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Why Americans Hate Big Business
Townhall.com ^ | June 15, 2014 | Bruce Bialosky

Posted on 06/15/2014 2:09:06 PM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 06/15/2014 2:09:06 PM PDT by Kaslin
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I don’t like businesses that are “too big to fail”, because when they do fail, ultimately the taxpayers are the ones who have to bail them out. That’s why we have anti-trust laws, but apparently our government has completely forgotten about them.


2 posted on 06/15/2014 2:11:14 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Worst of all, they conspire with Big Government to pick our pockets.


3 posted on 06/15/2014 2:11:15 PM PDT by skeeter
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I was 100% pro business particularly big businesslike so many other people on this board. However, when they supported amnesty I felt like the wife who thought she had a perfect marriage and found out it was all a fraud as he had been cheating all of the time. Me and big business are through. The scales have fallen from my eyes and I see other things as well. I now believe a big government conservative is now simply a corporatist who is not paying enough taxes. And that should be remedied.
4 posted on 06/15/2014 2:12:36 PM PDT by amnestynone (Lindsey Graham is a feckless, duplicitous, treacherous, double dealing backstabbing corksucker.)
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My problem is with business getting in bed with government to hobble the competition or guarantee a profit via the taxpayers.


5 posted on 06/15/2014 2:14:03 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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They got me pissed off right now for their insistence that Congress import slave labor for them and dump the bill on the backs of American taxpayers.


6 posted on 06/15/2014 2:14:32 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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Another problem with Big Business and the Big Banks that own them is that they are more often than not controlled by Globalists and Liberals that have an utter contempt for America and Americans.


7 posted on 06/15/2014 2:15:40 PM PDT by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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Big Business + Government = Fascism

Time for Separation of Government and Business. Too much now government decides who the winners and the losers in the marketplace will be.


8 posted on 06/15/2014 2:15:47 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: FlingWingFlyer

It is kind of funny how the article avoids the real issues and concentrates in the petty crap.


9 posted on 06/15/2014 2:16:20 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: dfwgator

We need another Calvin Coolidge.


10 posted on 06/15/2014 2:17:12 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: Kaslin

Americans don’t hate Big Business.
Liberals Hate Big Business!


11 posted on 06/15/2014 2:18:22 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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It is not big business I have a problem with; it is Corporatism and Big Fascism.

I wish we would try capitalism someday.


12 posted on 06/15/2014 2:18:25 PM PDT by seowulf (Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum. Cogito.---Ambrose Bierce)
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To: amnestynone

The railroad is worse.


13 posted on 06/15/2014 2:30:21 PM PDT by REDWOOD99 ("Everyone should pay taxes. Everyone should pay the same rate.)
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And .. the other reason Americans hate big business is because the left spends most of its time and energy bad mouthing almost every big business .. except those run by liberal democrats.

I’m not saying all companies are perfect .. but since they employ humans, I suspect there’s a connection there between stupid acts and stupid employees.


14 posted on 06/15/2014 2:37:19 PM PDT by CyberAnt (True the Vote: MY AMERICA, "... I'm terrified it's slipping away.")
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big business like big anything, including entities like government, unions, MADD type groups, start off small and want to help people. they are close to failing or just breaking even so they care about their customers. as they get bigger the “leaders” start caring more about their legacy and their perks and less about their customers. the next step is they think they are untouchable and smarter than the mere stupid customers they are suppose to help. they think they are indispensable and too big to fail. at that stage they are corrupt, inefficient and are ONLY concerned with self preservation. they become a life form ie a parasite that sucks the life blood out of everything they touch upon.
it’s like watching a contagious disease start small and spread. big anything is the human equivalent of the 1918 flu pandemic except the flu virus was more honorable because it didn’t know any better.


15 posted on 06/15/2014 2:38:28 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (We should not fear our government. Our government should fear us.)
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16 posted on 06/15/2014 3:00:55 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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17 posted on 06/15/2014 3:03:06 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Big Business and entertainers should do the same thing.

Drop the politics, cut any ties with government and go back to doing what it is you do.

The function of both is to deliver a product or service that people want and are willing to pay for, not to push political ideologies on their clients/customers/fans and engage in incestuous relations with the government.


18 posted on 06/15/2014 3:09:46 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The Obamas' Black skin has morphed into Teflon thanks to the Obama Media)
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I thought your bags cannot travel on a flight without you on it? If you’re not on the flight, the bags (supposedly) get taken off.


19 posted on 06/15/2014 3:19:15 PM PDT by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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Most big businesses benefit greatly from making big government even bigger.


20 posted on 06/15/2014 3:30:30 PM PDT by PGR88
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