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Funding Liberalism With Blue-Chip Profits [Fortune 100 foundations back leftist causes ]
Human Events ^ | 8/23/6 | David Hogberg and Sarah Haney

Posted on 08/23/2006 7:11:57 AM PDT by ZGuy

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1 posted on 08/23/2006 7:12:02 AM PDT by ZGuy
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To: ZGuy

Holy crap...look at FMC ! That's gonna leave a mark.


2 posted on 08/23/2006 7:24:09 AM PDT by traditional1
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To: ZGuy
FYI BUMP:

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3 posted on 08/23/2006 7:35:27 AM PDT by conservativecorner
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Based on this study, companies that gave $500,000 + more to the left than the right (and should be avoided) include:
- Citigroup
- Ford (surprise)
- GM
- Goldman Sachs
- J.P. Morgan Chase
- Johnson & Johnson
- MetLife
- Pepsico (whose new CEO talks the world giving us the finger)
- Prudential Financial
- Wachovi
- Weyerhaeser

... and Wal-Mart, the company that so many FReepers become unhinged when anyone criticizes it. Gotta support the Communist Chinese economy.
4 posted on 08/23/2006 8:52:27 AM PDT by BW2221
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To: ZGuy; traditional1; conservativecorner; Hydroshock; oceanview; hedgetrimmer; Ohioan; R. Scott; ...

Check-out the Walmart listing above. It and the Goldman Sachs listing and the entire article -- perhaps further evidence that corporatists are usually degenerate, predatory, paracytic leftists -- typically third-generation Americans at most, first-generation-college-grads and business school zombies -- losers craving power and status at the expense of others and betraying the nation that for some reason allowed their family in here.


5 posted on 08/23/2006 8:55:24 AM PDT by ProCivitas (Qui bono? Quo warranto? ; Who benefits? By what right/authority ?)
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Why would companies like GM and Ford that are losing billions donate money at all - let alone to controversial causes?


6 posted on 08/23/2006 9:00:38 AM PDT by BW2221
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To: ProCivitas

"perhaps further evidence that corporatists are usually degenerate, predatory, paracytic leftists -- typically third-generation Americans at most, first-generation-college-grads and business school zombies -- losers craving power and status at the expense of others and betraying the nation that for some reason allowed their family in here."

My guess is that their families have lived in the U.S. a long time and that they have gone to elite institutions, are well-connected and never wanted for anything in their lives - like William Clay Ford, Jr., Ted Kennedy and George Bush.


7 posted on 08/23/2006 9:46:35 AM PDT by BW2221
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… helping huge corporations fatten their bottom lines.

The fat bottom line is what funds the political campaigns and provides a plethora of benefits to those politicians and high level bureaucrats. It has been going on for a long, long time – and I don’t foresee an end to it.
8 posted on 08/23/2006 2:49:12 PM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: ZGuy

Thanks for posting this article. I was sorry to see it didn't attract very much attention.


9 posted on 08/23/2006 3:24:32 PM PDT by WmShirerAdmirer
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To: BW2221
Why would companies like GM and Ford that are losing billions donate money at all

Joe Politician would not be very interested in talking to them if it were not for their money...sadly.
10 posted on 08/24/2006 5:41:09 AM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: ProCivitas

The foundations - Ford, Carnegie-Mellon, etc. - are notorious for sliding left.

Their founders would turn over in their graves if they knew!

Serious question: what beer companies are least left-friendly. it used to be Coors, no?

Yes, I have my vices . . .


11 posted on 08/24/2006 10:07:28 AM PDT by cvq3842
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to cvq3842's:Serious question: what beer companies are least left-friendly. it used to be Coors, no?

Of all the myriad beer makers out there we really should be able to identify at least a few Conservative ones. Same for makers of other items. But....no I can't think of any. Coors is a better bet than most even though it merged with Molson; The Coors family is Conservative and as they're major shareholders maybe that's good enough.

I would dearly love to identify Northern American or European Conservative companies(i.e. Pro-Family, Pro-Economic Patriotism/Fair Trade)that make either clothing, beer, vehicles, power tools, etc...and acted on their civic principles.

Can you imagine the soaring relative popularity of any currently small beer maker that openly declared and acted upon being Pro-Family and Pro-Economic Patriotism/Fair Trade? They'd be backlogged for orders till Kingdom Come.

Meanwhile the liberal or progressive community has the www.buyblue.org (as in 'blue state')website where you can sort through their criteria and company listings and either do the reverse of their recommendations or not as you see fit. If it weren't for the liberal/progressive camp would anybody do the work of compiling this stuff?

12 posted on 08/25/2006 6:38:54 AM PDT by ProCivitas (Qui bono? Quo warranto? ; Who benefits? By what right/authority ?)
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Who are the Republicans and Democrats who comprise the "political left"?

I notice that HCA, Bill Frist family's corporation, has given to the left and none to the right. Very telling isn't it?


13 posted on 08/25/2006 6:49:09 AM PDT by texastoo ("trash the treaties")
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To: Smartass; hedgetrimmer; Czar; calcowgirl

bttt


14 posted on 08/25/2006 6:53:22 AM PDT by texastoo ("trash the treaties")
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To: ProCivitas

I agree! Thanks!


15 posted on 08/25/2006 1:28:35 PM PDT by cvq3842
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Home Depot gives $155,000 to the lefty liberals and zero to us ?

Some more companies to boycott, write letters...


16 posted on 09/03/2006 1:41:20 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: ZGuy
This is simply "hush money" to the left, so they look the other way and pick on some other corporation. They don't want to be the "eeeeeeeevil corporation" that lefties will have a tantrum over in the media.

Corporations today are donating to abortion clinics, fetal and other unethical medical research, homosexual legal groups fighting for same sex marriage, deals with communist foriegn goverments...

IMO, Evil is aligning itself throughout the world...(Time to get right with God if you haen't yet.)

17 posted on 09/03/2006 1:55:59 PM PDT by right-wingin_It
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Ala Jesse "I shake yo ass down" Jackson,, it seem a few of these may possibly be cave-ins


18 posted on 09/03/2006 4:13:18 PM PDT by digger48
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To: ZGuy
I could never understand why these CEO's (companies,
trusts, foundations)donate so much money to liberal causes.
They don't seem to realize it is Capitalism that generates
the money and, if they put into place socialistic concepts,
there wouldn't be any money to disperse.
19 posted on 09/03/2006 4:20:44 PM PDT by upcountryhorseman (An old fashioned conservative)
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To: ZGuy

It is not just the foundations giving to leftist causes.

It is also the corporations themselves doing the same. Ford is the poster child. Wal-Mart has recently joined the club.


20 posted on 09/03/2006 4:41:02 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and proud of it! Supporting our troops means praying for them to WIN!)
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