Pro-Business Legislators?

Paul O'Connor tries to explain why Democrats keep winning at the state level in NC, but keep losing at the federal level. He claims it's because the Democrats are pro-business. Clearly Mr. O'Connor doesn't follow politics very closely. The primary reason that Democrats keep winning the House and the Senate is gerrymandering! For the past decade or more, the MAJORITY of voters in North Carolina have voted for Republicans in the Senate and the House, but due to gerrymandering, the Democrats retain control.

Now watch this attempt at spin:

As one corporate lobbyist explained, her company is not politically conservative. It supports adequate state funds for public education, roads and other state services to support a good business climate.

In other words, her company is politically socialist. They want MORE government spending on education, more spending on roads, more spending on "state services," and more giveaways to corporations in the form of free land, tax benefits, etc.

That's what business has become in North Carolina, due to the one-party rule (Democrats) for the past century. North Carolina has become a socialist state, even if not openly. Don't believe me? Take a look around. Look at how many businesses receive cash or "incentives" from the government. Can you find any business with more than 50 employees that doesn't? That's socialism: government control of businesses. And that stinks.

Oh, how I yearn for freedom.

Posted by: Ogre at 12:14 PM

Comments

1 Democrats are pro-business? Not in North Carolina. In fact, some Republican officeholders are pro-business.

Paul O'Connor should campare the record and positions of any Democrat state senator with that of Senator Fred Smith, a conservative who believes in the free-market.

This is all part and parcel of the Democrat Party trying to convince Americans that they aren't the socialist and neo-Marxists they truly are.

Fill the state house and senate with Fred Smiths and then you'll see a state that is pro-business.

Posted by: Nathan Tabor at December 02, 2006 08:41 PM (Eodj2)

2 They are pro-business: if you define pro-business as someone who takes money from the taxpayer and gives it to the big business. And yes, that is socialism. And that's what the news media is considering "pro-business."

Posted by: Ogre at December 03, 2006 01:42 AM (ECkKW)

3 When I was a teenager, a representative of the federal government explained why the price of sugar went up sharply in a short period of time. He said that before the price went up, America was buying much of its sugar at inflated prices from a country that we wanted to assist in some way. After that deal fell apart, we had to buy our sugar from the normal, open market at non-inflated prices and that's why the price went up so quickly.

It's been almost 30 years since I heard that and I'm still working on the math.

Posted by: Weapon of Mass Disturbance at December 04, 2006 03:06 PM (j4p/t)

4 Makes perfect sense to me.

Let's say sugar, on the open market, costs $10. To assist a foreign market that we want to help, we will buy sugar from them for $15. But people would never pay $15 when they can get it for $10, so government has to pay $8 of each $15 spent on sugar from the foreign country. Then the people get to buy sugar for $7 (not understanding that they're paying the whole $15 because it's taxpayer money that's paying the rest).

Then, when the "deal" falls apart, people have to pay the market price to get sugar ($10) because the government isn't propping up the price any more.

It absolutely sucks, but that's just one way government massively interferes with the free market.

Posted by: Ogre at December 04, 2006 03:09 PM (oifEm)






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