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Jim Bauer @porwest (112864) • United States 20 Aug 22

There is a funny thing that happens when a politician stands at the podium pounding fists about how the evil corporations don't pay their fair share of taxes. People listen. People rejoice. People agree. The politician gets...

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Misdirected Anger At Business

Jim Bauer @porwest (112864) • United States 4 Aug 18

If you have been paying attention to the news, Amazon recently caught some fire after it was reported that the company, after record profits and sales increases, only paid $2.2 million in taxes in the UK. Not that it is uncommon...

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Why I might spare my Doctor

The Horse @TheHorse (238347) • Walnut Creek, California 21 Apr 17

Yesterday, as I was picking up my late prescription, who did I run into, eating a Subway sandwich right next to my illegal snow peas? My Doctor! I invited myself to join him and sat down. I confessed growing the snow peas as a...

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The War Business Model

Daniel @RhoShambo (79) 12 Apr 17

What is the "Islamic State group"? The "News" (corporate-run media outlets) vomit the terms out just to confuse the reading public. Their confusing language puts the reader in a catatonic state of ignorance just begging to be told...

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Lobbiticians

Daniel @RhoShambo (79) 20 Feb 17

Over the last 20 years, more than 400 former members of Congress have been hired as lobbyists. Dick Armey, Tom Daschle, Tom Foley and Trent Lott have been hired as corporate stooges. If you just identify politicians as lobbyists...

Slavery still exists in the USA

Daniel @RhoShambo (79) 19 Jan 17

American slavery was technically abolished in 1865, but a loophole in the 13th Amendment has allowed it to continue “as a punishment for crimes” well into the 21st century. Not surprisingly, corporations have lobbied for a broader...

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I Swear, I Do Not Get Corporations

Go Crossbones @crossbones27 (52995) • Mojave, California 27 Nov 16

I was just asked a question about sustainability and being environmentally neutral for growing cotton. Meaning, no harm gets done to the environment, but they do not help the environment either. They want to know how much they...

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Corporations Are Not People

Steve West @zebra2222 (5268) • United States 11 Apr 16

Corporations are not people. I don't care if a politician thinks differently. I never invited a corporation over to my home for food. I do not see a restroom that says, "Corporations Only." I have no corporations on my social...

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Porter Ranch, L.A. evacuations due to methane leak

edibleorganicgardening @buttheadface932 (708) • United States 9 Jan 16

"Gas is spewing into the atmosphere at a rate so fast that the well now accounts for about a quarter of the state's total emissions of methane - an extremely potent greenhouse...

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You Just Can't Win

Go Crossbones @crossbones27 (52995) • Mojave, California 21 Oct 15

Congrats to the people of Los Angeles For saving on water the last few months,but you screwed Corporate America in doing so. Talk about a catch 22. The government tells us we need to save on water or we will run out. That to me...

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Swamiji : What do Monks Know About Business?

Freaking Genius, LLC @iamafreakinggenius (6) • Phoenix, Arizona 8 Mar 15

Today’s conversation starts with the death of both parents at a young age, and covers becoming a monk, writing an Amazon #1 bestseller and speaking internationally from the White House to Johns Hopkins University. Find out what...

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They've Created a Monster?!!

its-logos-plus-logic @flowerchilde (12529) • United States 27 Jun 12

Man creates many monsters, whether it's huge corporations with many heads and investors, or governments with over reaching tentacles and unable to be taken back control and power. Do you think government can solve the world's...

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Speaker Pelosi wants to change the first Amendment

bobmnu @bobmnu (8157) • United States 20 Apr 12

It seems that some Democrats want to Amend the Constitution to give Congress the right to regulate Political Speech. They claim it is aimed at Corporations but don't say if Unions are included as they are in the Supreme Court...

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Should pharmaceutical companies be nationalised?

bagpusspoo @bagpusspoo (7) • Bulgaria 17 Mar 12

I think that the fact that pharmaceutical companies are profit making organisations has a detrimental affect on the medicines and health care available. Companies don't research drugs which they can't profit from, which meas that...

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Small businesses are more flexible than bigger corporations

kingparker @kingparker (9673) • United States 31 Jan 12

When you come to think about it, smaller businesses can survive better than bigger corporation in terms of flexibility, not financially. Although bigger corporations have much bigger financial potential, they are slow in react to...

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US firms paid more in lobbying, and compensation of their CEO's, than taxes

thegreatdebater @thegreatdebater (7316) • United States 31 Aug 11

According to a new study, US corporations spend more money on lobbying congress, and paying their CEO's than they did in Federal Income Tax. Some on here may be happy to hear this, but the problem is that All of these corporations...

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White House to Limit Political Speech

bobmnu @bobmnu (8157) • United States 28 Apr 11

A report on a Blog reported that the Administration plans to issue an Executive Order that would require Contractors who Bid on Federal Projects to disclose all contributions made by the corporation to political parties or third...

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Tax Dollars and what is not American about avoiding taxes

TTCCWW @TTCCWW (579) • United States 9 Apr 11

For years we have been having this discussion about cutting government and spending less. Could not agree more, yet, I also read how much we from the US pay in Taxes, it is much smaller then most comparable industrial country's,...

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50 Cent Needs Miss Manners

CraftyCorner @CraftyCorner (5600) • United States 14 Mar 11

The famous rapper 50 Cent could do with a sit down with Miss Manners. Why? A few tactless Tweets have left many groaning and others fuming over this man's apparent lack of propriety. ~ Tweet number one, “Wave will hit at 8am...

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Let's play a game.

ladybugmagic @ladybugmagic (3978) • United States 10 Apr 10

It is said that we can more easily recognize logos than we can even recognize plants, so let's put it to test, without the use of google, off the tops of your heads, do this. But, the one rule - don't repeat one another on either...

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