Report: Local News Stations Run Segments Scripted and Produced by Amazon
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According to a recent report, local news stations across the United States have run news segments scripted and produced by e-commerce giant Amazon. Unsurprisingly, the segments were overly positive about Jeff Bezos’ company and its employment practices.
Vice News reports that local news stations across the United States recently aired a segment that was produced and scripted by e-commerce giant Amazon praising the company’s role in delivering essential groceries and cleaning products during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, as well as highlighting that the company is “keeping its employees safe and healthy.”
Vice reports that at least eleven local TV stations aired the segment which was introduced with a script written by Amazon and recited word for word by news anchors. The segments praise Amazon and its efforts during the pandemic despite reports that the firm is struggling to provide its workers with protective equipment, support the sellers on its platform, and cutting coronavirus pay increases to factory workers.
The anchors in the segments introduce the script and then cut to an Amazon-produced exclusive look “inside” an Amazon fulfillment center which is narrated by Amazon spokesperson Todd Walker, who states:
Millions of Americans staying at home are relying on amazon to deliver essentials like groceries and cleaning products during the COVID-19 outbreak.For the first time we’re getting a glimpse *inside* Amazon’s fulfillment centers to see just how the company is keeping its employees safe and healthy.. While delivering packages to your doorstep.Todd Walker takes us inside.
A YouTube compilation shows the segment scripted by Amazon:
The segment further shows interviews with Amazon employees who praise the company and discuss their dedication to their job. One Amazon fulfillment center site leader, Marty Kuhl, states: “I was extremely proud of my team and the way they were handling the situation on a daily basis. Every day they came to work ready to embrace change.”
The footage inside the Amazon fulfillment center was sent to news stations as a press release along with instructions on how to best run the segment, which states: “Go inside one of the company’s fulfillment centers to see the unprecedented ways Amazon is using innovation to continue operating, including COVID-19 testing, disinfectant spraying and physical distancing.”
Walker recently wrote on his LinkedIn page that he “got to dust off my reporting skills to give local markets their first look inside our fulfillment centers to see how Amazon is protecting the health and safety of its associates to continue delivering for you. News friends, the story is available to download in this link if you’d like to give your viewers inside access. I made a plug-and-play version, as well as one anchors and reporters can track themselves. It’s already been shared in markets from Los Angeles to Lexington.”
Zach Rael, an anchor and reporter at ABC’s KOCO 5 News, recently tweeted out the script and “pre-edited” story that he said Amazon’s PR team emailed to him:
Just got an email from Amazon’s PR team with a pre-edited news story and script to run in our shows. They are selling this as giving our viewers an “inside look” at the company’s response to COVID-19.No.Let us go inside a fulfillment centers with our own cameras… pic.twitter.com/7mDk2xmf4O— Zach Rael (@KOCOZach) May 24, 2020
Alyssa Bronikowski, a spokesperson for Amazon, told Motherboard: “We welcome reporters into our buildings and it’s misleading to suggest otherwise. This type of video was created to share an inside look into the health and safety measures we’ve rolled out in our buildings and was intended for reporters who for a variety of reasons weren’t able to come tour one of our sites themselves.”
Read more at Vice News here.
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan or contact via secure email at the address lucasnolan@protonmail.com
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who is rescinding a
$2-an-hour hazard pay increase for his warehouse workers at the end of the
month, led the pack, increasing his personal wealth by $34.6 billion since the
onset of the pandemic. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was close behind, adding
$25 billion to his fortune. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who reopened his California
auto plant in defiance of state regulators and with the support of President
Trump, saw a 48 percent increase in his wealth to $36 billion in just eight
weeks as the stock market rebounded from its collapse. All told, the nation’s
620 billionaires now control $3.382 trillion, a 15 percent increase in two
months.
US unemployment claims approach 40 million
since March
US billionaires
increase wealth by $280 billion since March, as millions are unable to get
unemployment benefits
New
Federal Reserve report
US median
income has plunged, inequality has grown in Obama “recovery”
The
yearly income of a typical US household dropped by a massive 12 percent, or
$6,400, in the six years between 2007 and 2013. This is just one of the
findings of the 2013 Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances released
Thursday, which documents a sharp decline in working class living standards and
a further concentration of wealth in the hands of the rich and the super-rich.
