Thread: Where do I vote with my dollars - Sticky, Please?

I'm a big believer in using my consumer dollar as the carrot and stick for bad behavior by companies. My logo is ARCO, which I chose because a few years ago Chevron and Exxon were corporate sponsors of NCLR. Well, after looking at La Raza's web site, Chevron is still there, but Exxon isn't. Furthermore, if you download NCLR's annual report, it looks like "BP" (which I have to assume is British Petroleum and I'm pretty sure owns ARCO) gave NCLR over $200,000. And so did Shell! Is it safe to buy gas at Mobile? It looks like I need to change my logo. And it would be nice if ALIPAC made a sticky note keeping track of this stuff.

Here's the link to NCLR's page: http://www.nclr.org/section/corporate_partners/

Here's the paste from NCLR's annual report:

$200,000 AND ABOVE
Allstate Insurance Company
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
The Atlantic Philanthropies
Bank of America
Bank of America Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
BP
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Citi
ConAgra Foods, Inc.
Corporation for National and
Community Service
Diageo NA
Fannie Mae
The Ford Foundation
Ford Motor Company
Freddie Mac
General Motors Corporation
The John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation
John S. and James L. Knight
Foundation
Johnson & Johnson
Lowe’s Companies, Inc.
Merck/Schering-Plough
Pharmaceuticals
MetLife
Mott Philanthropic
NeighborWorks America
Open Society Institute
PepsiCo Foundation
Shell Oil Company
State Farm Insurance Companies
The Rockefeller Foundation
The Texas High School Project Fund
of Communities Foundation of
Texas
Tides Foundation
United States Department of
Education
United States Department of
Housing and Urban Development
UPS
Verizon
Verizon Foundation
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Wachovia Foundation
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

And one last thing: NCLR is always squawking that "La Raza" doesn't mean "The Race" but instead instead encompasses the larger community, "the pueblo." If that were the case, wouldn't we see all members of the community represented in NCLR - blacks, Asians... whites, even? Check out their annual report. The only white guy pictured is John McCain. LOL!

Originally Posted by AmyCarter

I'm a big believer in using my consumer dollar as the carrot and stick for bad behavior by companies. My logo is ARCO, which I chose because a few years ago Chevron and Exxon were corporate sponsors of NCLR. Well, after looking at La Raza's web site, Chevron is still there, but Exxon isn't. Furthermore, if you download NCLR's annual report, it looks like "BP" (which I have to assume is British Petroleum and I'm pretty sure owns ARCO) gave NCLR over $200,000. And so did Shell! Is it safe to buy gas at Mobile? It looks like I need to change my logo. And it would be nice if ALIPAC made a sticky note keeping track of this stuff.

I agree with you Amy and I believe there was such a list here at alipac if I am not mistaken. Try a search.

United States Department of Education
United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

That would be our tax dollars folks.

I am currently reading a book titled, Return From The Findland Station, Moral Odysseys In The Breakdown Of Communism by Kenneth Murphy. So far it is a good read, a different approach at visiting the subject.

Bukharin, one of the original revolutionaries aside Lenin had some interesting thoughts concerning economies. Bukharin studied Hilferding's book Finance Capital. Hilferding was an economist and a Marxist. Hilferding's claim to fame was that he introduced the concept of finance capital,....bank capital in monetary form, transformed into industrial capital. From the author, Murphy, "Mature capitalism was for him (Hilferding) finance capitalism, a system distinguished by its orginizing tendencies. As finance capital permeated an entire economy and large trusts became dominant, regulation would eliminate the unfettered competition of smaller units. And once home markets were monopolized and in chains, finance capital would move abroad in search of other game."

Bukharin wondered if there was another way, something between communism and capitalism for a economic model. He projected Hilferding's work into the future. Was there a third model? Bukharin thought there was. "Because the making of trusts involves the fusion of industrial and banking interests with the power of the state itself, Bukharin called this new Leviathan "state capitalism." The state ceases to be a capitalist too. It becomes a living tyrant, a direct owner and organizer of the economy, with a "colossal, almost monstrous power." Laissez-faire capitalism gives way to a form of "collective capitalism," whose predatory "finance capitalist oligarchy" conducts its raids directly through the state, "which more and more becomes a direct exploiter, organising and directing production as a collective capitalist. As state control rampages, "the process of organisation continually eliminates the anarchy of the separate parts of the 'national econonomic; mechanisim, placing all of the economic life under the iron heel of the militaristic state."
Driven by insatiable lust, the state penetrates all areas of social life. Separation of state and society is systematically abridged: "It can even be said with some truth thatt there is not a single nook of social life that the bourgeoisie can leave unorganised." All groups and organizations become mere "divisions of a gigantic state mechanism," until the state stands alone, omnivorous and omnipotent. Bukharin's vision is nightmarish:
Thus arises the final type of the contemporary imperialist robber state, an iron organisation which envelops the living body of society in its tenacious, grasping paws. It is a new Leviathan, before which the fantasy of Thomas Hobbes seems child's play. And even more "non est potestas super terram quae comparetur ei" (there is no power on earth that can compare with it).
In his description of an all-powerful state, Bukharin foresaw the structure of what Hannah Arendt later called the "totalitarian state." He also anticipated the agonizing question this development was to pose for Marxists. Was it possible that "statization" could become so pervasive that the prospect of revolution would be diminished? Was a third way, neither capitalist nor socialist, imaginable for man's future? Yes, was his answer. "Such an economic structure would," he mused, "resemble a slave-owning economy where the slave market is absent."
If this was possible, post-capitalist society would only usher in an even crueler system of exploitation, not the promised land of pure communism. This was the stake plunged deep into the heart of socialist theory.

