcutta...

if we're lucky.

MamaBear
09-19-2006, 01:08 PM
It seems that the final chapter of the *business plan* of any business smaller than a mega corporation is: "Sell successful business to the highest bidder, take profit."

Then the big business subsumes all the small businesses, sanitizes and homogenizes the product, or strips the business of productivity and keeps the corporate shell for financial purposes.

If you hang around the music performance clubs, you meet these fifty-something guys who have started a string of businesses, sold them all out, and now are trying to have a life as a young man. And the businesses they put their hearts and souls into as young men?

Gone with the corporate wind. Only the memories remain, plus the interest on the proceeds of the sales.