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Inc. which shows how 80% of our food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations and after watching it, consider that since Reagan global corporations have been granted the largest tax-cuts in American history and then read Emerson's "Concord Hymn" about those brave independent farmers who refused to be reduced to surfdom under global corporate food lords.
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We are the surfdom of bankers and insurance companies.
Senate health care bill to allow caps on annual benefits, Democratic aides say 2009
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A return to surfdom or dare I say governmental slavery.
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And the Republicans now are taking this hypocritical high road response, is just more proof how they sold out to the corps and have no interest in working to create a sound policy that will save our children from the burden of health care cosing 40% of their pay, and ultimately having our country turn into a vast surfdom of Corporate Land Lords.
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There seems to be doublethink among non-anarchist libertarians - government can go this far, it can tax and imprison but once you step out of this box which was revealed to us by the Founders/Friedman/the Austrians, you are on the road to surfdom.
Do Progressives Believe This?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Bankruptcy will provide years and years of surfdom while you struggle to pay off a debt that will be many times what had actually been owed.
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Bankruptcy will provide years and years of surfdom while you struggle to pay off a debt that will be many times what had actually been owed.
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Well if we reintroduced surfdom and made workers work for nothing.
The Guardian World News Larry Elliott 2011
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This leaves them few choices ~ maybe institute surfdom again, or convince a lot of them to emigrate to America or Canada.
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For anyone interested in digging deeper into the surfdom analogy I recommend this website.
Irvine Housing Blog 2009
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