The party of Big Business

Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 10/26/2016 - 5:52pm

We all know the GOP is the party of Big Business.
This one party has pushed through almost all the largest and most significant deregulation and dereform bills of the last few decades.
Just look at how they bent over backwards for Big Business.

Deregulated Airlines

Deregulated Railroads

Deregulated Trucking

Deregulated arms exports

Deregulated GMO crops

Deregulated meat and poultry inspection

Deregulated Energy Utilities

Deregulated the banking and financial industry again, and again, and again, and again

Deregulated Oil and Gas prices

Deregulated Telecommunications

Helped create the WTO and granted permanent low-tarrifs on Chinese products.

Cut capital gains taxes again and again

Pushed through NAFTA

Oh, wait. I'm sorry.
I listed all stuff the Democrats did for Big Business.

How did I confuse the two?

Given the evidence, if you support deregulation of big business, low capital gains taxes, and free trade agreements, vote Democrat.
Deregulation is a good thing for the economy, right?

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Submitted by riverlover on Wed, 10/26/2016 - 5:59pm

My son works for the airline industry.

A merger brought in unionization, affecting him. I gave all happy-talk as a mother, and he found a little SNAFU that has screwed him out, again. He is job-hunting again. Lateral move means higher salary or wages, I think he is still hourly.

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Submitted by Mark from Queens on Wed, 10/26/2016 - 7:03pm

Remember when MSM ignored 700 union pilots joining OWS?

"Ladies and gentleman, we are currently cruising down Wall Street because we are fed up with our bosses! Pilots stage protest" from the Daily Mail UK.

I also think of another completely ignored plea. While everyone in the media was falling over themselves to interview hero Cptn Sully, who safely landed a malfunctioning plane in the East River of NYC (which is now a Hollywood movie), nobody wanted to hear his grievances about the underpaid and overworked airline industry.

Always astounds me to hear of commercial pilots making such paltry salaries. The grinder of relentless capitalism is literally endangering and destroying folks.

Jacobin had this: "Neoliberalism at 30,000 Feet: Airline deregulation has wrought service cuts, endless fees, and reduced worker pay."

By drastically reducing ticket costs, the major airlines would take on an unsustainable amount of debt that, combined with the loss of business to the new entrants, would lead to layoffs or bankruptcy. Pension funds were then raided and labor contracts voided to pay for the price wars. With each airline company collapse, thousands of employees were laid off, decimating union membership.

To compete, the legacy airlines also drove down the salaries of their pilots, and cut benefits and vacation time. Besides a reduction in compensation, a two-tiered pay system has been set up with decent pay for incumbent pilots and markedly low wages for new entrants. Starting salaries for pilots are now as low as $15,000 a year, even as CEO pay rises inexorably. Remarking on a career in which he had seen his pay cut in half and his pension eliminated, captain Sully Sullenberger told the BBC in 2009 that he did not know “a single professional pilot who wants his or her children to follow in their footsteps.”

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Submitted by duckpin on Wed, 10/26/2016 - 6:01pm

Yep, them's the Dems. Who cares who is on the Supreme Court

when you've got "New" Dems giving the scroogie to the American people? Sure the Repubes are unhinged, so what? The Dems are making the country unlivable for the 90% so let's concentrate on their perfidies and venalities. Doing so doesn't indicate support for the other half of the $$$ Party, it's just that we've read about FDR's Economic Bill of Rights and that sounds good to us.

Climate change. (since no candidate other than Stein is mentioning it, I thought I'd mention it.)

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Submitted by Bisbonian on Wed, 10/26/2016 - 6:18pm

I saw the title, and almost jumped in here, screaming.

Then I saw that you posted it, gjohnsit, and I knew better.
Nice collection, for future reference.

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Submitted by TheOtherMaven on Wed, 10/26/2016 - 6:51pm

One party, two faces n/t

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Submitted by 2andfro on Wed, 10/26/2016 - 8:25pm

Here's the pertinent wikileaks text from the D nominee herself

*Clinton: “But If Everybody's Watching, You Know, All Of The Back Room Discussions And The Deals, You Know, Then People Get A Little Nervous, To Say The Least. So, You Need Both A Public And A Private Position.”*

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/927

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Submitted by Pricknick on Wed, 10/26/2016 - 6:56pm

Most excellent job!

