Robert Creamer is a Political organizer, strategist. and author.
His recent article for the Huffington Post, Time to Just Say No to Giant Corporate "Parasites" -- and Recognize Them for What They Are, is a brilliant commentary on the state of business and government relationships in the modern age. He gives several examples of huge bureaucratic entities that exist for no other purposes than to create billable hours and to suck down tax money while performing simple government functions that the government should in fact be doing, and doing with much greater efficacy.
Of course, one of the examples happens to be private health insurance, the worst parasite of all.
Sounds like a movie script. Giant parasites stalk the American landscape disguised as benign upstanding participants in the "free market."
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In fact, there are a number of major corporations in America who do very little productive work -- never making products or delivering services that benefit their consumers. Instead, the profits they earn and the big CEO salaries they pay are derived by sucking or skimming a portion of the dollars they have convinced the Government to send through their corporate accounts -- generally to perform a function that is or ought to be an inherently governmental function.
Ironically, many of these corporate parasites are the loudest defenders of "free markets" and the most vociferous opponents of "government takeovers," when in fact they exist by feeding off the taxpayers.
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-creamer/time-to-just-say-no-to-gi_b_291102.html
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-creamer/time-to-just-say-no-to-gi_b_291102.html
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