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To: Oeconomicus who wrote (52144)	3/6/2008 6:38:46 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 540882

Oeconomics; Government officials being "captured by special interests", presumably to do things not in the public interest, is not a flaw of capitalism, but rather of representative government. The solution is not to scrap either capitalism or representative government, but simply to make and enforce better government ethics laws. We don't practice "capitalism" anymore. It is "corpitalism". Where corporations have rights and laws are made to favor them at the expense of the individual. Capitalism is indeed a good thing - corpitalism is not. Ethics law would help - like those in Japan where managers know who they work for. I don't know how we get there though because of the "special interest money". This is getting worse - not better. steve