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Speaking of "entitled, sliver spoon sucking idiots, who's mommies and daddies didn't have enough time for them.." why, here's a captain of American industry who has it all figured out:
"Coca-Cola Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Muhtar Kent said the idea of a federal tax on soft drinks, under consideration by the U.S. Congress and President Barack Obama, is “outrageous.”
“I have never seen it work where a government tells people what to eat and what to drink,” Kent said today, responding to an audience question at the Rotary Club of Atlanta. “If it worked, the Soviet Union would still be around.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/ne…
Hey, Mr. Coca-Cola Kent, let's see..your product is what? Water and corn syrup sweetner? Our government doesn’t tell people what to drink – although “suggestions” abound in the form of dietary guidelines and public health campaigns – but it sure as hell has spent the last century telling them what to grow. Namely corn. Metric shitloads of corn. The Federal government pays people to grow corn. It pays people not to grow corn. It pays people to think about growing corn. No person or entity has benefited more from this legislatively-mandated glut of cheap corn than the soft drink industry dominated by Mr. Kent’s company. The pro-corn policy (Cornservative policy? Yes, I like that better.) has created an entire industry of chemists and biologists dedicated to finding some way to use all this shit that Congress pays farmers to grow.
You know what country that sounds like? The Soviet Union to me. Or maybe, I dunno, China maybe? Ah, but you Mr. Kent insist that it's some sort of "magical free market beanstalk".
But you and the rest of the angry mob keep insisting through the media you bought and own that "socialism" is bad and that people who do it will rape our daughters or something. You just do that.
- yes hypocritical correct? and such ppl are used to spin the idea of free markets as evil thinking********
- but of course it takes character to turn down a wrongful benefit, its easy to complain when that benefactor********
- turns against u. terrible people for sure. but no gov incentives no such problems********
- ill take life over the whims of the godlike giveth and taketh away hand of gov********
- however i still stand by the exec's complaints, its wrong to tax there product. fight my emotions to see him get what he deserves********
- he deserves, in order of what is right. then place myself in his shoes.********
- and see its easy to go along with something u know is wrong, while maintaining the denial of the reversal of such power********
- power. its hard not to be corrupted especially if that means losing business, employees and such********
- because if u dont take the backwards offer someone else will. and will leave u to rot********
- such is the logic and corruption of todays men.********
- yes hypocritical correct? and such ppl are used to spin the idea of free markets as evil thinking