He wasn't right, but I do think companies are taking our rights

[Anonymous]

This is an article about the AL shooter and how he was just laid off. I don't agree that he was in any way justified, but I do think corporations have to be reigned in. They are the biggest threats to our freedoms and rights that we face.

http://exiledonline.com/alabama-shootings-just-another-bloody-battle-in-americas-thirty-years-class-war/

[Anonymous]

Abraham Lincoln said that the greatest threat to civil rights was corporations.

[Anonymous]

I have been saying for years, actually decades, and my friends kept calling me nuts but corporations have been sticking it to the working class for decades. People are a resource and corporate America has been abusing and wasting them for years. The small hourly worker gets laid off because the company isn't making money but someone like the President of GM resigns and gets $20 million. For what? Running the company into the ground during his tenure. I could have run GM into the toilet for a lot less. Since the 70's they have realized their cars suck against the Japanese auto makers. They have been dribbling out their improvements over the past thirty years and still a Ford or Chevy can't stand along side of a Nissan or Toyota. Their excuse is their legacy costs, how about the Zuit Suit costs. That's what I like to call 6, 7, and 8 digit salaried employees, Zuit Suits. Big of money for a lot of flash but not much to contribute.

[Anonymous]

It is actually getting worse during this crisis. People are too scared of losing their jobs to speak out about their rights. So companies are taking advantage of this.

I do agree that companies are the biggest threats to our freedom and civil rights. Unfortunately, most of us are not in a position to fight for our rights because we are too afraid of not being able to keep a roof over our family's heads and food on the table.

Corporations are also the biggest threats to the so-called commons -- things like clean air, clean water, etc. Corporations are able to use their enormous relative resources to tilt regulation in their favor and ruin the commons for the rest of us.

Don't get me wrong. I am a dyed in the wool capitalist. However, I have always knows that strong government oversight is important to keep the system on the right track. Too bad that so many bought into the right wing argument that government only stands in the way of an capitalist system that works for the better of all.