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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (285551)4/25/2006 7:07:54 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 1573727
 
What's the revenue of all companies compared to the revenue of all governments?

Who cares. There is hardly a conspiracy of all companies against all governments or against any particular government.

And the bottom line is that governments do not always put citizens interests ahead of corporate interests.

I would phrase it more generally. Governments do not always put the general interest of their citizens ahead of special interests (which include but are not limited to the interests of corporations).

The current US admin is a great example.

I'm not sure how much they are looking out for corporate interests and how much they are supporting an opinion of what is in the general interest that you almost totally disagree with (and that I also have a number of disagreements with). I also don't see how making governments larger would make them less representative of corporate interests. If anything it increases the special interest problem.

Tim
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