[Red Jones]

pardon me, but you are mistaken. When you limit your definition of 'big corporations' to the Fortune 500, then you can't say that they create jobs. For several decades now each decade brings lower total numbers of americans employed by these organizations. These organizations are in fact being beaten out in competition by smaller organizations and they are transferring their jobs to foreign sources. As these organizations do not really serve the interests of the American nation, then it follows that the US government, that exists to serve the interests of the American nation, should not form policy specifically to benefit these big corporations. On the other hand, you may be a republican corporate fascist, so I wouldn't want to offend your religion. If you would get the impression that these big corporations somehow create jobs for Americans, then you may be engaged in worshiping them.

[antienvironmentalist]

If these companies were to get up and walk, (i.e. shut down by the government, or by their executive board) none of us would be living any more. These companies allow our clothing to get to the stores and our food to get to our tables (although I have some moral dilemas w/ Phillip Morris). It is the statists like you who would rather have the population of the US wither away than to admit that we owe a great deal of gratitude to these corporations. As for the fact that these companies are employing less Americans each year, mabey you should look at your liberal regulations that are choking their bottom line. And by the way facism is a leftist movement, which begs for greater governmental control over it's people, which is exactley what republicans are against. Look up the definition of facism, if you doubt me.