FlyerInHi wrote:all

[CA renter]

[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=all]
This does not sound like communism, or even socialism. It sounds like any country with weak institutions.[/quote]

That’s about right. We can look back to our robber baron days before Teddy Roosevelt.[/quote]

Good thing we don’t have corruption here, right?

http://www.11alive.com/story/news/local/investigations/2015/05/21/investigators-legislators-and-corporate-lobbyists-meet-in-secret-at-georgia-resort/27695105/

This is just one of many, many examples where private interests write laws and then lobby (bribe) the politicians to push them through. You can rest assured that they are going to $benefit$ from this lobbying. Billionaires do it, too. It happens all the time.

FWIW, ALEC is one of the more powerful organizations behind the attacks on public unions. Wonder why?

http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/01/12701/alec-bills-force-public-sector-workers-out-unions-alarming-rate-new-study-finds