Billionaires
Increase Net Worth by $434B During Coronavirus Lockdowns
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THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S BILLIONAIRES’ GLOBALIST
EMPIRE requires someone as ruthlessly dishonest as Hillary Clinton or Barack
Obama to be puppet dictators.
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Why the rich favor the Democrats
Democrats: The Party of Big Labor, Big
Government...and Big Business
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who is rescinding a
$2-an-hour hazard pay increase for his warehouse workers at the end of the
month, led the pack, increasing his personal wealth by $34.6 billion since the
onset of the pandemic. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was close behind, adding
$25 billion to his fortune. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who reopened his California
auto plant in defiance of state regulators and with the support of President
Trump, saw a 48 percent increase in his wealth to $36 billion in just eight
weeks as the stock market rebounded from its collapse. All told, the nation’s
620 billionaires now control $3.382 trillion, a 15 percent increase in two
months.
US unemployment claims approach 40 million
since March
22 May 2020
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who is rescinding a $2-an-hour hazard pay
increase for his warehouse workers at the end of the month, led the pack,
increasing his personal wealth by $34.6 billion since the onset of the
pandemic. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was close behind, adding $25 billion to
his fortune. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who reopened his California auto plant in
defiance of state regulators and with the support of President Trump, saw a 48
percent increase in his wealth to $36 billion in just eight weeks as the stock
market rebounded from its collapse. All told, the nation’s 620 billionaires now
control $3.382 trillion, a 15 percent increase in two months.
US billionaires
increase wealth by $280 billion since March, as millions are unable to get
unemployment benefits
“Never allow a crisis
to go to waste,” said Rahm Emanuel, former investment banker, Chicago mayor and
White House chief of staff to President Barack Obama, in response to the 2008
financial crisis. Emanuel and Obama led the reorganization of class relations
in the United States, cutting social services, education, health and pensions,
and accelerating a shift to temporary and low-paid work. As a result they
created the largest stock market boom in history.
Today, this catchphrase
is once again on the lips of the ruling
class. The largest financial
and corporate
powerholders are
seeking to use the global
health emergency to
expand their wealth and
increase the
exploitation of the working class.
The billionaires in the
United States have increased their wealth by $282 billion since the mid-March
stock decline, according to a new report by the Institute for Policy Studies.
While more than one fifth of the American population is now unemployed, and
millions are deprived of basic needs and confront an uncertain future, the
fortunes of the ultra-rich have not only recovered, they are improving
substantially.
Jeff Bezos and his
girlfriend (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)
Jeff Bezos’s fortune
increased by $25 billion
between January 1 and
April 15. Never in
history has any
individual made so much
wealth so quickly. As
the report noted, “this is
larger than the Gross
Domestic Product of
Honduras, which was
$23.9 billion in 2018.”
Eight billionaires,
so-called “pandemic profiteers,” have increased their wealth, each, by over $1
billion during this time: Jeff Bezos (Amazon), MacKenzie Bezos (Amazon), Eric
Yuan (Zoom), Steve Ballmer (Microsoft), John Albert Sobrato (Silicon Valley
real estate), Elon Musk, Joshua Harris (Apollo, financial asset management) and
Rocco Comisso (Mediacom, cable and internet).
Why, when 200,000 have
died around the world and millions more lives are in jeopardy, are the
ultra-rich profiting so fabulously?
First, the bailout
package crafted and voted on unanimously by Republicans and Democrats has
funneled wealth to the richest banks and corporations, while leaving peanuts
for the working population.
The $2.2 trillion CARES
Act gives only $550 billion to direct payments and extended unemployment, which
most people have yet to receive. Of the remaining more than $1.7 trillion, $500
billion goes directly to bailing out major corporations. While $377 billion
ostensibly goes to small businesses, most have not seen a penny, as the banks
pocketed $10 billion in fees and larger companies largely consumed the
available funds.
The CARES Act also
contains within it an additional $173 billion in tax breaks to super-wealthy
individuals and companies. For example, it allows households earning at least
$500,000 a year to reduce their taxes by substantially increasing deductions
from business losses and applying them to taxable money earned on the stock
market.
All of this is on top
of trillions being funneled
into the financial
markets and corporate
coffers by the Federal
Reserve.
Meanwhile, a study from
the Pew Research Center finds that while over 10 million people applied for
unemployment in March, only 29 percent of jobless Americans received any
benefits that month. The report says that unemployed workers “face a hodgepodge
of different state rules governing how they can qualify for benefits, how much
they’ll get and how long they can collect them.”
