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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (764092)	1/15/2014 4:44:47 PM
From: i-node	2 Recommendations Recommended By Tenchusatsu TimF Respond to of 1573822

>> You prefer giving more control to politicians than to corporations (which is a false dilemma anyway) because you believe politicians at least answer to the people. Your statement about the rational is correct; they see corporations as evil and politicians -- so long as they're Democrats -- as altruistic. But the reality is that corporations are far more accountable to the people than politicians could ever be. When A&E went after the Duck Dynasty a few weeks ago the retribution was swift and unforgiving. A&E caved. Same when Food Network went after Paula Deen, but the number of people who responded was smaller. Target, which didn't adequately protect its customer's data, is feeling the pain right now. When Apple blew it on the Maps, it had to handle it. Markets at work and they work one hell of a lot better than politicians do.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (764092)	1/15/2014 7:35:23 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573822

You have it mixed up. Sorry. Here is how it works. <<You prefer giving more control to politicians than to corporations (which is a false dilemma anyway) because you believe politicians at least answer to the people.>> Politicians are us. They are our representative's to congress. We get as good a democracy as we vote in politicians. It is not a false dilemma. It has a solution. Vote in good people. Corporations have no fiduciary responsibility to us, and in fact their only mandated function is to make money. And we have no control over them at all. People need to educate themselves enough to not get bamboozled. Speaking of which: you have some of the smartest people on the planet on this thread and instead of learning from them, you want to fight with them. They know what they are talking about and their perceptions are confirmed by the others. You might want to ask a real question once in a while and that goes for many of the others. I use smart people to learn from, I don't fight with them. So tell me, what happens when the people are bamboozled into giving politicians more power to curtail their own freedoms, all based on myths like "corporate control" and the so-called "one percent"? That's right, you get fascism.