Of baiting.
Did you waste your time crossposting to those other sites?
Again, kudos.

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Submitted by Raggedy Ann on Wed, 10/26/2016 - 7:02pm

Neoliberalism

is making America greater than ever. Thanks, guys!

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Submitted by Shockwave on Wed, 10/26/2016 - 8:02pm

The blue dogs still rule the Dem party

I did think Obama was going to be different. And I did what I could for Bernie to be nominated.

This gives me a bit of hope;

Bernie Sanders: I Will “Demand That the Democratic Party Implement” Its Platform

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The political revolution continues

Submitted by The Voice In th... on Wed, 10/26/2016 - 8:10pm

Demand how?

He has no party power.

She will just say that circumstances have changed. Or "I'll do it in my second term".

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Submitted by pro left on Wed, 10/26/2016 - 10:16pm

Maybe Bernie can scream

real loud, Hey Cut It Out !

Submitted by Goin South on Thu, 10/27/2016 - 5:57am

Or if he ever even gets to see her face-to-face again,

after election day, she will just let loose of one of her cackling fits if he brings up the platform.

Submitted by dakrle on Thu, 10/27/2016 - 4:21pm

you are wrong. Bernie has power and if you were with him

In the primary, you will be with him again.
Please stop with the defeatism on what Bernie can accomplish. He has heard this defeatism all his life and prevailed.

Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 10/27/2016 - 7:55pm

Dem voters have rejected Blue Dogs

elections

Blue Dog membership was nearly cut in half by the 2010 election, in which 26 members were re-elected but 28 were either defeated or chose not to run for re-election.
Blue Dog membership was nearly cut in half again for the 113th Congress. Of the 27 Blue Dogs, 3 resigned (Giffords, Cardoza and Harman), while 10 chose not to run for re-election or were defeated. Of the remaining 14 members Adam Schiff left the coalition, but Pete Gallego (Texas), Kyrsten Sinema (Arizona), Ron Barber (Arizona), Nick Rahall (West Virginia), Dan Lipinski (Illinois), and Cheri Bustos (Illinois) joined them for the 113th Congress.

Submitted by sojourns on Wed, 10/26/2016 - 8:16pm

Well done Maestro

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Submitted by karl pearson on Wed, 10/26/2016 - 11:35pm

Chuck Schumer and Big Business

Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will become the Senate Majority leader, if the Dems get control of the Senate next month. Schumer is a good friend of Wall Street.

"Schumer's ascension to the top Democratic position in the Senate -- and even possibly to Senate majority leader if his party regains control of the chamber -- is a boon for the finance and business communities, which have worked closely with the New York native and enjoyed his support for decades. It also puts an industry ally in charge of the Democratic caucus as the party's economic populists, including Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, have grown increasingly vocal."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/27/politics/chuck-schumer-business-wall-street/

Submitted by HenryAWallace on Thu, 10/27/2016 - 9:33am

Not that I care about being fair to Schumer, but,

in fairness, which Senator has NOT been a great friend to big business? For example, which Senators voted against confirmations of Paulsen, Geithner, Bernanke, Genachowski, et al.?

Before you answer, please know that I don't consider speeches to show enmity. Wall Street, banksters, huge businesses--they all understand the need of politicians for rhetoric and bloviation. They are willing to watch what legislators do and ignore what they say. The reality is, no Senator does much about anything. On average, they write about 2.5 bills a year that become law--and that includes bills like re-naming post offices and appreciating Harriet Tubman.

Submitted by Ellen North on Thu, 10/27/2016 - 3:46pm

Bernie stands alone, where an

Bernie stands alone, where an army like him is needed...

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Submitted by HenryAWallace on Sat, 10/29/2016 - 9:05am

I'm not counting his speeches, any more than I am counting

Warren's. As a Senator, Bernie collaborated with Senator McCain on a veteran's bill that became law. While that is commendable and more than Hillary accomplish while a Senator. However, his bill did not exactly kick Wall Street in the shins. I don't know that Sanders has ever even attempted to pass a bill that does. Is speaking out against Wall Street better than not doing that? Yes, but it doesn't change anything.

I desperately wanted Sanders to be the Democratic nominee, but as Kennedy noted when Hillary arrogated to herself credit for the SCHIP bill, "Facts are stubborn things."