H/T to NewsBusters for thelink to this Human Events study. The study finds that the largest beneficiaries of these greedy corporations(Fortune 100) is..THE LEFT!
Liberal blogger David R. Mark recently wrote, “Those that call themselves ‘compassionate conservatives’ would never think to touch their fat-cat supporters. It’s much easier to spin the ‘economic benefits’ of helping huge corporations fatten their bottom lines.” Liberal academic Thomas Frank, in his book What’s The Matter With Kansas?, claims that the corporate world “wields the Republican Party as its personal political sidearm.” Both Mark and Frank express a common view that corporations are major funders of the political right, and that when corporations make contributions to nonprofit advocacy groups they give to groups on the right because those groups are pro-business.
On its face, this makes sense. After all, conservatives generally support lower taxes, less government regulation, and freer trade, public policies that are supposed to coincide with the interests of corporations. Why wouldn’t corporations eagerly fund their political supporters? In a Washington Examiner editorial, Professor Thomas F. Schaller lamented the “‘infrastructure gap’ that persists between the well-funded and highly organized Republican right and the relatively underfunded and generally disorganized Democratic left.” [...]
If the political right and major corporations are as closely aligned as popular perception suggests, then the corporate foundations examined in this report ought to be more generous to groups on the political right than those on the political left. That’s not what we found.
In this analysis, we examined only those Fortune 100 companies that operated nonprofit charitable foundations that made grants to groups we identified as on either the political right or left. That reduced the number to 53 corporate foundations. (See page 20.) We examined the most recent tax- return filings for these foundations (IRS Form 990) and compiled the dollar values for grants and matching gifts to left-wing groups and right-wing groups.
The results are the exact opposite of the common perception. The Fortune 100 foundations gave more money to the political left. In fact, the grant-making was lopsided: The political left received nearly $59 million, while the political right received only about $4 million, a ratio of 14.5 to 1.
Everyone knows that Republican/Coinservative = Greed! It is so accepted, so widely known, that it is part of popular culture!
Of course there are wealthy Democrats and Liberals, but they care, that’s the difference! And they are trying to do something about the things they care about! Important things, like taxing others so that wealth can be redistributed!
Then how come the Kennedys keep getting richer, Dumbocrat?
Both the Republicans and the Democrats benefit from corporate greed. Both do so in varied ways. Both parties work for them.
Rocky,
The Extent of the foundations on record for the Kennedy family and all their “wealth”, is The Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation
when I got to the financials….
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I and most everyone I know want more money. How come no one ever talks about personal greed? I work hard for the white man to get more money because I’m greedy. Why is it okay for me and everyone else I know to want to earn money, but it’s bad for businesses to want to make money???
5- Because you are being too practical and way too educated!:wink:
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That is answered simply: elected officials are elected to serve the public interest when in the office.
How many envromentalists wackos benifit from these companies i mean FORD donates to the enviromenatlists wackos and and just how much fossel fuels dose GREENPEACE buy from these evil petroleum companies becuase despite those goofy sails their ship the RAINBOW WARRIOR II still uses fossel fuels:razz: