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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (81251)	6/1/2007 5:11:49 PM
From: JBTFD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

"Both sides are more likely to give people who they largely agree with the benefit of the doubt. There also likely more likely to see massive problems or weaknesses in the other side, even when the real problems or weaknesses are only minor, or even non-existent. Thats not something particular to "righties", its human nature to be biased in that way, and "lefties" act the same way. " I agree. I guess the unfortunate thing about these message boards is that they are dominated by the rabid few (on both sides). "Moving more power to the government means you are concentrating more power in the hands of the few. Not just because those in power in the government are few compared to the population as a whole, but because special interests (of all different political persuasions, and also special interest with no particular political agenda just the desire for money for themselves) have more willingness to use their resources to effect government decisions." I can agree with this also but this is NOT the only way power can be concentrated. Currently in my opinion the concentration of economic power in the hands of corporations is an equally pernicious threat. When you combine the power of corporations with the advantages of free trade for the corporations, the little guy gets screwed every time. And corporations have no reason to have any social conscience because they have one and only one duty, and that is to increase their profits for their shareholders. One might say that corporations have an incentive to have a social conscience because if they do wrong people will know about it and stop buying their products. That is true but is a further risk of concentrated power. A huge corporation can threaten a lawsuit against anyone who says anything bad about them. It doesn't matter if the lawsuit has no merit, because just the threat of it has the power to silence most outspoken opponents. Anyway on and on corporations are in my opinion the products of the sorcerer's apprentice and will wreak havoc more and more as time goes on. They have incorrectly been granted the same rights as individuals, and unless it is changed it will result in a type of corporate fuedalism in the future. "But economic feudalism isn't a serious possibility." I disagree. See above.