Radiance3

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Business must compete to survive and grow.

Leftists don't understand how business operates because their minds are clouded with free loading stuff all the years of their lives. They think that business is their enemy, and huge government is their friend.

This is how economy works.
Business is the backbone of any country's economy. Why?
Businesses provide employment to millions of people.
The people employed therefore pay taxes to the government.
Government depends its finances from taxes paid by businesses and the people who work.
Business minded people work hard, invest their money, let business grow, and therefore they pay more taxes.
Business innovates and invents various ways like IT technology, to advance science and various high tech industries. The USA has so many talented people on these areas, thus America is the number one country in the world. Other countries steal our Intellectual properties like China, and many others.

The money that the Federal Government provides to liberal handouts are money derived from taxes paid by businesses and working people who pay taxes.

Countries not engaged in capitalism, their people suffer, due to limitations of peoples' talents to innovate. E.g. North Korea, and other communist countries like Cuba. Their people suffer.

The wealth of a nation is the wisdom, knowledge, of the people who are allowed to use these tools. In addition, people who work hard are rewarded by the results of their endeavors.

Remember this leftists. Monies don't grow on trees. It must be earned.

Radiance3

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straightup, your brain is covered with free loaded stuff. No amount of explanation could get into that. Stay handouting.

buffalo Loc: Texas

Your first contention in your blathering that "Leftists don't understand how business operates" proves you know nothing of which you speak. Only repeating right wing political talking points of people that know nothing of which they speak.

KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON
March 13, 2017 8:00 AM

U.S. corporate activism tilts overwhelmingly to the left.

The Organization Man, whom we first met in 1956, is still very much with us. And his eccentric career since that time partly answers a question that mystifies many contemporary conservatives: Given that progressives profess to hate corporations, why are our corporate leaders so progressive? It is easy to understand their taking a self-interested stand against the Trump administration over things such as the H-1B program and visa waivers, which interfere with their access to workers and customers, respectively. But 130 corporate leaders — including the CEOs of American Airlines and Bank of America — getting together to come down on North Carolina over public-bathroom rules that annoy transgender activists? Together with business leaders who have no presence in North Carolina and nothing to do with the state or its politics?

Is it only cravenness — or something more?


Far from being agents of reaction, our corporate giants have for decades been giving progressives a great deal to celebrate. Disney, despite its popular reputation for hidebound wholesomeness, has long been a leader on gay rights, much to the dismay of a certain stripe of conservative. Walmart, one of the Left’s great corporate villains, has barred Confederate-flag merchandise from its stores in a sop to progressive critics, and its much-publicized sustainability agenda is more than sentiment: Among other things, it has invested $100 million in economic-mobility programs and doubled the fuel efficiency of its vehicle fleet over ten years. Individual members of the Walton clan engage in philanthropy of a distinctly progressive bent.

In fact, just going down the list of largest U.S. companies (by market capitalization) and considering each firm’s public political activism does a great deal to demolish the myth of the conservative corporate agenda. Top ten: 1) Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, is an up-and-down-the-line progressive who has been a vociferous critic of religious-liberty laws in Indiana and elsewhere that many like-minded people consider a back door to anti-gay discrimination. 2) When protesters descended on SFO to protest President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, one of the well-heeled gentlemen leading them was Google founder Sergey Brin, and Google employees were the second-largest corporate donor bloc to President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign. 3) Microsoft founder Bill Gates is a generous funder of programs dedicated to what is euphemistically known as “family planning.” 4) Berkshire Hathaway’s principal, Warren Buffett, is a close associate of Barack Obama’s and an energetic advocate of redistributive tax increases on high-income taxpayers. 5) Amazon’s Jeff Bezos put up $2.5 million of his own money for a Washington State gay-marriage initiative. 6) Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has pushed for liberal immigration-reform measures, while Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz pledged $20 million to support Hillary Rodham Clinton and other Democrats in 2016. 7) Exxon, as an oil company, may be something of a hate totem among progressives, but it has spent big — billions big — on renewables and global social programs. 8) Johnson & Johnson’s health-care policy shop is run by Liz Fowler, one of the architects of Obamacare and a former special assistant to President Obama. 9) The two largest recipients of JPMorgan cash in 2016 were Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Democratic National Committee, and the bank’s billionaire chairman, Jamie Dimon, is a high-profile supporter of Democratic politicians including Barack Obama and reportedly rejected an offer from President Trump to serve as Treasury secretary. 10) Wells Fargo employees followed JPMorgan’s example and donated $7.36 to Mrs. Clinton for every $1 they gave to Trump, and the recently troubled bank has sponsored events for the Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD, and other gay-rights groups, as well as donated to local Planned Parenthood franchises.

Even the hated Koch brothers are pro-choice, pro-gay, and pro-amnesty.

http://www.nationalreview.com/2017/03/corporate-leaders-progressive-activists/

Why, for instance, does WalMart take advantage of the public (tax money) assistance programs (AFDC, Snap, federal housing assistance, Medicaid) their low paid employees qualify for, that in essence has taxpayers subsidizing WalMart to the tune of BILLIONS while they profit $27 BILLION. In 2013, I believe, Walmart made $27 BILLION in profits. They could have paid their lowest paid 1 MILLION employees an extra $10,000 that year and still profited $17 BILLION. And you businesses don't take advantage of that? Better think again.

As I said the rest is just conservatard bullshit. Which is proof that you care nothing for people, families, that need assistance. Even working families because of the low wages those businesses pay. Businesses you speak so highly and patriotically of that take advantage of the public assisitance programs funded by, YES, tax money. And I would venture to bet THEY ARE ALL NOT LEFTIST!

son of witless

To note what Lady Margaret Thatcher said about Socialists, " Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money "

http://www.snopes.com/fact-check/other-peoples-money/