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[A. Pole:] WRONG! Corporations are CREATED by the legal system in order to BENEFIT the whole society.

[Toddsterpatriot:] And government gets to decide what benefits society? I just got a socialist chill up my spine.

Red herring. It is a simple FACT that corporation is a legal construct and not the living actual persons who get benefits from hiding behind the curtain. Are you against personal responsibility? :)

You do not want government/legal intervention, fine - then get rid of the corporations altogether. But you want privileges without obligations.

That is the whole point of corporations to begin with. These people have been seeking refuge behind the protections of incorporation and think themselves above the fray, above the law, above common decency... When people surrender all notions and pretense of ethical behavior and, like lawyers, concern themselves no longer with what is right but rather with what can be argued on appearance to be legal, abuse becomes the standard.

Corporate America long ago had it's conscience surgically removed so they could treat people like cattle at the direction of superiors who had no conscience to begin with. With no conscience, you have no standard of patriotism or personal responsibility. This is how you get employers complaining about the dissappearance of employee loyalty whilest they fire people before those people can retire in order not to meet their own agreed to responsibilities to their workers.

I think any number of us here could write a book on the pretensious and scurilous nature of the modern corporation from personal experience - yet we continue to let it go on.
Because we've let it go on so long, now we're in the new mess - subversion of our economy and constitution in the name of "higher" profit. Outsourcing isn't being used to create profit where none exists, it's being used to destroy profit margins of domestic companies which are not outsourcing while further padding/lining the pockets of firms that have more money than they know what to do with already.

I've no illusions that we're going to see economic despots get religion; but, This is our country. We as citizens make the rules for how Companies can function. This is our system of government and our nation collectively. It's not a corporate theocracy in which we worship at the alter of a few mogul/tyrants. And it's time that crap ended.