Real unemployment has
grown past 20 percent of the population. Over 26.5 million jobs have been lost,
adding to the 7.1 million people who were already unemployed prior to the
crisis.
Even when workers
receive these benefits, they come, ultimately, at the expense of state and
federal debt. Like in 2008, when state after state and city after city faced a
budget crisis, so too, with COVID-19, will fiscal problems emerge. Who will pay
when budgets are exceeded? As in Detroit, Michigan and Stockton, California in
the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the ruling class will once again
say, “There is no money” for basic social services such as education and clean
water. Meanwhile, trillions are funneled to the ultra-wealthy.
A second reason the
pandemic has been a bonanza for the ultra-rich is that it has intensified
corporate consolidation, part-time and temporary work, and digital and physical
automation.
Bloomberg writes: “Big
Business Has All the Advantages in the Pandemic.” While most small businesses
are on the rocks--deprived by larger firms of the small funding that was
theoretically given to them in the CARES Act--many large corporations, such as
Amazon, are carrying out a massive hiring spree. Walmart plans to hire 150,000
people by May; Amazon, 100,000; and Dollar Store, 25,000.
Because larger firms
are more likely to have the capital not only to weather the crisis, but to dominate
internet-based commerce, they will come out of the crisis with even greater
domination of their market. In particularly hard-hit industries, such as the
oil and gas sector, the giant companies like Chevron and ExxonMobil see the
crisis as an opportunity to purchase their smaller competitors.
The Financial Times likewise writes
that “Covid-19 will only increase automation anxiety” as companies
“pandemic-proof their operations.” Capitalism has a natural tendency toward
automation, which in the long term breeds economic crises and joblessness. Mark
Muro, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, says COVID-19 will spur a
“surge of labour-replacing technology,” as automated cashiers, cars, logistic
robots and automated assembly lines replace workers. Again, the largest
companies will emerge on top because they are the ones that can afford this
automated overhaul.
Capitalism’s
fundamental trajectory—toward increasing automation, temporary and part-time
work, corporate consolidation, ever increasing inequality and financial
bubbles—will intensify. The result, in turn, will be an ever more staggering
concentration of wealth in the hands of the few.
The socialist response
to the COVID-19 crisis demands that this mass of wealth be confiscated. The
major companies which dominate our lives cannot be run for the private profit
of a handful of billionaires who seek to squeeze the working class, literally,
to death. They must be placed under the social and democratic control of the
working class.
ALL BILLIONAIRES ARE DEMOCRATS. ALL BILLIONIARES WANT OPEN
BORDERS FOR MORE CHEAP LABOR AND NO CAPS ON IMPORTING CHINESE AND INDIANS TO
WORK OUR TECH JOBS CHEAP.
Obama’s
State of Delusion ... OR JUST ANOTHER "Hope & Change" HOAX?
”The
delusional character of Obama’s State of the Union
address
on Tuesday—presenting an America of rising living
standards
and a booming economy, capped by his declaration
that
the “shadow of crisis has passed”—is perhaps matched
only
in its presentation by the media and supporters of the
Democratic
Party.”
“The
general tone was set by the New York Times in its lead editorial on Wednesday,
which described the speech as a “simple, dramatic message about economic
fairness, about the fact that the well-off—the top earners, the big banks,
Silicon Valley—have done just great, while middle and working classes remain
dead in the water.”
OBAMANOMICS:
The
report observes that while the wealth of the world’s 80 richest people doubled
between 2009 and 2014, the wealth of the poorest half of the world’s population
(3.5 billion people) was lower in 2014 than it was in 2009.
In
2010, it took 388 billionaires to match the wealth of the bottom half of the
earth’s population; by 2013, the figure had fallen to just 92 billionaires. It
fell to 80 in 2014.
THE
OBAMA ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS
“The
goal of the Obama administration, working with the Republicans and local
governments, is to roll back the living conditions of the vast majority of the
population to levels not seen since the 19th century, prior to the advent of
the eight-hour day, child labor laws, comprehensive public education, pensions,
health benefits, workplace health and safety regulations, etc.”
“In
response to the ruthless assault of the financial oligarchy, spearheaded by
Obama, the working class must advance, no less ruthlessly, its own policy.”
