Also how do we dismantle the military-industrial complex that sees our country wasting billions of dollars on ludicrously vast arsenals of WMDs and has us sending our poor troops to the middle east to die while they work to ensure that we have the means to quench our oil addiction?
2007-02-09 03:01:14 · 8 answers · asked by ianjohnsa 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
You can never truly be rid of it. Evolve it instead. Use the control you have to redirect corporations this is within our power. People forget that corporations are actually run by people
2007-02-09 03:10:28 · answer #1 · answered by Huey from Ohio 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Henry Wriston was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was the father of Walter Wriston, who was to become the chief executive oficer of Citicorp, the largest global corporation in the world who gave us the ATM machine.
In a book by Wriston in 1943, "Challenge to Freedom", he writes, "Total war calls for industrial power and business efficiency fully as much as for fighting men and an aggressive spirit. It suddenly becomes clear that government needs business and needs it desperately. There can no longer be any doubt that harassment of business impedes the war effort. There is a fundamental community of interests; if business cannot function; government cannot succeed".
In order to remove the corporate stranglehold on our government and its policies, you will first have to prove Henry Wriston wrong. I don't think a simple argument will have much effect.
2007-02-09 03:25:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think a strong step in that direction is to have even more democracy as they have in europe. I believe this country would be better off a multi-party,proportional representational system like they have in Germany. I believe Congress should be reformed so the house of representatives can have thier districts go across state lines to better reflect demographic reality.I think we should sctually abolish the Senate because it seems to be an elitist organization for the fat cats. I believe for that to be the best way to break up undue influence on thebody politic is to make the political system more truly directly more accountable to the people who vote them in (meaning We The People)!
2007-02-09 03:43:52 · answer #3 · answered by cokezero100 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ethical Capitalism.
2007-02-09 03:18:11 · answer #4 · answered by sprydle 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question, C. Wright Mills, a US philospher in the 1950s, asked those same questions.
2007-02-09 03:10:42 · answer #5 · answered by hansblix222 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only answer I have for this question is to vote.
2007-02-09 03:09:30 · answer #6 · answered by bikerdg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would we want to? It is good for America and good for my pocketbook.
2007-02-09 03:06:14 · answer #7 · answered by lundstroms2004 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WALK>EAT PLANTS>PLANT SEADS>NEVER HAVE SOMEONE ELSES OPINION
2007-02-09 04:30:30 · answer #8 · answered by stratoframe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