Reply #6: Well stated. As to solutions? There aren't any within the American system.

[JanMichael]

Correction, the World System.

Back to American "solutions". There aren't any IMO, at least not any with any real teeth. We can talk about sunset provisions, charters, union representation, etcetera, but ultimately they (Big Multi-Nationals) buy the people that write the laws that govern themselves.

And it doesn't really matter whether Dems have the WH and Congress. They did when Clinton took office and crashed on Healthcare (Fighting HMOs, Big Pharma) plus they folded, no pushed (At least Bill did) NAFTA.

The playing field is not even tilted, it's owned by Big Multi-National Corporations and the richest top 1% of every nation that own those Corporations.

EDIT: I forgot to add ERSI. A Privately held GIS Monster Corporation that spun off of Harvard Labs, "partnered" with the Census Bureau and god knows what other agencies of government and products of education. Unstable platform releases and never ending license fees from almost every governmental agency, top to bottom, in the US.