[antienvironmentalist]

If these companies were to get up and walk, (i.e. shut down by the government, or by their executive board) none of us would be living any more. These companies allow our clothing to get to the stores and our food to get to our tables (although I have some moral dilemas w/ Phillip Morris). It is the statists like you who would rather have the population of the US wither away than to admit that we owe a great deal of gratitude to these corporations. As for the fact that these companies are employing less Americans each year, mabey you should look at your liberal regulations that are choking their bottom line. And by the way facism is a leftist movement, which begs for greater governmental control over it's people, which is exactley what republicans are against. Look up the definition of facism, if you doubt me.

[Red Jones]

I am not a liberal/leftist/statist, I am a conservative who believes in freedom. That is why I criticize the Republicans for promoting corporate welfare and special tax breaks and other special policies for big corporations, big corporations as they behave in America do not actually create jobs for Americans. It is a myth.

I know a bit about the intellectual history of fascism. Fascism as an ideology was invented by Mussolini in 1916 who promoted it as an alternative to international socialism which was a euphemism for communism at the time. Mussolini called this new idea 'national socialism' which was later shortened to 'nazi' by the Germans which was their acronym for national socialism. I don't know who came up with the fascist label, but it was an ideology of the intellectual left when it was invented, that's true.

In the 1930's the Republicans were a lot like the Republicans of today. There were prominent Republicans who did in fact openly praise Hitler for getting the job done in Germany. One Republican, Henry Ford, invested heavily in Germany during the 1930's. He built them all kinds of factories that they later used to build weapons with.

So, today's corporate welfare and special corporate tax breaks by the Republicans are nothing new.

If you don't believe me that Republicans seem to worship big corporations, then just read what you wrote. You said that we'd all die without them and that we owe them something special. No, they are nothing special and deserve no special consideration. Individuals are citizens of the United States. Corporations that have an American charter are not and our government should not serve them.