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INdemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-11 02:16 PM
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Would it be safe to say that the United States Government is
the only Government of the World that is owned by corporations?(Foreign & Domestic)
And and has the Supreme Court of the United States to back up their claim....?
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Davis_X_Machina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-11 02:16 PM
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1. No. Next!
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-11 02:18 PM
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2. No. But thanks for asking.
And I can't ask the question about when I stopped beating my horse, either. The logical error prevents it.
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Big Blue Marble Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-11 02:24 PM
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3. Nope. Most if not all are.
At least, any that still have bones to pick.
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Ozymanithrax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-11 02:31 PM
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4. It would be neither safe nor accurate...
Corporations and the wealthy have an inordinate influence on governments everywhere, though we are worse than many. The European Union is quite happy to send Greece, ireland Italy, and Spain to the ninth level of hell rather than tell banks to fuck off and die. Influence is not the same thing as ownership.
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-11 02:35 PM
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5. Nope. There are several others who followed the American 'free market' approach.
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tblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-11 02:39 PM
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6. More like: The Amer. public is the last to ACKNOWLEGE that the gov't is owned
by corporations (Foreign & Domestic).
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INdemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-11 03:36 PM
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7. Ok...maybe
I just cannot believe what has happen with or to this President I thought was he the next FDR..As it turns out he is more like Herbert Hoover.
Only worse
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