capitalism
Corporate Greed
Submitted by TKH on Sat, 04/12/2008 - 10:22am.We are in a unique period in our history. Forces are at work to destroy America and our way of life. Below are two examples from my own life that illustrate this fact:
Corporations Threaten Capitalism
Submitted by Jerimee on Thu, 12/06/2007 - 1:57pm.stolen from huffingtonpost.com
Corporations now are so powerful they threaten democracy and capitalism itself. Says who? Robert A.G. Monks*, a true capitalist-insider. His book Corpocracy was published yesterday; it would be difficult to overstate its importance. Mr. Monks knows where we went dangerously wrong, AND he's found a clear path out of this looming disaster. His sense of urgency is all the more compelling as he is a very successful venture capitalist, lawyer, businessman, and the world's most respected - or feared, depending on your perspective - shareholder activist.
The Free Market Hurts NC Children and Farmers
Submitted by zabouti on Sat, 08/25/2007 - 11:25am.Free market fundamentalists "know" that government is always more expensive and less efficient than private enterprise, right?
Yet today's News and Observer tells us what happened when the Defense Department outsourced its "farm-to-school" program in North Carolina to a private company.
Was Marx right?
Submitted by Blue South on Tue, 12/05/2006 - 2:10pm.So... in the car this morning after getting new tires (hooray safety) I was flipping through the channels on the radio and heard something that almost made me crash.
