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Big industries are real ‘welfare queens’
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Sep. 15, 2012 12:56 pm
The federal government has become, for all intents and purposes, a mechanism for transferring the citizenry's wealth into corporate coffers, and all one has to do to determine the primary beneficiaries of this corrupt system is follow the money trail connecting Capitol Hill to lobbyists.
The real “welfare queens” are, to name just a few, the agrochemical industry, the pharmaceutical industry, banking industry, insurance industry, petroleum industry, and (probably the biggest corporate welfare recipient of all) the war industry.
Steve Hosch
Gilbert
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