When Corporations Become More Powerful Than The Government, Our Definition Of “Big Brother” Needs To Change

• When Corporations Become More Powerful Than The Government, Our Definition Of “Big Brother” Needs To Change
  by Michael Snyder, https://thewashingtonstandard.com/
  Throughout human history, our God-given liberties and freedoms have often been brutally crushed by oppressive governments, and that is still happening all over the world today.  But in our time, an additional threat to our liberties and freedoms has emerged.  Global corporations just continue to get larger and more powerful, and in recent years they have been increasingly using that power to shape society.  This is a very dangerous trend because in the western world many of the constraints that our national governments are forced to operate under simply do not apply to corporations.  This gives them an enormous amount of leverage, and they are using it.
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  Here in the United States, the federal government still has a monopoly on power in areas such as border security, national defense and foreign policy.
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  But when it comes to the things that matter the most in the day to day lives of most Americans, it could be argued that the giant corporations have now become more powerful than the federal government.
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  For example, our politicians like to brag about how many jobs that they have “created”, but the truth is that they don’t actually create any jobs unless you want to count useless government desk jobs. Our politicians can help to foster an environment that will be favorable for economic growth, but it is the corporations that really determine whether the economy will grow or not.
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