Posted on 10/31/2006 2:10:09 PM PST by libertylovinactivist
Big business primarily supports right-wing advocacy groups, right? Think again. A recent report from the Capital Research Center shows Fortune 100 corporate foundations give overwhelmingly to liberal groups. In fact, in the sample year studied (2001), these corporate foundations gave 14 times more money to liberal causes than business-friendly ones. Even more surprising, environmental causes got the most funding, approximately 75 percent of the $60 million from 53 corporate foundations.
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That horrible "big business" bank rolls the right is just another lie from the socialist democrats.
it is most likely that this publication is from some lib/dem rag!!!!
I'd be curious to see how they are categorizing what are left vs right wing groups.
One specific example they mention is a group that supports zoos, how is that left or right?
In some ways not surprising. Liberals spend more time going after free funding. Most of these grants went to liberal non profits. Foundations are a cesspool of liberals, not sure I want to go there (have in the past).
Yep, I noticed that during the 2004 election. Bush had the much higher percentage of private donations while Kerry had the higher percentage of donations from businesses and advocacy groups.
Business lobbyists and their bankrollers knows that, regardless of who gets elected, the officeholder, though perhaps "not for sale", is definitely "for rent", either as a supporter of business-friendly legislation and regulation or (if the individual's public persona is populist and "anti-big-business") as a vociferous public opponent who will cut deals in legislative markups and "conference negotiations" on critical provisions.
Anyone who does not like this needs to understand that the politicos have this role because "we the people" have bought the promises of security and prosperity through pervasive government intervention in the economy and creation of multiple systems of "transfer payments" to extract taxes from the currently employed (whether business owners or the employees) and use the funds to buy votes.
You get the kind of state you are willing to put up with.
Conservatives don't threaten corporations with attacks by MSM or physical attacks by econuts. A lot of those donations are buy-off money. The high-tech money is probably sincere because the autists and engineers who build them tend to be extreme lefties. When money comes too easily, one tends to not understand where it comes from and sees it as lottery winnings and thus "unfair" to the losers.
Did you know that many super-corperations want higher taxes, single payer healthcare, gun control, the US to abandon the war on terror, and open borders?
A lot of this has to do with European Union business regulations, which require them to lobby for this stuff.
When the Feds increase regulation, defacto it gives Big Business the avenue to make it more difficult for others (new entrants) to compete. Old tune but tried and true.
HP, Apple, {the]Google can support tsunamis of socialist/demonic causes and never one peep from the so-called Christian leadership demanding boycotting those evil cos.
I think that a lot of America's big businesses are corporatists who seek protectionism and that they are really fascists. I really don't like the cozy relationship between big business and DC. and the public-private partnerships reek of statism.
Also, the points that you bring up indicate that big business is more committed to the UN/EU secular humanist style of Christian hating governance than the Constitution of the United States.
I believe that America is dangerously headed in the direction of global governance.
At the same time, big business, especially the newer ones, sell items to countries that threaten the US, and even sanction dodge and set up front companies to do so.
Many corporations today, especially on the coasts, are filled to the brim with hard left liberals at the highest levels. I see it around me daily at the Blue State corp I work at. There is nothing worse than 1960s radicals with corporate power.
Insurance money. Does anyone else remember how Jesse Jackson's shakedown operation worked? AT&T ringing any bells?
One wondersw where the Competitive Enterprise Institute has been for the last 50 years. Big Business and their Foundations have been funding the far radical left for a long time.
Why? Ask them.
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