Isn't it funny that Liberals think Corporate welfare is a Conservative thing?

Question

Or is it very sad? Corporate welfare goes against the free enterprise system, competition,fairness and economic Darwinism (survival of the fittest) limited industries vital to the economy and national security notwithstanding. This is the basis of Conservativism. Keeping a dieing business afloat is in no way Conservative.

Liberals are the one's who tend to want to dish out corp. welfare to keep workers from getting layed off.

Answer 1

you are correct , but these open minded liberals were trained to hear the word corporate and then blame conservatives

Answer 2

I'm not sure, but what point you are attempting to make? The CHRYSLER bailout in the early 1980's occured under REAGAN, and I can't say that was bad because Chrysler paid back the US goverment within a few years based on the success of the new K-Car, that in turn revived the company and actually did save jobs. Lee Iacocca knew he had to keep the company afloat to see this happen, and good things came of that loan that actually benefitted many across a wide economic spectrum, not just a handful of faceless money players.

So why is that so bad? I have no dislike or disrespect for Reagan for doing that, it made perfect sense. God how I miss Ronald Reagan in 2007...

I think when the term "Corporate welfare" is used today, I feel it is being used to express disgust at the way many US corporations get out of paying a fair share of taxes, if any, and perhaps at the way many huge faceless companies are favored with preferential treatment and a blind eye and a smirk in the Bush/Cheney era with a "anything goes" free pass, like HALLIBURTON and ENRON for example.

The close association of the Bush/Cheney White house to a rampant trend of corporate greed, war for profit, and over-the-top sloth is part of the root of current disgust directed towards them.

Corporate welfare is alive and well in 2007, and it's address is 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington DC USA.

Answer 3

Not as funny as the fact that Conservatives think it's a Conservative thing.

Intervening on the side of the multinationals with targeted tax breaks and anti-competitive laws is not only killing the Free Enterprise system, it's a radical and wrong headed idea.

Reaganomics is like saying you'd get more power by blowing a hole in the bottom of the dam. Money moves toward the rich. Always has. It's a law of nature. The Economy is what money does on it's way to the rich. The more hoops it jumps through and the more hands it passes through on the way there--the higher the level of General Prosperity. That's one of the few things Clinton did right.

We don't have to help the rich. They're good at helping themselves.

Answer 4

I would prefer to see a business go bust and give the welfare to the individuals who need it until they can get another gig. Liberals (I'm one) find that a conservative thing because conservatives tend to care less about the workers and more about the people who own the businesses, who probably are doing okay personally.

And baloney about preventing layoffs, conservatives could give up their dividends and prevent layoffs. Those dividends and investments must be protected at any cost!

Answer 5

You're right, corporate welfare is not conservative. But it is very much Republican. Now you get the point.

Answer 6

What's funnier is I've actually heard liberals equating Communism with conservatism. What they're doing is taking one of their own stereotypes about conservatism (that it is by nature controlling and fascist) and linking it with something from the past that had those qualities.

But they forgot to actually look into any of this - Communism is actually a VERY leftist/liberal idealogy - in fact, it represents their utopia, a world where everybody is equal and works together with no disadvantages to either party.

Just because Communism had to break a few heads that were in its way, liberals have branded it as a conservative thing.

Answer 7

They tend to get very defensive any time you mention the word "Welfare." Add that word to "Corporate" and it just puts them into a tailspin. They expect that their wants and desires are to be met just as are needs. They want something for nothing and do not understand that when we pay more taxes, we ARE paying something. They also fail to comprehend that such social programs are infact a reconstituted form of slavery. Social programs undermine capitalism. And when all else fails, when you show them facts they resort to name calling.

Answer 8

Well at least I know now that Fox News is not conservative because they lost money for years and Murdock had to dump millions into it to keep it afloat.

Answer 9

Same question?

Answer 10

it's a republican thing