The Supreme Court decision allowing unlimited corporate influence is ANTI-Business

[Khaotic]

The Supreme Court decision allowing unlimited corporate influence is anti-business, and most of the population doesn't even see it.

The bottomline knows no bounds, has no soul, and it's greed is all incompassing.



Now, unlike the world before this decision, corporations are going to have to budget a pretty good slice of their pie to political candidates and/or projects geared toward getting a certain party or person elected.

If anyone thought the 501s or other outlets were bad, you haven't seen anything ... I mean anything yet.

For some reason there's a lot of people who think of "Corporate America" as being all chummy and in league w/ one another. Maybe they are at the beginning of the road, so to speak, but in the end each business or corporation looks out for itself. Each business or corporation has its competition. They haven't declared "war" on each other, but they know who each other's competition is, just like a mouse knows that it can never be friends w/ an owl.

What does all this have to do w/ the price of tea in China you ask?

Well ... each entity will have to spend MORE and MORE and MORE $$$ getting the person or party elected that best suits THEM. Even an all GOP Congress and White House will result in this, as it will just be passed into the primary contests where moderate conservatives will be at war against hardline conservatives, whack job conservatives, totally crazy cheese-fell-off-their-cracker-a-long-time-ago conservatives, etc., etc. You get the point, it won't end.

This will cut into their profits, and where do you think they'll pass that onto???

Yep, the consumer of their product or service.

Now, we just can't hear ENOUGH from the likes of Limbaugh and Co. in regard to how government regulations result in costing business more money that result in higher prices. They scream and scream about how government regulations cost consumers more money and cost us jobs, which is why this is ironic because as they gloat about this Supreme Court decision they don't realize it will do exactly what they claim regulation does. Conservatives would get rid of taxes, kill the minimum wage, and dump every regulation on business ever enacted if they had the chance. This would create oh so many jobs right, but to hell w/ feces in our food, terrible work conditions, etc., etc. People would have work, but the disparity between the wealthy and the poor would be HUGE to say the least.

So, back to the new reality of today, the Supreme Court decision allowing unlimited corporate influence. It's ironic that this whole thing went down in light of the Hillary movie. For those who try to make the case that this isn't a nightmare, I'll tell you to pry your head out of your ass. This is the Internet age, as well as an age where ANYONE can purchase an HD video camera and editing equipment. Put that into an equation with HUGE funding, PR & marketing offices w/ almost 50 years of consumer behavior research, and more channels to deliver communication than any other time in history. With these resources you can sell a ping pong ball for $50, ice cubes to eskimos, etc. etc. ... you get the point.

We'll all be stuck in the middle and even the businesses will be at the mercy of spending their profits to have their own influences just to stay afloat.

Monoplies will grow at an even greater rate and Corporate America will eat itself. Soon we'll all witness a corporate version of the old cliche of "keeping up with the Joneses," and it won't be as laughable as two neighbors seeing who has the best kept lawn.

This is going to be extremely ugly!!!

[izquierdista]

1. It's like a hold'em tournament

Many play, a few win some money, but only one gets the bracelet and the big prize money.

[Khaotic]

3. NY Times: Exxon Mobil Reports Record $45.2 Billion Profit For 2008

Hmmm ... a PROFIT of $45.2 Billion.

I wonder if Exxon Mobil will get one of those bracelets and the big prize?

[Jackpine Radical]

2. How long you think net neutrality is gonna last now?

There's not a corporation in America except maybe Google that wants a free and open Internet.

[Khaotic]

4. Too True

I didn't think about that. It's as good as gone.

[Auggie]

5. I don't agree -- it's great for business

The money-making potential in the privatization of public entities is enormous -- it opens up entire markets never before available to them. I think we'll see a rash of mergers and acquisitions as corporations prepare to take over utilities, schools, etc. after their public funding has been reduced or nearly eliminated. This opens the door for disaster capitalism big time.

[Khaotic]

6. True but ...

You have to stop thinking of Corporate America as one big happy family. They're no more one family than the government, in fact less.

There are a LOT of businesses that are NOT in the business of having anything to do with what is currently being done through federal, state, county, or city government.

However, you're right ... this will allow those businesses that do want that to manuver to take those public services over.

If they get their way K-12 schools will be privatized ... period.

It will be ugly, but my main point is that there's a huge amount of business people who think this will be great for them and it won't work out that way for them.

[Auggie]

9. Not one big family. But a few. Or several.

[HillbillyBob]

12. Think Mafia

and the collateral damages will be horrendous.

[Auggie]

14. Perfect analogy

[onehandle]

7. Anti-small business. If you don't have the bucks, you're toast. Teabaggers should be pretty mad.

That is if they were Really about the little guy and not just a bunch of racist fucks.

[Khaotic]

8. Yeah ...

but I don't even give them cred for being organized in their thoughts enough to be a racist.

They're not even thinking it through that much.

They're running around w/ their hair on fire as the GOP and corporate interests stoke their fire w/ lies and bullshit.



Don't give the tea baggers the cred to pick their own asses.

[Khaotic]

10. Tea Bagger Logic

[Khaotic]

11. Supreme Court decision allowing unlimited corporate influence

In a nutshell ...

[readmoreoften]

13. It's bad "petit bourgeois" mom-and-pop business. But capitalism has always contained such a threat.

Those at the top (banks, in particular) have the capital and set the rules. Most mom-and-pops need banks to set up their businesses. The capitalists (big bourgeois) usually crack down on this middle class element, driving them into the working class. This is how many working class revolts begin, with the petit bourgeois middle class shopkeeper being driven into the working class. When the capitalists aren't pressuring them, the petit bourgeois can usually be relied upon to embrace nationalist and anti-union rhetoric that largely benefits the ruling class.

This ruling is very pro-business. But there's a class division in business itself. Called "big business and small business" by the lower classes, and "winners and losers" among the elites.