New
Federal Reserve report
US median
income has plunged, inequality has grown in Obama “recovery”
The
yearly income of a typical US household dropped by a massive 12 percent, or
$6,400, in the six years between 2007 and 2013. This is just one of the
findings of the 2013 Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances released
Thursday, which documents a sharp decline in working class living standards and
a further concentration of wealth in the hands of the rich and the super-rich.
Billionaires
Increase Net Worth by $434B During Coronavirus Lockdowns
25 May 2020356
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The
net worth of the United States’ billionaire class has increased by $434 billion
during lockdown orders implemented by most states to slow the spread of the
Chinese coronavirus.
Between March 18 and May 19, the nation’s
more than 600 billionaires have increased their net wealth by 15 percent from
$2.9 trillion in March to now nearly $3.4 trillion, even as more than 36
million Americans are jobless.
The analysis of Forbes data, conducted by
researchers with the left-leaning Americans for Tax Fairness group, detailed
how the wealth of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates,
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffet, and
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has increased by $75.5 billion since the nation’s coronavirus
lockdowns began in March.
These five billionaires’ growth in net
wealth, alone, accounted for 21 percent of all the wealth growth over the last
two months among the more than 600 billionaires in the U.S.
(Americans for Tax Fairness)
(Americans for Tax Fairness)
Jeff Bezos, alone, has increased his net
wealth by almost $35 billion, or 30.6 percent, since the beginning of the
coronavirus lockdowns that forced small and medium-sized businesses to close
while big businesses like Wal-Mart, Target, Amazon and Amazon-owned Whole
Foods, and Walgreens were allowed to remain open as they were deemed
“essential.”
While Bezos has grown his wealth,
whistleblowers at Amazon have been fired after they revealed outbreaks of the
coronavirus at their warehouses.
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, a whistleblower
said he was fired after he exposed a coronavirus outbreak.
“We all should have been quarantined with
pay,” said former Amazon worker Chris Smalls said. “The building should have
been shut down immediately. But that didn’t happen. By the end of the week,
Saturday, March 28th, they decided to quarantine me and only me, none of the
employees, not even the person I ride to work with every day. So that tells you
right there, they put a target on my back to silence me, but what I did was I
mobilized a walkout on March 30th that resulted in my termination.”
Economists have noted that the wealthiest
of Americans, members of the top one percent, are paying a lower tax rate than
all other Americans. In 2018, the richest Americans paid a 23 percent tax rate
— a 47 percent drop since 1950, when their tax rate was 70 percent.
House Democrats’ coronavirus relief
package offered the rich even more of a bailout with a
provision that would eliminate the cap on the little-known SALT tax deduction.
In short, the provision would give millionaires and billionaires more than
$100,000 in tax windfalls for the next two years.
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S BILLIONAIRES’ GLOBALIST
EMPIRE requires someone as ruthlessly dishonest as Hillary Clinton or Barack
Obama to be puppet dictators.
http://hillaryclinton-whitecollarcriminal.blogspot.com/2018/09/google-rigged-it-so-illegals-would-vote.html
1. Globalism: Google VP Kent Walker insists that
despite its repeated rejection by electorates around the world, “globalization”
is an “incredible force for good.”
2. Hillary Clinton’s Democratic party: An executive nearly broke down crying because of the candidate’s
loss. Not a single executive expressed anything but dismay at her defeat.
3. Immigration: Maintaining liberal immigration in
the U.S is the policy that Google’s executives discussed the most.
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Why the rich favor the Democrats
There's little doubt that today's Democrat Party is
the party of the rich. Actually, that's an
understatement. Far more than billionaires are involved. A better expression of reality would be to
say a fundamental core of Democrat coalition is the managerial class, also
known as the elite. These are the people who run the media,
Hollywood and the entertainment industry, the big corporations, the
universities and schools, the investment banks, and Wall Street. They
populate the upper levels of government bureaucracies. These are the
East and West Coasters.
The alliance of the affluent with the Democrat Party
can be seen in the widely disproportionate share of hefty political donations
from the well-to-do going to Democrats and a bevy of left-wing
causes. It's also why forty-one out of the fifty wealthiest
congressional districts are represented by Democrats.
BLOG: DEMS LOVE SOCIALISM FOR ILLEGALS TO KEEP THEM
COMING AND BREEDING ANCHOR BABIES FOR WELFARE AND SOCIALISM FOR BANKS.
TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF IT!
