I hate corporations too, but we cannot do diddly squat against them, can we? I try to not buy at WalMart since I know their cheap prices come at the expense of Hector the night cleaning guy and his starving family fresh from Guatamala. The country needs a socio-economic-quasi-religious enema to wash away the crap from society.

In the words of Tool: Time to bring it down again. Don't just call me pessimist. Try and read between the lines. I can't imagine why you wouldn't Welcome any change, my friend. I wanna see it all come down. suck it down. flush it down.

With 1 trillion dollars in corporate welfare this year alone we know who the big consumers of the socialist goods are. Its all about business supported by a government handout.

Corporations are not inherently evil though, or don't need to be. To paraphrase another philospher, "A corporations got to know their limitations."

Government is supposed to be the counter balance that keeps things from swinging so far that the wheels fall off. Mary hits it above, too. I don't think it's a coincidence that bloggers all over are writting about this, it's becoming way too apparent that Corps are running amuckdog.

Democrats need to just keep pointing it out as part of the solution. Just like "tort reform" blames lawsuits when the real problem is insurance companies wanting to continue their profits and not being able to get it from their investments, hence they get it from their customers, and then spend all their time telling their customers it's somebody elses fault.

People need, at the least, an education. That's what I plan on doing, in my own limited way.

Not to say that there aren't other things we can and should and could do. Not funding the worst offenders like wal mart and big oil may be difficult, and expensive, but every little bit helps.

The best first step to 21st Century trust busting would be a federal law altering the rights that states may grant corporations when ratifying their charters. Corporations shouldn't have the same rights that are guaranteed an individual (much less have their rights trump those of individuals).

Government shouldn't own private enterprise, but private enterprise shouldn't own the government either. We're far closer to the latter than we are the former.

That is the fundamental shift that would start the path / establish the legal framework towards a truly competitive market -- the last thing that Corporate America wants. Granted, in a vacuum, it wouldn't be enough -- but it would be the BEST place to start. Corporatists are way too far ahead at this late stage of the game.