"Banana republicans," Jamie Raskin used as an example of incorrect usage when responding to boebert's repeated and disrespectful use of the noun "Democrat" when an adjective is called for.
I believe that condition is defined as Anarchy. Or maybe it is Free Market economy. Or maybe it is Coporate America. So many choices, that it is difficult know where to begin in this deliberate unravelling of American Democracy.
Rebekha, I'm sure which it is either. I think it might be a combination. Free market is not what we have had here despite a lot of folks saying that is what we had and what they want. There have always been some kind of regulation depending on which government was involved. Then corporate greed warps any system a nation can have. For the past 50 years or so, corporations have been able to impact laws so they encouraged bad behavior and gaining at the expense of everyone else. I think that kind of wild west business arises from war time and it sure did during Vietnam and has not slowed, but spread to other industries, including the new tech empires.
Nobody has a "free market"; there is no such ideal. Markets are social constructs with rules created by people; there is no such thing as a market without rules and restrictions. And the choice of rules and restrictions encodes social aims: particular market designs will tend toward different aims (whether those aims be conscious or not on the part of the designers).
Ironically, some of the markets that are probably most beloved by capitalists are the most highly regulated. I wrote software to do automated trading of futures and options on stock exchange indexes, and the regulations (made by those with seats on the exchange, not the government!) were incredibly strict compared to the free-for-all and bring-on-the-externalities approach of so-called "free market" wonks in consumer markets.
Corporations Without Regulations is equal to a Country With No Laws! Banana Republic
Existing laws are broken. Crime should not pay.
It pays in Ohio.
$61 million dollars to be exact.
- Covers the costs of ;
Re-election of former nefarious speaker of the house.
Plus covers campaign contributions to elect 4 speaker's allies.
- to insure a numerical vote advantage.
Nebulus housing/ vehicle/ trip expenses.
Publicly getting the extortion called a bribe.
- to create a haze of innocence.
Put a fence around "The Congressional Transfer Facility" and hire guards.
"Banana republicans," Jamie Raskin used as an example of incorrect usage when responding to boebert's repeated and disrespectful use of the noun "Democrat" when an adjective is called for.
Nice comment. I Like it!!
I believe that condition is defined as Anarchy. Or maybe it is Free Market economy. Or maybe it is Coporate America. So many choices, that it is difficult know where to begin in this deliberate unravelling of American Democracy.
Rebekha, I'm sure which it is either. I think it might be a combination. Free market is not what we have had here despite a lot of folks saying that is what we had and what they want. There have always been some kind of regulation depending on which government was involved. Then corporate greed warps any system a nation can have. For the past 50 years or so, corporations have been able to impact laws so they encouraged bad behavior and gaining at the expense of everyone else. I think that kind of wild west business arises from war time and it sure did during Vietnam and has not slowed, but spread to other industries, including the new tech empires.
Agreed!!
Nobody has a "free market"; there is no such ideal. Markets are social constructs with rules created by people; there is no such thing as a market without rules and restrictions. And the choice of rules and restrictions encodes social aims: particular market designs will tend toward different aims (whether those aims be conscious or not on the part of the designers).
Ironically, some of the markets that are probably most beloved by capitalists are the most highly regulated. I wrote software to do automated trading of futures and options on stock exchange indexes, and the regulations (made by those with seats on the exchange, not the government!) were incredibly strict compared to the free-for-all and bring-on-the-externalities approach of so-called "free market" wonks in consumer markets.