WTF would Obama or any Democrat know about any form of “Patriotism?” The concept is foreign to them.

The very same thing could be said about Democrats’ knowledge (?) about corporations and the economy.

Now here is a Patriot Act everyone can get behind. It’s called the Patriot Corporation of America Act and it rewards the companies that don’t screw their employees and weaken the country by moving the jobs to China and elsewhere.

From The Nation

Obviously this would only accelerate the movement of jobs to other nations because it would be too expensive to compete.

You want to encourage companies to expand and keep workers in the US, cut the corporate tax rate.

It never ceases to amaze me when I hear voters (just heard one on Fox) say that we need to stop companies from sending jobs overseas but these same voters rail against corporate tax cuts.

Corporations are nothing but a pass through entity. They don’t actually own anything nor do they have any money of their own. It all belongs to the investors, often retirement plans of the workers.

Every single corporate tax dollar comes out of increased employment and profits. One causes higher unemployment and the other slows investment activity which slows future employment. A loose loose for workers.
DKK

Actually Robert, Communism is a political system while socialism is an economic system.

False. They are both integrated socio-economic-political systems that make the economy subservient to social goals, and which feature the political class as the ruling class.
They are both based on essentially the same concept that perfection of humanity is possible, and that it should be accomplished at the expense of individual freedom. The only difference between them is the degree of subservience to the State.

Actually, Rob, communism is the most extreme form of socialism, where the State owns everything. No private business, no private capital and no private property.

Actually Robert, Communism is a political system while socialism is an economic system. I don’t even know what the rest of this thread is about. I just like pointing out that you don’t know what the hell you are writing about.

Rob,
Museum of Communism:

Communist regimes rejected on principle the economic freedom to own property, engage in business, or choose one’s occupation, although sometimes these have been permitted on pragmatic grounds.
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/bcaplan/museum/comfaq.htm

DKK

Actually, Rob, communism is the most extreme form of socialism, where the State owns everything. No private business, no private capital and no private property.

So, in other words stop running an actual business.

One key of communism was control of all aspects of economics and business.

Strange, if this had been proposed under Bush it would have been opposed as punishment for those who don’t, “tow the Neo-con agenda.”
DKK

I’ll agree that fascism is a form of socialism. My only point was to say that Obama’s economic plan here wasn’t communism (seize all means of production) but fascism (simply control the means of production).