Posted on 12/14/2013 3:20:29 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
The Center for American Progress is a left-wing organization that is closely associated with the Obama administration. Its principal product is a web site called Think Progress. Think Progress is part of the internet cesspool that modern liberalism has become. Written by hack left-wing bloggers, it is bitterly hostile to free enterprise. It is a low-rent site that traffics in the most absurd smears and conspiracy theories. Many have wondered for some years who finances far-left web sites like Think Progress. As of today, we know at least part of the answer, as CAP released its corporate donor list for the first time.
CAP says that individuals and foundations account for more than 90% of its funding, and corporations only around 6%. It would be interesting to see the individual and foundation donor list; my guess is that left-wing foundations, most of which spend money left by dead conservatives, would loom large. But what corporations fund Think Progress’s anti-free enterprise propaganda? The full list is here; it includes:
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
Looking at that list, it instead looks more like the ol neighborhood protection racket. Progressives stopping by on a regular basis to pick up their “contribution” to keep the progressive thugs away.
Exactly. Corporations have a budget for ‘supporting the community’ as PR, usually under pressure by NGOs, then hire some recent lib graduate to distribute the money, and don’t bother to follow up, because, they couldn’t possibly care less about the whole thing.
“Walmart is not the same company since Sam died.”
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Yes, Sam is rolling in his grave.
I remember the first Walmart near Memphis.
They started with opening stores ONLY in small rural markets.
I was a manufactures rep for CB radios during the CB craze.
When I called on Walmart, their corporate offices were like a strip mall. A line of offices along a state highway.
As an anecdote, my retired uncle had a cattle ranch just up the road from their headquarters.
It no longer surprises me. They days when companies actively nurtured a healthy working and middle class are long gone. As corporate America has outsourced jobs, they have increasingly relied on Government to pick up the slack. As a result, entitlements are critical to enable Americans to buy their stuff. This is what Nancy Pelosi and the Dems really mean when they talk about unemployment stimulating the Economy. Without transfer payments, welfare & stimulus in all its stripes, the majority of Americans would be dirt poor. That is the truth and all these corporations know it.
I’m sure they also know that we are slowly drifting toward a one party state where a decreasing productive class works increasingly harder to support a growing Free Stuff Army (FSA). The FSA is now in the majority—we are past the tipping point.
“Corporations have a budget for ‘supporting the community’ as PR,”
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Of course, and they may know that they are often paying the devil, but they have to stay in business, don’tcha know?
The criticism stops for a while, from the organized left (until the next agenda item comes up). Meanwhile, there’s an incoherent intermittent stream of nonsequiturs from self-identified conservatives.
“Meanwhile, there’s an incoherent intermittent stream of nonsequiturs from self-identified conservatives.”
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Of course...They all have to keep their bread buttered.
American politics have become sickening. I could not live there today.
I remember reading that the leading chess players on the world stage in every conflict, war, world war, civil war and everything in between PLAY BOTH SIDES AND FUND BOTH SIDES it’s a win win except for us we lose!
* Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, one of Washington’s most powerful lobbyists.
* American Iron and Steel Institute
* America’s Health Insurance Plans, or AHIP
* Apple Inc.
* AT&T
* Bank of America
* Blackstone, one of the largest multinational private equity firms
* Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
* Citigroup
* The Coca-Cola Company
* Comcast NBCUniversal
* CVS Caremark Inc.
* Eli Lilly and Company
* Facebook
* GE
* Goldman Sachs
* Google
* Japan Bank for International Cooperation
* Microsoft Corporation
* Northrop Grumman, defense contractor
* PepsiCo
* Samsung
* Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States
* Time Warner Inc.
* Walmart
* Wells Fargo
We need to realize what this is; protection money. Simply put. Not donating gets the IRS all over these companies and NO ONE is there to stop them.
To offer a tiny bit of an excuse for these companies, they are likely paying protection money. The banks, especially, have been targets of these groups for decades.
Precisely. Especially worth noting that the 'community support' departments in these corps have been wholely captured by CAP leftists - the same as virtually every foundation and charity in the country. They've all been turned into funding mechanisms for the radical left.
Thanks!
It's called:
Survival of the Unfit
Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution (often referred to as The Theory of Survival of the Fittest) describes the positive effects resulting from any “pressure” on an animal species that removes the least fit among the species and allows only the most fit of the species to reproduce. Many of us are well aware of this “Survival of the Fittest” theory, but few are aware that Darwin also makes mention of the negative effects resulting from unlimited reproduction of a species’ least fit when the weak, the lazy, and the stupid are left unchecked.
We like to think otherwise, but our species, Homo sapiens, isn’t that long “out of the trees” and the same laws of nature that affect all of God’s creatures apply equally to us. If we were to observe any other species that had been allowed to reproduce without limitations, we would know immediately what the consequences will be.
Whenever the weak; lazy; and stupid of a species is allowed to reproduce unimpeded by predators that feed off the weak; lazy; and stupid, they soon outnumber the strong, productive, and intelligent. When the weak/lazy/stupid dominate the gene pool, the entire population becomes weak/ lazy/stupid, and then the population collapses.
In the past, when these collapses occurred within human populations, they have been referred to as a “Malthusian Collapse.” Thomas Malthus, a Nineteenth Century Economist, thought these collapses were caused simply because past civilizations had reached a point where human populations could no longer produce sufficient food supplies to feed themselves, but he never pinned down the exact reason for these food shortages.
We now think these collapses of past human civilizations have occurred whenever the unproductive weak/lazy/stupid greatly outnumber the strong/productive/intelligent of the population. In other words, the majority of the population becomes too lazy to perform the work necessary to provide for themselves and what’s left of the strong/productive/intelligent refuses to continue to do it for them.
These collapses have occurred at frequent intervals throughout human history, and Western Civilization is, in my humble opinion, currently on the cusp of one of these collapses.
D.J. Taylor
Yep, I’ve been to Bentonville many times. Never to their offices.
I worked for 2 privately held wholesale hardware distributors over 40 years.
A customer I met in OK had worked for Sam when he had 12 stores. He told me the story of how a NY business type took him public.
At a Lumberman’s meeting in OK, I met Sam’s labor relations lawyer. He was a nice old gentleman who was very proud of the fact that they were non union. He spoke on how independent businesses could compete with Walmart, he was correct. He gave good advice. I liked the guy.
Now that type of Walmart empolyee is gone.
I’m not buying the “protection money” theory here. Just how powerful is a left-wing wacko website that they have that much power over AT&T, Microsoft, and all the others?
I’m sorry to see my company, T-Mobile, in the list, but Verizon isn’t. Is Verizon or Koch going to be in trouble for not donating?
I think it’s more a case of companies making charitable donations just for PR purposes, and not paying that much attention to whom they’re donating.
I bought a copy of this book soon after it was published:
“How You Can Find Happiness During the Collapse of Western Civilization “
by R. J. Ringer | July 1, 1983
ISBN 0068596065
Before his time and a good read.
I had previously read a couple of Ringer’s books. Think he was here on FR for a time. Not heard from him for a while though.
And modern agricultural practices, crop breeding, mechanized agriculture have proven Parson Malthus’s premiss a bit outdated. It is not necessary for it to be that way, but sure looks like it could happen here too.
Perfect example of CRONY CAPITALISM which is a polite way of saying government business corruption. This is not free enterprise.
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