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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (217214)	2/4/2005 8:40:53 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573927

re: Reading history, watching old movies, and reading literature, I don't get that impression. Politicians have been called selfish and crooked since the birth of America. I think the growth of the corporations has shifted the political power base from the individual to business. Bear with me; the US looks entirely different from when I was a kid. Every summer, my parents would load the kids into the car and we would take a month long cross country trip. Imagine a world before Holiday Inns, before any motel chains. Every motel was a Mom and Pop, owned by a family. You just had to drive until you found a vacancy, and then it was hit or miss if it was a dump or a gem. Imagine a world before McDonalds or any franchise restaurants. Every meal was an adventure, every restaurant was owned by somebody, for better or worse. Those were the days when you counted the trucks in the lot because those guys had been there before and knew where the good food was. Same was true of hardware stores, clothing stores, drug stores, almost all retail was owned by a person, not by a corporation. Bush talks about the "ownership society"; I grew up in the ownership society. We've shifted from a nation of owners to a nation of (mostly) employees. And with that, IMHO, the political power has shifted from the individual towards the corporation. John