Corporations have no rights under the Constitution, but these days they act like they have all the rights, and we have none, including owning our airwaves, our media, our press, our government, our energy, our foreign policy, our environment, our health care, our education, our ability to get loans, even our military. (3 trillion wasted in Iraq largely due to privatization corruption)
Something has gone terribly wrong here. Corporations must be checked and balanced and forced to comply to what's good for society and the people, not just what's good for their greediest short-term profit mongers amongst them. Get a clue, rightwing, regulation of huge corporate powers is a GOOD thing, or the people lose all the power and our democracy fails.
One of the great errors of Ronald Reagan was to tell us that corporations (liike the S+L's he deregulated) could be trusted but not government. That was a lie.
In fact, it's now proven that while some corps are good and some beaurocrats are corrupt, it's actually the other way around. A good efficient government is by far better for the people than any kind of corporate monopoly, out-sourcer, privatizer, war profiteer or whatever. See FEMA under Clinton vs. FEMA under Bush.
The results are in and proven. We are going bankrupt as a nation because Bushies, like the Reaganites before them, gave the corporations way too much power and control over everything in our society, with no accountability, including almost no taxes to pay. In fact under Bush, corporations get tax breaks for screwing us over by sending jobs to the 3rd world.
All that has to stop and be reversed ASAP. Corporations can still make good money but not by polluting, cheating, gouging and sending US jobs overseas. That whole philosophy has got to stop or we're finished as a nation. |
