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To: Road Walker who wrote (217379)	2/4/2005 9:36:14 AM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1573943

"I think the growth of the corporations has shifted the political power base from the individual to business." Yep. Between advertising and the leveraging of economies of scale, individual owners are an endangered species.

To: Road Walker who wrote (217379)	2/4/2005 2:01:24 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573943

JF, thanks for the personal account. I'm seeing the beginning of that trend in the Korean communities across Southern California, but what effect that has on the soul of those communities, I cannot say. Anyway, we digress, but I guess your point is that political power is being shifted toward corporations, which in turn are artificial entities which are only accountable toward the shareholders' desire to see profitability. Personally, I think that's similar to the shift in power from landowners to urban areas around the time of industrialization, but the main theme is the same. There will always be people who know how to work the system, and there will always be people who get screwed over undeservedly. As for me, perhaps I've been fortunate for most of my life, but maybe that will change with the growth of outsourcing. Tenchusatsu

To: Road Walker who wrote (217379)	2/4/2005 9:51:40 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 1573943

UNEQUAL PROTECTION, by Thom Hartmann John, From your nostalgic writing about a better America, I get the impression that you might be interested in the writings of Thom Hartmann: thomhartmann.com He addresses the issue of too-much corporate control of this nation head on. And he's not shy about using the F-word. Fascism, the combination of government and corporate power might better be called corporatism. And when we add a malignant and selfish military-industrial complex into the mix, we might call it the road to ruin....