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Old 04-29-2010, 10:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Fast_Eddie View Post
Want to know what the future will look like? Go watch Rollerball from 1975. Yeah, not exactly like that, but we're seeing some of it already. Giant corporations are becoming the new government and they don't stop at borders. Seems we're doing everything we can to help them.

This massive distrust of our freely elected government in favor of for-profit companies is one of the more insane things I've ever seen. But it seems to be gaining ground. People marching in the streets to make sure their health care dollars are lining someone's pockets.
Will someone explain to me where the corporations end and government starts?

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Define "we" please. I doubt you'd find many Africans, South and Southeast Asians, Latin Americans or Arabs to agree with you.

John
'We' being the human race is all.

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