No, the government is not stupid at all

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXkwI_DPXWQ&feature=sub

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[ram0166]

I think you give corporations and the govenment too much credit for the intelligence leve. I think your observation on the limited liability aspect of stock ownership is correct. The real revolution for freedom would come first in actually following the Consitution and then in eliminating the limited liabiitiy aspect of stock ownership. That would limit the size and power of both government and and business.

[blackacidlizzard]

The Constitution:

Because it worked so well the first time.

[Hellsadvocate]

lol.

[j0hnwi11iams]

Certainly relaxing the restrictions that corporations sent their lobbyists for. CA got hit big time thanks to Kenny Lay getting the energy market privatized and put in a spot exchange (like a commodity market for energy). The CA energy market was being manipulated from inside Enron Headquarters in Texas. They use the conventional market wisdom to sell their bad ideas. They gloss over the details they don't want you to know about.

[blackacidlizzard]

No, the big corporations do not want a free market. "Regulations" are consistently used to shut out competition. Regan was a fascistic corporatist who increased money given to business interests from the tax till and restructured law to favor many big players. Many of these changes were not a dropping of restriction on business activities, but a re-alignment of the restrictions in specific corporations' favor.

[TheWiretap]

forget the ways of old, this is the 21st century, OUR time, OUR age.

[j0hnwi11iams]

No, their favorite spokesman was Reagan, who was originally sponsored by General Electric. Corporations just want to be free. Free to enslave all of humanity.

[j0hnwi11iams]

If only it were the 18th century.

[smttysmth02gt]

I've gotten into several discussion with anarchists about the constitution but, I've never really received any elaboration on what you just said. More or less when I say constitution, I mean the contract of the bill of rights.

[blackacidlizzard]

Except that the constitution itself goes against the very notions of equality and consent that Jefferson laid out in the declaration of independence. If you haven't read Lysander Spooner's "No Treason" yet, I highly advise it.