...government yet you find it so blasphemous to even criticize corporate America? Don't you realize how naive you sound? How do you not see the harm in letting corporate America becoming too powerful? I mean do you listen to EVERYTHING republicans say about the private sector? Is it really so hard to believe that republicans work to protect their interests even at the expense of yours?
I mean when corporations blatantly break the law and no one goes to prison, does that not bother you? Is it really okay with you that those legal messes are settled with meager fines?
Are you okay with corporations getting away anything for the sake of profit?
You should distrust corporations just as much as you distrust government.
Years ago, when the phone company had service going to my home, they pissed me off massively. I was paying a fee to not be bothered with sales calls, and the phone company itself started calling me. Several times in fact. When I finally said I wasn't going to order this particular service, the telemarketter became nearly insulting, and refused to accept my answer of 'no'.
Not only did I not buy the service, but I also canceled phone service with that company on the spot. Hung up on that dude, and called the company and canceled phone service effective that very day.
Equally just a few years ago I had a job with a company that wasn't paying enough. I went to my boss, and explained I needed paid more, or I wouldn't work there anymore. He said he couldn't pay me more. Whether he could or not, I don't know. What I do know is that I fired that company. I found another job, and turned in my notice, and have never been back.
What's the moral of the stories?
When you talk about corporate America, there is nothing they can do to me, unless I allow them. When I quit my job, no one came for me, no one showed up demanding my service. No one confiscated my bank account to pay the phone bill I no longer wanted. No one did anything.
What happens if we don't want what government is selling? What if I don't want to pay for green-energy grants? What if I don't want to pay for Ethanol? What if I don't want my money given to ACORN, or some other group?
Can I fire the government? Can I stop paying the IRS? And what happens if I do? The government can take my legal property. The government can confiscate my bank accounts. The government can garnish any future wages, and even toss me in prison.
See, no one can garnish my wages, because I have zero debt. Bank of America can't foreclose on my property, or repo my car, because I don't owe BoA, or anyone else, anything.
The only time corporate America can do anything to anyone, is if you the individual choose to sign a contract allowing them to do that to you. And you have the choice to not do that. Thus you have the choice to not allow any corporation any control over your life. You have freedom in a Capitalist system, where everyone owns their own labor, property, and life, to not allow anyone else to have it.
You have no control over government. They can confiscate anything they want. Take whatever you have. And you have no ability to avoid it.
