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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (574038)	6/29/2010 9:13:43 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583396

>Sure, why not? Off the top of my head: Beef and pork: 3-4 companies control 80+% of the market and growing. Beer: Anheuser Busch-Inbev and MillerCoors control the vast, vast majority of the market. Most of the beer brands you drink actually belong to one or the other. Sam Adams is the largest beer brand brewed by a U.S. company and it has 0.5% of the market. Soft drinks: Coca-Cola, Pepsi, DrPepperSnapple Group and one or two more control pretty much everything. They've been buying up smaller brands all over the place. It's actually quite astounding how many brands that I think of as traditional mom-n-pops are actually owned by huge multinational corporations. >While you're at it, do you mind also speaking out against consolidation of political power thanks to our two-party system? Sure. Our two party system is bad. But it's what we have to work with. There are small parts of the Democratic party that I feel jibe with my values and I support only them. >Or would you not mind if the Democrats simply took over? It would be better than the Republicans. But I ain't supporting people like Ben Nelson. I kind of view my preferred liberal niche of the Dem party as it's own entity. It's the closest I can get. -Z