"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." Plato
Just Ran Across This From the new book "Screwed" --yeah! this may be more than you wanted to know.
"...An entire generation has been indoctrinated in this smaller-is-better view to the point where polls showed that when Bill Clinton said "smaller government," people reacted positively. Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996,the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA),and the General Agreement on Tariff s and Trade (GATT), further reducing the power of We the People to regulate business and the media. The result was another explosion of mergers and the near total takeover of the American media and the
American workplace by multinational corporations that have little or no allegiance to the USA or the concept of democracy. Today the bottom line rules and workers be damned... In the corporatocracy,politicians are paid by economic interests rather than by We the People.