Bernie Sanders is an exception. But
he's an anomaly viewed as dangerous to the party, which is why he's being
crushed by the Democrat establishment.
Why do the wealthy align with the
Democrats? The answer may seem counter-intuitive, but it is really
quite simple. It's surely not ideals or high-minded
principles. Nor is it ignorance. Rather, it boils down to
raw self-interest.
In his book, The
Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties, Christopher Caldwell
notes that rich Americans think themselves to be as vulnerable as
blacks. They are a relatively small minority of the
population. They fear being resented for their wealth and power and
of having much of that taken from them. Accordingly, the wealthy
seek to protect what is theirs by preventing strong majorities from forming by
using the divide and conquer principle.
As R.R. Reno writes when
reviewing Caldwell's book: "Therefore, the richest and most
powerful people in America have strong incentives
to support an anti-majoritarian political system." He goes
on: "Wealthy individuals shovel donations into elite institutions that
incubate identity politics, which further fragments the nation and prevents the
formation of majorities."
Some of the rotten fruit of the wealthy
taking this approach include multiculturalism, massive immigration of
diverse people, resistance to encouraging
assimilation, racial strife, trying to turn white males into pariahs,
and the promotion of gender confusion. Through it all, society is bombarded with
the Orwellian mantra that "diversity is strength," as if
repeating it often enough can make it so. It is also why patriotism
and a common American culture are so disparaged today. Those from
the upper strata of society project the idea that if you're a flag-waving
American, you must be some kind of retrograde mouth-breathing
yokel.
The wealthy as a groups are content to dissolve the
glue that holds the U.S. together. And it is all done to enhance and
preserve their power, wealth, and influence. This is why they so
hate Donald Trump. He strives to unite people and the country,
although you'd never know that that is what the president is
doing if you live in the media
bubble. Trump's MAGA agenda is an anathema to the
managerial class.
To quote Reno one final time:
The next decade will not be easy. But it will not be
about what preoccupied us in the sixties, and which Caldwell describes so
well. Rather than the perils of discrimination we are increasingly
concerned with the problem of disintegration — or in Charles Murray's terms,
the problem of "coming apart."
Trump and the GOP he is molding are the vehicles to
restore and strengthen national solidarity. Trump said at
the Daytona 500, "No matter who wins, what matters most is God, family,
and country." That is not the Democrat
agenda. As seen in Democrat politicians, their policies, and the
behavior of their major contributors, the aim is to further weaken the social
and national bonds in America. There is a lot at stake
here. If solidarity wins, the Republic can survive
and prosper. If the Democrats and their wealthy cohorts do,
then the middle class withers, the Republic dies, and the rich and their
managerial class get to rule the roost. That is what it comes down
to.
ALL BILLIONAIRES ARE DEMOCRATS. ALL BILLIONAIRES WANT WIDER OPEN
BORDERS, AMNESTY AND HELL NO TO E-VERIFY!
In
addition, establishment Republicans are no better than Democrats at stemming
the flow of illegal immigration because big businesses reap the benefits of this cheap labor without incurring any of the social costs.
Democrats: The Party of Big Labor, Big
Government...and Big Business
There is a widespread perception that the Democrat
Party is the party the working class and the Republican Party is the party of
big business. Even though Republicans on average received slightly
more from corporate employees prior to 2002, the overall difference between
both parties from 1990 to 2020 is statistically insignificant (Table
1). In fact, Democrat reliance
on big labor gradually shifted toward big business following the involvement of
solidly Democrat corporate giants in 2002, and from 2014 to 2020, Democrats
consistently surpassed Republicans in corporate donations (Tables 1 & 2).
Based on data compiled by Open Secrets, Soros Fund
Management, Fahr LLC (Tom Steyer), and Bloomberg LP ranked among the top ten
for political contributions that gave over 90% to Democrats. In
sharp contrast, the right-leaning Koch Industries made the top ten only in
2014. In nearly all other years, Koch ranked well below the top
twenty.
Whether or not this trend is long-term, there is no
denying that large corporations on average no longer lean right. But
what does it mean to be "the party of big business"? Donations are
not definitive evidence. What ultimately matters is what politicians
do once they get elected.
Many liberals believe that big government is needed to
"rein in" big business and that in the absence of federal
intervention, corporations will "run roughshod" over the average
American. Many liberals also believe that corporations are the main
beneficiaries of laissez-faire economics and that free-market conservatives who
want to scale back regulations are somehow "in the pocket" of big
business.
