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Old 08-15-2011, 01:46 PM  
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Originally Posted by Ethersync View Post
One example: GE is does about 4 billion+ a year in business with the government. Most of which is spent "nation building" overseas. If he were elected and did bring the troops home that would make a big dent in their bottom line. They own NBC.

More importantly Ron Paul being elected would signal an end to "corporatism" and government largess, bailouts, etc. This is the "status quo" that "they" want to protect.
well, the fact that ge dominates the media big 6 http://www.freepress.net/ownership/chart/main in revenue suggests you are right about that.

here's the thing about corporatism, if the debt matters, the corporatism will go the way of the dodo bird as we can simply reallocate with austerity measures. that's prolly what will happen, looking at human nature. nothing will be done until it is really really REALLY bad, then we bite the bullet and make real fixes.



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Well said.




Point proven.
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