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[okgb]

Totally agree with that and government & court

 

[bigugly]

I kind of liked the "occupy" movement suggesting a separation of "corporation and state", not unlike the constitutional mandated separation of "church and state"...  Big business is way too cozy with legislators et al.

JR

The separation of business and state would be a good thing and it is the only thing that I agree with the OWS movement on. But it is not something that campaign finance reform or more regulation will solve. The reason that big business, big unions, big special interests have any political influence is because of big government.

Government in general and the federal govt. in particular have grown so big in both size and scope that it makes more economic sense for the large special interests to lobby Congress to pass laws that are beneficial to them at the expense of the rest of us aka "rent seeking". Then there are the problems of regulatory capture and public choice theory.

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/RentSeeking.html
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/PublicChoice.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

The greater the intrusions of government into the private economy the more the opportunity and incentive there is for the rich, powerful and politically connected to use the mechanisms and might of the state to secure for themselves that which they could not otherwise obtain in a free and voluntary market.

 

[bigugly]

this video caught my eye. the powers that have been arrogated by the US govt. are becoming at the least, if not already are, a threat to the liberty and freedom of the people of this nation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VgrktRgjBXk