In reality, the opposite is true: big business and big
government
go hand in hand because government meddling in the
economy
for the lobbyists. This crony capitalism
grew exponentially as
during the 1930s. Establishment politicians
and well
connected corporations are beneficiaries of the
myth that big
government and big business are adversaries because it
hides
their unholy alliance.
In all fairness, neither party has had a monopoly on
the dispensation of corporate welfare: the TARP funds that propped up financial
institutions deemed "too big to fail" during the Great Recession were
released by the Bush administration. In addition, establishment Republicans are no better than Democrats at
stemming the flow of illegal immigration because big businesses reap the benefits of this cheap labor without incurring any of the social costs.
If both parties are playing this game, what is the
basis for labeling the Democrat party "the party of big
business"? What policies from Republicans support small
business?
Free-market conservatism benefits small businesses
because the government does not pick the winners and losers by means of
subsidies, tax breaks, and cumbersome regulations. You will not see
policies like these coming from Washington in a major way because proposals for
shrinking the federal government rarely see the light of day in Congress.
Based on data collected by Gallup and Thumbtack, red
states far outscore blue states in small business friendliness (Table
3). This may be why less affluent Americans are fleeing states that
score abysmally like California, Illinois, New York,
and Hawaii. This
might also be why small business–owners are more likely to vote Republican.
The Trump administration has been good for businesses
of all sizes mainly due to the unprecedented rate at which it scaled back stifling regulations. This may be why some of the president's highest approval ratings now come from small businesses.
Donald Trump set himself apart from the ruling class
when he latched onto the third-rail issue of illegal immigration and called out
the corporate darling Jeb Bush (AKA "Low Energy Jeb") for his lack of
grassroots support. This may explain in part why Bain Capital, the
firm co-founded by Mitt Romney, switched teams and contributed solidly Democrat in 2018. In 2012, Democrats accused Bain Capital
of destroying jobs by systematically dismantling the companies it bought
off. Times have changed...
Small businesses generate well over half of all new jobs. Most
importantly, many are family-owned, have strong ties to their communities, and
provide upward mobility for millions of Americans who never attended
college. The Democrats' undermining of this quintessentially
American institution is shameful and disqualifies it as the "party of the
working class." Contributions from big labor do not count
toward "labor-friendliness" because mega-unions care more about
recruitment than about the welfare of working Americans. This is why the SEIU supports blanket amnesty for
illegal aliens.
Democrats fed up with the corporate status quo are now
choosing their own anti-establishment candidate, not realizing that socialism
is just a more impoverished version of the crony capitalism they are
rejecting. Many Sanders-supporters are also morally shallow because
they want to harness the power of the state to muscle in on the wealth of
Americans who borrowed responsibly and worked hard to pay their bills.
After the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin said,
"This Constitution ... is likely to be well administered for a course of
years, and can only end in despotism ... when the people shall become so
corrupted as to need despotic government." If Democrats
implement the dystopian policies of California on a national level, their
corporate allies will do fine. It is small business–owners and
working-class Americans with nowhere to flee who have the most to lose. Be
careful what you wish for.
To
view the tables below, click the links.
*The
red lettering highlights a funding advantage for Republicans. The
blue lettering highlights a funding disadvantage for Republicans.
**Based
on a T-test, the difference is insignificant at P = 0.46
Table 2: Top
ten contributors to Democrats and Republicans by category (union, corporate,
and ideological) as compiled by Open Secrets:
*In
2008 Goldman Sachs donated 74% to Democrats. All other groups in
this column donated between 40 and 69% to both parties. This column
does not differentiate between giving equally to both parties and giving 70–79%
to Democrats or Republicans.
**This
number includes the "City of New York." Although it is
officially listed as "other" by Open Secrets (not corporate, union,
or ideological), I was personally informed by someone from the organization
that Michael Bloomberg was the main source of this funding.
Table 3:
Small business scores states scored by Thumbtack ranked
according to their Democratic advantage by Gallup:
*GPA
scores are based on the following numerical equivalents: A = 4, B = 3, C = 2, D
= 1, F = 0, A+ = 4.3, A- = 3.7, etc.
**
Not scored.
***Mean
GPA ± standard error. Based on a T-test, the difference is significant at P =
0.00001.
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