Darboshanski opened this issue on May 28, 2008 · 52 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Wed, 28 May 2008 at 2:20 PM
Quote - Wait a sec. Corporations don't do these things! You're all a bunch of commies out to destroy the capitalist system!
(I got that straight from my corporate handbook, so it's got to be true.)
Corporations are only as 'good' or as 'evil' as the people who run them. Just like the government.
Which means that setting government bureaucrats as the watchdogs assigned to "guard" us from the "evil" corporations is about like appointing the Crips to serve as your neighborhood Crime Watch. Neither entity can be trusted to act from altruistic motivations.......although they'll both happily claim to. Some people will even believe them -- or at least they'll believe the government.
A local DA can be every bit as power-hungry and as self-serving as any "evil" corporate CEO can be. In fact, corrupt politicians like nothing better than spending their time in showy television-audience-oriented crusades against "corrupt" corporate types. It helps to take the negative attention off of the politicians. As has been recently demonstrated by Congress hauling up oil company executives to grill them over the price of gas at the pump.......when it's Congress that won't let the oil companies drill or build new refineries as they need to in order to increase domestic supplies, and thus bring down the market price. But "evil oil company executives" fit the current Accepted Template For Villainous Types, so they serve as a nice, convenient Target of Distraction for corrupt politicians to point fingers at.
Sure -- corporations can be self-serving and greedy. But government can be tyrannical and power-mad -- not to mention greedy.
People who look to the government to save them from evil corporations are like chickens looking to a gigantic wolf to protect them from a small fox. A very small fox, by comparison to the damage that the wolf is capable of doing.