Professor Rush "We gotta redefine smart"

[ccbatson]

How is it competitive to put in place a set of laws that limit individual/corporate freedom in favor of government coercive monopoly and control over the means of production?

[Detroitej72]

The ends justify the means?

[rb336]

How is it competitive to put in place a set of laws that limit individual/corporate freedom in favor of government coercive monopoly and control over the means of production?

interesting how you equate corporate freedom with individual freedom. corporations are NOT individuals. until you can throw a corporation in jail for murder [[starting, of course, with United Health), they should not have rights that supercede the individual. of course, Bats wants to take away individual rights - like the right of workers to come together in a union, but that is a different story

[Lorax]

interesting how you equate corporate freedom with individual freedom. corporations are NOT individuals. until you can throw a corporation in jail for murder [[starting, of course, with United Health), they should not have rights that supercede the individual. of course, Bats wants to take away individual rights - like the right of workers to come together in a union, but that is a different story

Your post couldn't be more right-on. Republicans have fought for the idea of giving corporations the same rights as individuals for years now, and thankfully have failed.

This is one area that needs special vigilance in keeping the fascist leanings of Republicans away from our personal rights as individuals. Our democracy needs constant maintenance and participation, not the neglect that it has been shown for so many years now.

Obama's election, whether or not any of us voted for him, was such a repudiation of the corporatist ideals which have dominated our politics these last years.