Wisconsin Scene Is Turning Public Against Gov. Unions
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Of course not. The Conservatives are in power. The last time the Canadian federal budget was balanced, it was attributed to Paul Martin, a Liberal. But he didn't try to do it while the economy was tanking. The Liberal Party had balanced the budget every year since 1997, and only two years after the Conservatives came into power in 2006, they wiped out the budget surplus, cut social services, and basically perpetrated the largest transfer of wealth, from the poor to the rich, via tax cuts and loopholes since the prior Conservative administration, the Mulroney government.
I don't get your logic it seems you are willing to absolve unions of their transgressions just because we have a problem with crony capitalism.
There fixed that for you.
Teddy Roosevelt on corporate corruption.
âNow, this means that our government, national and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and slavery threatened our political integrity before the Civil War, so now the great special business interests too often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit. We must drive the special interests out of politics.â
âFor every special interest is entitled to justice, but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench, or to representation in any public office.â
âWe must have complete and effective publicity of corporate affairs, so that people may know beyond peradventure whether the corporations obey the law and whether their management entitles them to the confidence of the public. It is necessary that laws should be passed to prohibit the use of corporate funds directly or indirectly for political purposes; it is still more necessary that such laws should be thoroughly enforced. Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairsâ.
âI believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law.â
âI believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in another tax which is far more easily collected and far more effective - a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, properly safeguarded against evasion and increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estateâ.
âConservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.â
âMoreover, I believe that the natural resources must be used for the benefit of all our people, and not monopolized for the benefit of the few.â
â..[T]here are many people who will go with us in conserving the resources only if they are to be allowed to exploit them for their benefit. That is one of the fundamental reasons why the special interest should be driven out of politics.â
Roosevelt also quoted Abraham Lincoln in part of his speech:
"I hold that while man exists it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind."
"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."
Eisenhower warns of the military industrial complex.
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