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There's a diary on the Rec List now that is an excellent one. I'm not going to link to or name it because I don't want to associate it with criticism. Again, it's a great diary.
However, within the diary the author several times (if I recollect correctly) skewers "Pro Business" interests. This diary, mine, grows out of a comment I made within that diary's comment thread re: the use of the term "Pro Business" as a pejorative.
I believe that I and everyone here "gets" that (especially) during the W. Bush regime we entered a new era a Robber Barony. And we "get" that THIS kind of business is NOT what we want in and for our country, or world:
But, let's remember, let's keep in mind . . .
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> Daily Kos is a business.
> Green, LEED Certified architecture firms are businesses.
> Manufacturers of wind turbines and solar panels are businesses.
> Farms and farmers markets are businesses.
> Light rail companies (design, manufacturing, construction) are businesses.
> Those companies that design, engineer, construct and maintain solar thermal power generation facilities are businesses.
> Sole proprietors and small companies that do residence energy use audits and advise on reducing home and small business/manufacturing power consumption are businesses.
> The "Private" in "Public-Private Partnerships" in areas ranging from light rail projects to environmental clean-up means businesses.
> Law firms that fight for employee and consumer rights are businesses.
I dare say that many/most of us work for or even own businesses.
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I don't know what the exact term is we ought to use, but speaking with revulsion about "Pro-Business" interests is both damaging to Our Cause and, in fact, inaccurate.
It's the type of business and/or who's running it that matters.
Suggestions?
UPDATE: From the Comments (h/t to Otteray Scribe):
[T]he word "corporation" has become conflated in some folk's mind as Enron, Exxon, Circuit City and Wal-Mart. Or the mega-banks. They forget the mom and pop operations like us who have a few employees and a small budget. One would be an idiot to run a small business without incorporating.
I am fully in favor of stiffer regulation, much like Presidents Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt put into place.