The book was published in 1991 after collapse of communism in Russia.

The reason I posted this was to show that economist have for a long time tried to project the capitalist system into the future. How would it evolve? All of this study for the most part was from a European perspective at, or before the turn of the 20th century up until the Russian Revolution.

Some of the visions of the theorists of the time still seem to haunt the economic landscape of today.

When I go to a pizza parlor for pizza there is good chance that Con Agra has it's ingredients in the pie. Wal-Mart dollars and their power goes great distances. Sam's Club, the suppliers and processors of the Great Value sticker also make other generic and name brand products of other retailers, who also might use the ingredients supplied by Con Agra. The web is large.

Support smaller business, defeat carbon cap and trade. I believe that carbon cap and trade will only benefit the larger corporations while adding cost prohibitive regulation onto the smaller companies. Perhaps that is the reason for state sponsored regulations?

The Tides Foundation
This is who Glenn Beck has been exposing on his show. ummm San Francisco, Pelosi's home town

30 Years of Tides
Since 1976, Tides Foundation has worked with donors committed to positive social change.
We put resources and people together—strengthening community-based nonprofit organizations and the progressive movement through innovative grantmaking.

We define "progressive" as creating a positive impact on people's lives in ways that honor and promote human rights, justice, and a healthy, sustainable environment.

Why "Tides?"
The "Tides" name comes from a Bay Area independent bookstore that once served as a meeting place for readers, writers, and activists. While honoring the progressive community that founded the Tides family, the name also suggests the remarkable power derived from people and ideas coming together at the right time, in the right place.

Tides has awarded grants in the following issue areas:
Civic Participation
Civil Rights and Liberties / Public Interest Law
Community / Economic Development
Economic and Racial Justice
Education
Environment (Conservation / Environmental Justice)
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Issues
Health Services/Health Reform
HIV/AIDS
Homelessness / Housing and Shelter
Human Rights / International Relief / Peace Advocacy
Native Communities
Progressive and Community Based Arts and Media
Spirituality
Sustainable Food and Agriculture
Violence Prevention
Women's Empowerment / Reproductive Health
Youth Development and Organizing

Originally Posted by ReggieMay

United States Department of Education
United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

That would be our tax dollars folks.

They are getting way more of our money than threw these to government programs....Fannie Mae, ACORN, Tides Foundation, and list goes on, these organizations get billions in taxpayer funds and then they give to LaRaza, ACORN and other radical progressive goups.

The amount would be shocking, but of course they have made it almost impossible to track, especially with out the will to do so.

Do you donate to LaRaza? Perhaps not directly. By watching TV, and supporting the advertising? Like it or not your adiction to TV helps to enable your enemies to herd you like a sheep to slaughter. Too harsh?

Your politicians know how to play the games aswell. They play the shakedown card. The corporations will step in line when the political elites need them too. The politicians with the help of the media release reports which enrage the public, the politicians which have isolated the industry of choice then say, 'see there Mr. CEO, the public is irate, would you like for us to call off the dogs?' A dog and pony show goes along way when the masses of sheep allow it to.

The big money plays the sheep like a song in the juke box. Dance puppet, dance.

How much do you pay for your medicine? Your poison that you continue to espouse as so bitter? Open wide, quite complaining, it is good for you. You are what you eat! Prices are going up, you get to pay more for your poison, quit moaning you love it! You know you do.

Put your money where your mouth is, not much time left? The monied interest will drop another nickel in the juke box, wanna dance? Dance anyway, that is an order.

Oops, did I poke you in the eye?

No lobbyist in Washington to represent the people, to represent you? Sure there are, you help to pay for all of them. Baaaaaaaa!

Are you an enabler, a conformist, or a rouge element looking for change you can believe in? Change will require work and a drastic and honest assesment of your behavior. Ready yet?

How much money and power do you transfer or help to pay for unwittingly?

It only takes one dog to move a flock of sheep. Hello lamb chops!