Corporates verses the Government does it seem like this to you as well?

Question

Okay, The Corporations are greedy, The Government is greedy too. They both are in a power struggle. Corporations help our economy when they make money. The government hurts our economy when they make money. Now if terrorists hate our government. Corporates hate our government as well. Are terrorists really corporates? The reason for this question is our Government is fighting terrorists right? Well, the terrorists are making sure that we don't get control of the oil in the Middle East. Follow me on this. So if they're fighting the Government. You now obviously know who terrorists are....nothing but world wide corporates against our government. People will kill for oil and money. It's sad. On both ends, us as well. What are you takes on this?

Answer 1

Though there's a lot of back-and forth corporate vs government struggles, there's also a lot of cooperation between the two. As you say, both are greedy: corporations for profit, government for power. Sometimes this puts them at odds - governments love regulation, because it expands thier power, corporations hate regulations if they impact the bottom line. Other times, though, it puts them very much on the same side. There's a lot of colusion between the two, as well as some competition.

As far as terrorism goes, neither side uses, or would gain much benefit from employing terrorism. Terrorism is a tool of desperation, when you lack the resources to destroy or control an enemy with military might, or ecconomic power, you can wear him down by inflicting terror in his population, instead. Neither needs to resort to crude terrorism - scare tactics, certainly, but not terrorism.

Not that there won't always be opportunists who find a way to benefit. Politicians have benefitted from terrorist acts by using them as a pretext to grab power, or by attacking thier opponents failures to deal with terrorism. Some corporations have even benefitted, indirectly - instability in the Middle East tends to raise the price of oil globally, companies that have long-term contracts to develop oil resources drawn up when the price was lower reap a large windfall as a result.

Answer 2

The government is a corporation.