[ExI] Hal Lewis' resignation from The American Physical Society

[Natasha Vita-More]

Yes, money talks far more in the US than most countries.  And yes, the
government bows to many corporate needs.  But I wouldn't say that the US
government has been taken over by corporations and that the main function of
the US government is to work to benefit corporations. There is more to this
story than you present. I have little patience sweeping statements. But I am
a terrible email typist and I apologize for misquoting you "state of work"
rather than "state at work", so maybe I ought not be bothered by sweeping
statements, but I am.  

N


Natasha Vita-More

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Subject: Re: [ExI] Hal Lewis' resignation from The American Physical Society

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Natasha Vita-More  wrote:
>
> BillK wrote:
>
> "That's the US corporate state at work."
>
> I don't agree.  This "state of work" represents a behavior of some 
> corporations in the US or elsewhere.
>
>


You're quite entitled to disagree, of course.  :)

But if you don't see that the US government has been taken over by the
corporations so that the main function of government is to work to benefit
the corporations, then you won't see a solution to the current US problems
either.

In other democratic countries the wholesale capture of the government by
corporations has not (yet) happened to anywhere near the same extent.

Money talks far more in the US than elsewhere.


BillK

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