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Old Jul 19, 2010 | 03:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Meshca,Jul 19 2010, 05:51 PM
if it's not the government it's another greedy private company, what's the difference?
At-least we can influence the government to a certain extent.
You can also influence that greedy private company with your dollar.
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Old Jul 19, 2010 | 03:41 PM
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Originally Posted by omairtheman1,Jul 19 2010, 01:33 PM
Who owns GM? Government with our money...

Who owns media? Government and mostly GE, Time Warner, Westinghouse, and AOL. (As much as we'd like to think it isn't government controlled, it is.) Oh btw 57 troops died this month SO FAR!

When you own a company you expect profits and the media insures that!
Ok i hate for this to become a political discussion, but that BS you just posted need to be "refudiated" as Queen Palin just tweeted.

since when did the US government have a stake in GE, TM, Westinghouse, or AOL? if we did it would be because of the wacks who want to privatize social security and invest in stocks.

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Old Jul 19, 2010 | 03:47 PM
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meh. politics shmolitics.
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Old Jul 19, 2010 | 04:33 PM
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Originally Posted by mingster,Jul 19 2010, 03:41 PM
Ok i hate for this to become a political discussion, but that BS you just posted need to be "refudiated" as Queen Palin just tweeted.

since when did the US government have a stake in GE, TM, Westinghouse, or AOL? if we did it would be because of the wacks who want to privatize social security and invest in stocks.

IBTL
I don't know the finances of those companies, but it's not unlikely that many people in high offices, including Obama have a lot of stock (and by this, a percentage of the company) in different companies like BP, GM, etc.

So I can definitely see where someone can make a conclusion that it is run by the government, directly or indirectly.
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Old Jul 20, 2010 | 08:31 AM
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