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To: LomanBill
"When the exercise of those charters becomes antagonistic towards the purpose of American governance - which is “To Secure These Rights”,(these rights being endowed upon INDIVIDUALS - not upon collectives) then the American thing to do is to REVOKE THE CORPORATE CHARTER."

IMHO, you've got it backwards. Business are notional individuals and individuals are not here to serve government - it's the other way around. I profoundly disagree with you on this issue. Government is not the boss, and America better wake up right now to this fact or there will be no more America are we know it.

26 posted on 02/12/2009 10:56:06 AM PST by uncommonsense
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To: uncommonsense; Gondring
>>Business are notional individuals
 
Quack, waddle  - Collective.
 
>>Government is not the boss
 
Such is the collectivist aspect of human nature - and thus the defense constructed against that nature by those who wrote and implemented the American Declaration of Independence.
 
Per the American Declaration of Independence, the purpose of governance is to secure the rights of the [Natural - not "notional"] individual.
 

Entities operating under corporate charter are effectively an organ of governance.
 
Corporatism IS Collectivism IS Communism
 
Consider:
Regarding the corporatist economics of Mussolini's fascist regime...
"In actual fact, it is the State, i.e. the taxpayer, who has become responsible to private enterprise. In Fascist Italy the State pays for the blunders of private enterprise. As long as business was good, profit remained to private initiative. When the depression came, the Government added the loss to the tax-payer's burden. Profit is private and individual. Loss is public and social."
--Under the Axe of Fascism, by Gaetano Salvemini, p. 416 (1936).
Salvemini goes on to discuss the bailouts, which were targeted to large corporations but not small businesses. All of this sounds familiar to everyone, I'm sure...
"In December 1932 a Fascist financial expert, Signor Mazuchelli, estimated that more than 8.5 billion lire had been paid out by the Government from 1923 to 1932 in order to help depressed industries (Rivista Bancaria, December 15th, 1932, p.1,007). From December 1932 to 1935 the outlay must have doubled."
--Under the Axe of Fascism, by Gaetano Salvemini (1936).
The plays are being taken from various playbooks, but that doesn't make them equal; however, the common thread is authoritarianism/centralization of power.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2175634/posts?page=48#48
 
Dejavu!

30 posted on 02/12/2009 11:15:54 AM PST by LomanBill (Recession my Arse, I'm gonna go build something.)
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