67% of Americans Are Dissatisfied With The Size And Influence Of Major Corporations

The Economic Collapse ^ | 02/04/2011 | Michael Snyder

[org.whodat]

Correct!!!!!

[The_Reader_David]

I have no objection to any non-state institution on the basis of size or influence, per se. I do object to any institution, whether corporation, labor union, government bureacracy, university, church, or other non-profit, which is run by people who use fiduciary positions for the benefit of their own wealth and power, rather than for the benefit of the shareholders, workers, citizens, faculty*, faithful, or intended beneficiaries of other sorts of non-profits.

The corrupt corporations Frantzie listed are among this sort of institution (as were Enron and Worldcom, not to mention SEIU, the UAW, most agencies of the Federal governement, Fannie and Freddie, the university I work at under its previous administration (not sure about the current one), many megachurchs (and, alas, one particular Orthodox jurisdiction with ties to the Middle East), and any non-profit whose CEO draws a high six-figure salary or more.

* Yes, faculty. A university is its faculty. Only part of its purpose is the education of students: the conduct of research and scholarship by the faculty has always been part of the raison d'etre for universities, and to reduce them to mere schools would be an impoverishment of Western Civilization.

[Frantzie]

“..It can force you to sell your home, shut down your business...”

Big banks can do that as well. JP Morgan Chase is a good example. The Chase part is the Rockefellers.

The big banks also own the Fed - who can steal all of your wealth.

[liberalh8ter]

Number one on the list should be Monsanto. It's like the Corporate equivalent of George Soros.

[SpaceBar]

And anyone who thinks corporations can do no wrong has never heard of Interessen-Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie AG.

[Joe 6-pack]

"The problem is the line between corporations and governments gets more blurred by the day."

I agree with that. I would also add that great swaths of society, from the lowest consumer to the largest producer, have been willing to substitute the constraints of personal morality with the restraints of law and to equate the terms "ethical" with "legal".

When an influential bloc gets power over legislators and gets laws passed that favor them over others, they have no moral constraint preventing them from abusing that law to the detriment of those outside that bloc. This applies not only to crony capitalists, but to the affirmative action and blanket amnesty industries at all. It's a candle of abuse that burns at both ends.

[Lessthantolerant]

Everyone should add to the list. I’d like to see who runs all the lobbying and pacs

[PGR88]

I'm ok with corps, it's big government that I'm really, really done with.

I have found that many of the biggest corporations are also the biggest socialists. Profits are private and losses are society's

[Roninf5-1]

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power” - Benito Mussolini

Most corporate boards are populated by Globalists, extreme Leftists, big government Neo-cons, and foreigners. None of these people are loyal to America or to its founding principles and in many cases outright hostile to it. Every commercial you see on TV is some Corporation pushing environmentalism or diversity claptrap.

The last thing these Corporations want is true free enterprise. They want Big Daddy Government to constantly bail them out with taxpayer money or regulate their competition out business. This is exactly what that Communistic health care law written by the insurance corporations wrote known as Obamacare does.

"Competition is a sin" - John D. Rockefeller

[ctdonath2]

Don’t like the power and influence of company X? Don’t buy their products.
Don’t like the consequences of your options? Life is tough; be happy it’s not a lot worse.

[redgolum]

Good point.

[Chuzzlewit]

excellent...spot on... Dennis Prager says it all the time, “I fear big government far more that big companies. Big government has the military and the force of law. They have the ability to put you in jail”.

[Ev Reeman]

Among the corporations that need to be investigated for corruption, bribery of government officials, money laundering, insider trading, financial malfeasance and mismanagement are: GE, Goldman Sachs, GM, Chrysler, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Countrywide etc.

[WILLIALAL]

Big business, big government, one in the same. They feed off each other. Its crony capitalism that runs our country now, true capitalism has been relegated to the small business arena.

[ReverendJames]

And 33% are unemployed.

[VeniVidiVici]

Obviously the solution is to institute price controls and to dismantle all major corporations by seizing their assets and returning that money back to the government where it belongs.

Then, just to be on the safe side, we need to tax any income over $100K at 100% to make sure nobody can ever grow a large company again.

[Prokopton]

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power” - Benito Mussolini

Then no one should complain if our present government is called fascist.

[Uncle Ike]

” true capitalism has been relegated to the small business arena “

Given the way that small business is taxed and regulated to distraction, I’d be tempted to take your statement one step farther - ‘true capitalism has been relegated to the Underground Economy...’

[Codeflier]

So you’re one of those...

[ctdonath2]

So why do you do purchase their products/services?