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To: The Street who wrote (6321)	9/18/2007 4:17:37 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13056

They don't run the USA either. They don't even run corporations in the USA. That might sound odd, but I'll explain. Corporations aren't a collective entity. They are a large number of separate entities. They don't all have the same objectives (well they all want to make money but company X wants company X to make money and company Y wants company Y to make money, two different objectives). Also corporations themselves don't have a single mind, employees, officers, shareholders, etc. generally have different opinions from each other. In addition to all of that they have very little power compared to the government. They can influence the government but their influence competes against the influence of other corporations and of non-corporations. In some to say they run the USA is just flat our wrong. In a certain way it doesn't even make any sense. "Corporations" don't run anything.