Rockefeller also was one of the greatest forces in health and education for African Americans and all Americans. Not sure why slavery is even stated in the same word as the 19th century American industrialists.
Yes because the internet was SO TERRIBLE from its inception till 2015. Only in 2016 and 2017 was it so, so perfect. The internet was so broken in 2015 it needed the GOVERNMENT to get involved. Laughable and sad that you believe that.
I see someone has watched the entire run of the History Channel's "The Men Who Built America" I tried to watch an episode Rocketman1981, but it got so annoying the way they kept recapping the previous segment when coming back from commercial. After every comemerical! Half the damn show was recapping what's already been shown previously it was outrageous!
Want to know what I believe? I believe that you are a sad and very ignorant man. With all due respect. I cannot laugh at you. Someone who apparently believes the fantasy you are attempting to perpetuate here isn't someone to laugh at. They are someone to pity.
Merry Christmas to all. Even the folks who hate others because of their political views. I have enjoyed the banter this year.
@OP You mentioned you were Muslim. When Trump finally imprisons and or deports you I hope you'll be thankful for that too.
Merry Christmas! Well said. I don't "hate" anyone here for their political views. I may ardently disagree with someone, I may pity someone due to their incredible ignorance, I may not suffer fools gladly, and I certainly enjoy expressing my own views, but I don't "hate" anyone here. I put them on ignore if they even approach getting that bad. I've discovered that the ignore feature is a wonderful tool for maintaining BBS sanity. I don't use it too often, however, or this place could get boring.
There really is nothing to be grateful for when it comes to Donald Trump. Wouldn’t matter to me if he won as a “D” or “I” or an “R”. He is a disaster, an embarrassment and his level of incompetence is nothing short of soul sucking. I don’t believe there has ever been anyone in the public eye that lies to the degree that he does other than the idiot ruling North Korea.
Arguably, I'm living off my father's GI bill and hard work that lifted him from the bone-crushing poverty left behind by your oligarchs, pal. And I've busted ass myself. I can respect and criticize anyone simultaneously, unless you think I'm living under fascist rule. Not yet, cowboy, and not ever.
This is far too easy. John D. monopolized the oil industry to such an extent that in 1911 the United States Supreme Court called it a violation of the Sherman Anti-trust Act. That decision declared his actions illegal. There is your "ONE example." All it took was a couple of minutes on google. Like I said earlier, you should really consider broadening your news sources. Same here, from his service in WWII. It enabled the family to purchase the home I grew up in. It enabled Dad, after very hard times during the Depression, to attend college, become a member of the faculty of a major Houston university and eventually a department chair in his '30's (quite an accomplishment. yes, I'm proud of my late father), and to have a very successful consulting business. It is a perfect example of of a highly successful government program. I'm never living under fascist rule, either. Not ever, no matter how appealing that might be to the wannabe fascist residing, from time to time, in the White House.
I really, really don't think you want to go here, at all, ever, in your defense of Donald Trump. Ever.
Thanks I guess, Mr Trump for occasionally I come across a picture of you and stare for a bit and think how truly odd looking of a person you are. With the hair piece etc.
Thank you president Trump for proving that any person can get elected to the office of president of the United States, no matter how unqualified or flawed.
Hahahaha. You spent a few minutes 'googling' and think you actually understand a subject. That is completely laughable. Gaining market share to a 90% level (which Standard Oil was at the time) was not illegal. The government deciding that the level was such that it should be broken up was the decision. The googlization of information in which it mainly spits back info based on how you search a subject is creating 5 minute experts when they know nothing of a subject. I hope you will actually learn about a subject at hand and deeply think about something before searching for a few minutes and concluding you know the answer. Google by the way has 90% of search because they're better.
Thanks trump, for showing the world what voting for an idiotic populist leads to. So we did not make the same mistakes.