Steelplate
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Obama giving the reach around to big pharma during the AHCA legislation.
OMG! WHY DID THEY DO THAT!~Corporate Corruption in Politics
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Anti-Party
Tea Is The New Kool-Aid
Are you stating that Big Pharma is behind Obamacare? I always wondered if Obamacare was corporate driven and laughed when the Right *forced* it to be handled by Corporations yet passed it. I'm curious and open minded and you have proved to be a valid and brainy source of information, I'm not trolling at all. You are one of the few on this forum that actually taught me something new about politics.
Steelplate
New member
Well...IIRC, one of the big stumbling blocks to getting the AHCA passed was the resistance from the pharmaceutical lobby. There were too many legislators that were beholden to that particular lobby and the AHCA was dead in the water until Obama relented on open competition for pharmaceuticals.
Crashk
Unite or Die
All you have to do to understand the right wings corporate corruption in politics is to take a look at ALEC. I doubt wing nuts here will even acknowledge Alecs existence, but this organization is more dangerous to our country and democracy than Muslim terrorists or communism.
"The idea of passing laws in Republican-controlled states preemptively banning worker-friendly labor laws is not unique to Florida and nothing new coming from ALEC that is on a tear to destroy the democratic process for years. Since 2011, 67 similar ALEC-template bills have been introduced in states to weaken labor provisions and wages, and Scott is the twelfth governor to sign similar measures into law banning future laws that benefit workers and preventing voters from having a voice in how workers are treated. Other preemption bills have emerged in Wisconsin, Mississippi, and Michigan as part of Republicans’ efforts to create a slave-labor force rivaling Civil War-era plantations to give businesses, particularly big corporate businesses, a competitive edge over Chinese businesses’ slave labor force."
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/06...lec-written-laws-banning-paid-sick-leave.html
What's funny is those who back ALEC, if you are a conservative you back ALEC, are condemning their children to slavery. Some here yearn for the Old South but they don't realize their children will be the ones living in a shack behind the big house.
The first thing to do is realize the corporate 'news' machine is the propaganda arm of ALEC.
"The idea of passing laws in Republican-controlled states preemptively banning worker-friendly labor laws is not unique to Florida and nothing new coming from ALEC that is on a tear to destroy the democratic process for years. Since 2011, 67 similar ALEC-template bills have been introduced in states to weaken labor provisions and wages, and Scott is the twelfth governor to sign similar measures into law banning future laws that benefit workers and preventing voters from having a voice in how workers are treated. Other preemption bills have emerged in Wisconsin, Mississippi, and Michigan as part of Republicans’ efforts to create a slave-labor force rivaling Civil War-era plantations to give businesses, particularly big corporate businesses, a competitive edge over Chinese businesses’ slave labor force."
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/06...lec-written-laws-banning-paid-sick-leave.html
What's funny is those who back ALEC, if you are a conservative you back ALEC, are condemning their children to slavery. Some here yearn for the Old South but they don't realize their children will be the ones living in a shack behind the big house.
The first thing to do is realize the corporate 'news' machine is the propaganda arm of ALEC.
Robo
Verified User
WHO along with Bush/Paulson bailed out the BIG fucking banks? Oh! That's right it was Obama/Geithner, huh?
What a fucking partisan hack!!!
Barrack Obama’s top campaign contributors.
University of California $1,648,685
Goldman Sachs
$1,013,091
Harvard University $878,164
Microsoft Corp
$852,167
Google Inc $814,540
JPMorgan Chase & Co
$808,799
Citigroup Inc
$736,771
Time Warner
$624,618
Sidley Austin LLP $600,298
Stanford University $595,716
National Amusements Inc $563,798
WilmerHale LLP $550,668
Columbia University $547,852
Skadden, Arps et al
$543,539
UBS AG
$532,674
IBM Corp $532,372
General Electric
$529,855
US Government $513,308
Morgan Stanley
$512,232
Latham & Watkins $503,295
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cid=N00009638
Check out all of the BIG BANKS and multi-billion $ corporations.
