Bfgrn
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So corporations will be moderated by WHOM...an 'invisible hand'?
Well, we could just ignore them until they go away.
Seriously. I know it's counter-intuitive to you, coming from the liberal tradition of the last hundred years or so, but corporate power over us is entirely via state intervention. They have no private armies or police. And without the collusion of government, they can't force us to do business with them.
This is why it's so insane, from my perspective, to see liberals supporting nonsense like ACA. Do you seriously think that the way to reign in the insurance industry is to force us all to buy their products?!? Every time liberals seek to mitigate corporate power by expanding government economic intervention, the corporations smile and hire another lobbyist.
You have woeful ignorance of the history of this nation...
Pinkerton National Detective Agency, usually shortened to the Pinkertons, is a private security guard and detective agency established in the United States by Allan Pinkerton in 1850.
During the labor unrest of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, businessmen hired the Pinkerton Agency to infiltrate unions, supply guards, keep strikers and suspected unionists out of factories, as well as recruiting goon squads to intimidate workers. One such confrontation was the Homestead Strike of 1892, in which Pinkerton agents were called in to reinforce the strikebreaking measures of industrialist Henry Clay Frick, acting on behalf of Andrew Carnegie. The ensuing battle between Pinkerton agents and striking workers led to the deaths of seven Pinkerton agents and nine steelworkers. The Pinkertons were also used as guards in coal, iron, and lumber disputes in Illinois, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia as well as the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 and the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921. The organization was pejoratively called the "Pinks" by its opponents.