TRNN & Richard Wolff: "The Tea Party and the supression of the Left"

[BelgianMadCow]

Here in the United States we're different. We have been taught over many, many decades that somehow we shouldn't get angry at the corporation that in fact fires us, but rather leap over the corporation and blame the government as much as possible. I always told my students that if I were a capitalist, I would be very pleased by this procedure. I can go around and pretend that when the economy is good, it's all my doing. And then when the economy turns back--turns bad (excuse me), it isn't my doing, it's that other fellow over there, the one with the government hat. And I think what the Tea Party is doing is really revving that up, really beating the drum to have people believe that the cause of the crisis is in some way the government, that the cause of the crisis not already being over is somehow a fault of the government to keep people's upset resentments and criticisms focused away from big business, from the people who actually lay you off when you lose your job, and move it instead to government and government officials, so that the capitalist, the business community, gets off without the blame.

Transcript at TRNN http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10876

[Madmiddle]

1. The business community

has it all their own way and they have had it all their own way for a very long time. Banks are in the fraud business, both sides have looked away. Banks are among the worse thing about the problems, their business model is one of pirates taking whatever they want with most courts, until recently, going along.

[washnwmn]

2. Right on!

Thanks for sharing this. I like Richard Wolff and his points of view. I have followed his interviews and Book TV interviews for some time now. He really nails it. I also like his promotion of worker-owned businesses and co-ops, alternatives to our current corporate state, because I fully believe we can't just wait around for our disfunctional system, corporate or government, to do what's best for our citizens, we have to get out, get up and do it for ourselves.

[BelgianMadCow]

3. "we have to get out, get up and do it for ourselves"

Hell, and Yes.

[geefloyd46]

4. Real corruption is when business marries their...

government handlers and turns them into corporate lap dogs. Many of them are as independent as a greeter at Walmart is independent of Walmart.