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In reply to the discussion: It Really Sickens Me To Know That In Some Back Room Somewhere There Are A Group Of People Plotting.. [View all]clang1
(884 posts)and it is all right in plain sight to see.
The cabal is in part this and it is right in your face:
Power Structure Research and the Hope for Democracy
by G. William Domhoff
April 2005
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/methods/power_structure_research.html
For one important recent exception, see Charles Perrow, Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and The Origin of Corporate Capitalism (2002). From his vantage point as one of the leading organizational theorists since the early 1970s, the big private organizations that rose to power in the last part of the 19th century, and have been there ever since, have the following effects:
They create wage dependence. Over 90% of Americans work for someone else, and over 50% work for organizations (profit and nonprofit) with over 500 employees. When it comes to the for-profit organizations, where there were 5.5 million corporations, 2.0 million partnerships, and an estimated 17.7 million non-farm proprietorships in 2000, 44% of all private-sector employees worked for the 8,300 companies with 1,000 or more employees.
They centralize profits. Just 500 companies, the heart of the corporate community, earned 57% of all profits made in the United States in the year 2000, while employing 16.3 percent of the private-sector workforce (White, 2002).
They are big enough to shape their "environments," i.e. communities and governments.
They lead to a concentration of wealth and power.
and so on. Probably a worthwhile book to read.
--What don't people get on why certain politicians, persons in govt. move back and forth between Government and Corporations in this country? Like through some sort of revolving door?