Posts Tagged ‘Capitalism’

Protest

October 5th, 2011 by John Feehery

Apparently, Radiohead couldn’t get its schedule straight with the Occupy Wall Street protesters and they didn’t play for the grungy crowd last week. I am not hip enough to know exactly what kind of music the band plays, but I do know that a couple of years ago, the members of the band came up with a brilliant marketing strategy to sell one of its albums. “Pay what you want or pay nothing at all if that is what you want to do.” The band never released how much money it made by letting its fans name their own price, but they chose to not pursue the same strategy for their next album.

Despite the scheduling snafu, Radiohead still has endorsed the protest movement that seems to be gaining strength every day. For example, all of the government employee unions are now on board with Michael Moore and assorted other left-wing radicals to protest the money that Wall Street financiers make every day.

These Wall Street financiers and their other colleagues, known collectively by the collectivists as “the rich” or the “one-percenters”, pay about 30 to 35% of the taxes collected by the Federal government. Having the government employee unions protest against these prodigious tax-payers is somewhat akin to the protesting against the goose because he is not producing golden eggs fast enough.

The Rope

May 5th, 2010 by John Feehery

It was Lenin who said:  “The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”

A Washington corollary might be:  “The Capitalists will give us the campaign contributions from which we will hang them.”

The headline in one of the newspaper articles brought that thought to my mind:  “Obama biggest recipient of BP campaign contributions.”

British Petroleum gave more money to Barack Obama than to any other candidate in the last election.  Obama’s spokesman, Mr. Gibbs, said that the President is going to keep the Administration’s boot on the throat of BP, paraphrasing his Interior Secretary.

I didn’t realize that the Administration had a boot nor did I realize that BP had a throat.  Sounds kind of kinky to me.  But I digress.

Earlier this year, it was revealed that the Administration was filing criminal charges and civil charges against Goldman-Sachs, the erstwhile and formerly very powerful investment bank.

Goldman is charged with the high crime of making a lot of money at the expense of a lot of suckers.  That they didn’t tell the suckers that they were suckers seems to be the chief of allegation against them.