Bob Orr: For People?
Republican candidate for North Carolina governor Bob Orr wants to end corporate welfare. I'll pause a bit to let that sink in.
As you might imagine, according to the press, he's a long shot. What a surprise. But he is taking a radical position: that the government of North Carolina should not give away cash to businesses that they prefer and not give cash to businesses they don't like. I'm not sure how people can honestly stand up and defend corporate welfare. It is, literally, government favoring one business instead of another. It's deciding which businesses will be successful. And yes, it's inherently corrupt, because after the legislators take cash from working people and give it to businesses, the business can "thank" the legislator by giving them campaign donations. So, quite literally, this is legislators lining their own pockets by using force to take earnings from people. In a free society, that would be called "theft" and those who are taking the money would be punished. In America today, that's called "politics." Oh, how I yearn for freedom.
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But the sweet thing about privatization is that private companies can collect data about citizens that government is prevented by law from doing.
And mercenaries are not hindered by the Universal Code for Military Justice of the "quaint" Geneva Conventions of war :-)
And mercenaries are not hindered by the Universal Code for Military Justice of the "quaint" Geneva Conventions of war :-)
Posted by: J. Edgar Hoover at October 16, 2007 08:03 AM (VZyOx)
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Once again, I'm sure that there was a point to your comment, I just don't know what it is.
Posted by: Ogre at October 16, 2007 09:56 AM (wkwq7)
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