On May 14, 11:42 pm, Raymond <Bluerhy...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 14, 11:05=EF=BF=BDpm, This is Sparta <RomanEmpi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > McLame is half senile and Obama is a born liar and con man. Again the
> > American people get the shaft.
>
> Does it really matter?
>
> America is a Plutocracy
>
> Definition: Plutocracy
> Domain: Politics/Sociology
> Context: The corruption of democracy, sources of political
> corruption, class conflict, cor****ations and politics, the mass media
> and politics
>
> The term "plutocracy" is formally defined as government by the
> wealthy, and is also sometimes used to refer to a wealthy class that
> controls a government, often from behind the scenes. More generally, a
> plutocracy is any form of government in which the wealthy exercise the
> preponderance of political power, whether directly or indirectly.
> .http://www.progressiveliving.org/plutocracy_defined.htm
>
> The Carlyle Group Example:
> 1001 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
> Suite 220 South
> Wa****ngton, DC 20004-2505
> United States
>
> (202) 729-5626
> Fax: (202) 347-1818www.carlyle.com
>
> With nearly $31 billion under management, the Carlyle Group is one of
> the world's largest private equity firms. Since the firm's founding in
> 1987, the group has invested $14.3 billion in 414 transactions. But
> the Wa****ngton, D.C.-based company is quick to tell you that it
> doesn't "swing for the fences" - or go for home-runs. Instead, the
> group pursues a conservative investment approach, preferring to hit
> more singles (and doubles and triples) with fewer strikeouts. Indeed,
> Carlyle points to its caution as a trait that sets it apart from
> competitors- that and its team of more than 300 investment
> professionals, including 138 MBAs, 24 JDs and 14 MD/PhDs.
>
> Although the group considers investments in a wide range of
> industries, it focuses on a few key sectors, including telecom and
> media, real estate, aerospace, information technology, energy and
> industrial. Although the firm dabbles in venture capital, leveraged
> finance and real-estate, the majority of its deals are management-led
> buyouts. Geographically, the Carlyle Group is a global company with 24
> offices in 13 countries, and its European and Asian investments
> account for nearly 30 percent of assets.
>
> Ciao to Capital
>
> In March 2008, Carlyle Group's mortgage bond fund Carlyle Capital
> confirmed investors' worst fears, validating rumors that it would be
> liquidating all of its approximately $22 billion in assets, mostly
> made up of investments in securities issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie
> Mac. Carlyle Capital's collapse, which The Wall Street Journal called
> an "embarrassment" for Carlyle Group, came after just 19 months of
> being in existence and eight months after its foray as a public
> company. According to Carlyle co-founder David Rubenstein, some moves
> designed to benefit the wobbly financial markets may have backfired.
> In a statement, he said that the U.S. Federal Reserve's intervention
> that was supposed to assist with the liquidity emergency ultimately
> sped up the fund's end.
> Read
More...http://www.vault.com/companies/re****ts/core****t_main.jsp?produ=
ct_id=3D3...
>
> The question of whether or not the United States could be said to be a
> plutocracy is discussed at length in Who Rules America, by sociologist
> G. William Domhoff. There Domhoff remarks: "The idea that a relatively
> fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and
> government for their own benefit goes against the American grain.
> Nevertheless . . . the owners and top-level managers in large income-
> producing properties are far and away the dominant power figures in
> the United States. Their cor****ations, banks, and agribusinesses come
> together as a cor****ate community that dominates the federal
> government in Wa****ngton. Their real estate, construction, and land
> development companies form growth coalitions that dominate most local
> governments.
>
> In the US, plutocratic governance is abetted by mass media owned by
> the hyperwealthy and operated in their own economic self-interest, the
> failure to provide public financing to political candidates, poor
> oversight of the electoral process, elitist Supreme Court
> appointments, the organization of wealth into socially-irresponsible
> cor****ations, the collapse of meaningful regulatory regimes,
> plutocratically financed "think tanks" (propaganda distribution
> centers), and an impoverished educational system that has failed
> utterly to provide Americans with the elements of political literacy
> (all of which have their foundations in philosophy).
>
> Sieg Heil
Yea you ****ING MORON, of the 1.2 billion TOWEL-HEADS, all of them are
innocent angels, right ****-HEAD?
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