Brutha, I used to have the same position on a socialist government, and to a certain extent I think there is some merit there, but things need to be put back into balance. We need a radical return toward the principles which American was founded upon.
Maybe, as in the words of bush,to most people the constitution is, "just a goddamn piece of paper", but that was not it's intention.
The free market should not be interfered with. It is free as long as it does not encroach on the freedom of others. In a government following the principles of the constitution corporations damaging the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness of individuals could be prosecuted in a court of law. The reason companies have managed to create powerful monopolies and be so damaging to the environment is almost always because of regulatory advantages and "intellectual property rights". This issue is hard to understand. Sensible intellectual property involves open source but protected source. If you build a car I shouldn't be able to go get your complete plans for everything from manufacturing to design and then put it all through a copier and implement a copy of it. However, I should be able to buy the car, take it apart and build a car using my own methods that works in the same fashion and even accepts your parts and vice versa, if I choose. If I want, I should be able to take apart the source code for windows/microsoft products and build commercial products that run the same software and documents on the same platform.
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