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I guess we're confusing two separate types of things, government mismanagement and Corporate. I was talking about the Corporate shenanigans. Here in my area, the last decade or so has seen many rotten deals done by corporate types. Companies threaten to move south because it's "too expensive" to produce here. Labor then takes huge wage cuts and the city gives large financial incentives to stay. Then, a year or so later, after all the money has been wrung out of the locals, they move anyway. (Usually in the middle of the night, literally, locking the doors on the way out.) Or, making deals to "build a large shopping complex". Lots of fanfare, three square blocks of low income housing tenants are forced out, buildings are demolished, city upgrades for the future needs of the corp., and then, "nope, changed our mind. Sue us if ya don't like it." I'm sick of seeing my community jerked around and treated like dirt by these corporate types and I read enough about this happening around the country that I am disgusted. Then there are a few who try and stick up for this behavior by quoting "economic models" or "government interference". Guess which former "corporate raider" candidate I didn't vote for in the last election!



If a corporation makes stupid decisions they either change or go out of business. Unless they can talk the government into bailing them out of course, in which case they can continue making stupid decisions as the tax payers are now on the hook for them.

Government can use some peoples money to buy the votes of other people in the name of "fairness" until. as Margaret Thatcher said, they run out of other peoples money and no one will lend to them anymore. We are approaching that point.

As for governments being jerked around by those big mean corporations, Boo freaking Hoo! Governments have been jerking everyone else around for decades. Stop treating business as a fatted calf to be slaughtered and there will be no need to make special deals with them. The US currently has the highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world. We also have federal and state bureaucracies that see themselves as the enemy of business. Try being in business in California, New York or Illinois where the taxes are even higher and the business environment is very hostile. Add combative unions that think THEY should set the tone for business, a legal system that sees business as a lottery and regulators that see shutting down a business as a victory and you wonder why they are moving off shore?

Demanding that investors send more money to the government so that it can be used to buy more votes for economically ignorant business hating politicians who have never worked in the private sector is a great way to ensure there will never be a real recovery.

It's funny that some consider people who earn lots of money, and want to keep it, as greedy. But not those who demand the money of others,either to spend it themselves or to buy votes and influence. Why is keeping what I earned greed, but taking money from those who earned it is not?

If you didn't vote for the "Corporate Raider" then I assume you voted for the community organizer who has never held a real job or met a payroll. Who said that he wants to raise taxes even if it results in less tax revenue and total income is reduced just because it is "Fair." Who thinks it is his mission to use to coercive force of government to "spread the wealth around.?"

As Winston Churchill said:
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.