Comments on: Mark Penn Still Full Of Crap http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/04/21/mark-penn-still-full-of-crap/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:30:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Duros62 http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/04/21/mark-penn-still-full-of-crap/#comment-149654 Duros62 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:02:21 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=14332#comment-149654 Is he going to join the ranks with Dick Morris of "used-to-be friends of clintons?" Is he going to join the ranks with Dick Morris of “used-to-be friends of clintons?”

]]> By: Colin http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/04/21/mark-penn-still-full-of-crap/#comment-149560 Colin Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:30:52 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=14332#comment-149560 Oliver, I tried responding to your last post in the Jonah Goldberg thread about 5 time with nothing doing, so I'm putting it here: <i>Yeah, those corporations are really lining up to support Employee Free Choice, Universal Care, and the like.</i> They are. Their message: http://www.coalition4healthcare.org/latestVideo/?_c=xxa7rzhuiv5fag Their membership: http://www.coalition4healthcare.org/about/members/?_c=xxa7rzhuiv5fag Big business and big government go hand in hand. Big business hates the competition and rough and tumble of the free market where they could suddenly be knocked off their pedestal. This is why they use government to help achieve their aims. To wit: Wal-Mart favors a higher minimum wage (to help beat lower wage competitors that can't compete with economies of scale): http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/25/news/fortune500/walmart_wage/ Agribusiness loves the alternative energy scam that is ethanol: http://www.slate.com/id/2122961/ GE supports green energy tech so it can sell more of its turbines: http://www.ge-energy.com/businesses/ge_wind_energy/en/index.htm The reality is that big government represents the ultimate in the status quo. The dynamic, ever changing environment of the free market represents the complete opposite. It's hard to claim that you want to take on The Man when you push to expand his powers. Oliver, I tried responding to your last post in the Jonah Goldberg thread about 5 time with nothing doing, so I’m putting it here:

Yeah, those corporations are really lining up to support Employee Free Choice, Universal Care, and the like.

They are. Their message:

http://www.coalition4healthcare.org/latestVideo/?_c=xxa7rzhuiv5fag

Their membership:

http://www.coalition4healthcare.org/about/members/?_c=xxa7rzhuiv5fag

Big business and big government go hand in hand. Big business hates the competition and rough and tumble of the free market where they could suddenly be knocked off their pedestal. This is why they use government to help achieve their aims. To wit:

Wal-Mart favors a higher minimum wage (to help beat lower wage competitors that can’t compete with economies of scale):

http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/25/news/fortune500/walmart_wage/

Agribusiness loves the alternative energy scam that is ethanol:

http://www.slate.com/id/2122961/

GE supports green energy tech so it can sell more of its turbines:

http://www.ge-energy.com/businesses/ge_wind_energy/en/index.htm

The reality is that big government represents the ultimate in the status quo. The dynamic, ever changing environment of the free market represents the complete opposite. It’s hard to claim that you want to take on The Man when you push to expand his powers.

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