Taming Corporations Gone Wild

The power of corporations in our nation must be reigned in.

The consumer, when in unity with other consumers, can properly and directly take on some corporations found to be acting badly.

However, some of the worst offenders are defense/security contractors and others who get rich off war. Through the tax system, we are forced to keep them in the style to which they have become accustomed. It is nothing short of a protection racket.

Isn't it against the law to pay protection money?

TomPaine.com - Taming Corporations Gone Wild:

Back in the 1930s, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt went on national radio and declared what the basic necessities were for the American people—a wage that can support a family, decent housing, the right to health care, a good education and future economic security.

Sound familiar today? It certainly would sound familiar to a majority of the American people. The struggle for livelihood, the struggles to escape poverty, calamitous health care bills, mounting debt, gouging rents and failing, crumbling schools continues year after year.

What’s that French saying? “The more things change, the more they remain the same.”