Crashk
Unite or Die
October 3, 2008
WASHINGTON — After the House reversed course and gave final approval to the $700 billion economic bailout package, President Bush quickly signed it into law on Friday, authorizing the Treasury to undertake what could become the most expensive government intervention in history.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/business/economy/04bailout.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Yea Obama was following Bush's plan, but who made it necessary to have to bail out the economy in 2008 in the first place? Hint, it wasn't Obama.
You really shouldn't bitch about Obama's donors when the same organizations also back the radical right.
Republican donors..
Goldman Sachs $1,033,204
Bank of America $1,013,402
Morgan Stanley $911,305
JPMorgan Chase & Co $834,096
Wells Fargo $677,076
Credit Suisse Group $643,120
Deloitte LLP $614,874
Kirkland & Ellis $520,541
Citigroup Inc $511,199
PricewaterhouseCoopers $459,400
UBS AG $453,540
Barclays $446,000
Ernst & Young $390,992
HIG Capital $382,904
Blackstone Group $366,525
General Electric $332,875
EMC Corp $320,679
Bain Capital $285,970
Elliott Management $281,675
Rothman Institute $259,500
And then there's Sheldon Adelson and his wife trying to buy their way into right wing royalty... notice how republicons go to Vegas and genuflect.
Adelson has achieved the status of a feudal lord in the Republican Party by pumping a reported $150 million into super PACs and "dark money" nonprofits to help GOP candidates up and down the ticket. He came to Washington on Tuesday to meet with top Republican lawmakers. Future GOP presidential hopefuls, in turn, have traveled to Adelson's Venetian casino in Las Vegas to meet with their party's biggest mega-donor...
Forbes has confirmed that billionaire Sheldon Adelson, along with his wife Miriam, has donated $10 million to the leading Super PAC supporting presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney–and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. A well-placed source in the Adelson camp with direct knowledge of the casino billionaire’s thinking says that further donations will be “limitless.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenb...y-donations-will-be-limitless-could-top-100m/
WASHINGTON — After the House reversed course and gave final approval to the $700 billion economic bailout package, President Bush quickly signed it into law on Friday, authorizing the Treasury to undertake what could become the most expensive government intervention in history.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/business/economy/04bailout.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Yea Obama was following Bush's plan, but who made it necessary to have to bail out the economy in 2008 in the first place? Hint, it wasn't Obama.
You really shouldn't bitch about Obama's donors when the same organizations also back the radical right.
Republican donors..
Goldman Sachs $1,033,204
Bank of America $1,013,402
Morgan Stanley $911,305
JPMorgan Chase & Co $834,096
Wells Fargo $677,076
Credit Suisse Group $643,120
Deloitte LLP $614,874
Kirkland & Ellis $520,541
Citigroup Inc $511,199
PricewaterhouseCoopers $459,400
UBS AG $453,540
Barclays $446,000
Ernst & Young $390,992
HIG Capital $382,904
Blackstone Group $366,525
General Electric $332,875
EMC Corp $320,679
Bain Capital $285,970
Elliott Management $281,675
Rothman Institute $259,500
And then there's Sheldon Adelson and his wife trying to buy their way into right wing royalty... notice how republicons go to Vegas and genuflect.
Adelson has achieved the status of a feudal lord in the Republican Party by pumping a reported $150 million into super PACs and "dark money" nonprofits to help GOP candidates up and down the ticket. He came to Washington on Tuesday to meet with top Republican lawmakers. Future GOP presidential hopefuls, in turn, have traveled to Adelson's Venetian casino in Las Vegas to meet with their party's biggest mega-donor...
Forbes has confirmed that billionaire Sheldon Adelson, along with his wife Miriam, has donated $10 million to the leading Super PAC supporting presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney–and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. A well-placed source in the Adelson camp with direct knowledge of the casino billionaire’s thinking says that further donations will be “limitless.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenb...y-donations-will-be-limitless-could-top-100m/