“I hate poseurs. Pretending to be conservative for YEARS”
Still a lot of them around.
Including posters who think Monsanto, an American capitalist success story. A company using science and technology to improve lives and make money.
Yet, like the ultra leftists, they think it’s evil.
(speaking of blasts from the past, someone on another thread mentioned Michael Rivero)
Well, not too keen on their GMO stuff and the built-in-seed-death thing they do.
The idea of ANYBODY wanting any sort of a global monopoly on food makes me nervous. In fact pretty much the only person I could feel halfway good about having such a monopoly would be Jesus and he hasn’t come back yet...
Obama’s fond of Monsanto, for the record, even signing legislation on their behalf. Crony corporatism is kinda antithetical to capitalism.
Monsanto is the very image of crony capitalism. The use laws and regulators to make a favorable business climate for them and their products and to push out their competition. They try to force their products on consumers and keep people from learning about what is in their food- if you truly make a good product you teach people about it, not hide it from them. They use litigation to force farmers who don’t use their seed to pay them anyway and invented the terminator lines to prevent farmers from saving seed to use for future years to create an annual dependence on their products. This has been especially devastating to farmers in 3rd world countries who don’t have the means to buy seed every year.
My grandfather worked as a chemist for Monsanto for 35 years before retiring in the late 80s. He says he saw the direction they were going toward the end and hated it. He has no respect for what the company he spent his whole career building has become.
You haven’t been around for very long — or have you posted previously under another name?