Randy131 wrote:
Socialism and capitalism is the antithesis of capitalism and a free market society, and all are forms or systems of government, for business governs nobody but their employees on how they do their jobs. You have a theory that businesses have taken over the government, but in the last 8 years just the opposite was happening, by Obama and the Democrats trying to control the businesses in order to control the American people's lives, and were successful only to a point, but when it came to what was best for the businesses, those businesses took the actions to achieve that goal, no matter what Obama and the Democrats wanted. Really, there is no collusion between all American businesses to run the government, and that is not saying that certain businesses don't try to control the government in what effects their businesses through lobbying, but it does not reach the level of trying to control the entire government, and in doing so, also control the American people. It's just not happening, but good try though, I think I still want our form of government if we can only get all the socialism and communism out of it, for they are the real danger to taking over the lives of the American people.
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It is not theory. The corporate/government collusion is alive and thriving. I am not talking about mom and pop corporations.
"In a real democracy, like the constitutional republic in which we supposedly live, the people choose representatives through the election process to vote for their interests in government. In an oligarchy, like the one in which we actually live, corporations buy representatives through the election process to secure benefits for themselves and rig the game further in their favor. Here’s one $300 billion example. This infographic by Luke Keohane of Move to Amend lays it all out in detail.
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) sits on the Senate committees on foreign relations, armed services, and homeland security. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) sits on the Senate subcommittee for defense appropriations. Collectively, these four committees are responsible for funding arms sales and foreign aid, the continued maintenance and development of the military, oversight for government contracts, and the allocation of the budget for the defense department. Through these four committees, $300 billion in taxpayer dollars, which is roughly $2000 per taxpayer, went to private military contractors in 2013.
These defense contractors were able to secure lavish contracts only through their extensive lobbying efforts, like hiring expensive lawyers with existing connections in government. The Hogan Lovell law firm, where Chief Justice John Roberts previously worked before joining the Supreme Court, explicitly boasts on its website about its expertise in helping corporate clients worm their way through the regulatory system:"
Read the whole damn article and educate yourself to reality not ideology:
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/24465-a-300-billion-example-of-how-corporations-control-our-government"So it was with delicious irony that I read the other day of the widespread hat-swapping going on in Washington, D.C., after Republicans wrested control of the Senate from the Democrats.
Bananas on the Potomac
Apparently, as soon as Harry Reid handed over the keys to the majority leader’s office to Mitch McConnell, HR directors all over Capitol Hill sprang into action. Out went the call to K Street, the infamous home of D.C.’s lobbyist army. It was time to change the guard.
A senior lobbyist for ag-food giant PepsiCo became staff director of the Senate Agriculture Committee. The House Intelligence Committee chose as its new staff director a lobbyist for the country’s leading intelligence contractors, including General Dynamics, Boeing and mercenary outfit Blackwater Industries. The former vice president of government affairs for U.S. Airways will serve as counsel for the Senate Aviation Subcommittee. West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, a coal-state Democrat, hired a top lobbyist from coal giant Xcel Energy as his senior policy adviser for energy.
There are dozens of other examples. But the most egregious example of corporations’ control of the government is surely Representative Steve Scalise (R-LA), who had a registered oil-industry lobbyist sit in as applicants interviewed for jobs on Scalise’s staff.
Of course, dozens of retired or defeated legislators are headed in the opposite direction … to a high salary on K Street, reward for services performed."
http://thesovereigninvestor.com/government-politics/how-corporations-control-government/As Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null wrote for Global Research in 2014:
"Is it only me or is there something fundamentally flawed with the people who are running our government, including the autocrats, technocrats and bureaucrats who number in the hundreds of thousands. Does it bother you that the Wall Street banks and major corporations, many of our academia and religious institutions and our medical, military and intelligence gathering complexes, Big Pharma and Big Insurance have their needs met at the expense of everyone else? They control our government. We don’t. Instead we fear our government."
http://www.globalresearch.ca/who-controls-our-government-the-psychopathic-corporate-elites-of-america/5371627But hey, Randy, you keep your eye on the red ball and pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Fool!