Corporate Power on Rise Since 1971

[KeithE]

I encourage ya’ll to read Hedrick Smith’s to understand the hidden-from-view tilting of our laws towards the corporations and the proverbial 1%. I just got it Thursday and am 2/3 of the way through. It should be particularly interesting to those of us over 60 since we were adults in 1971 when this concerted effort began through Lewis Powell’s “Memorandum", the Business Roundtable, the US Chamber of Commerce, the massive growth of lobbyists, compliant media, and RW “think tanks" . Be your own judge about whether this concerted effort is right or wrong, but be informed.

As I’m sure you know I think it very wrong for the fundamental reason given in this carton.


At least read the Prologue Click on the book cover and use arrows.

[James]

I'm all for letting the corparations be people as long as they are treated like people when they do wrong.

25,000 people cheated out of their homes=25,000 counts of grand larceny and the CEO and the board of directors goes to prison for life.

16 miners die in an unsafe mine=16 counts of volutary manslaughter.

These guys are not stupid. Send enough of them to prison and strip their families of ill gotten gains and they will get with the program soon enough. But to give them a priviledge card with one hand and a get out of jail card with the other hand is inconsistant and just plain wrong.

[KeithE]