DUmmies harbor a visceral hatred of "Corporations", and the democrat party tries to support that hatred by damaging American business as much as it can. But it's still confusing. All this vicious hatred from DUmmies and democrat politicians, but they never seem to be able to explain why. For many of the DUmmies it's simply because successful companies are just chock full of people who make more money and live better than any DUmmy deadbeat can ever dream. But it's hard to believe that so much hate can come solely due to envy.
Roland99 (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-17-10 09:01 PM
Original message
How do we fight back against the rule of Corporations?
With OUR dollars.
By not giving them OUR dollars.
By giving OUR dollars to other individuals as much as possible.
Buy food at a farmer's market.
Buy clothes from consignment shops.
Stop going in debt in order to buy things and giving up OUR dollars in the form of interest (profits) to banks.
Stop giving OUR dollars to the criminal Too Big To Fail banks and focusing on operating on a cash basis or, at the least, using sound local banks.
By consuming only what we need, not what corporations want us to have (upgrading a cell phone every 6 months? Why? To give them more money? Buying a new car every 2-3 years? Why? To give them more money?
By not supporting politicians and entire parties that continue to favor corporations over individuals. And letting them know loudly why we are not supporting them.
We ultimately have the power but it will come only if we, as a society, completely change the herd mentality and stop following what corporations want us to do.
EDIT: Forgot to mention. Look at what the State of New Mexico did. Moving all of their accounts from the big bastards to the local banks!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7736310And what will be accomplished? And what is accomplished by moving state accounts around among banks? Nothing.
This DUmmy advocates the lunatic approach:
asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-17-10 09:05 PM
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1. You close them down.
Human chain.
We are beyond speaking with our dollars because we don't have enough of them.
People need to get mad and get in the streets.
sharesunited (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-17-10 09:05 PM
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2. How about buying shares and giving them hell by virtue of your legal standing as shareholder?
Single-share crackpots have been very successful in shaping corporate policies by disrupting shareholder meetings. Oh, wait, ..no, they haven't.
Mister Ed (990 posts) Wed Feb-17-10 09:44 PM
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7. Exactly. The corporations that threaten us don't care about our piddly purchasing power.
That's because the real source of their income is the federal trough. And we're forced to keep pouring our tax dollars into that trough. And they use some of the money they siphon out of the trough to bribe our politicians to keep engorging them at our expense. And so on.
There are plenty of corporations that are still in the business of business. They produce goods and services that they hope we'll want to buy, and they care very much whether they have us as customers. Long may they live.
Other corporations are increasingly in the business of bribery, theft and extortion, and we are increasingly under their boot. I hope we can break their grip. A culture of institutionalized corruption like this one can be very difficult to change.
If the trough depends on DUmmy tax dollars, it's a very, very shallow trough. He's right that no one cares about his piddly purchasing power, but I'd like to know how a company is threatening him. Unless it's a collection agency.
ixion (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-17-10 09:06 PM
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4. Incorporate
Beat them at their own game.
Now there's a novel idea! General Electric and General Motors could be brought to heel by General Imbecile! Big Oil and Big Pharma challenged by Big Idiot! Way to go, DUmmy ixion!
Kievan Rus (947 posts) Wed Feb-17-10 09:47 PM
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9. Raise their taxes big time
maryf (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-17-10 09:49 PM
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10. General Strikes, on a regular basis.
Why? And, when you don't work, how do you strike? Sounds like Cosmo Kramer's strike at the bagel shop.
DUmmy SoCalDem is certifiably insane. He has a record of thousands of posts to back that up. But here, he starts to see a tiny glimmer of reality. He'll get over it, but this is really weird for him:
SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-17-10 09:59 PM
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12. The problem is that they are "the company store" we work for them.
This is the problem we have now.. we cut back, they make less, there is less to sell to the fewer people who still can afford goods & services, but the workers get laid off as sales drop, and it touches everyone in one degree or another, and the spiral keeps going down down down down.
we used to make stuff here and sell "there".. now we make stuff "there" and need to sell it here.
