Should we hand over the U.S. government to corporations?

[aimeeandbeatles]

You know, cutting out the middleman and all.

Please try to keep this relatively serious.

 

[Synobun]

Hahahaha...

No.

 

[Tahuti]

Since when are we able to decide that to begin with?

 

[bombshoo]

Have the option to directly elect corporations instead of senators and representatives? I guess we would at least know what we are voting for.

 

[jtb1127]

Please try to keep this relatively serious.

How are we supposed to do that when this is a completely not serious thread?

 

[Quackers]

red diamond thread deserves red diamond first post...

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

The handing over control part is in jest. I mean to talk about what to do about the corporation issue, when they have indirect control over government and are overpresented.

 

[Murky]

Do we have a choice?

 

[GamezRule]

I think we already have. Why not just elect various lobby's to fill the seats in the House, and turn the Senate back over to state legislatures?

 

[LucyDuke]

Well we won't talk about it openly. Need to hide the money. But we shouldn't, no.

 

[warpus]

Too late Lucy

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Corporations are ostensibly more efficient and easier to hold accountable to the public than the government is, so why not? Privatize it!

 

[Agent327]

You mean like banks ´that can´t fail´?

 

[Commodore]

I know SiLL is going to say something about this, but this is what happened in the game State of Emergency and it didn't turn out so well. In fact I believe you are suggesting we do this right around the time it actually happened in the game. Sooooo we can expect a revolution against the corporate government around the year 2035 that will initially succeed, but eventually fail; then another revolution will take place four years later during which the corporate government will finally be successfully overthrown.

 

[FriendlyFire]

What do you mean SHOULD ?
Corporations already control the government

 

[dominatr]

well its been slowly happening since the corporation's inception, but that would make things worse and corporations sole interest is to generate profit, and having them do the government's duties when their interest isn't primarily the people would be making things a lot more dangerous than they already are.

 

[Leonel]

I don't want to live in a country run the way Sprint runs a call center.

 

[Virote_Considon]

I think the way things are is pretty good. I mean, we all know that corporations are people. And they are also made up of people. In many cases lots of people. So their hyper over-representation is actually quite proportional if you look at it in humanitarian terms.

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[Angst]

I trust my state more than I trust a generic company.

Then again, I don't live in America.

 

[kramerfan86]

It has already happened. Why ask a hypothetical about an event which has already occured? Might as well ask questions like "should the United States add Alaska as a state?" or "should Canada become separate from the UK as its own country?"