Do you think the GOP is the party of big business?
L.A. Times
2013/02/22 15:00:00
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Republicans make the claim that their party represents the concerns of average, hard-working, family-centered Americans. It is a curious claim, given that their party unfailingly opposes any measure that gives those average Americans a break.
Average Americans struggle to pay for their kids' college tuitions. Their incomes have stagnated. They have lost jobs. They have been screwed over by mortgage companies and banks. They have seen their 401(k) retirement savings decimated and pensions disappear.
Yet, the Republicans who claim to be their champions consistently side with the big banks and financial industry players who gambled with home mortgages, ransacked pension systems and nearly brought the economy to collapse. They side with unscrupulous business interests instead of powerless consumers. They limit financial aid to students and cut funding for higher education.
Average Americans struggle to pay for their kids' college tuitions. Their incomes have stagnated. They have lost jobs. They have been screwed over by mortgage companies and banks. They have seen their 401(k) retirement savings decimated and pensions disappear.
Yet, the Republicans who claim to be their champions consistently side with the big banks and financial industry players who gambled with home mortgages, ransacked pension systems and nearly brought the economy to collapse. They side with unscrupulous business interests instead of powerless consumers. They limit financial aid to students and cut funding for higher education.
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And it's the Democrats who distract with social issues. This fabricated "War on Women" is a good example as it effectively distracted from Obama's unprecedented attack on our religious liberties.
Secondly, the war on women is real: it may not be officially declared, but what do you call the attacks on equal pay, women's healthcare access, and domestic violence protections if not the war on women? The GOP is even holding up the Violence against Women Act in the legislature because they can't get the Tea Partiers to sign onto a bill that helps native American women avoid abuse.
Thirdly, the first amendment isn't under attack, as it gives no right to impose your religion on others. If you don't want to use birth control, you don't need to use it, but you company may be required to supply it to employees (just as how Christian Scientists cannot ban their employees from all medical insurance, despite their rejection of medicine).
Wrong. Major corporations move abroad to avoid taxes. Want more jobs? Bring manufacturing back to the U.S.A.
http://tinyurl.com/CorpTaxMat...
What "attacks on equal pay?"
What attack on "women's healthcare access?" Seriously. There has been absolutely no move by the GOP to block women's access to healthcare. Only the one's fabricated by the Liberal media.
Native American? The Tea Party (and other logical people) thought Native American courts should NOT have jurisdiction over non-Native Americans. That's all that was about. NOT WOMEN!
First Amendment.
What is happening is this. Obamacare, by law, requires distribution of abortofacients. This is against the Catholic Religion. Essentially this means, if you are Catholic, you cannot in good conscience run a business in the U.S.A. That's a fact. This is NOT imposing religion on others. This is the government forcing its people to go against their religion.
Peace,
Microsoft, Google, Apple and more are all big businesses.
Not as big as Uncle Sam of course, but they're big. Nothing wrong with being pro-big business.
More propaganda from the L.A.Slimes.
DC (Blue)
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West Virginia (Red)
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Michigan (Red)
Tennessee (Red)
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Kentucky (Red)
Washington (Blue)
Now where'd you get your statistics?
But political fortunes are notoriously fickle, while economic trends tend to be more enduring.
These trends point to a U.S. economic future dominated by four growth corridors that are generally less dense, more affordable, and markedly more conservative and pro-business: the Great Plains, the Intermountain West, the Third Coast (spanning the Gulf states from Texas to Florida), and the Southeastern industrial belt.
Overall, these corridors account for 45% of the nation’s land mass and 30% of its population. Between 2001 and 2011, job growth in the Great Plains, the Intermountain West and the Third Coast was between 7% and 8%—nearly 10 times the job growth rate for the rest of the country. Only the Southeastern industrial belt tracked close to the national average.
Historically, these regions were little more than resource colonies or low-wage labor sites for richer, more technically advanced areas. By promoting policies that encourage enterprise and spark economic growth, they’r...
But political fortunes are notoriously fickle, while economic trends tend to be more enduring.
These trends point to a U.S. economic future dominated by four growth corridors that are generally less dense, more affordable, and markedly more conservative and pro-business: the Great Plains, the Intermountain West, the Third Coast (spanning the Gulf states from Texas to Florida), and the Southeastern industrial belt.
Overall, these corridors account for 45% of the nation’s land mass and 30% of its population. Between 2001 and 2011, job growth in the Great Plains, the Intermountain West and the Third Coast was between 7% and 8%—nearly 10 times the job growth rate for the rest of the country. Only the Southeastern industrial belt tracked close to the national average.
Historically, these regions were little more than resource colonies or low-wage labor sites for richer, more technically advanced areas. By promoting policies that encourage enterprise and spark economic growth, they’re catching up.
Such policies have been pursued not only by Republicans but also by Democrats who don’t share their national party’s notion that business should serve as a cash cow to fund ever more expensive social-welfare, cultural or environmental programs. While California, Illinois, New York, Massachusetts and Minnesota have either enacted or pursued higher income taxes, many corridor states have no income taxes or are planning, like Kansas and Louisiana, to lower or even eliminate them.
If only I could move out of the utopia known as New York. Instead I’m stuck in this progressive state where the governor continues to put off the one big thing that has the potential to turn the flyover areas of his state into an economic powerhouse. Some day… Then again, with the Democrats controlling so much of the federal government, they’re probably working on ways to quash the economic success of the red states, but timing it in such a way as to not blow the next election.
Peace, OHD