Reddit reviews Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)

Corporate Socialism is just a similar term for Corporate welfare. Read David Cay Johnston's Free Lunch if you haven't already. I got nothing against corporations by the way. I want to start one!

Wow, you argue in favor of offshoring and have no idea what offshoring means.

What you describe with the Japanese televisions is normal business competition. A Japanese company with Japanese employees produced a superior product and proceeded to eat the lunch of American companies who would not or could not compete.

Offshoring is the intentional displacement of American workers by American companies because they can get an inferior product cheaply and they think they can get away with it.

Here are some examples:

Chrysler exported their auto manufacturing to Mexico to churn out cheap PT Cruisers and other vehicles. This was "the giant sucking sound" that Ross Perot warned about. They have yet to recover from that debacle.

Meanwhile Japanese companies bring more and more manufacturing to the United States due to the experience and quality of the workmanship.

Tech companies outsourced their support organizations to India because, surprise! Cheaper. Then they were shocked to find out that their customer base didn't LIKE talking to Indian or Phillipino tech support. That's all coming back now too.

The most egregious example of outsourcing was fast food restaurants connecting their drive through order boxes to prison labor in other states. Hey, why pay soneone minimum wage to take orders when you can pay Joe the Rapist pennies?

Yeah, that didn't fly either, soon reversed.

The base of all this is like most Republicans you live in your own little bubble and have no clue how the world actually works.

Please, please, please educate yourself before trying to make more silly arguments on the Internet.

In fact, here's a hand up:

Pick up a couple of books, read them and let me know what you think. They are absolute eye openers:

Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)

http://www.amazon.com/Free-Lunch-Wealthiest-Themselves-Government/dp/1591842484

Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich--and Cheat Everyone Else

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0028QRMUK/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?qid=1450833597&sr=8-4&keywords=perfectly+legal+david+cay+johnston&dpPl=1&dpID=51Faysd7HVL&ref=plSrch

(Hot damn, he has a new one, I didn't know that! Goes to bookstore...)

The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob You Blind

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1591846536/ref=pd_aw_fbt_14_img_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=1BN2BNG7B1P4KN259KBF

A friend of mine highly recommends this book I don't, because I read it, and it made me baby-punching angry.


Note: Brujahrage uses the phrase "Baby-punching angry" as a hyperbolic device. Brujahrage, reddit, and most sane people do not actually advocate punching babies.

> He's what you get what you forget that tv isn't real life.

Damn this is astute. Isn't it funny that it's practically a requirement to be a celebrity to run for President now? Now we're going to have an Oprah Presidency? I want off Mr. Bones Wild Ride.

> You don't just throw away your shoes because they got holes in them if you can't afford new ones.

This is exactly the feeling I had as I watched the party throw itself under the Trump bus.

> It's the ' trickle down' mentality all over again

Wow. This is an outstanding analysis. Seriously Trump just copied the Reagan thing. Liberals are suckers for bleeding heart types promising handouts that never come and Republicans are suckers for strong guy business masterminds that never actually bring the jobs. The american public has GOT to stop falling for the media propaganda and clearly manufactured 'tropes' (I think with the alt media though we are on are way; traditional media is collapsing.) I have a feeling though this is a LOT bigger then Trump; I think the corporate interest hand and hand with wealthy foreign players have almost the entire GOP by the BALLS.

We are in this weird political age were the only reason people are getting into politics is for all the side profit (dirty money, crony capitalism, book deals, bribes, sweet retirement jobs lobbying or broadcasting etc.)

> the only thing you're going to feel trickling down is billionaires pissing on you as they have been for decades.

This is why I've become a strict libertarian. I think poor government laws and welfare fuck up economics but I also think crony capitalism and regulatory capture fucks up enterprise capitalism. You can't fucking run a hotdog stand in this country without 2 layers a year of permit application and a 100k of startup and knowing one of the legislators.

I think David Cay Johnston has also been writing about this economic stuff as well.

https://www.amazon.com/Free-Lunch-Wealthiest-Themselves-Government/dp/1591842484/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

Good read here Amazon sells it! https://www.amazon.com/Free-Lunch-Wealthiest-Themselves-Government/dp/1591842484