robber-barons

If Dems continue to chicken out and leave all the serious money on the table, and ask ordinary Americans to foot the bills while they let robber-barons go free, this is what they are going to get.

Matthew Yglesias » Bad Scene, Everyone’s Fault 2010

Perhaps robber-barons of any age – and their enablers like Lowry – are always 2-year-olds at heart.

Matthew Yglesias » Mass Transit is As American as Apple Pie 2010

Obama must lead the fight to educate Americans as to their use and abuse by these new robber-barons.

Think Progress » Mining lobbyist: ‘The president has parked his tanks on our front lawn.’ 2010

What they should be fearing are the robber-barons of the for-profit insurance industry.

Health care proposals need more work, health secretary says 2009

The weird part is that these robber-barons of then, and now, would still be unimaginably wealthy … just a little less so.

Matthew Yglesias » Mass Transit is As American as Apple Pie 2010

Then there are the robber-barons, the conquerors, for whom power over and the acquisition of material wealth at any cost, and I mean any, cause imbalance in the rest of the exquisite balance of Nature, including human nature.

Mitchell J. Rabin: Stop, Think and Contemplate: BP Anniversary, Fukushima Disaster & Fracking... Are Our Lives in Jeopardy? Mitchell J. Rabin 2011

His ancestors were the renegade robber-barons of lore.

Think Progress » Don Blankenship in 2009: It’s ‘very difficult’ to obey ‘nonsensical’ safety rules. 2010

Then there are the robber-barons, the conquerors, for whom power over and the acquisition of material wealth at any cost, and I mean any, cause imbalance in the rest of the exquisite balance of Nature, including human nature.

Mitchell J. Rabin: Stop, Think and Contemplate: BP Anniversary, Fukushima Disaster & Fracking... Are Our Lives in Jeopardy? Mitchell J. Rabin 2011

"All we are sayin'... is give us a sustainable economic superstructure dominated not by corporate robber-barons but rather by worker-slash-owner consortiums..."

Roy Zimmerman: Hope, Struggle and Change Roy Zimmerman 2011

Instead of drafting remedial legislation to correct the lack of regulation in the financial services industry, Congress worries that regulatory reform will hinder the robber-barons.

Economic Stimulus Bill Fails Infrastructure and Jobs 2009