The government is the people. We vote in representatives, and government workers represent a large percentage of the population, larger than any industry as far as I know.
How is the bulky bureaucracy of a multinational corporation any different than the bureaucracy of a large government? The latter doesn't have a singular goal of profit. It's function is governing. It's that need for profit that I don't trust to look out for me. They want to screw me. I've been in that position before at my last job, and it's the function of a company to make as much money as possible off their consumers without them cluing in to the fact that they are being screwed. You demonstrate how your competition screws them a little bit more and have friendly people on the phone to earn their return business, but at the end of the day you want a profit margin as close to the breaking point as possible. If you don't believe me, look at every business ever.
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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Yeah, the spending of tax dollars, right? Isn't this about spending programs that they don't agree with (aka that won't benefit them directly)?
(I'm trying to learn more about this as I go along.)
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A lot of my understanding is coming from reading blogs, so I can't really tell you with 100% certainty until Wednesday when I actually visit one of these things. I can tell you with reasonable certainty this is about more than just spending. It's about myriad things. There are reports of calls for book burning, there are reports of people spreading conspiracies about FEMA prisons, there's a lot of racism, and a lot more. They're Palin rallies without Palin.
I'll write up a complete report and hopefully get some video on Wednesday evening.