COMMENTS:
Voted : Yes
Not anything on the level of fascism, but yes to a large degree.
I don't know how to break this to you, but Multi-national corporations seized all governments a long time ago! It's not just the U.S government, it's ALL governments.
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The top 10 U.S corporations have a combined revenue of $2 Trillion. Or, another way to look at it, the top 10 U.S corporations combined would equate to being the 7th largest economy in the world: 1 United States 13,744,550 2 Japan 4,567,459 3 Germany 2,897,032 4 China 2,430,113 5 United Kingdom 2,373,685 6 France 2,131,631 7 Italy 1,752,585 8 Canada 1,269,096
Voted : Yes
^ What the Wise Man said. Eisenhower knew it when he left the White House, ergo his now-legendary "military-industrial complex" speech.
Here's the other way to look at it: In the last 30 years, U.S. corporations have bought more foreign corporations than all foreign owned corporations have bought American corporations in the last 100 years. The 500 largest global corporations had combined revenues of $18.9 trillion. Of the U.S. Fortune 500 (170 U.S. companies are part of the Global 500), the combined revenue is $9.1 trillion, or roughly 50% of the entire Global 500. "President Bush’s appointment of Henry M. Paulson as Treasury Secretary cements the administration’s commitment to placing policy-making posts in the hands of the Fortune 500. Paulson, who is chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, has devoted his entire career to building wealth on Wall Street. Total revenues for the U.S. Fortune 500 hit $9.1 trillion. The U.S. Fortune 500 have doubled their economic clout in the last half century. If the U.S Fortune 500 constituted a single nation, their economy would be the second largest in the world. With profits of $712 billion, the U.S. Fortune 500 could purchase the entire annual economic output of South Korea, India or Brazil, or absorb the entire U.S. budget deficit.
Voted : Yes
Yes, of course.
Voted : Yes
Hell Yes. Look at how the government has turned it's back on our workers.
Voted : Yes
Hey, we got to get in step with the rest of the world, right?
Voted : Yes
(if you don't know that money's won then you live in dreamy la-la land :)
by Jyl on Tue Oct 16, 07 6:15pm
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Voted : Yes
Yep...
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