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ray b
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JAN 01, 10:44 AM
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https://hartmannreport.com/...polists-stole-the-us
Lewis Powell’s 1971 memo kicked off the process.
Just a few months before he was nominated by President Richard Nixon to the US Supreme Court, Powell had written a memo to his good friend Eugene Sydnor Jr., the director of the US Chamber of Commerce at the time.32 Powell’s most indelible mark on the nation was not to be his 15-year tenure as a Supreme Court justice but instead that memo, which served as a declaration of war against both democracy and what he saw as an overgrown middle class. It would be a final war, a bellum omnium contra omnes, against everything FDR’s New Deal and LBJ’s Great Society had accomplished.
IT DOES ALL GO BACK TO NIXON THE ROOT OF EVIL
MORE HERE
https://hartmannreport.com/...tack&utm_medium=menu
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olejoedad
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JAN 01, 12:29 PM
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Yes, they did.
Our government, on both sides of the aisle, has been bought and paid for by corporations, foreign and domestic, for decades.
Why do you think Trump's bid for the presidency has driven our bought and paid for political class absolutely crazy?
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BingB
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JAN 01, 01:32 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by olejoedad:
Why do you think Trump's bid for the presidency has driven our bought and paid for political class absolutely crazy? |
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Trump was President for four years and did not change anything. Instead he used the Presidency to make himself richer. He made a big deal about not taking his $400k salary, but he made a lot more through his businesses dealings with the US government while he was president.
https://www.forbes.com/site...ses/?sh=3ee62b2d1a62
U.S. taxpayers have paid more than $2.5 million to Mar-a-Lago and other businesses owned by President Donald Trump since 2017,
The $2.5 million figure includes hotel rooms, function spaces, food, alcohol, and floral arrangements purchased by the federal government for official functions hosted at Trump-owned hotels and resorts,
The president’s clubs often charged high prices for their services, billing the government $7,700 for a dinner with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s staff, $17,000 a month for a cottage at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster used by the Secret Service, and even $3 for glasses of water for Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Since 2017, Trump’s reelection campaign has also spent $5.6 million in donors’ money for fundraisers hosted at Trump’s private clubs, office space in Trump Tower, and other expenses, even though the campaign is reportedly low on cash.
Trump’s habit of traveling to his own resorts as president is well-documented. Despite promising during the 2016 campaign to keep his business interests separate from his presidential responsibilities — and castigating predecessor Barack Obama for vacationing too frequently — he has reportedly visited his own hotels and country clubs hundreds of times since his inauguration. The Trump Organization often does not give the government a discount when its properties are used for official business, turning the visits into a sizable revenue stream. Experts say this practice is highly unusual and possibly unethical, though not necessarily illegal.
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olejoedad
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JAN 01, 01:46 PM
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ray b
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JAN 01, 02:18 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by olejoedad:
You're deflecting. |
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would be very nice if you stopped doing it also
as you do it far too often
what did the rump really do
not the many things he claimed he would do BUT NEVER DID DO
actually did ONLY
BS about does NOT COUNT
things done only
what did he do ?
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ray b
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JAN 01, 02:23 PM
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or you could actually discuss the point of the thread
Gop political goals of nixons courts and how they screwed us up big time
with the gains by the 1% losses by the middle class that continue today
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Larryinkc
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JAN 01, 03:11 PM
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BingB
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JAN 01, 05:31 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by ray b:
IT DOES ALL GO BACK TO NIXON THE ROOT OF EVIL
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Don't blame Nixon. He did not intentionally try to get the public to distrust the government. He just got caught cheating which exacerbated the already existing distrust.
The nation distrusted the government because of Viet Nam which Nixon had very little to do with. He obstructed the peace process until he was in office, but he did get us out of it.
The nation also distrusted the government because of all the brutality they saw from law enforcement and national guardsmen in the 60's. Unlike the protests in the last few years back in the 60's dozens of protesters were shot and killed by authorities. Then the '68 DNC convention in Chicago was a horror show.
And even though I think wealth disparity is one of the biggest problems in the country today I still insist that we have to have a capitalist economy. It needs to be well regulated by the government to prevent exploitation, but socialism just will not work.
Finally we have to consider that Lewis Powell was born in 1907. He lived through a period when communism and socialism were backed by legitimate political parties in the United States. The organized labor movement in America was backed by communist/socialist. If labor unions had not achieved the power that they did the communist/socialist parties would have gained even more power in America.
Corporate America has done such a good job with brainwashing people into believing government is the problem that when it comes to the issue of climate change and alternative energy they will say "follow the money" and some people will assume corruption among legitimate scientists instead of acknowledging that if you really "follow the money" you will see that it all goes back to the fossil fuel industry having the most money to lose. But you can't blame NIxon for this. In fact Nixon was the President that started the EPA which is now considered evil by indistry.
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BingB
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JAN 01, 05:55 PM
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Parts of this sound like high comedy today
--Corporations have no influence in government.
--This memo was written just one year after the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland caught fire due to the massive amounts of toxic pollution, yet he mocks politicians who are concerned about the environment and feels sorry for the poor corporations that are being hit with environmental regulations.
--Same with his criticism of Ralph Nadar.
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olejoedad
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JAN 01, 09:38 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by ray b:
or you could actually discuss the point of the thread
Gop political goals of nixons courts and how they screwed us up big time
with the gains by the 1% losses by the middle class that continue today |
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Gosh rayb, I agreed with you that our government has been bought out by corporations....but I did point out it has happened to both sides of the aisle.
And then, GASP! I mentioned the rUMP!
Why do you suppose Trump was attacked by both sides, and the media?
Could it be that he was a political outsider that wasn't owned by the corporations that controlled the other politicians? He couldn't be controlled.
Nah....that couldn't be it!
Then the history teacher comes in with how Trump made money by renting! his properties to the Federal Government! OMG!
Do you suppose the venues used by other Presidents for events are given away, or perhaps they might also be rented to the Federal Government?
So laughable......
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