[SpamCop-Social] Re: Jon Stewart

[Mr K. Mean]

D.F. Manno wrote:
> In article <Xns96D198FC05A40spamalyzerluzernet at 216.154.195.61>,
>  Sylvesterthekat <spamalyzer at isaluzer.net> wrote:
> 
>>Do we have a government capable of putting their 
>>foot down and risking pissing off big companies or not? It seems not, 
>>they're too scared of the consequences.
> 
> They're not _scared_ of the big companies, they're _in bed_ with the big 
> companies. Somebody once said the business of America is business. Right now the 
> government of America is business.

I would say that they are basically indistinguishable from business. 
One day you are a lobbyist for a drug company, next day you are working 
for the FDA, then a few years later you get a job with the same drug 
companies you were regulating.