(08-01-2020 11:24 AM)Hambone10 Wrote: (08-01-2020 06:06 AM)vandiver49 Wrote: One is hard pressed to attack any handouts considering the amount of cash corporations have been awarded in the past decade.
Only if you ignore the amount of cash the stated have been given over that same decade.
To me the bigger issue is power, not money. Of course they go hand in hand to politicians.... but this is about power.
This situation is a layer cake of corruption.
The cities may be playing it for pension relief and keep funds flowing to systems that have abused their citizens taxes and siphoned off so much of the funding through their own boondoggle engineering and construction programs complete with large kickbacks that the cities will never see relief, but another teat to suck, especially a Federal one where they steal other taxpayers' money from other states via the Federal Income Tax is highly likely.
But their minions in the house are about power. They want to continue to be reelected because as with Biden and Burisma and Pelosi's nepotistic grip on it as well they want to keep millions upon millions of our adversaries' money flowing into their pockets while they sell our secrets and research through our universities as they give spies access to it all, and as they sell corporate secrets overseas for the sake of cheap labor, which is third part of the layer cake.
Corporations want this because all they are interested in is slave labor to produce their products as cheaply as possible and rake in ever increasing quarterly statements for their shareholders. And they support the war on the middle class because the middle class in the past is the only group of people who have held onto land and resources they want, and have legislated against them. It's easier to control an ignorant rabble that wants trinkets than it is to control the free minds of independent men and women and corporations fear this which is why they push the special recognition of every minority because in our society it is the only way they can lever the middle class.
Add to this that a middle class bereft of the ability to donate to churches and universities opens up corporate influence in both where corporate money has funded chaplaincies in most major denominations and delivered along with the grants their agenda for social policy for the denomination. And the shrinking gifts from the middle class to universities opens up Corporate Grants which the schools have to go over with a legal team to find the stipulations that rob them of intellectual property.
Finally our enemies are funding all of them, with cheap labor in exchange for industrial infrastructure built in their lands at corporation expense, and they then lever trade policies that cost the taxpayer and not the corporate investor weakening the U.S. Treasury which shrinks our allocations needed for our civil programs, infrastructure, and defense. Then they encourage our minorities through their organizers to revolt and steal the tranquility of the nation by fostering hate and mistrust.
It is our adversaries part that is the rancid icing on top of the layers of corruption baked within our own governments at the Federal, State, and City levels. And that corruption profits another way for our adversaries and for the the bureaucrats who serve in the layers of our government. They permit the illegal narcotics trade smuggled in across open borders which also levers the elections for our adversaries as it opens up voter fraud and distorts the electoral balance as these people seek citizenship after having children at our expense. But that labor also benefits the super wealthy who use them as house servants and in their industry through temp services and where because of the fear of those people they exploit their wages and give them less than what a citizen would be entitled to, and leave their medical care to be shouldered by you and me.
So Sideshow you have described one layer of a multilayer cake baked to poison our way of life and rancidly iced by our enemies. And Hambone you are correct there is much much more here, even more than I have taken time to describe.
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