I Want Corporations Out of My Business!

[Kalyke]

The malaise that has gripped the nation is rooted in something primal. It's a gut-check, griping grapple to gain gracious guidance.

No jobs, no advancement, no savings, no future.

If you were to listen to the mantra of the Tea Party, you're likely to believe that the problem is government. It's largess. It's power. It's taxation. It's spending.

But, if you take a few minutes to turn off the TV and do some research online, you find balance sheets and take-overs and buy-outs and bail-outs. You find, astonishingly, that the problem is not government - it's the lack of regulation of corporations, it's the pro-corporate, Draconian laws that pass for "the people's" legislation, it's corporate welfare, it's the lack of consumer choices that don't involve a multinational stamp - it's BIG, FREAKIN' MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS.

• If I need health care, I can go to a doctor, but, in order to pay for said care, I have to go to a corporation to purchase "insurance." Unless I am very wealthy, I have no other choice. I can either pay the doctor on time or be beholden to another corporation - the credit card industry - and hope I don't have another health issue before I pay this one off or I have to purchase corporately-owned health care.
  
• It's the lack of choices when shopping for clothes, food or other necessities. Our jobs - if we have one - are scattered and we rarely get off work before 6 p.m. To shop for clothes means we can't visit the Mom and Pop during the day, but have to opt for the multinational corporation in the evening. Sure, we could go on Saturday to the Mom and Pop - if we don't have a kid's sports practice or if we have the money to waste gasoline to make an extra trip - this, of course, happens in between the cleaning, the cooking, the lawn work and the child rearing because both parents have to work during the week. But, mostly, we opt for the corporation - we can shop at night. Leave the spouse home and go get the stuff. The clothes at the Mom and Pop are too expensive for our meager wages, anyway.
  
• I have to drive and rely on corporate gasoline. Unless you live a very large city... you do. Bus service in smaller cities is not always reliable - and it's not their fault... few depend on them for on-time routes and even fewer routes go from the houses to the jobs.
  
• The military industrial complex makes me have babies. Yup. If I want an abortion and have no money, it's not covered by my insurance, I don't have the $500-$700 to have one at the women's clinic, provided I have one in my town, which is rare, since 94 percent of the counties in this country have no clinic. Therefore, I have to have their cannon fodder.
  
  Just to name a few.
  
  With my taxes, I get schools and roads and garbage pickup and parks and Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid. Sure, I pay far too much for legislator salaries and too much for unnecessary wars, but I can go to the ballot box and try to change those spending habits. I can't tell Bill Gates to put up or shut up.
  
  Forget government out of my business.
  
  I WANT CORPORATIONS OUT OF MY BUSINESS!

[babylonsister]

1. Do you want government out of your business, too? Because

they often go hand in hand; one can't function without the other.

[Kalyke]

3. Nope and I don't want reasonable corporations out, either.

I want some business, some government, but mostly, I just want government to manage my commons and business to pay their fair share. No biggie.

[Bryn]

4. Is that okay?

for the government to be in bed with the big corporate?

[babylonsister]

5. Do you know how to separate the two? I don't. nt

[RKP5637]

2. That what is so unbelievable, those that whine about big government are

really victims of corporate socialism thriving well in a corporate oligarchy, and they are cozying up to those obliged to give them more. In short, fascism.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

6. Been saying that for years...

...the problem isn't 'big government' - it's 'big corporations' that own and control the government. And me, and you. And everybody and everything else.

[OHdem10]

7. Think about it. Every time Obama gets resistence from Congress

who are the resisters??? Pro-Business Democrats.
Off the top of my head with little thought--Ben Nelson
Landrieu, Lincoln . Blue Dogs Each are Pro-Business
Democrats.

Look, I believe in collaboration between Business and
Government but fairness must be the rule.

Many of these members if push comes to shove, and they
have to choose between helping Business or helping Working
Class, they will throw the working class under the bus
everytime.

[patrice]

8. They also decide what our jobs are, NOT the jobs that would be appropriate to people's

skills, aptitudes, talents, and desires, but the ones that big corporations deign to give to us.

And not everyone has what it takes to go AGAINST the corporations to carve out their own place in the economic system. They have too much economic inertia/mass and we have too little.

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