Organizers also stressed that the meeting was being put together long before Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell denounced companies' reactions to Georgia's law.
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Had to paint a little red in here.
This is such old news.
I was finding books in the public libraries in the sixties which told this story. All kinds of books, from all kinds of political colors.
Corporate America was all about guvmint payola during the Civil War. Then there was the railroad loot. Guvmint paid private RR concerns to build their private RR lines, and gave them a section..... a square mile.... of public land per mile of RR laid, to boot. Our Robber Barons looted the public for every damn dime.
Today, our corporates know every damn dime of guvmint payola will come to their coffers whether it's for infrastructure of daycare. Where else can anyone spend money? Big Box stores like WalMart, and all the Chinese manufacturing, will glow with deficit spending.
Our corporates have paid their dues to get into the Chinese market, whether to sell or make stuff. They all have special ears for Mandarin, and have kowtowed just so to the Han Dynasty of the 22nd Century.
It's such a tired old story how Corporate America is the Real America, the powerhouse of America, the Influencer of America. The Beneficiary of the US "Budget".
In the nineties, the Rockefellers made their final purchase of the Democratic Party by setting up their man Bill. By then they also owned the Unions all across America. To be a Union Boss you had to have become a Corporate Made Man. Since then the Unions have collected the Union dues and sold out their workers.
This has gotta be a short post. ha ha.
Its a sort of big league question of who owns China, really.
But I think the Chinese businessmen looked at America and just copied our politics. Back then my faithful Marxist buddy bemoaned the Chinese as "State Capitalists". He didn't think they had a genuine Marxist belief in their bones. I tried to tell him that in Asia it's like British chivalry. When Lord Grey made his masterpiece about British nobility being the hope of humanity..... the movie "The Lady and the Highwayman", has the Devil's own tax man telling Silver Blade "Chivalry is for Fools".
Well, the fact is, in the orient and probably everywhere else "Believing Anything is for Fools". It's all about the money.
So we have a global bubble on our hands, and the wealthy are buying up all the hard assents. Every dollar of our spending will bid the prices up on land, homes, everything tangible. The resources that can't be bought will be "protected" or sequestered from use. Our politicians are getting their cut.
All our social engineering crap is just words to play with to keep the peasants at a safe distance from the levers of power. Nobody will dare to pop up and say anything. It's a game of social whackamole. Nobody in the upper beneficiary class cares at all about anyone, or about anything. They are just using the issues.
The thing is, they can't help themselves once this kind of greed runs their minds and actions. They will turn on one another. This whole thing is going to just pop.
But unlike other bubble blows, this time we have no place on earth that can produce the necessities when it blows.
But nutjobs like Bill Gates don't care. They have their retreats and safe houses well supplied, with private armies to boot. If 5 billion people starve or die fighting over trash lickings it's all good. They own the world, and the surplus humanity is unsustainable.