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It's interesting to me that the Tea Party types who are so agitated over governmental interference in their lives and constrictions of their freedom by unnecessary laws (and I heartily agree with that libertarian stand) show so little awareness of the much greater constriction of our freedoms under the iron-fisted domination of the mega-corporations.
These mega-corporations rule that very government that the Tea Partiers conceive to be the problem. Right in front of our faces and without any sleight of hand, the government took our money and gave it to the mega-corporations, without asking a thing in return.
So who ruled that transaction?
The mega-corporations, enormous institutions of banking and finance, with an accumulation of wealth greater than most nation-states, rule by using national governments as their hand puppets; by thrusting marketing in your face wherever you turn, filling every nook and cranny of our lives with demeaning slogans and jingles and robo phone calls designed to fire our imagination; by offering bad loans and seductive credit designed to build insurmountable personal debt, while withholding sensible loans that would assist small businesses to survive and grow; by outsourcing jobs and industry, while paying low wages, often without health benefits, to those dwindling employees (increasingly women who are compensated less than men) remaining stateside.
