Posted by Ken on July 26, 2001 at 20:18:49:
In Reply to: Re: "serving corporate interests" posted by Michael Bechler on July 26, 2001 at 18:02:34:
Your arguments instill images in my head of the robber barons. And later, families like the Roosevelts, Kennedys, Rockerfellers... Anyway my thinking is that it has been the uncontrolled growth of the government and its grabbing of powers and influences that has allowed its involvement in ways that were never intended at the country's founding. Through taxation, our money and finances are being controlled.
Through allowing military
expeditions which are not purely in our national
defense, one sees the military as a tool as you
describe. So if our federal government was 'small' (small budgets, limited social programs, a military for
our defense, fewer regulations and restrictions,
fewer laws giving fewer opportunities for manipulation) big business would not have any power brokers to exploit in Washington. They would find other places to use resources in
economically responsible ways.
As for individula rights and group responsibilities: I think that rightous individuals should have no problem acting responsibily within a group. An individual's responsibility to a group is, at best, equivalent
to one responsibility to oneself and one's family.