Originally Posted by Robbie

I just totally disagree with that.

The govt. DWARFS every "big" corporation in the world put together in terms of money. And it spends more in a week than the entire worth of a guy like Warren Buffet

I don't know about you...but I find it hard to "run" something with my money when that something (the govt. in this case) has enough money to buy and sell EVERY corporation on Earth several times over.

As I've said many, many times...you can not buy what is not for sale.
If the govt. weren't inherently corrupt and full of lifetime/career politicians who are lining their pockets and the pockets of their friends and cronies...then our country would be in much better shape.

I don't blame any businessman for trying to get on the playing field by buying influence.

But these days it's more like extortion by the govt.
If you DON'T pay...then you will be shut down. And the ones who DO pay get to play the game and make money.

I know it's a different viewpoint than the one you see (that business is the bad guy and govt. is being used)...but I think of it like this:
The Govt. decides who "wins" and who "loses". And ONLY the govt. has that power. If one oil company doesn't pay the extortion fee...that's fine! Another one will and the one that didn't gets punished.

Plus, the last time I checked...we don't vote for business owners and corporations to run the country. We vote for representatives who are supposed to make sure that bad things don't happen.

I'm putting the blame right where it belongs: On lifetime/career bureaucrats who are destroying our country.