Central Control

[jbarros]

I see around me two "opposing" forces, which are both trapped by the same concepts. On one side are the proponents of big government, on the other are the proponents of big business. Both suffer from the same flaws.

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[slawson01]

I think the main problem is that for too long big business has relied on big government to help it get bigger. This is a symbiotic relationship because it is easier to sell favors to a small group with deep pockets. Government favors big business, big business wouldn't be nearly as big without help from government.

I think every two years every third person who has worked as a lobbyist should be shot. I would volunteer to pay to shoot one, I think many others would as well. That's revenue without coercion.

[jbarros]

Sir,

You make for a piss poor pacifist, militant or otherwise ;)

That business relies on government to help it get bigger is not the problem, it's the symptom. The problem is that "we the people" chose, en masse, to deal with the evils of larger governments and corporations and the security and homogeneity they provide rather than run the risk of the unknown that smaller business and government offers. What we see here, today, in America is the direct result of egalitarian rather than aristocratic ethics.

For so long as government is of, for, and by the people, we can expect the government to be as American as Walmart, Halliburton, and McDonald's.

-- James