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For as long as the US has existed, big buisness has sought to expand in wealth at the expense of individuals. We often find companies treating its employees poorly and selling products that are not checked thoroughly enough. Every year we hear of deaths as a result of a faulted or chemically unfit product, yet do we see the termination of these businesses that allow such an event to happen? No, big industry has payed far too much money lobbying government support to be reprimanded in such a way. It is their wealth that keeps them out of trouble and their need for wealth that prevents them from caring of consequences.

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. -Frank Zappa

"The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it... They breathe profits; they eat the interest on money. If they don't get it, they die the way you die without air, without side-meat." Steinbeck, John. __The Grapes of Wrath__. 1939. New York, New York. Penguin Group.



Pharmaceutical Industry "But it is the less blatant forms of fraud against health authorities which have caused the greatest loss of life - companies telling half-truths to governments about the severity of side effects or covering up adverse reaction reports from concerned doctors. Last year Eli Lilly was fined $25,000 in the United States after it was charged with covering up deaths and illnesses caused by its anti-arthritic drug, benoxaprofen. The drug was withdrawn from sale in 1982 after it was found to be associated with 61 deaths in Britain and unknown numbers elsewhere. In 1984, Smith Kline was fined $100,000 on charges of covering up adverse reactions to their product Selacryn, which was associated with 36 deaths in the US. Similar allegations of covering up adverse reactions are being made against A. H. Robins in the litigation over the Dalkon Shield intrauterine device. A former company lawyer has testified that he was ordered by his superiors to shred sensitive evidence." ( http://www.newint.org/issue165/corrupt.htm)

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"The way FDC makes money is simple, but devious. They find food donation charities to take excess food from its clients' restaurants (and I use the term "restaurant" very loosely) and then they help the corporations file paperwork to receive a government tax deduction worth half of the product's appreciated value. As its fee, FDC keeps a portion of the rebate." ( http://uspoverty.change.org/blog/view/hunger_is_big_business_in_the_us)

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG. -Bill Gates

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