[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

I don't have class envy and I don't believe corporations are inherently evil. I have voted a straight Republican ticket since Nixon. As a Christian Conservative the pro-life and family values of the Republican Party keep me loyal. It doesn't mean I'm altogether happy with my party either.
You sound pretty angry. I get angry about this issue when I think of how much has been sacrificed by Americans and how much is being lost by what I consider short-sighted business practices and economic policies.
I think the Savings and Loan bailout is an example of domestic corporate welfare.
No doubt there are frivilous lawsuits brought against businesses. But, sometimes it is one business against another, like the SCO/Linux mess.
Sure we're stable now. We do not have civil unrest with Muslim and Hindu factions ready to attack each other. Our inner-cities could use some help, and our Mexican border needs protecting, but we are still a superpower and a secure nation. It is the future I'm concerned about.
A lot of our strength comes from our large and vital middle-class. It is shrinking under the current economic policies. That is not good and does not bode well for America's future.

[harpseal]

Ol' Pooh is once agsin defending foreign governments suckling at the Federal teat in order to have investment flow out of the USA and he had the gaul to call somene else a Marxist.

[Poohbah]

I don't have class envy

As you complain about "multi-million dollar bonuses."

(Snicker.)

A lot of our strength comes from our large and vital middle-class. It is shrinking under the current economic policies.

Another liberal Democrat talking point that ignores the fact that MOST of the disappearance of the middle class is associated with movement UPWARD out of the middle class, not downward.

That is not good and does not bode well for America's future.

Yeah, God forbid that more people become rich.

[Tokhtamish]

The difference, LibertyandJusticeForAll is that you are a Christian and a patriot. You aren't perfectly willing to wall yourself off from the rest of humanity behind monied callousness. That is not what Christians do. It is what libertatians do.

You don't think that the displacement of America as a great power is something you can personally just buy your way out of and won't affect you.