Originally published February 26 2006
Political analyst fears the role big business has assumed in the U.S. government
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
At OnlineJournal.com, Andrew Bosworth looks at how big business is influencing governmental policy.
Their Constitution, intended to postpone a slide into tyranny, cleverly separated government into three branches: legislative (the Congress), executive (the President), and judicial (the Supreme Court).
Ironically, 21st century America is witnessing the opposite: a government takeover from "above," from a Big-Government and Big-Business merger supported by a slim majority of voters.
That era was broken up by the Progressive movement that included members of both parties and was led by a Republican president, Teddy Roosevelt.
The United States economy has become an economy of consumers -- of debtors with, on average, below-zero savings rates.
In order to avoid the hangover, stay drunk.
Thus, the new American economy is about feeding at the trough of corporate welfare, privatization, and war.
The figure includes $441.6 billion for the Defense Department and the Department of Energy's nuclear weapons programs, $49.1 billion for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and 41.1 billion for Homeland Security.
Predictably, Congress is rolling back child labor laws, environmental protections and student loan programs.
* The Republican Congress initiated changes in the child labor laws so that young teenagers can operate more dangerous machines and work around much hotter equipment -- overturning regulations in place for four decades.
The new Food and Drug Association (FDA) is in the process of allowing the testing of dextroamphetamine for ADHD on completely normal children.
* The Republicans cut the money used to investigate corporate violations of the minimum wage.
Of course, the Bush regime is opposed to any increases in the minimum wage (even though most research finds that minimum wage increases lead to neither inflation nor unemployment).
Imagine, a drug has been linked to violence and suicide -- and it's still on the market.
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