Big business's are the manifestation of the will of a few self-agrandizing people.

Government is the manifestation of the aggregate will of the people. With the intention of munificence, protection, co-operation, and advancement.

Working men of all countries unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains!

I didnt think the word corporation would have been used by abe

In the end of the day, Government as a concept is always better.

Private businesses and national institutions both have their pros and cons. Well run small countries like Ireland and Singapore have the best systems with private alternatives to practically every state service and a political culture that targets corruption, waste and inefficiency.

Pretty sure they didn't even have corporations in that era.

But whatver, yeah, lets kill everyone that works for GM and have the government run their assets instead.

Cause the government is really good at what it does and always has been.

Big government and big business grow together.

>>6575972
And corporations have your best interests in mind.

dur dems ran fannie and freddie... two huge corporations... so shaddup. wherever there is money, there are politicians.

america doesn't need politicians, america needs small government that leaves people alone.

It is because democrats believe in a bottom-to-top approach. That the will of the people is the best solution for a good government. Republicans believe in a top-to-bottom approach, that the wealth and benevolence of the affluent will trickle down aggregate masses, and that this approach is the best approach for a good government. One believes that the people are capable of taking care of themselves, the other thinks they are better at taking care of them. Democrats are closet communists. Republicans are closet liberals. You know it to be true.

Republicans prefer big government, big business, and big pockets full of money.

>>6576099
>Republicans
>liberals

...*snerk*

Business is the purest manifestation of voluntary cooperation between consenting, sovereign individuals, with the only intent of rationally satisfying each other's needs.

Government is an irrational, violent, criminal outfit that basically relies on coercion and mindless patriotism to fool the people into acting against their own interests, all for the sake of the ruling political elite.

>>6576018
>>implying government does

At least corporations depend on the consumer's decisions to keep existing. The government fucks up constantly and nothing happens, ever.

>>6576274

HAHA OH WOW.

Actually, business is the act of making other people think you've satisfied their needs. Lying is the single best thing you can do to profit, if you can get away with it, and usually you can.

Hell, that's true of government, too. But let's not pretend the right-wing's hard-on for big business is even the slightest bit based on what works for EVERYONE.

anyone got sauce for the quote in OP's pic? My respect for Honest Abe just went up

>>6576140
>Doesn't know what liberal means.

I take it you'll call me a faggot when I tell you the founding fathers were liberals, eh?

>>6576299
Governments get replaced all the time. Or, rather, they used to.

Just like businesses used to fail all the time. Now? Not so much. Because business AND government are so tightly intertwined that neither one will let the other one fall.

Generally, that situation is portrayed as the government's fault, but big business has no one but themselves to blame for the erosion of the free market.

>>6575852
>Use Lincoln as an anti-business icon,
>Call Republicans pro-business

>>6576387
Not at all, but none of them were Republicans.

>>6576387
No I'll just call you ignorant.

you're eating tonight and people are dying and u dont care so shut the fuck up already

>>6576406
> implying that 1860s Republicans and Modern Republicans are similar