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On Sat, 13 Jun 1998 23:59:04 GMT,
zombie2_19_98@yahoo.com <zombie2_19_98@yahoo.com> wrote:
>In article <slrn6o1drs.2v1.rajat@goteborg.ix.netcom.com>,
>  rajat@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 11 Jun 1998 19:09:59 GMT,
>> zombie2_19_98@yahoo.com <zombie2_19_98@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >Seems the corps (you know the ones with the REAL power) need some of the
>> >attention of the anti-welfare forces as opposed to the poor. Or do they (the
>> >anti-welfare forces) just want to pick on the powerless.
>>
>> That's always been the point.  Give the government the power to take
>> money away from us with no apparent limits, and guess who's really
>> going to end up with that money in the end?
>>
>> The poor and the powerless?  Oh yeah!  The meek shall inherit the
>> earth.  Goodness rules the hearts of the Washington bureaucrats.
>>
>
>The Washington bureaucrats are at the mercy of the voters who can one November
>day, actually show up and throw them out. Now tell me, how can we vote out the
>moneyed interests that control the major corporations and, for the time being,
>control our government?

When has a Washington bureaucrat been thrown out?  You must be mistaking
the politicians with the bureaucrats.  Through elections of Democratic
or Republican Congresses or Presidents, the bureaucracy remains.

As long as Washington is the source of largesse, many will come to feed
from it.  As things stand now, those people (and not just major
corporations) don't even need to control the government; we are gladly
doing the work by supporting ever more money to be distributed by the
government.

For a nice, sobering experience in public spending, take a look at
how government money is really spent in a poor urban school district.
No major corporations necessary at all for all that money to vanish
instead of being spent on the students.

>
>> Power and money placed in the hands of government, for whatever
>> tear-jerker, compassionate reasons, will end up in the hands of
>> powerbrokers.
>
>I still believe in democracy. The government is ours to either do good or
>evil. It has laws and a constitution. Tell me, how would I fight a
>belligerent corporate power?
>

Who will you replace with these belligerent corporate powers?  Other
belligerent non-corporate powers?

The more we concentrate powers in a single institution, the more
powerful some people will become.  The powerbrokers don't exist
independent of the government; they feed from it.

The Founding Fathers strove to implement a compromise between a
strong enough central government to carry out those tasks necessary
at the federal level, but too weak to attract too many of the 
vultures.  We've undone their work.

rajat