“the carrot of jobs”??

Oh please ... this is Public Relations 101 for corporations.  Every time a corporate leader or spokesperson says the word “jobs” we should all hear “profits & bonuses” because that is what they are really talking about.

Financial Regulation will cost America jobs.
Environmental Regulation will cost America jobs.
Corporate taxes will cost America jobs.
Criminal Negligence suits cost America jobs.
The Financial sector needs a bail-out in order to generate jobs.

See?  It’s all quite clear when you hear what they mean instead of what they say!!

Fat Freddy is right on the money. Right now this is no longer a democracy, it is controlled by corporate interests who donate a few million to get billions. Why is no one more angry that the entire country is run by corporations who wave the carrot of jobs (lousy ones) to get whatever they want? Is the country in such a stupor that it can no longer recognize that they are being duped and lied to everyday? Wake up!! We don’t have healthcare, retirement, higher education, savings, jobs, they’ve all been taken away for the sake of plasma TVs, iPods, iPhones, SUVs, cruise ships, Las Vegas and reality shows. I’m moving to Canada. This place sucks.

Fat Freddy, you are too right.  Unfortunately, the problem with the excellent reforms you propose is the same as with everything else corporate managers want ... now that the government is bought and paid for none of the rules can be changed to take power from the corporate owners. 

Corporate owners, by the way, is senior corporate management.  The actual owners, shareholders, are just another stakeholder group like customers, employees and taxpayers who get stiffed…

Looks like Gephardt is getting things all set up for a nice cozy little sector of the corporate lobbying business marketed as “capitalism with a human face”. This means working for the same old pigs only they’ll be made up with purple lipstick instead of red. Barack Obama can join them when he’s stopped winning applause for his Bipartisan Boogie song and dance routine at the White House.

A numerical correction on the amount of money being donated tonight. According to The Huffington Post: “Each donor is paying the legal maximum of $30,400.”

I’m reminded of a quote by Benito Mussolini. “Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”

It’s nice to see that both parties are the same with their fascist leanings.

Finally the REAL Gephardt has risen in all of his hypocritical glory.. Years ago I called him out and was rebuffed by those loyal dimmo nincompoops. Well here he is shoving his way to the trough of lobbying riches. You loyal dimmo fanatics are as disgusting as the right-wingers.
If only the voters would stop worshiping and be more demanding… oh well, I guess we are doomed.

The Democratic party has ceased to exist.  It died - was murdered - under the Clintons.  There is a bordello called the Democratic party; it’s on the same block as that other brothel, the Republicans.  The continued domination of these two hopelessly corrupt organizations spells the ongoing decline of the United States.

Lack of individual responsibility is what enables injustice to be codified into monstrous evil. Using venality as the ultimate alibi to justify corrupt actions, is the oldest lame excuse on record.
Those who, for the sake of money, diligently work to prevent “the system” from self correction, reveal the wisdom of the Mahatma when he said: “there are unjust laws as there are unjust men”.
To deny individual responsibility is to ensure that corruption continues unabated.

Why do we keep blaming individuals? If somebody’s going to pay me a shitload of money to shovel shit, I’m going to shovel shit. It’s the legislative process that’s broken. I’m sure Gephardt has bills to pay just like everyone else. Change the system, don’t demonize the people. Force the politicians to change the system.

1. Term limits.

2. Publicly funded campaigns.

3. Remove the barriers for 3rd and 4th party formation/candidates.

All other issues are bullshit compared to these. All other issues are unsolvable until these three are enacted.