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   Adam Nedens(Snoopster) said, 7 months ago

   AKA: The 3rd Sat. of October
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   Eryx said, 7 months ago

   The US Chamber of Treason.
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   dtroutma said, 7 months ago

   Chamber of Horrors.
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   mikefive said, 7 months ago

   I would trust the policies of the Chamber to to advance the economy more than anything coming out of the Beltway.
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   win said, 7 months ago

   @dtroutma

   Chamber of Whores.
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   Jeddidyah said, 7 months ago

   The battle for plutocracy.
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   Radish said, 7 months ago

   Corporatism is collectivist; it is a different version of collectivism than socialism but it is definitely collectivist. It places some importance on the fact that private property is not nationalized, but the control through regulation is just as real. It is de facto nationalization without being de jure nationalization.
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   Although Corporatism is not a familiar concept to the general public, most of the economies of the world are corporatist in nature. The categories of socialist and pure market economy are virtually empty. There are only corporatist economies of various flavors.

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   http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/corporatism.htm
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   mikefive said, 7 months ago

   @Radish

   A significant difference is that I can opt out of “corporatism”.
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   mikefive said, 7 months ago

   @Radish

   A significant difference is that I can opt out of “corporatism”. I think you should have mentioned that “corporatism” is not the same as corporations as we know them.
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    edinbaltimore said, 7 months ago

    Unfortunately one cannot opt out of Corporatism. Most people don’t understand that the CofC is NOT the same as their local Chamber. The CofC has opposed EVERY progressive action to improve the pay and lives of workers.
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    saywhatwhat said, 7 months ago

    @mikefive

    Just try to “opt out”. And you don’t get to vote either.
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    1opinion said, 7 months ago

    ^what he said.
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    I Play One On TV said, 7 months ago

    The C of C and the Retail Merchants Association are shills for Big Business. As an independent optometrist, I have seen how they have advocated for corporate optometry (i.e. LensCrafters/Pearle/Sears Optical/BJ’s Optical/JCPenney Optical/Target Optical….all owned and operated by Luxottica) contact lens/eyeglasses bought online, and of course insurance companies (pimps). They tell me small busines is the backbone of the economy (heard that one before?), and then lobby to put us out of business. That is their right, and I am not bitter, but I recognize the truth for what it is.
    Not that it matters: check out the people complaining about jobs going to China with their arms full of bags from WalMart.
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    masterskrain said, 7 months ago

    “Corporations Have Been Enthroned in High Places, and an Era of Corruption Will Follow”
    Abraham Lincoln
    A Republican, by the way…
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    Jeddidyah said, 7 months ago

    “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” – Benito Mussolini.
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    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7260.htm
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