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FatManLittleBoy wrote:
> erimess wrote in news:68ear0hj8bl005...@4ax.com:
> 
> 
>>I hate to tell you this, but the economy is one big giant circle, and
>>everything that happens affects everything else.  And it all comes
>>back to people, whether the person is an employee, a stockholder, a
>>customer, a patient, whatever... it will always come back around to
>>people.  You don't want the government telling you what brand of bread
>>you have to buy.  And you say, it's a loaf of bread, not a person, so
>>it has no rights, and therefore I should have the right to choose.
>>Who makes the bread?  People.  But I bet you don't think about them,
>>do you?  Do they have rights?  Of course.  So why doesn't the
>>government make a law about which brand you have to buy so that you
>>can help keep someone in a job.  If you think that sounds ridiculous,
>>it's because you're not getting the analogy.
> 
> 
> The analogy doesn't matter. The role of government is the redistribution of 
> wealth. Money is power, and those in power invariably work to gain more 
> power. Redistribution of wealth towards common defense, the common 
> resources (environment, etc.), and the welfare of our weaker citizens are 
> the central reasons we created our democracy. We didn't create it to 
> protect the right of the rich to get richer at the expense of the poor. 
> Giving all of the same rights to corporations as people is just stupid. 
> Would you give the right to privacy to a corporation? So that they can be 
> free to commit atrocities to generate profits without anyone knowing? Don't 
> say it wouldn't happen becuase it would. They give corporate officers 
> millions of dollars to make the corporation profitable NO MATTER WHAT. They 
> will do anything they can get away with, and often even do things they 
> can't get away with and try to cover it up and try to get away with it 
> anyway. If you don't see that happening in the news then you have blinders 
> on.
> 

I get periodic proxy mailings from some stocks my parents
bought for me. You're supposed to vote on things to do
with how the company is run. The proxies come with a
pamphlet to give you some idea of what you're voting on.
One thing I've noticed is that recently an awful lot
of these proxies have been asking stockholders to vote
yes on giving the company permission to do things without
shareholder approval. They never used to do this.
Makes you wonder.