Democrats have just favored a slightly different mix of businesses -- more shaded to movie studios, record stampers, and telecomm, where Republicans have traditionally been more involved with finance, insurance, and coal. Both have traditionally been hostile to patent busters.
Posted Jul 16, 2009 20:10 UTC (Thu) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455)
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Democrats have just favored a slightly different mix of businesses -- more shaded to movie studios, record stampers, and telecomm, where Republicans have traditionally been more involved with finance, insurance, and coal."
Do you have any facts to back this up besides ideology? Do you think the "recovery" $780B from Obama went to different businesses than the $780B from Bush?
I believe that elected politicians from all parties favor giving money to businesses of all sorts with very little discrimination. I think that you would find it hard to actually scientifically differentiate blindly between either elected democrat or republican officials' voting habits and decisions. Both groups are fairly "centrist" and favor large governments. Of course, to expect voters to actually look at behavior instead of propaganda... that would be Un-American! ;)
Where's the action?
Posted Jul 17, 2009 2:53 UTC (Fri) by gdt (subscriber, #6284)
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Oh please give it away. LWN has a large international readership. There's nothing so mindnumbingly boring as the minutae of some other country's politics. The Internet has no shortage of other places you lot can fling mud in support of your political allegiances.