Is Corporate Tyranny Destroying America? Pt 1

We seem to be complaining a lot lately about these items:

Healthcare - costs are skyrocketing as corporate profits are on the rise

Salaries, Benefits, and Work Opportunities for Middle America - pensions, unions, real wages are under fire as the financial crisis puts pressure on govt budgets

Wellness - sedentary lifestyles, extensive travel,

Food Quality - lower quality food caused by corporations seeking to strengthen profits by increasing production.

Environmental pollution - for example that caused by bp's oil spill in the gulf

Public education - maybe not caused by corporate tyranny :) unions could be to blame more than anything. The Race to the Top program supporting charters is a step in the right direction. Interesting how the education budget is always a target and military spending is not.

Workplace Safety - mining incidents as a result of cuts for better profitability and a cost relationship between the Govt agency that is supposed to be a watchdog, not a facilitator.

Lobbyists affect on congress and the laws may explain Govts poor performance in these areas.

Reagan said Govt is the problem and since then the GOP and supply side trickle down economics have rule the day, only creating a massivy widening gap between the rich and the poor.