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whereisjustice

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11. Think of Clinton Global Initiative like... Monsanto's genetically modified crops
Fri May 8, 2015, 10:27 PM
May 2015

Monsanto will claim they are saving the world with their crops. When it turns out the side effects are making weeds resistant to herbicides, they'll sell you stronger, more poisonous herbicides. The new problems are worse than the original problems, and they require you to buy more of their products because only Monsanto has the formula for combating the weeds & disease they helped make. Making things worse, the genetically modified crops require more water and are less robust, in general. Monsanto doesn't give a shit about people, farmers, towns, health, etc.

The Clinton Global Initiative argues that to solve difficult social problems created by corporations you can sell corporations legislative access in return for cash to the Clintons, who then promise spend it in ways "helping" that are not 100% transparent.

Of course the laws benefit corporations exclusively, giving them rights and entitlements that only serve to make our social problems (poverty, joblessness, wage suppression, human rights, lack of health care and education) worse. Take a look at Exxon in Nigeria, it has been a disaster for the environment and human rights. Exxon can greenwash their culpability with a modest investment in the Clinton Initiative and in return gain critical political influence. That's just one of many, many examples. And the cycle continues.

If you think for one second that Hillary, Bill and Chelsea have any interest in eliminating the causes of our slow steady national decline, you are in denial. NAFTA, cruel welfare reform, banking deregulation, aggressive blood soaked foreign policy, believe it or not, you can trace these to the Clinton Philosophy, aka the 3rd way, which is just a media friendly word for a different kind of fascism.

Millions of lost jobs (and ruined lives here in the US) don't make up for slick videos shown to billionaires at an exclusive Morroccan resort.

Oh, and I almost forgot the answer to your question - corporations don't invest big money to solve social problems. They invest big money to gain legislative access for laws and regulations that will earn them a sizable return in profit, regardless of the human costs.






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Please forgive my simpleminded question [View all] Jackpine Radical May 2015 OP
Remember what one of the smartest men of the 20th century said, proves you right BTW randys1 May 2015 #1
K&R..... daleanime May 2015 #2
Does your username come from QC? nt F4lconF16 May 2015 #16
Here's one answer... Cheese Sandwich May 2015 #3
I vote for a real revolution. F4lconF16 May 2015 #5
Disagree (and VERY strongly, at that) F4lconF16 May 2015 #4
the differences are there mostly to keep us voting for the similarities MisterP May 2015 #13
I doubt most of them give much thought to those issues. For them it's about sabrina 1 May 2015 #20
What a privilege soaked and elitist point of view. Bluenorthwest May 2015 #6
I guess that's just because I'm a privilege-soaked and elitist sort of person. Jackpine Radical May 2015 #12
Damn, Jackpine, that was condescending as hell. F4lconF16 May 2015 #14
Wow, did I cobble up a lousy metaphor, one that totally mis-communicates my intention. Jackpine Radical May 2015 #19
Social issues are all we've got left Warpy May 2015 #7
Interesting..... KoKo May 2015 #8
When you have convinced people that money aspirant May 2015 #9
And some people never grasp that Big Money does not care about the social issues, because the social djean111 May 2015 #10
See Post 4. F4lconF16 May 2015 #15
Oh, I agree that the rich care about those issues as a way of keeping us divided. djean111 May 2015 #17
Thanks for clarifying. F4lconF16 May 2015 #18
Think of Clinton Global Initiative like... Monsanto's genetically modified crops whereisjustice May 2015 #11
Rest, dear, wise, fun friend. Pinned for today in tribute as memorial service is today in Wisconsin. merrily Jun 2015 #21
Thank you demwing Jun 2015 #22
You were simple-minded like a fox, my friend, only with a merrily Jun 2015 #23
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