Big Business is making sure it wins the presidency
AlterNet
by Matt Taibbi
08/09/08
From Wall Street to the Big Oil powerhouses to the military-industrial complex, America’s fat-cat business leaders know that the Animal House-style party of the last eight years that made almost all of them rich with bonuses, government contracts and bubble profits is about to come to an end, and someone is going to have to pay to clean up the mess. They want that someone to be you, not them, and they’ve spared no expense to make sure both presidential candidates will be there to bail them out next year. They’re succeeding. Both would-be presidents have already sold us out. They’ve taken the money and run — completing the cyclical transformation of the American political narrative from one of monopolistic Republican iniquity to an even more depressing tale about the overweening power of corporate money and the essentially fictitious nature of our two-party system. In layman’s terms, we’ve gone from being screwed...
http://tinyurl.com/67lt52
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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If I Were Once A Democrat Again, this is What I'd Tell Obama
By Timothy V. Gatto
The Democrats are wondering why their candidate's numbers are slowly circling the drain. How stupid is that? Could it be that the man chosen by the mainstream corporate media and the corporate political party is behaving like a corporatist? This entire drama between the two political parties has got to be the most expensive con job that this world has ever seen.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20594.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Business
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wall+Street
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military-industrial
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Matt+Taibbi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Timothy+V.+Gatto
by Matt Taibbi
08/09/08
From Wall Street to the Big Oil powerhouses to the military-industrial complex, America’s fat-cat business leaders know that the Animal House-style party of the last eight years that made almost all of them rich with bonuses, government contracts and bubble profits is about to come to an end, and someone is going to have to pay to clean up the mess. They want that someone to be you, not them, and they’ve spared no expense to make sure both presidential candidates will be there to bail them out next year. They’re succeeding. Both would-be presidents have already sold us out. They’ve taken the money and run — completing the cyclical transformation of the American political narrative from one of monopolistic Republican iniquity to an even more depressing tale about the overweening power of corporate money and the essentially fictitious nature of our two-party system. In layman’s terms, we’ve gone from being screwed...
http://tinyurl.com/67lt52
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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If I Were Once A Democrat Again, this is What I'd Tell Obama
By Timothy V. Gatto
The Democrats are wondering why their candidate's numbers are slowly circling the drain. How stupid is that? Could it be that the man chosen by the mainstream corporate media and the corporate political party is behaving like a corporatist? This entire drama between the two political parties has got to be the most expensive con job that this world has ever seen.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20594.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Business
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wall+Street
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military-industrial
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Matt+Taibbi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Timothy+V.+Gatto
rudkla - 11. Aug, 09:22
