You live in a dream world of denial if you think socialism is advanced by only Democrats. Maybe you haven't been paying attention to the socialism being advanced at a rapid pace by our Republican(?) president.
BTW, those corporations you're speaking of for also give a lot of money to Democrats...how about you explain to them how "Socialism bleeds an economy".
I recently purchased a cast iron tub made by Kholer (The Bold Look of Kholer), once manufactured in Kholer Wis...
"Made in China" was proudly cast into the bottom and stamped on the crate....I didn't notice any reduction in price for the reduced cost of labor being passed on to the consumer like YOU think we would get if their taxes were eliminated....I'm wondering how many people in Kholer Wis. can now afford one of those Chinese tubs they, themselves might have manufactured, I hope those foreign Kholer stock holders enjoy their our money, after all what could be more important?
I don't live in a dream world, I live in the same one you do- I see it differently and I'm not going to call you any names or make any insinuations because we see it differently.
And I don't believe that dems are the only ones promoting socialism- but they're mainly responsible for it. We have to work with what we've got. We either chose Bush or Gore. Which is gonna be? You pick the lesser evil is what you do. Right now, I want to work on sentencing the dems to electoral hell. When their population has been fumigated down to a number where we don't have to pay as much attention to them, then we can work on getting a good opposition candidate to go against the GOP. But the last thing we want now is to pull another Ross Perot on ourselves. That let in Clinton and it's going to take a long time to undo the havoc that wreaked.
I don't support all of Bush's policies, but because we have the bitter past as a grim reminder, I support him on the whole out of expediency and because I have my wish list prioritized. First get the commies out and by this I mean the Progressive Caucus. We got out Earl Hilliard in Alabama, Cynthia McKinney should be next. When we weed the true reds out then we can start in on the rest of the dems. When we control enough electoral votes comfortably, then we clean up our own act.
Also, the corporate donations you speak of. First, they give money to buy a vote, they don't give a damn which party it is. It's pay-off money. But if the gov't would keep its nose out of the market place in the first place and not dabble with protectionism and these corporations were forced to compete on their own merit all the bribes in the world wouldn't do them any good. Secondly, you look down the list of donations for the Progressive Caucus. Unions, Arabs, and More Unions. That has to say something as well.
Dirty little secret: big corporations love big government regulations because they put smaller companies out of business, thus increasing the surviving companies' market share. Were it not for government-imposed barriers to smaller businesses' entry, many large businesses would have to make themselves more efficient or go out of business. By keeping new competitors from entering the market, the government saves large businesses from the needs to improve; such inefficiencies sap the economy everywhere else.