[mississippi red-neck]

It's the new economy and I'm not making a joke. It's based on pure greed. The oil companies have been using it to extor....er increase profits for years now the rest of corporate America has caught on.

First the big ones stamp out the little ones and then they create a loose monopoly vital necessary commodity by agreeing to control supply and fix prices, agree not to compete, blame shortages that they created or anything that happens in nature everyday,phases of the moon,global warming, Arab snow fairies, caring not at all for the suffering they cause to their own people and their own country.

These multi-rich corporations own any and all who hold or gain political office in Washington and most states.

What do you expect when a congressional winner walks into an office with a fifty million campaign debt hanging around his neck.

He can play ball with the party establishment and be rich or stand on principles if he has any and be dead or ruined financially and career wise.

[khelus]

Nice summary of why we have the government that global corporations can buy.